Author Archives: RomanInUkraine

The Russian Informational-psychological Campaign in Donbas – demoralization by exaggerating Ukr military casualties

According to operational data from Information Resistance, the structural division of the GRU GS AF RF [Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation] in Rostov-on-Don has relayed orders to the commanders of subversive groups in Donbas. Acting jointly with local terrorists, they are to organize an informational-psychological campaign aimed at undermining the morale of Ukrainian special forces and the demoralization of local residents.

In particular, instructions specified to spread disinformation through all possible informational channels about massive casualties among Ukrainian servicemen during armed confrontations.

http://maidantranslations.com/2014/05/14/dmitry-tymchuk-the-russian-informational-psychological-campaign-in-donbas/

Ukrainian language pushed out of Crimean schools.

@brakmic 4h

The Russian Education Ministry has announced that teachers of Ukrainian language and literature in Crimean schools will be retrained as teachers of Russian. Not only is the main language of tuition changing at the Ukrainian Lyceum in Simferopol, but a Russian flag has now been raised over it.

Even before its military intervention and annexation of the Crimea, Russia had long accused the Ukrainian authorities of violating the rights of Russian speakers.

http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1400072089

General Patton: Without taking Moscow, “we have failed in the liberation of Europe”

WE CHOSE NOT TO TAKE MOSCOW. BIG MISTAKE?

“I understand the situation. Their (the Soviet) supply system is inadequate to maintain them in a serious action such as I could put to them. They have chickens in the coop and cattle on the hoof — that’s their supply system. They could probably maintain themselves in the type of fighting I could give them for five days. After that it would make no difference how many million men they have, and if you wanted Moscow I could give it to you. They lived on the land coming down. There is insufficient left for them to maintain themselves going back. Let’s not give them time to build up their supplies. If we do, then . . . we have had a victory over the Germans and disarmed them, but we have failed in the liberation of Europe; we have lost the war!” — Patton. Prior to his assassination by the Soviets.

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Also:

“The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian has no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and chronic drunk.”

Statement by Patton on 8 August 1945, as quoted in “General Patton : A Soldier’s Life” (2002) by Stanley P. Hirshson, p. 650

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Regarding Patton’s murder (yes, murder):

But after a decade-long investigation, military historian Robert Wilcox claims that OSS head General “Wild Bill” Donovan ordered a highly decorated marksman called Douglas Bazata to silence Patton, who gloried in the nickname “Old Blood and Guts”.

His book, “Target Patton”, contains interviews with Mr Bazata, who died in 1999, and extracts from his diaries, detailing how he staged the car crash by getting a troop truck to plough into Patton’s Cadillac and then shot the general with a low-velocity projectile, which broke his neck while his fellow passengers escaped without a scratch.

Mr Bazata also suggested that when Patton began to recover from his injuries, US officials turned a blind eye as agents of the NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB, poisoned the general.

Mr Wilcox told The Sunday Telegraph that when he spoke to Mr Bazata: “He was struggling with himself, all these killings he had done. He confessed to me that he had caused the accident, that he was ordered to do so by Wild Bill Donovan.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3869117/General-George-S.-Patton-was-assassinated-to-silence-his-criticism-of-allied-war-leaders-claims-new-book.html

(Just to be clear, I condemn Patton’s racism against Asians. Those were different times. His general impression is relevant.)

Kremlin fears a non-corrupt alternative

The Kremlin’s Greatest Fear — an alternative less corrupt social order.

This is the historic role of Ukraine’s Kozaks — providing a freer alternative to Russian feudalism. It was not the Kozak swords and muskets the Czar feared, but the rebellions ignited by the idea of freedom.

The ethnicisation of the Ukrainian conflict suits the Kremlin. Its worst nightmare is a Ukraine growing into an alternative Russia – a better place for talented and entrepreneurial Russians to live and work than Russia proper. Or even worse – a united pro-democracy front rising against the mafia state in all of the former Soviet republics, with Ukraine in the lead.

The West misinterprets Putin by thinking that he wants to rebuild an empire – it is much more likely that the real goal is a compact, monoethnic and ultra-nationalist Ukraine, with the Russian element reduced to a minimum. Being intimately linked to Russia at many different levels, a successful, democratic and tolerant Ukraine threatens the existence of the mafia state and that’s what is at stake for the Kremlin rulers.

http://m.aljazeera.com/story/2014512164523249486

Russian Novelist Erofeyev: Stalin Is ‘Embedded In Our Genes’

Erofeyev: Stalin has embedded himself in our genes. He tries again and again to rise from the dead. Please don’t forget that the best were killed after the October Revolution in 1917: the best aristocrats, the best of the bourgeoisie, the best officers, the best farmers — even the best workers. We, including myself, are merely the best remnants of the inferior leftovers. A nation with these genes is susceptible to Stalin. Stalin has also left his mark on my genes.

. . . . . Putin is probably more liberal than 80 percent of the Russian population. The majority here in the country favors a tougher stance on foreigners — and the majority wants to reinstate the death penalty. Indeed, it will take a strong political will to push through democracy. In the 19th century, Alexander Pushkin said that the only European in Russia was the government. That still holds true today. Unfortunately.

SPIEGEL: It’s not Putin, but rather the people that are the problem?

Erofeyev: If the West unanimously sees Putin as a dictator or semi-dictator, when he’s really more liberal than 80 percent of the Russians, then we’re in big trouble. On the other hand, there are also signs of a rise in Western values here in Russia. People have an increasingly better understanding of Western books and films, many have protested against electoral fraud and they want more of a say.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/novelist-victor-erofeyev-says-stalin-in-genes-of-russia-a-921597.html