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On the 75th anniversary of the battle that lifted the Siege of Leningrad in World War 2, people walk in snowfall to the Motherland monument to place flowers at the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery where the victims were buried, St. Petersburg, Russia, January 26, 2019
An epochal anniversary from the annals of modern history is coming up in another ten days that remains a living memory for the Russian people. The Siege of Leningrad, arguably the most gruesome episode of the Second World War, which lasted for 900 days, was finally broken by the Soviet Red Army on 27th January 1944, eighty years ago to be exact.
The siege endured by more than three million people, of whom nearly one half died, most of them in the first six months when the temperature fell to 30° below zero. It was an apocalyptic event. Civilians died from starvation, disease and cold. Yet it was a heroic victory. Leningraders never tried to surrender even though food rations were reduced to a few slices of bread mixed with sawdust, and the inhabitants ate glue, rats — and even each other — while the city went without water, electricity, fuel or transportation and was being shelled daily.
It was on the 22nd of June, 1941 that the German armies crossed the Russian frontiers. Within six weeks, the Army Group North of the Wehrmacht, armed forces of the Third Reich, was within fifty kms of Leningrad in a fantastic blitzkrieg and had advanced 650 kms deep into Soviet territory.
A month later, the Germans had all but completed the city’s encirclement, only a perilous route across Lake Ladoga to the east connected Leningrad with the rest of Russia. But the Germans got no further. And 900 days later their retreat began.
The epic siege of Leningrad was the longest endured by any city since Biblical times, and, equally, citizens became heroes — artists, musicians, writers, soldiers and sailors who stubbornly resisted the iron from entering their souls. Petrified by the prospect of surrender to the Soviet Union, the Nazis preferred to lay down arms before the western allied forces, but Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe, ordered that the honour of victory should go to the Red Army.
Herein lies one of the greatest paradoxes of war and peace in modern times. Today, the anniversary of the siege of Leningrad has become, most certainly, an occasion that the US and many of its European allies would rather not remember. Yet, its contemporary relevance is not to be glossed over, either.
The Nazi leadership aimed to exterminate Leningrad’s entire population by enforced starvation. Death by starvation was a deliberate act on the part of the German Reich. In the words of Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler “intended to have cities like Moscow and St Petersburg wiped out.” This was “necessary”, he wrote in July 1941, “because if we want to divide Russia into its individual parts,” it should “no longer have a spiritual, political or economic centre.”
Hitler himself declared in September 1941, “We have no interest in maintaining even a part of the metropolitan population in this existential war.” Any talk of the city surrendering had to be “rejected, as the problem of keeping and feeding the population cannot be solved by us.”
Simply put, the population of Leningrad was left to starve to death – much like the millions of Soviet prisoners of war held by the Wehrmacht. The historian Jörg Ganzenmüller later wrote that this form of mass murder was cost-effective for Berlin, for, it was “genocide by simply doing nothing”.
“Genocide by doing nothing”! Those chilling words are as well applicable today to the West’s “sanctions from hell” with an ulterior agenda to “erase” Russia and carve out five new states from its vast landmass with fabulous resources that can be subjugated by the industrial world.
The mother of all ironies is that Germany is even today at the forefront of the “genocide by doing nothing” strategy to weaken and bring down the Russian Federation on its knees. The Biden administration depended on a troika of three German politicians to do the heavy lifting in that failed effort to erase Russia — EU’s top bureaucrat in Brussels Ursula von der Layen, German Chancellor Olaf Schulz and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.
George Santayana, the Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist once said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This is how the far-right thrives.
In Germany and elsewhere, younger generations are becoming indifferent to the history of fascism. The idea of a Fourth Reich has entered an unprecedented heyday and is currently experiencing a new phase of normalisation in Europe. The tumultuous political upheaval throughout the western world provides the backdrop today.
The author of The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present, historian and professor of history and Judaic studies Gavriel Rosenfeld has written that “The only way to mute the siren call of the Fourth Reich is to know its full history. Although it is increasingly difficult in our present-day world of fake ‘facts’ and deliberate disinformation to forge a consensus about historical truth, we have no alternative but to pursue it.”
The justification of political violence is classically fascist. This past week, we saw a breathtaking spectacle at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in Hague reminding us that we are now in fascism’s legal phase. If the Nazis used Judeo-Bolshevism as their constructed enemy, Israel is doing the same thing by raising the bogeyman of Hamas. Fascism feeds off a narrative of supposed national humiliation by internal enemies.
Meanwhile, what gets forgotten is that there has been a growing fascist social and political movement in Israel for decades. Like other fascist movements, it is riddled with internal contradictions, but this movement now has a classically authoritarian leader in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who has shaped and exacerbated it, and is determined that in his time in politics it will be normalised.
The probability is high that in a matter of a few days, the ICJ will give some sort of interim order/injunction to Israel to end the violence against the hapless Palestinians in Gaza. But the fascist movement Netanyahu now leads preceded him, and will outlive him.
These are forces that feed off ideologies with deep roots in Jewish history. They may be defending a fictional glorious and virtuous national past, but it would be a grave error to think they cannot ultimately win.
The Russians are learning this home truth the hard way in Ukraine where “de-nazification” is turning out to be the weakest link in their special military operation, given its geopolitical moorings traceable to Germany’s dalliance with the Ukrainian Neo-Nazi groups in Kiev in the run-up to the 2014 coup, which the US inherited gleefully and wouldn’t let go.
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arguably the most gruesome episode of the Second World War,
But only if you eliminate the firebombing of hundreds of German and Japanese cities which resulted in tens of millions of men, women and children being burned to death.
Nothing the Germans or Japanese did came close to the total destruction visited upon civilians by the “good guys” (cough) er, war criminals.
The lesson , even with the revisionist history , is that the C.F.R + W.E.F. with their proxies will now attempt to place the entire planet under siege.
Half the world dies ? They are just fine with that.
5th Generation warfare , mass information control , Full Spectrum Dominance doctrine and a host of lesser known ” silent weapons for quiet wars ” as well as direct and indirect supply chain attacks will be ” The NEW Normal “.
Get to know them.
https://www.cfr.org/membership/roster
Based on official membership rosters, the following illustration depicts for the first time the extensive media network of the CFR and its two major international affiliate organizations: the Bilderberg Group (mainly covering the US and Europe) and the Trilateral Commission (covering North America, Europe and East Asia), both established by Council leaders to foster elite cooperation at the global level.
However, media personalities constitute only about five percent of the overall CFR network. As the following illustration shows, key members of the private Council on Foreign Relations have included:
*several US Presidents and Vice Presidents of both parties;
*almost all Secretaries of State, Defense, and the Treasury;
*many high-ranking commanders of the U.S. military and NATO;
*some of the most influential Members of Congress (notably in foreign & security policy);
*almost all National Security Advisors, CIA Directors, Ambassadors to the U.N., Chairs of the *Federal Reserve, Presidents of the World Bank, and Directors of the National Economic Council;
*many prominent academics, especially in key fields such as Economics and Political Science;
*many top executives of Wall Street, policy think tanks, universities, and NGOs;
*as well as the key members of both the 9/11 Commission and the Warren Commission (JFK)
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Yeah….going against the system does not get me closer to the goal.
Ignoring the system as much as possible, and simply caring for the earth at every opportunity?
Doable.
The good guys are always the guys that won. War criminals are always the losers.
Maybe you should move to a planet where the humans don’t make war. See. We’ve been doing this for a long time and we like it. Maybe it’s the whiny little bitches crying about it we find so entertaining that we couldn’t possibly stop now!
Uncola’s article There is No Actual Law or Justice in the B.E.A.S.T. System is clear.
You admit you waste your time scrutinizing.
An anniversary that no one has ever heard of or will ever remember.
The movie: “Enemy At The Gates” was a great movie to educate the sheep…
based of invented Soviet war-propaganda
Source, please …
Sorry, I don’t have any sources on this computer. When I find them I will write something up or give good links. I know I have something more than what A. Beevor said.
Remember what Stalin did after the war to anyone who choose not to die for the Motherland and surrendered. Prison camps and executions.
That was Stalingrad, they are talking about Leningrad.
Leningrad = St. Petersburg, Petrograd
Stalingrad = Tsaritsyn, Volgograd
958.99 mile apart (1,543.35 km)
What a white-washed version of the siege. Or maybe red-washed.
What would our world look like without Nazi’s…hopefully less death, less hunger, less war and more freedom. The Russians had to fight the genocidal bastards in Leningrad to get rid of them…America just opened up the Rat Lines in Operation Paperclip and welcomed the scum into America. Thank the CIA, NASA and all the other evil fcuking corporations you can think of…the Nazi’s are still in power, they won the war.
Bolshevik jews had already genocided 7 million Ukrainians practically next door to Germany
while Hitler was just getting started, you gibbering moron. Stalin was a few weeks away
from invading Germany. Hitler just beat him to the punch. Victor Suvorov was given access to the USSR military archives after the Soviet Union feel. 20 years of research resulted in the book “Icebreaker” Stalin was ready to commit ANOTHER genocide in Germany.
Pull your head out, dipshit
I think a certain Anon needs to go fuck himself…with all due respect, civility is appreciated.
You talk like a fag.
I wouldn’t know…which begs the question…
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Believe it or not…………..have been to the Piskaryovskoye cemetery circa 1977.
Largest known mass burial site on planet.
The entire reason for attacking Russia was so Germany would “lose” in a humiliating “loss”.
NAZI Germany was a fully Jewish enterprise, and they won the war.
They lost the war in the public conscience of course and the show trials cooled off the marks.
But, they defeated uSA/Britain and the one world government has been running smoothly ever since.
The wars are to eliminate competing eaters and the hordes of descendants they would genetate.
Lebensraum for the select.
“The justification of political violence is classically fascist.”
7-8 million Ukrainians were being systematically genocided in the early ’30s by Bolshevik jews
while “fascists” were putting their pants on. Laughable
Plus another 60,000,000 or so Russians those jews murdered — in the camps, everywhere …
Why do all these stories leave out the fact that the actual bad guy in the war was the Soviets and they were planning to invade Europe before Hitler even came to power. The Germans barely beat them to the punch.
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Death is the only de-Nazification regimen that works 100%. Treatment was discontinued prematurely.
My grandfather was instrumental in bombing the blockades set up by the nazis around Leningrad. He was awarded the Russian equivalent of the medal of honor along with a host of other medals. The communists rewarded his bravery years later by sending him to a prison in Siberia after they considered him a political threat. His name is Jacob Purizhansky and he died in 1991 shortly after being released from prison. My wife and I will be naming our son after him.