re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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our entire space program were former SS guys.

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The whole Ukrainian “Nazis” thing is difficult for most Westerners to comprehend. This is because from the Western perspective Nazis were purely evil and bad and did nothing good. However, from the Ukrainian perspective, things are not quite as simple.

First you have to understand the history of Ukraine in the yeas before WWII. Ukraine had been part of the Russian Empire since the 18th century until it fell in 1917. While part of the Russian Empire, they saw their language and customs suppressed by Russia. Once the Russian Empire collapsed, Ukraine claimed independence. From the Ukrainian point of view, their independence was made possible by Germany defeating the Russian Empire.

But as soon as Ukraine declared independence, they found themselves embroiled in multiple wars and eventually were caught up in the Russian Civil War. In the Russian Civil War, thousands of Ukrainians were slaughtered and the country was conquered by the new Soviet Union. Under Soviet control, the misery for Ukrainians only intensified. The repressive Soviet regime arrested, tortured, and deported massive numbers of Ukrainians. People lost their homes, their farms, and thanks to forced “collectivization”, a man-man famine raged through Ukraine in the 1930s that killed millions. You can find out the details of this famine by searching the term “Holodomor”, it’s brutal. So basically, by 1941, Russia has been oppressing Ukraine for a century and a half and that repression had progressed to outright genocide.

Thus, when the Germans invaded in June 1941 for many Ukrainians, they saw the Germans as liberators. They saw what the Germans did to Russians and wanted to help them crush Russia for what Russia had done to them for generations. This is why, even to this day, there are some Ukrainians who view the Nazis differently than we do in the west. It’s because from their perspective, the Soviets were far worse and the Nazis at least tried to rid the world of the scourge of communism and all the atrocities it brings.

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Several Russian sources are noticing a dramatic increase in fire and assault on their positions tonight in Zaporizhzhia direction. They say tanks are attacking their positions and shelling is non-stop:

Zapiski Veterana:
"I think now we can already talk about the beginning of the offensive announced by Ukraine for so long. There hasn't been such movement at the front for a long time. And on the part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it never happened at all.
It's happening. Good luck to all."

Sladkov:
"The offensive has begun. We have numbers. Wishing steadfastness to men in trenches. We're not sleeping."

Romanov believes this is still probing of defence:

"Not yet.

There are active probes of our defense. In different areas, at different times of the day.

Naturally, if the enemy manages to achieve success somewhere, he will try to consolidate and develop it."

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I am now of the belief that this is the real thing.

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You think Americans put a man on the moon?

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