Ambassador’s Comment
I read another opus by Mr. Eyal "How the Ukraine war is changing Russia’s outlook", published in the Opinion section of the Straits Times on June 20, 2023.
The impressions are painful. It is as if everything is turned upside down in the author's head.
Let's take a look.
Among the characteristic signs of the evolving Russian outlook under the conditions of the hybrid war unleashed by the West against Russia since the crisis in Ukraine, Mr. Eyal refers, firstly, to the landslide deterioration of its economic situation; secondly, cultivating an anti-Western campaign there and returning to the use of the national liberation movements in the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America for opportunistic interests, and finally, the saber-rattling of nuclear weapons as the only criterion for Russia's great power status.
Let's try to give a short answer.
In Ukraine, a special military operation continues, the goals of which are salvation and construction, not destruction.
The Russian economy, contrary to Eyal's assertions, is far from collapse. It is enough to read at least excerpts from Russian President Mr. V.V.Putin’s speech at SPIEF 2023: successful coping with Western sanctions, positive economic growth (2%), lower inflation, increased industrial activity, rise in other sectors, especially in agriculture, transition to innovative ways of development.
As for the Global South, the states of Asia, Africa, Latin America, Russia really enjoys authority and respect among them. But this state of affairs stems not from selfish interests, but from the common commitment of our countries to the emerging multipolar world, free from the colonial legacy. The foundations of such a world and the contours of this great future-oriented project are already being laid on such platforms as BRICS, ASEAN, SCO, CIS, African Union, CELAC and many others.
And finally, the last. What kind of nuclear saber-rattling can we talk about if it was the United States and its NATO allies who led the way to breaking the foundations of global strategic stability, modernized and built up nuclear weapons, moved the military-bloc infrastructure closer to the Russian borders, consistently engaged in bringing the confrontational NATO infrastructure to Asia and the Pacific. This is despite the fact that on the part of Russia there was no lack of goodwill and desire to ensure equal and indivisible security, both in the form of proposals for a European security treaty, and initiatives to convene a summit of permanent members of the UN Security Council to revitalize the principles of the UN Charter and to recall that nuclear war should not be fought. The relevant P-5 Statement on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races could be regarded as a prelude.
In our opinion, everything should be clear to any unprejudiced person. But apparently this is not so for Mr. Eyal. So he is trying to put on the same level the aggressive West and the world majority opposing it, headed by Russia, China, India and other countries. So he is trying to push the changed realities into the bosom of the hackneyed ideas of the Cold War and turn everything upside down.
But it doesn't work out very well. The author's arguments do not stand up to scrutiny.
I read another opus by Mr. Eyal "How the Ukraine war is changing Russia’s outlook", published in the Opinion section of the Straits Times on June 20, 2023.
The impressions are painful. It is as if everything is turned upside down in the author's head.
Let's take a look.
Among the characteristic signs of the evolving Russian outlook under the conditions of the hybrid war unleashed by the West against Russia since the crisis in Ukraine, Mr. Eyal refers, firstly, to the landslide deterioration of its economic situation; secondly, cultivating an anti-Western campaign there and returning to the use of the national liberation movements in the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America for opportunistic interests, and finally, the saber-rattling of nuclear weapons as the only criterion for Russia's great power status.
Let's try to give a short answer.
In Ukraine, a special military operation continues, the goals of which are salvation and construction, not destruction.
The Russian economy, contrary to Eyal's assertions, is far from collapse. It is enough to read at least excerpts from Russian President Mr. V.V.Putin’s speech at SPIEF 2023: successful coping with Western sanctions, positive economic growth (2%), lower inflation, increased industrial activity, rise in other sectors, especially in agriculture, transition to innovative ways of development.
As for the Global South, the states of Asia, Africa, Latin America, Russia really enjoys authority and respect among them. But this state of affairs stems not from selfish interests, but from the common commitment of our countries to the emerging multipolar world, free from the colonial legacy. The foundations of such a world and the contours of this great future-oriented project are already being laid on such platforms as BRICS, ASEAN, SCO, CIS, African Union, CELAC and many others.
And finally, the last. What kind of nuclear saber-rattling can we talk about if it was the United States and its NATO allies who led the way to breaking the foundations of global strategic stability, modernized and built up nuclear weapons, moved the military-bloc infrastructure closer to the Russian borders, consistently engaged in bringing the confrontational NATO infrastructure to Asia and the Pacific. This is despite the fact that on the part of Russia there was no lack of goodwill and desire to ensure equal and indivisible security, both in the form of proposals for a European security treaty, and initiatives to convene a summit of permanent members of the UN Security Council to revitalize the principles of the UN Charter and to recall that nuclear war should not be fought. The relevant P-5 Statement on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races could be regarded as a prelude.
In our opinion, everything should be clear to any unprejudiced person. But apparently this is not so for Mr. Eyal. So he is trying to put on the same level the aggressive West and the world majority opposing it, headed by Russia, China, India and other countries. So he is trying to push the changed realities into the bosom of the hackneyed ideas of the Cold War and turn everything upside down.
But it doesn't work out very well. The author's arguments do not stand up to scrutiny.
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🤝 More than 900 agreements were signed at St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (#SPIEF2023) for total worth of 3.86 trillion rubles
This refers only to those agreements that are not protected by non-disclosure agreements.
💼150 delegates from 25 “unfriendly” countries took part in the #SPIEF, many of them participating incognito, as everybody is interested in the development of Eurasian cooperation.
Anton Kobyakov, Advisor to the Russian President, said this at a press conference on the SPIEF results.
❗️In total, 17,000 persons from 130 countries took part in the forum, with the most numerous delegations coming from:
🇦🇪 the UAE;
🇨🇳 China;
🇮🇳 India;
🇲🇲 Myanmar;
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan;
🇨🇺 Cuba;
🇺🇸 the USA.
👉🏻 The forum was attended by 150 high-ranking officials from foreign countries, with the President of the UAE leading the guest country delegation at SPIEF. The President of Algeria and the Prime Minister of Cuba were also in attendance, and six African leaders arrived for talks with President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
🔗 https://t.me/RoscongressDirect/4406
This refers only to those agreements that are not protected by non-disclosure agreements.
💼150 delegates from 25 “unfriendly” countries took part in the #SPIEF, many of them participating incognito, as everybody is interested in the development of Eurasian cooperation.
Anton Kobyakov, Advisor to the Russian President, said this at a press conference on the SPIEF results.
❗️In total, 17,000 persons from 130 countries took part in the forum, with the most numerous delegations coming from:
🇦🇪 the UAE;
🇨🇳 China;
🇮🇳 India;
🇲🇲 Myanmar;
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan;
🇨🇺 Cuba;
🇺🇸 the USA.
👉🏻 The forum was attended by 150 high-ranking officials from foreign countries, with the President of the UAE leading the guest country delegation at SPIEF. The President of Algeria and the Prime Minister of Cuba were also in attendance, and six African leaders arrived for talks with President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
🔗 https://t.me/RoscongressDirect/4406
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⚡️ More than 900 agreements were signed at SPIEF for total worth of 3.86 trillion rubles
This refers only to those agreements that are not protected by non-disclosure agreements.
150 companies from 25 “unfriendly” countries took part in the SPIEF, many…
This refers only to those agreements that are not protected by non-disclosure agreements.
150 companies from 25 “unfriendly” countries took part in the SPIEF, many…
🎥 Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov’s interview with RT TV Channel on the sidelines of the 26th St Petersburg International Economic Forum
📍 St Petersburg, June 16, 2023
🔗 Read in full: https://is.gd/eUGYd5
Key talking points:
🔹 We can no longer rely on the promises and the agreements signed with the West which were presented as a foundation for developing constructive partnership. <...> The West has “lost” Russia at this point of history.
🔹 The dominant trend today is the awareness of the need to regionalise the development processes. This includes the #SCO and, in a wider sense, the Greater Eurasian Partnership, which President Vladimir Putin mentioned at the #RussiaASEAN Summit a few years ago.
🔹 The Anglo-Saxons and their ilk are bringing pressure to bear across the board, including on our closest #CSTO allies. The Gulf Arab countries are not an exception. I would say that the Western methods are boorish. I cannot think of another word.
🔹 Our relations with the Africans and our other partners are not based on money. What we are trying to do is identify projects that meet the interests of both sides.
🔹 #BRICS will expand, with the countries representing major Arab, or Islamic civilisation in a broader sense, joining it. This will strengthen the multipolar principles that we are discussing now and that are objectively taking shape.
📍 St Petersburg, June 16, 2023
🔗 Read in full: https://is.gd/eUGYd5
Key talking points:
🔹 We can no longer rely on the promises and the agreements signed with the West which were presented as a foundation for developing constructive partnership. <...> The West has “lost” Russia at this point of history.
🔹 The dominant trend today is the awareness of the need to regionalise the development processes. This includes the #SCO and, in a wider sense, the Greater Eurasian Partnership, which President Vladimir Putin mentioned at the #RussiaASEAN Summit a few years ago.
🔹 The Anglo-Saxons and their ilk are bringing pressure to bear across the board, including on our closest #CSTO allies. The Gulf Arab countries are not an exception. I would say that the Western methods are boorish. I cannot think of another word.
🔹 Our relations with the Africans and our other partners are not based on money. What we are trying to do is identify projects that meet the interests of both sides.
🔹 #BRICS will expand, with the countries representing major Arab, or Islamic civilisation in a broader sense, joining it. This will strengthen the multipolar principles that we are discussing now and that are objectively taking shape.
🇷🇺🇨🇳 On June 20, the first Russian-Chinese consultations on biological security in an inter-agency format took place in Moscow .
An exchange of biological security threat assessments was carried out.
☝️ Particular attention was paid to the military and biological activities of the United States and strengthening the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC). The issues of bilateral cooperation in the field of biosecurity were discussed.
🤝 The meeting confirmed the unity of approaches of Russia and China to the biological security. The need for further close coordination and constructive interaction both in bilateral format and at relevant multilateral fora, primarily within the framework of the BTWC, the UN and the SCO was noted.
🔗 https://is.gd/FRQXhT
An exchange of biological security threat assessments was carried out.
☝️ Particular attention was paid to the military and biological activities of the United States and strengthening the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC). The issues of bilateral cooperation in the field of biosecurity were discussed.
🤝 The meeting confirmed the unity of approaches of Russia and China to the biological security. The need for further close coordination and constructive interaction both in bilateral format and at relevant multilateral fora, primarily within the framework of the BTWC, the UN and the SCO was noted.
🔗 https://is.gd/FRQXhT
Forwarded from Russian Mission to ASEAN
🗓 On June 21, Russia 🇷🇺 and Cambodia 🇰🇭 co-chaired 2nd ASEAN Regional Forum (#ARF) Workshop on Terminology in the Field of Security of and in the Use of ICTs in the Context of Confidence Building. More than 17 ARF Members took part in the meeting.
🔹️Representatives of specialized government agencies and academia discussed topical issues related to using specific terminology, shared their national experience and approaches in developing terminology in the field of security of and in the use of #ICTs. The participants also touched upon terminological aspects in the context of the work on universal #UN convention on countering the use of ICTs for criminal purposes.
#ARF #ICT
🔹️Representatives of specialized government agencies and academia discussed topical issues related to using specific terminology, shared their national experience and approaches in developing terminology in the field of security of and in the use of #ICTs. The participants also touched upon terminological aspects in the context of the work on universal #UN convention on countering the use of ICTs for criminal purposes.
#ARF #ICT
Forwarded from Russian Mission to ASEAN
🗓 On June 21, delegation of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation 🇷🇺 headed by the Rear Admiral Konstantin Zadorin took part in the #ASEAN Regional Forum Security Policy Conference (#ASPC) in Jakarta 🇮🇩.
🔹️Participants exchanged views on international and regional issues of common concern, with a focus on emerging security challenges in the region and the world, measures for building trust and strengthening solidarity and cooperation among the #ARF members.
#ARF #ASPC #ASEAN
🔹️Participants exchanged views on international and regional issues of common concern, with a focus on emerging security challenges in the region and the world, measures for building trust and strengthening solidarity and cooperation among the #ARF members.
#ARF #ASPC #ASEAN
🇷🇺MFA Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on organ trade in #Ukraine:
💬We have talked many times at our briefings and provided facts to show that Ukraine is quickly becoming a global hub for illegal #organ harvesting. A recent documentary titled "Tanks for Kidneys" provided more evidence of Kiev using its wounded service personnel as organ donors.
❗️These horrible procedures would have been impossible without the consent of the Kiev regime’s top leaders because they have been formalised by law. Ukraine has become a bonanza for criminals. Illegal transplantology specialists are raking in huge money, and they are not planning to stop.
Read the briefing in full👉 https://is.gd/aPLboe
📽WATCH the documentary in full: https://rtd.rt.com/films/tanks-for-kidneys/
💬We have talked many times at our briefings and provided facts to show that Ukraine is quickly becoming a global hub for illegal #organ harvesting. A recent documentary titled "Tanks for Kidneys" provided more evidence of Kiev using its wounded service personnel as organ donors.
❗️These horrible procedures would have been impossible without the consent of the Kiev regime’s top leaders because they have been formalised by law. Ukraine has become a bonanza for criminals. Illegal transplantology specialists are raking in huge money, and they are not planning to stop.
Read the briefing in full👉 https://is.gd/aPLboe
📽WATCH the documentary in full: https://rtd.rt.com/films/tanks-for-kidneys/
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Tanks for Kidneys
Investigating cases of organ trafficking in Ukraine
❗️22 июня - День памяти и скорби.
В 1941 г. в этот день германские войска перешли границу СССР и атаковали советские вооруженные силы на всем её протяжении. Война продолжалась 1418 дней. Общие безвозвратные потери СССР составили около 27 млн человек, из которых 18 млн приходилось на гражданское население, а около 8,7 млн - на Вооруженные силы. В концлагерях были убиты и замучены 4 млн советских граждан, в плену погибли более 2 млн из 4,5 млн советских военнослужащих.
🇷🇺22 июня на территории России приспускают государственные флаги. Всем учреждениям культуры, каналам телевидения и радиостанциям рекомендовано не включать в программу развлекательные передачи. Руководители страны возлагают траурные венки к Могиле Неизвестного Солдата в Москве. Во многих городах проводятся минуты молчания.
🕯В День памяти и скорби, 22 июня, по всему миру проходит акция «Свеча памяти». Зажжённые свечи символизируют то, что россияне помнят каждого ушедшего из жизни.
Ничто не забыто, никто не забыт.
В 1941 г. в этот день германские войска перешли границу СССР и атаковали советские вооруженные силы на всем её протяжении. Война продолжалась 1418 дней. Общие безвозвратные потери СССР составили около 27 млн человек, из которых 18 млн приходилось на гражданское население, а около 8,7 млн - на Вооруженные силы. В концлагерях были убиты и замучены 4 млн советских граждан, в плену погибли более 2 млн из 4,5 млн советских военнослужащих.
🇷🇺22 июня на территории России приспускают государственные флаги. Всем учреждениям культуры, каналам телевидения и радиостанциям рекомендовано не включать в программу развлекательные передачи. Руководители страны возлагают траурные венки к Могиле Неизвестного Солдата в Москве. Во многих городах проводятся минуты молчания.
🕯В День памяти и скорби, 22 июня, по всему миру проходит акция «Свеча памяти». Зажжённые свечи символизируют то, что россияне помнят каждого ушедшего из жизни.
Ничто не забыто, никто не забыт.
❗️Day of Remembrance and Sorrow
June 22, 1941 is one of the saddest dates in the history of Russia. On this very day 82 years ago in the early morning, without declaring war, Nazi Germany and its allies invaded the Soviet Union. So the Great Patriotic War began, which lasted 1418 days and nights, where the USSR lost about 27 million people, but was able to hold out against the fire of the enemy.
Eternal glory to the fallen heroes who fought for the Motherland resisting deadly Nazi invasion during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.
🕯We remember millions of Soviet people who lost their lives as a result of this war. This day reminds of all those who were killed in battles, at the expense of their lives, fulfilling their sacred duty to defend their Motherland, were tortured to death in Nazi captivity, who died in the rear from hunger and hardship. We mourn for all of them.
In this severe bloody war, the multinational people of the Soviet Union made a decisive contribution to the defeat of Hitler’s troops and liberation of the peoples of Europe from Nazism.
No one is forgotten, nothing is forgiven.
June 22, 1941 is one of the saddest dates in the history of Russia. On this very day 82 years ago in the early morning, without declaring war, Nazi Germany and its allies invaded the Soviet Union. So the Great Patriotic War began, which lasted 1418 days and nights, where the USSR lost about 27 million people, but was able to hold out against the fire of the enemy.
Eternal glory to the fallen heroes who fought for the Motherland resisting deadly Nazi invasion during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.
🕯We remember millions of Soviet people who lost their lives as a result of this war. This day reminds of all those who were killed in battles, at the expense of their lives, fulfilling their sacred duty to defend their Motherland, were tortured to death in Nazi captivity, who died in the rear from hunger and hardship. We mourn for all of them.
In this severe bloody war, the multinational people of the Soviet Union made a decisive contribution to the defeat of Hitler’s troops and liberation of the peoples of Europe from Nazism.
No one is forgotten, nothing is forgiven.
Forwarded from Мария Захарова
Посол Израиля на Украине Михаил Бродский (уроженец, между прочим, пережившего блокаду Ленинграда) в интервью израильскому интернет-порталу ITON-TV на чистейшем русском, кстати, заявил следующее:
«Наш взгляд на такие личности, как Бандера, Шухевич, Мельник и так далее сильно отличается от взгляда большинства украинцев. Действительно, эти люди поддерживали идеологию нацизма. В рамках своей борьбы за независимость Украины они хотели видеть Украину без евреев, так же, как без поляков, без коммунистов и ещё, наверное, много без кого. <…> И Украина находится, конечно, в поиске своей идентичности, в поиске своих героев. Нам, конечно, не нравятся эти герои, но для большинства украинцев – это герои, которые боролись за независимость. <…> Но я думаю, что остановить этот процесс, если реально смотреть на вещи, сегодня невозможно. <...> Неправильно было бы обуславливать нашу поддержку Украины и нашу помощь Украине тем, что Украина перестанет переименовывать улицы или перестанет называть героями Бандеру или Мельника. Потому что, если реально смотреть на вещи, то этого, конечно, не произойдёт».
Ни одна организация в защиту памяти жертв Холокоста и бровью не повела. Эй вы, получающие миллиарды на своё содержание для сохранения темы на плаву, точно ничего не пропустили? Про Холокост надо помнить не только потому, что он был тогда, но и чтобы его не было никогда. И не только в отношении одной национальности или религии, а в отношении всех.
Раз защитников жертв Холокоста кроме нас больше нет, я напомню господину Бродскому о национальной политике Организации украинских националистов, которую возглавлял Степан Бандера. Из второго постановления Большого сбора ОУН(б) в апреле 1941 года: «ОУН борется с жидами как опорой московско-большевицкого режима». А вот, например, цитата Ярослава Стецько, сподвижника Бандеры и Мельника: «Стою на позиции уничтожения жидов и целесообразности перенесения на Украину немецких методов экстерминации жидовства, исключая их ассимиляцию».
Евреи в оккупированной нацистами Украине, которым этигерои нелюди активно помогали, были действительно в массе своей уничтожены, сожжены и закопаны без могил и опознавательных знаков. Всего – около 1,4 млн человек.
О каких «героях» может говорить Михаил Бродский?
Так же и в Германии в конце 20-х – начале 30-х годов немецкое общество находилось в поиске своей идентичности и своих героев. И вместо великой немецкой культурной традиции гуманизма выбрало два слова: «кровь и почва» (нем. Blut und Boden). И соответствующих героев, устроивших Холокост, создавших концлагеря, убивавших женщин, младенцев и стариков. Следующие 90 лет Германия пыталась в основном отмыться от такой идентичности. Но от этого никогда не отмыться.
Если, по мнению Михаила Бродского, Киев имеет право на таких героев и идентичность, то это уже проблема МИД Израиля.
Никто не имеет право на таких героев. Потому что это не герои, а исчадия ада, и не идентичность, а позор народа Украины. Это прославление нацизма.
Ну и про то, что с этим ничего нельзя сделать. Это вообще кощунственно. Так рассуждали те, кто спонсировал Гитлера в 1930-е годы. Кстати, в основном англосаксы.
Если бы так рассуждали советские солдаты, то сейчас никакого Бродского просто не было бы, как и памяти о Холокосте.
Как пел Высоцкий, «наш комбат, оттолкнувшись ногой от Урала», изменил ход истории и вернул человечеству его истинный облик. Правда, как оказалось, на время. Сейчас вот снова.
«Наш взгляд на такие личности, как Бандера, Шухевич, Мельник и так далее сильно отличается от взгляда большинства украинцев. Действительно, эти люди поддерживали идеологию нацизма. В рамках своей борьбы за независимость Украины они хотели видеть Украину без евреев, так же, как без поляков, без коммунистов и ещё, наверное, много без кого. <…> И Украина находится, конечно, в поиске своей идентичности, в поиске своих героев. Нам, конечно, не нравятся эти герои, но для большинства украинцев – это герои, которые боролись за независимость. <…> Но я думаю, что остановить этот процесс, если реально смотреть на вещи, сегодня невозможно. <...> Неправильно было бы обуславливать нашу поддержку Украины и нашу помощь Украине тем, что Украина перестанет переименовывать улицы или перестанет называть героями Бандеру или Мельника. Потому что, если реально смотреть на вещи, то этого, конечно, не произойдёт».
Ни одна организация в защиту памяти жертв Холокоста и бровью не повела. Эй вы, получающие миллиарды на своё содержание для сохранения темы на плаву, точно ничего не пропустили? Про Холокост надо помнить не только потому, что он был тогда, но и чтобы его не было никогда. И не только в отношении одной национальности или религии, а в отношении всех.
Раз защитников жертв Холокоста кроме нас больше нет, я напомню господину Бродскому о национальной политике Организации украинских националистов, которую возглавлял Степан Бандера. Из второго постановления Большого сбора ОУН(б) в апреле 1941 года: «ОУН борется с жидами как опорой московско-большевицкого режима». А вот, например, цитата Ярослава Стецько, сподвижника Бандеры и Мельника: «Стою на позиции уничтожения жидов и целесообразности перенесения на Украину немецких методов экстерминации жидовства, исключая их ассимиляцию».
Евреи в оккупированной нацистами Украине, которым эти
О каких «героях» может говорить Михаил Бродский?
Так же и в Германии в конце 20-х – начале 30-х годов немецкое общество находилось в поиске своей идентичности и своих героев. И вместо великой немецкой культурной традиции гуманизма выбрало два слова: «кровь и почва» (нем. Blut und Boden). И соответствующих героев, устроивших Холокост, создавших концлагеря, убивавших женщин, младенцев и стариков. Следующие 90 лет Германия пыталась в основном отмыться от такой идентичности. Но от этого никогда не отмыться.
Если, по мнению Михаила Бродского, Киев имеет право на таких героев и идентичность, то это уже проблема МИД Израиля.
Никто не имеет право на таких героев. Потому что это не герои, а исчадия ада, и не идентичность, а позор народа Украины. Это прославление нацизма.
Ну и про то, что с этим ничего нельзя сделать. Это вообще кощунственно. Так рассуждали те, кто спонсировал Гитлера в 1930-е годы. Кстати, в основном англосаксы.
Если бы так рассуждали советские солдаты, то сейчас никакого Бродского просто не было бы, как и памяти о Холокосте.
Как пел Высоцкий, «наш комбат, оттолкнувшись ногой от Урала», изменил ход истории и вернул человечеству его истинный облик. Правда, как оказалось, на время. Сейчас вот снова.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
💬 Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Brodsky, who is by the way a native of Leningrad, the city which survived a siege during the Great Patriotic War, told ITON-TV, an Israeli website, in pure Russian:
“The way we view people like Bandera, Shukhevich, Melnik and the like is different compared to the way most Ukrainians view them. In fact, these people supported Nazi ideology. While fighting for Ukraine’s independence, they wanted Ukraine without Jews, or Poles, or communists, and probably many others. <…> And Ukraine, of course, is searching for its identity and its heroes. Of course, we do not like these heroes, but most Ukrainians view them as independence fighters. <…> However, in all objectivity, there is no stopping this process today. <…> It would be wrong to demand that Ukraine stop renaming streets or calling Bandera or Melnik heroes as a condition for our support for Ukraine or our assistance to Ukraine because, if you look at things the way they do, this is not going to happen.”
Not a single organisation for protecting the memory of Holocaust survivors raised an eyebrow. Hey! You receive billions in funding to keep this topic in the public space! Haven’t you missed something? The Holocaust must be remembered not only because it happened in the past, but also to make sure that it never happens again, and not just against a single ethnic group or religion, but against any of them.
Since there is no one else to defend the victims of the Holocaust but us, let me remind Mr Brodsky about the ethnic policy of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, with Stepan Bandera at its helm. Here is a quote from the second resolution of OUN B’s General Assembly in April 1941: “The Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists combats Jews as supporters of the Russian Bolshevik regime.” And here is a quote by Yaroslav Stetsko, a Bandera and Melnik accomplice: “I therefore support the destruction of the Jews and the expedience of bringing German methods of exterminating Jewry to Ukraine, barring their assimilation and the like.”
In fact, there was a massive effort to exterminate, burn and bury, without any burials or markers, Jews in Nazi-occupied Ukraine, and these inhumanheroes were proactive in assisting this effort. About 1.4 million people perished this way.
What kind of heroes was Mikhail Brodsky referring to?
German society of the late 1920s and early 1930s was also searching for its identity and heroes. Instead of humanism, a great tradition in German culture, it chose two words: blood and soil (Blut und Boden). And the heroes lived up to this slogan by initiating the Holocaust, creating concentration camps, and killing women, infants and the elderly. For the next 90 years, Germany tried to wash itself clean of this identity. But this is something that leaves a permanent stain.
If Mikhail Brodsky believes that Kiev has the right to these heroes and identity, this is the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s business.
No one has the right to have such heroes. These were not heroes, but demons, and this was not an identity, but a disgrace for the people of Ukraine. This is an act of glorifying Nazism.
As for the idea that there is nothing anyone can do about it, how blasphemous of him to say that! This was the logic of those who sponsored Hitler in the 1930s. Most of them were Anglo-Saxons, by the way.
If this was the logic of Soviet soldiers, Brodsky would not have existed today, and there would be no memory of the Holocaust to preserve either.
In one of his songs, Vladimir Vysotsky wrote: “But our squadron commander corrected its course, as his boots sent the Urals spinning.” This meant the Soviet soldiers changed the course of history and enabled humankind to recover its true face. But this did not last, as it turns out. Here we go, all over again.
💬 Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Brodsky, who is by the way a native of Leningrad, the city which survived a siege during the Great Patriotic War, told ITON-TV, an Israeli website, in pure Russian:
“The way we view people like Bandera, Shukhevich, Melnik and the like is different compared to the way most Ukrainians view them. In fact, these people supported Nazi ideology. While fighting for Ukraine’s independence, they wanted Ukraine without Jews, or Poles, or communists, and probably many others. <…> And Ukraine, of course, is searching for its identity and its heroes. Of course, we do not like these heroes, but most Ukrainians view them as independence fighters. <…> However, in all objectivity, there is no stopping this process today. <…> It would be wrong to demand that Ukraine stop renaming streets or calling Bandera or Melnik heroes as a condition for our support for Ukraine or our assistance to Ukraine because, if you look at things the way they do, this is not going to happen.”
Not a single organisation for protecting the memory of Holocaust survivors raised an eyebrow. Hey! You receive billions in funding to keep this topic in the public space! Haven’t you missed something? The Holocaust must be remembered not only because it happened in the past, but also to make sure that it never happens again, and not just against a single ethnic group or religion, but against any of them.
Since there is no one else to defend the victims of the Holocaust but us, let me remind Mr Brodsky about the ethnic policy of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, with Stepan Bandera at its helm. Here is a quote from the second resolution of OUN B’s General Assembly in April 1941: “The Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists combats Jews as supporters of the Russian Bolshevik regime.” And here is a quote by Yaroslav Stetsko, a Bandera and Melnik accomplice: “I therefore support the destruction of the Jews and the expedience of bringing German methods of exterminating Jewry to Ukraine, barring their assimilation and the like.”
In fact, there was a massive effort to exterminate, burn and bury, without any burials or markers, Jews in Nazi-occupied Ukraine, and these inhuman
What kind of heroes was Mikhail Brodsky referring to?
German society of the late 1920s and early 1930s was also searching for its identity and heroes. Instead of humanism, a great tradition in German culture, it chose two words: blood and soil (Blut und Boden). And the heroes lived up to this slogan by initiating the Holocaust, creating concentration camps, and killing women, infants and the elderly. For the next 90 years, Germany tried to wash itself clean of this identity. But this is something that leaves a permanent stain.
If Mikhail Brodsky believes that Kiev has the right to these heroes and identity, this is the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s business.
No one has the right to have such heroes. These were not heroes, but demons, and this was not an identity, but a disgrace for the people of Ukraine. This is an act of glorifying Nazism.
As for the idea that there is nothing anyone can do about it, how blasphemous of him to say that! This was the logic of those who sponsored Hitler in the 1930s. Most of them were Anglo-Saxons, by the way.
If this was the logic of Soviet soldiers, Brodsky would not have existed today, and there would be no memory of the Holocaust to preserve either.
In one of his songs, Vladimir Vysotsky wrote: “But our squadron commander corrected its course, as his boots sent the Urals spinning.” This meant the Soviet soldiers changed the course of history and enabled humankind to recover its true face. But this did not last, as it turns out. Here we go, all over again.