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    From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Sean Dennis on Tue Mar 8 20:54:12 2022
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    History repeats itself again and again
    Ward Dossche - 2:292/854

    From a prosperous, modern, well organized European-style democracy and
    economy; an enemy without scruples has turned Ukraine into a
    Moon-landscape reminiscent at how Berlin looked at the very end of
    WW2.

    War crimes have been committed, the proof is obvious but that doesn't
    make much impression on the rogue-state which Russia now is.

    In spring 2019 I went to visit Oradour-sur-Glane in France, near
    Limoges. On June 10 1944, 4 days after D-Day in Normandy, a unit of
    the German SS entered the village and murdered hundreds of men, women
    and children.

    The destroyed village has been preserved as a monument.

    I could not wrap my mind around it that these German SS soldiers also
    had fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers and pretty well were aware of
    the atrocity which they were committing without giving it a second
    thought. I urge everyone to try and go to Oradour at least once in
    their life ...

    78 years later soldiers are again uselessly killing innocent
    civilians because they were ordered to do so. Soldiers are good at
    obeying orders, that's what they are paid for. Switching off the
    brain. Follow the order and do not question.

    It is 2022 ... a million and a half Ukrainian refugees, mostly women
    and children, the largest refugee crisis since WW2 the UN calls it
    and Europe is opening its mind and heart and its bank-account for
    these people in need fleeing from ... from "what" exactly ... A
    regime which has lost all sense for normalcy intent on annihilating a
    peaceful well organized European-style democracy and economy ...

    The refugees will be safe and taken care of, but can you imagine what
    the fate will be of the ones that remain behind in the homeland?

    Rape is a weapon for submission, it is recognized as a war-crime. But
    Russia has already committed war crimes the past week, which they
    know are as good as unable to become prosecuted, and they will not
    stop at this one. And Ukrainian women have already been raped by
    Russian troops, Russian propaganda will call it ... propaganda ...
    but Western human rights watchers still on-site paint the actual
    story.

    Hundreds of Russian soldiers have died and their families are without
    news, mothers having lost a child and unable to mourn it or bury it.
    It's all kept out of the media. And please do not call it "a war" or
    you risk 15 years of imprisonment ... It seems that during the darkest
    days of hard-core Russian Communism people had more rights than in ...


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