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Capital and its entourage
A caricature by A.Vasilenko from Kiev appeared on the pages of the Soviet satirical magazine "Krokodil" in its issue №33 of 1983.
The imperialism, the big Capital with its portfolio of "Monopolies" is accompanied and guarded by its loyal servants, clockwise from top left: Zionism, Colonialism, Military-Industrial Complex, Nazism, Racism, and the CIA.
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A caricature by A.Vasilenko from Kiev appeared on the pages of the Soviet satirical magazine "Krokodil" in its issue №33 of 1983.
The imperialism, the big Capital with its portfolio of "Monopolies" is accompanied and guarded by its loyal servants, clockwise from top left: Zionism, Colonialism, Military-Industrial Complex, Nazism, Racism, and the CIA.
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"Operation Weserübung", the Blitzkrieg overture
— On April 9, 1940, Nazi Germany attacked Norway and Denmark
As part of the invasion and occupation of Norway, Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany on the morning of April 9th 1940.
Denmark capitulated after a few hours, whereas Norway fought heroically until the 2nd of May against Hitler's superior troops.
"Operation Weserübung", which was the code word for the attack on Norway and Denmark, aimed at giving the German navy enhanced operative conditions in the Atlantic Ocean and to ensure the important shipment of Swedish iron ore to the German armaments industry from the Norwegian port city of Narvik.
Denmark, a well-developed and highly productive agricultural nation, played an important role in supplying the German military with food. The Danish state paid via a so called "Clearing Account" farmers and producers for everything, the Germans took.
The politicians chose full collaboration with the Nazis and Denmark was used by the propaganda as example of "friendly protective occupation". The Danish police co-operated closely with the Nazis, and when the Communist Party of Denmark was sent underground on June 22nd 1941, they began a manhunt, which continued for years. The communists began building the resistance movement with underground press and sabotage. In 1943, the tide was turning and on August 29th, the collaborator government was forced to step down as result of intensified sabotage and a general strike. Until the Nazi capitulation, the underground "Freedom Council" was de facto the legitimate government.
In Norway, thanks to the quick response of the military forces defending Oslo fjord, the main German assault ship Blücher was sunk and the capture of Oslo was delayed by a few hours, allowing the Norwegian government and the Royal house to escape to Britain, to coordinate sabotage raids against the Nazi occupiers and to distribute the underground press in Norwegian from there.
On August 10, 1940, the Communist Party of Norway issued a call to intensify the fight against the German occupiers. In autumn of 1940, anti-Nazi demonstrations were held in Bergen, Trondheim and Sarpsborg.
Resistance took various forms. Some Norwegians took part in the armed resistance, others supported them and many Norwegians committed acts of civil disobedience.
The National Unity Party, headed by the infamous V.Quisling, collaborated with the Germans and formed a puppet government. The party attracted civil servants and representatives of business circles who actively cooperated with Germany, in particular, fulfilled German orders from the occupation administration and the German army and military industry. As of April 1st 1941, 275 enterprises in Norway were fulfilling orders from the Wehrmacht.
During the occupation, Norwegian police continued to operate in Norway. Its officers carried out orders of the German occupation administration and participated in search and arrests of communists, anti-fascists, resistance fighters, Jews, etc., although some of the police helped the anti-German forces.
In both countries, KZ camps were in operation. Resistance fighters were tortured, executed and transported to KZ camps in Germany. Many didn't return.
The Nazis in Denmark capitulated on May 4th 1945, with effect from May 5th. In Norway, on May 8th.
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The liberation of Norway started in October of 1944 by the Soviet troops during the Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation (see: Saved by the Russians).
Before the liberation, the German occupiers with the support of Norwegian collaborators, applied the "scorched earth" tactic, forcibly removed two thirds of the civilian population of Northern Norway and destroyed a significant part of residential and other constructions.
During the liberation, Norwegian volunteer units were created in Finnmark, plus Norwegian units came from Great Britain and the Norwegian "police" from Sweden. With the support of Soviet troops, they participated in the further liberation of Northern Norway in the winter of 1944-45.
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— On April 9, 1940, Nazi Germany attacked Norway and Denmark
As part of the invasion and occupation of Norway, Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany on the morning of April 9th 1940.
Denmark capitulated after a few hours, whereas Norway fought heroically until the 2nd of May against Hitler's superior troops.
"Operation Weserübung", which was the code word for the attack on Norway and Denmark, aimed at giving the German navy enhanced operative conditions in the Atlantic Ocean and to ensure the important shipment of Swedish iron ore to the German armaments industry from the Norwegian port city of Narvik.
Denmark, a well-developed and highly productive agricultural nation, played an important role in supplying the German military with food. The Danish state paid via a so called "Clearing Account" farmers and producers for everything, the Germans took.
The politicians chose full collaboration with the Nazis and Denmark was used by the propaganda as example of "friendly protective occupation". The Danish police co-operated closely with the Nazis, and when the Communist Party of Denmark was sent underground on June 22nd 1941, they began a manhunt, which continued for years. The communists began building the resistance movement with underground press and sabotage. In 1943, the tide was turning and on August 29th, the collaborator government was forced to step down as result of intensified sabotage and a general strike. Until the Nazi capitulation, the underground "Freedom Council" was de facto the legitimate government.
In Norway, thanks to the quick response of the military forces defending Oslo fjord, the main German assault ship Blücher was sunk and the capture of Oslo was delayed by a few hours, allowing the Norwegian government and the Royal house to escape to Britain, to coordinate sabotage raids against the Nazi occupiers and to distribute the underground press in Norwegian from there.
On August 10, 1940, the Communist Party of Norway issued a call to intensify the fight against the German occupiers. In autumn of 1940, anti-Nazi demonstrations were held in Bergen, Trondheim and Sarpsborg.
Resistance took various forms. Some Norwegians took part in the armed resistance, others supported them and many Norwegians committed acts of civil disobedience.
The National Unity Party, headed by the infamous V.Quisling, collaborated with the Germans and formed a puppet government. The party attracted civil servants and representatives of business circles who actively cooperated with Germany, in particular, fulfilled German orders from the occupation administration and the German army and military industry. As of April 1st 1941, 275 enterprises in Norway were fulfilling orders from the Wehrmacht.
During the occupation, Norwegian police continued to operate in Norway. Its officers carried out orders of the German occupation administration and participated in search and arrests of communists, anti-fascists, resistance fighters, Jews, etc., although some of the police helped the anti-German forces.
In both countries, KZ camps were in operation. Resistance fighters were tortured, executed and transported to KZ camps in Germany. Many didn't return.
The Nazis in Denmark capitulated on May 4th 1945, with effect from May 5th. In Norway, on May 8th.
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The liberation of Norway started in October of 1944 by the Soviet troops during the Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation (see: Saved by the Russians).
Before the liberation, the German occupiers with the support of Norwegian collaborators, applied the "scorched earth" tactic, forcibly removed two thirds of the civilian population of Northern Norway and destroyed a significant part of residential and other constructions.
During the liberation, Norwegian volunteer units were created in Finnmark, plus Norwegian units came from Great Britain and the Norwegian "police" from Sweden. With the support of Soviet troops, they participated in the further liberation of Northern Norway in the winter of 1944-45.
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A very interesting video about the Mosley family and their attempt to bring Mussolini's fascism to Britain.
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On April 16, 1886, Ernst Thälmann was born - an outstanding figure in the German and international workers' movement, a revolutionary, anti-fascist, and leader of the Communist Party of Germany.
Ernst Thälmann was born into a working-class family in Hamburg. From an early age, he joined the struggle of the port city's workers for their rights and socialism, joining the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1903. During the First World War, he conducted anti-imperialist agitation among soldiers and gained great popularity among former proletarians and peasants who had been forced to fight for the interests of German big capital.
In 1920, Thälmann, together with the Hamburg organization of Social Democrats, joined the newly formed Communist Party of Germany and a year later became a member of the Central Committee. Ernst was always at the "forefront" of the class struggle, actively organizing the proletarian masses for strikes and protests. In October 1923, when Germany faced a severe economic crisis, a rebellion of the proletarian masses led by Thälmann took place in Hamburg, which was brutally suppressed. Thälmann managed to evade police pursuit and continue his work. Soon after, he joined the Politburo of the Central Committee of the KPD and in 1925 became the party leader.
In the late 1920s, the fascists, who sought to establish a dictatorship to suppress all progressive forces, raised their heads. They saw Ernst Thälmann as their main opponent, under whose leadership the Communists resisted the stormtroopers' gangs and exposed fascist leaders in the Reichstag and in newspapers. Defeating the Communists legally was an insurmountable task for the NSDAP, so the fascists resorted to crime - they set fire to the Reichstag and then blamed the Communists for the crime. On March 3, 1933, Thälmann was arrested by the police and soon convicted. The leader of the German Communists spent 11 years in prison before being transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944.
On August 18, 1944, when the defeat of the Reich became inevitable, Hitler and Himmler ordered the execution of Thälmann to prevent his liberation by Soviet forces. But by killing the revolutionary, they failed to stifle the great ideas for which he died. Soon after, the Red Army liberated Germany, and in 1949, the German Democratic Republic, a socialist German state, was established.
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Ernst Thälmann was born into a working-class family in Hamburg. From an early age, he joined the struggle of the port city's workers for their rights and socialism, joining the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1903. During the First World War, he conducted anti-imperialist agitation among soldiers and gained great popularity among former proletarians and peasants who had been forced to fight for the interests of German big capital.
In 1920, Thälmann, together with the Hamburg organization of Social Democrats, joined the newly formed Communist Party of Germany and a year later became a member of the Central Committee. Ernst was always at the "forefront" of the class struggle, actively organizing the proletarian masses for strikes and protests. In October 1923, when Germany faced a severe economic crisis, a rebellion of the proletarian masses led by Thälmann took place in Hamburg, which was brutally suppressed. Thälmann managed to evade police pursuit and continue his work. Soon after, he joined the Politburo of the Central Committee of the KPD and in 1925 became the party leader.
In the late 1920s, the fascists, who sought to establish a dictatorship to suppress all progressive forces, raised their heads. They saw Ernst Thälmann as their main opponent, under whose leadership the Communists resisted the stormtroopers' gangs and exposed fascist leaders in the Reichstag and in newspapers. Defeating the Communists legally was an insurmountable task for the NSDAP, so the fascists resorted to crime - they set fire to the Reichstag and then blamed the Communists for the crime. On March 3, 1933, Thälmann was arrested by the police and soon convicted. The leader of the German Communists spent 11 years in prison before being transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944.
On August 18, 1944, when the defeat of the Reich became inevitable, Hitler and Himmler ordered the execution of Thälmann to prevent his liberation by Soviet forces. But by killing the revolutionary, they failed to stifle the great ideas for which he died. Soon after, the Red Army liberated Germany, and in 1949, the German Democratic Republic, a socialist German state, was established.
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The only way for capitalism to create profit is to subjugate. The severity of your subjugation depends on ability, resistance and class awareness.
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If you want to understand the significance of the middle east / west Asia for imperialism, you need to put together the oil production and oil reserves of all the separate countries.
Viewed in this way it becomes very clear why the Anglo-American imperialists are dead set on controlling this huge oil reserve and will commit any crime to retain their regional domination.
Viewed in this way it becomes very clear why the Anglo-American imperialists are dead set on controlling this huge oil reserve and will commit any crime to retain their regional domination.
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Iranian Heroism Vs American-Israeli barbarism:
Iranian nurses risk their lives to save infants during US-Israeli bombing of hospitals in Iran.
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Iranian nurses risk their lives to save infants during US-Israeli bombing of hospitals in Iran.
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🕯 April 19 marked, for the first time, the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People committed by the Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War.
The National Center for Historical Memory under the President of the Russian Federation has prepared an online exhibition, “No Statute of Limitations: The Genocide of the Soviet People.”
Before launching their war against the USSR, the Nazis devised sweeping plans to dismantle Soviet statehood, colonize its territories, seize its resources, and exterminate and enslave the population.
The occupiers developed the Generalplan Ost, which envisaged the deportation and destruction of 50 million people in the USSR; the enslavement of 14 million; and the forced Germanization of 1 million.
They also planned to starve the population through the so-called Hunger Plan (Backe Plan), aimed at extracting as much food as possible for Germany while drastically restricting rations for Soviet citizens.
📑 From the Directive on the Administration of the Economy in the Occupied “Eastern Territories” (June 1941):
Following Nazi Germany’s treacherous invasion of the USSR in June 1941 and the occupation of parts of its territory, German forces operated in coordination with units formed in Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Finland, as well as individual volunteers from Austria, Latvia, Poland, France, and the Czech lands.
Through collaborationist and auxiliary police battalions (Estonian, Latvian, Ukrainian, and others), Nazi occupiers carried out punitive operations against the civilian population. Baltic units, in particular, committed hundreds of atrocities in northwestern Russia and Soviet Belarus, killing at least 3'000 people aged from 2-3 months to 60 years. In Karelia, Finnish occupiers placed those they deemed “non-native” into concentration camps (14 in total across the region).
👉 These facts may point to the international nature of the crimes committed during the genocide of the Soviet people by Nazi perpetrators and their European collaborators.
The systematic extermination of Soviet civilians and the large-scale destruction of entire settlements in the occupied USSR were carried out not only by Wehrmacht units, but also by SS formations, police units, and various collaborators.
Across the Soviet Union, the Nazi occupiers established a vast network of concentration camps and detention sites for civilians and Red Army prisoners of war (more than 528 camps in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic alone), where tens of thousands perished — including children, women, the elderly, and countless wounded and sick soldiers captured by the enemy.
▪️ The largest camps on Soviet territory included: Dulag-130 (Roslavl, Smolensk Region; 130,000 dead), Stalag-372 (later Dulag-376, Porkhov, Pskov Region; 75,000 dead), camps in Gatchina (Leningrad Region; 80,000 dead), Dulag-142 or the “Bryansk Buchenwald” (40,000 dead), the “Krasny” camp (Simferopol, Crimea; 15,000 dead), and Finnish camps in Karelia (Petrozavodsk; over 8,000 dead, including around 2,000 children).
During World War II, the Nazis widely practiced the deportation of people from occupied Soviet territories to Germany for forced labor. In East Prussia alone, more than 200'000 Soviet citizens were subjected to slave labor under inhumane conditions at major military-industrial enterprises of the Third Reich.
📖 More:
• More on the genocide of the Soviet people and its key aspects
• Video address by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
• A dedicated section on the genocide of the Soviet people at the Russian MFA's website
The National Center for Historical Memory under the President of the Russian Federation has prepared an online exhibition, “No Statute of Limitations: The Genocide of the Soviet People.”
Before launching their war against the USSR, the Nazis devised sweeping plans to dismantle Soviet statehood, colonize its territories, seize its resources, and exterminate and enslave the population.
The occupiers developed the Generalplan Ost, which envisaged the deportation and destruction of 50 million people in the USSR; the enslavement of 14 million; and the forced Germanization of 1 million.
They also planned to starve the population through the so-called Hunger Plan (Backe Plan), aimed at extracting as much food as possible for Germany while drastically restricting rations for Soviet citizens.
📑 From the Directive on the Administration of the Economy in the Occupied “Eastern Territories” (June 1941):
“It is necessary <…> to organize the exploitation of natural resources (oil, coal, ores, etc.) in the interests of the German war economy <…>”
Following Nazi Germany’s treacherous invasion of the USSR in June 1941 and the occupation of parts of its territory, German forces operated in coordination with units formed in Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Finland, as well as individual volunteers from Austria, Latvia, Poland, France, and the Czech lands.
Through collaborationist and auxiliary police battalions (Estonian, Latvian, Ukrainian, and others), Nazi occupiers carried out punitive operations against the civilian population. Baltic units, in particular, committed hundreds of atrocities in northwestern Russia and Soviet Belarus, killing at least 3'000 people aged from 2-3 months to 60 years. In Karelia, Finnish occupiers placed those they deemed “non-native” into concentration camps (14 in total across the region).
👉 These facts may point to the international nature of the crimes committed during the genocide of the Soviet people by Nazi perpetrators and their European collaborators.
The systematic extermination of Soviet civilians and the large-scale destruction of entire settlements in the occupied USSR were carried out not only by Wehrmacht units, but also by SS formations, police units, and various collaborators.
Across the Soviet Union, the Nazi occupiers established a vast network of concentration camps and detention sites for civilians and Red Army prisoners of war (more than 528 camps in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic alone), where tens of thousands perished — including children, women, the elderly, and countless wounded and sick soldiers captured by the enemy.
▪️ The largest camps on Soviet territory included: Dulag-130 (Roslavl, Smolensk Region; 130,000 dead), Stalag-372 (later Dulag-376, Porkhov, Pskov Region; 75,000 dead), camps in Gatchina (Leningrad Region; 80,000 dead), Dulag-142 or the “Bryansk Buchenwald” (40,000 dead), the “Krasny” camp (Simferopol, Crimea; 15,000 dead), and Finnish camps in Karelia (Petrozavodsk; over 8,000 dead, including around 2,000 children).
During World War II, the Nazis widely practiced the deportation of people from occupied Soviet territories to Germany for forced labor. In East Prussia alone, more than 200'000 Soviet citizens were subjected to slave labor under inhumane conditions at major military-industrial enterprises of the Third Reich.
📖 More:
• More on the genocide of the Soviet people and its key aspects
• Video address by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
• A dedicated section on the genocide of the Soviet people at the Russian MFA's website
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New Footage Emerges From The Fatal Settler Terror Attack On A Palestinian School
Students came under fire, killing a 14-year-old school boy & injuring 3 others. When a parent attempted to intervene, he was also shot and killed, in the village of Al-Mughayyer.
Students came under fire, killing a 14-year-old school boy & injuring 3 others. When a parent attempted to intervene, he was also shot and killed, in the village of Al-Mughayyer.
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