While Putin's regular troops are trying to create a humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine with their war crimes, Putin's information troops continue to paint their own reality cut off from the world for the citizens of the Russian Federation.
Millions of Russians either refuse to believe in the very fact of the war, or give completely unrealistic, and sometimes cynical “reasons” for the so-called special operation of Russian troops in “brotherly, but for some reason Nazi” Ukraine.
Five main propaganda theses of the Russian Federation: who is actually flirting with Nazism / 7 photos
“There is no war in Ukraine, this is a special operation”
Any military operation on the territory of a foreign country is a war. The leaders of the “LDNR”, who called on the Russian Federation to carry out this “operation”, are not and will never become subjects of international law, and the status of war criminals is guaranteed to them. So let's take a look at the chronology.
On February 14, a group of Russian deputies submitted an initiative to submit a draft appeal for the recognition of the “LPR” and “DPR” to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for further discussion.
On February 15, the State Duma supported the initiative, after which the appeal was immediately transferred to the Putin administration.
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On February 21, the leaders of the LDNR, Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik, addressed Putin with a similar request for “recognition”.
On the evening of the same day, during a televised address, Vladimir Putin officially recognized the “independence” of the self-proclaimed “republics.” This was immediately followed by the signing of agreements on friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance between the Russian Federation and the LDNR.
On February 22, the State Duma and the Federation Council ratified these treaties.
On the night of February 23-24, the leaders of the “LDNR” wrote to Putin with a request to help “repel Kiev’s aggression.”
Having already signed friendship treaties, the Kremlin announced Articles 3 and 4 (prevention of civilian casualties and humanitarian catastrophe).
On February 24, at about 5:00 am Kyiv time, Putin addressed the Russians on the air of a Russian TV channel and announced a “special operation” on the territory of Donbass. However, on the very first day of hostilities, for some reason, Ukrainian cities 500-1000 km from the Donbass were under shelling.
“Support denazification and then peace will come”
Nazism in Ukraine is a propaganda picture of the Russian Federation, which was built for many years: it corresponds to reality as much as the terms fascism and Nazism are the same.
Nazism (completely National Socialism) is a totalitarian ideology taken as a political model in Nazi Germany (Third Reich) in 1933-1945. Nazism was based on the theory of racial hierarchy, where the “Aryans” were the embodiment of a superior race, and the rest of the nationalities were lower and often deprived of the right to exist in the civilized world.
The goal of Hitler, who led the National Socialists in Nazi Germany, was to conquer the world and establish Aryan domination at the cost of millions of lives of Jews and, in particular, representatives of the Slavic peoples.
Nazism as an ideology was condemned at the highest level by the decision of the Nuremberg Tribunal in 1945-1946. Before and after that, Nazism as an ideology did not take place in any state of the world.
In 2022, on the sixth day of the war in Ukraine, the Russian army bombed the Kiev TV Tower, Ukraine's tallest building.
It is located on the territory of the Babi Yar Memorial Complex, where the Nazis massacred tens of thousands of Jews, Ukrainians and other residents of Kyiv during World War II. Representatives of the Memorial have already issued an open statement.
“Russia has vulgarly instrumentalized anti-Nazi rhetoric and is trying to assume the role of a fighter against Nazism… Kyiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Mariupol and other cities in Ukraine were last subjected to mass bombing by Nazi Germany during World War II. Now they are burning under the blows of the army of Putin, who is following the path of Adolf Hitler.”
Russia's actions are assassinations and war crimes in Ukraine. The actions that Ukraine is taking are the defense of its native land. Which of these is more reminiscent of Nazism?
“Eight years ago you staged a genocide in the Donbass”
The term genocide was introduced into world practice by a legal scholar, a graduate of Lviv University Rafal Lemkin. It was he who first called on the world to recognize the crimes of the Stalinist communist regime against Ukrainians.
History knows no examples when a nation that survived a genocide was able to do this in relation to others: the Ukrainian people, through the “efforts” of the USSR, know well what it is.
At the same time, the events that took place in the Donbass eight years ago have a completely different name – this is a temporary occupation.
On April 12, 2014, military units of the Russian Federation invaded the territory of Ukraine without warning, and the seizure of administrative buildings in the Ukrainian cities of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk began.
The very next day, Ukraine announced the start of the ATO, an anti-terrorist operation that was planned to end in a few weeks.
The military conflict dragged on, in May 2014 the separatists announced the creation of the so-called DPR and LPR in the occupied territories of Donbass and Luhansk region. This happened contrary to the norms of international law and the constitution of Ukraine.
During 2014-2015, Russian mercenaries committed a number of war crimes, including tragedies in Ilovaisk, Volnovakha, and Debaltseve.
The international community supported Ukraine and condemned the actions of Russia, which, for eight years without recognizing the pseudo-republics, systematically helped the separatists and financed the existence of the “LPR”.
We are against war, we help refugees from Donbass
At the beginning of 2022, residents of ORDLO, in particular, children and women, did not yet know that they would become refugees.
A few days before a full-scale Russian invasion deep into Ukraine, starting on February 18, terrorist leaders announced an evacuation.
This happened when there were no hostilities yet. At the same time, the “evacuation” did not extend to men of draft age in any way – they began to receive “invitations” to the military registration and enlistment offices en masse.
Orphans, residents of boarding schools, women and pensioners were forced to “urge” to leave for Russia even before Putin officially “recognized the independence” of the quasi-republics in the Donbass.
By all indications of these actions, such “forced resettlement” of residents of ORDLO in the Russian Federation fully falls under the definition of deportation.
“After joining NATO, Ukraine will attack Russia, we will defend ourselves”
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also known as the North Atlantic Alliance) is a military-political alliance founded in 1949. It consists of 30 countries in North America and Europe.
As an international organization, NATO has a number of fundamental principles, the main of which is the principle of collective security, that is, joint organized actions of all its members in response to an attack from outside.
Since 2019, Ukraine has set a strategic course at the level of the constitution towards gaining full membership in NATO.
The fate of Ukraine's membership in NATO can only be decided by 30 allied countries. This will depend not only on the political will of the representatives of the Alliance, but also on the modernization of the Ukrainian army and the implementation of reforms.
Now Russia is actively spreading the thesis that NATO poses an open threat to security. However, history remembers cases when the troops of the Russian Federation and NATO cooperated fruitfully. So it was in Afghanistan.
In the entire history of the existence of the North Atlantic Alliance, none of the countries has ever attacked the Russian Federation. Moreover, the Baltic countries, which, like Ukraine, have a common Soviet past, are already members of NATO, but they did not and will not have plans to attack the Russian Federation. Was Ukraine supposed to be the first?
