As the military campaign in Ukraine rolls out, Russia is showing yet more similarities to the regime of Nazi Germany. The Kremlin official media have published two openly Nazi materials over the past week.
The Russians practically follow not just the Nazis tactics and methods, but also their ideology. Instead of denying the right to exist for the Jews, the Kremlin has chosen the Ukrainians. State-owned propaganda outlet RIA Novosti published an article with the title “What Russia should do with Ukraine?”. The article justifies the need for genocide of Ukrainians, tells what needs to be done to make Ukrainians renounce their nationality, language, and culture through mass repression. As in the case of Nazi Germany, the author of the article claims Ukrainians have no civilizational content and focuses on inevitable de-Europeanization of Ukraine. “Tragedies and dramas of war benefit peoples seduced by the role of Russia’s enemy,” the article says.
Dmitry Medvedev, the Security Council deputy head, said later in a statement that Russia’s goal is to change the minds of Ukrainians and create an “open Eurasia (Russian world) from Lisbon to Vladivostok.” Like the leaders of the Third Reich, he also said that “the most important goal is to change the minds of today’s Ukrainians.”
Those words are identical to Hitler’s plan of the final solution to the Jewish question (Endlösung der Judenfrage). The Nazis initially focused on mass forced emigration of Jews from the countries they controlled. Having invaded Ukraine, Russian troops in the same way forcibly sent 206,000 women and children to Russia, without the right to leave it. They search women, children, elderly people, take away Ukrainian documents, phones, and send them to border regions in Russia. They put them in concentration camps, to move then to the depressed regions of Russia to settle there. The first forced resettlement of Ukrainians was obviously used as propaganda. But starting from 1940, Nazi Germany ceased the practice of deportation and switched to the practice of exterminating Jews. It is possible, therefore, that, in time, the fate of displaced Ukrainians in Russia will change in a negative context, with no work for them in depressed regions and the need to feed Russian audience with propaganda.
Forced deportation of Ukrainians should demonstrate that Russia is regarded as an attractive destination for asylum, that Ukrainians do not think Russia is a hostile country and are fleeing there not to be persecuted by the “Nazis” invented by Russian propaganda. Russia also uses Ukrainian refugees as a cover to imitate humanitarian activity. Many Ukrainiansare, in fact, being taken hostage.
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Moscow plans to relocate 1 million Ukrainians to its territory in total, which corresponds to the number of Russians who died of coronavirus in 2019-2021.
As Russians occupied Chernihiv and Sumy regions, they burned books in Ukrainian language and by Ukrainian writers, like the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend) and the German Student Union (Deutsche Studentenschaft) burned the books in March-November 1933.
Mobile crematoria, brought to Ukraine with Russian military columns, are used in practice to destroy the bodies of civilians killed by Russians in the country’s east. That practice started after the genocide of Ukrainians by Russian troops near Kyiv was revealed. At the same time, the Russians leave the bodies of their dead soldiers on the spot.
After the last exchange of prisoners of war, it was found that the Russians shaved the UAF female soldiers captured by them.
The Nazi concentration camps prisoners, moved then to the ‘death factories’, had their heads shaved.
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