Russian Brutality

A Hundred Years of Pain

ALEXANDER PHOENIX

Russian Crimes Against Humanity

Over the Last Century
The horror of Russian oppression is that it often affects the best and
brightest portion of the population of a nation – thinkers, writers,
philosophers, poets, scientists – as well as the most courageous, the
most willing to stand up for the rights and freedoms of their peoples.

To eliminate such people is to destroy the future of a nation. But

Russia has killed hundreds of thousands of the best and brightest and
most courageous people of many nations.

Read on, to know the horror that Russia has inflicted, not only upon
Ukraine, but upon many nations over the last hundred years.

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 About the Author
Alexander Phoenix is a
descendant of Robert the Bruce,
King of the Scots, and belongs to
a family that has served in the
causes of freedom, education,
enlightenment, literature and
the arts for more than a
millennium.

The author also has family in

Ukraine, who live in Kherson oblast, and who were for a long
time trapped behind Russian lines. Even now, the author’s
family are under constant threat from Russian artillery and
missiles, and his cousins risk their lives daily on the front
lines.

It is for his family, and for all the people of Ukraine who have
suffered so needlessly under Russian aggression, that the
author has created this work.

The author wishes to express here his sincere gratitude to

all the peoples of the world who have come together to
oppose this causeless aggression. For the saga of Ukraine’s
battle for freedom is also the saga of a humanity brought
together by its humanity.

May the survival and freedom of Ukraine soon become a

matter of… established history.

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 Index
PART I RUSSIAN CRIMES AGAINST UKRAINE 6
A CENTURY OF RUSSIAN CRIMES AGAINST UKRAINE 7
THE WAR IN UKRAINE – TRUTH AND DECEPTION 25
RUSSIA’S INTENTIONS HAD IT ACHIEVED VICTORY 35
THE MYTH OF A 'RUSSIAN' CRIMEA 43

PART II RUSSIAN CRIMES AGAINST OTHER NATIONS 48

ONE CENTURY OF RUSSIAN CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY 49
A HUNDRED YEARS OF RUSSIAN MILITARY AGGRESSION 58
RUSSIAN DEPORTATIONS OF ENTIRE PEOPLES 81

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 PART I
RUSSIAN CRIMES
AGAINST
UKRAINE

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 A CENTURY OF RUSSIAN CRIMES
AGAINST UKRAINE
There are some who believe that the population of Ukraine
would now stand at around eighty millions if not for the
direct actions of the Russian and Soviet empires.

The Russian Empire gradually annexed Ukraine in the

seventeenth century, disbanded Ukraine’s Cossack forces,
and deported them to Russia’s Southern Kuban region.

There were rebellions from time to time, but these were

brutally suppressed, with whole Cossack armies being
obliterated. By the end of the eighteenth century, Russia had
consolidated its control over Ukraine.

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The beginning of the nineteenth century saw winds of
liberation and change blowing across Europe. More and
more, people were turning away from blind imperialism,
and towards a cherishing of their unique national heritage.

This vast European movement had its influence on Ukraine.

From 1804 onwards, there was a resurgence in nationalism
in Ukraine, with the Ukrainian people taking a renewed
pride in their own culture and in their own language.

This was brutally suppressed.

The Russian Empire began to fear

that such a revival of Ukraine’s
national identity would eventually
lead to a movement towards
independence, and so began an
aggressive suppression of the
Ukrainian language, banning it in
schools.

Later in that century, Ukrainian

literature and culture would be
almost completely suppressed by
Russia, including official degrees
halting the publication of books in
the Ukrainian language, and the
suppression of all lectures in
Ukrainian, and all cultural
performances in Ukrainian.

And yet this was only the beginning.

What was done under the Russian Empire was but a portent
of the horrors that would be inflicted on Ukraine under the
Soviets.

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The Advent of the Soviet ‘Red Terror’
With the fall of the Russian Empire, the Soviets sought to
reaffirm their control over Ukraine. In 1919, the Red Army
launched a massive offensive against Ukraine, led, in part, by
Stalin.

Red forces gradually overran the country, and while they

were harried by partisans, this only gave them an excuse to
unleash a campaign of oppression and terror, with
informers giving away
‘enemies of the people’
to interrogation and
torture.
The Socialists had
adopted a policy of
‘Socialism by Force’
even before they came
to power – that is to
say, Socialism was to
be inflicted upon the
population whether
they wished it or not.
Those who resisted would be put on trial and sentenced as
enemies of the people – to re-education, to prison, to hard
labour, to deportation to Siberia; to death.
Captured enemy officers and partisans were subjected to
horrific tortures. Prisoners were executed en-masse with
machine guns, or using the usual Soviet method of shooting
them in the back of the neck.
Perhaps five thousand people were executed in Kyiv alone.
Yet even this was but a portent of a far vaster horror to come.

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Holodomor – the ‘Terror Famine’
The word Holodomor refers to the ‘Terror Famine’ inflicted
on Ukraine, which cost around seven million Ukrainian lives.

Most historians now agree that the famine was – at least in

its origins – a result of the imbecile heights that Russian
mismanagement could rise to.

The Soviets had a theory that all farming should be

communal, and so they enacted a policy of seizing land from
farmers, and forcing farmers to work instead on collective
farms. These collective farms, run by party bureaucrats, and
worked by disheartened farmers who had been robbed of
their lands, were horribly dysfunctional. The men who ran
the collective farms had little knowledge of how over-
farming can leave lands barren, or how to ensure yields in
years of drought.

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As food production dropped steeply, the Soviet government
was faced with actual famine across the entire Soviet Union.

When concerned governments across the world offered to

help, the Soviet Union responded with ‘national pride’,
launching a complex campaign to conceal the famine from
the world, and even inviting foreign journalists and writers
like George Bernard Shaw to visit fake villages where they
simulated a false abundance of food, so that those
journalists and writers would return to the West and report
that the famine in Soviet Russia was a myth.

In effect, the Soviets preferred to let their

people starve in the millions, rather than ask
for help.

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When it became evident that the Soviet Union was in the
throes of a widespread famine, the Russian government
reacted with typical ruthlessness. They designated people
‘expendable’ or ‘non-expendable’, and instituted food
rationing that ensured the survival of those deemed non-
expendable at the expense of all the others – even little
children.

It goes without saying that most of the non-expendables

were ethnic Russians.

Ukrainian witnesses from the time of Holodomor say that

Ukraine – one of the most prolific food-producing regions –
had had a good harvest that year, more than sufficient for its
needs… but this was shipped away to Russia.

This policy was enforced with horrific inhumanity.

Seven million people in Ukraine died because their food

was shipped away that Russians might eat.

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A decision was made to seize all the food in Ukraine – which
was one of the most prolific food-producing regions.
In 1933, the Russian army raided villages in Ukraine,
confiscating all food, especially in 'blacklisted' areas – even
food-stores from household larders.
Army units made extensive searches of homes, even
breaking walls and digging up the ground to remove
people’s last pitiful caches of food.
Suddenly, most of the population of Ukraine was left without
even the barest minimum necessary to maintain life.

The Russian army even confiscated the seed-

grain set aside for the next year's sowing.

Soviet officials who did not fully cooperate with the food
requisitioning were sentenced to ten years in concentration
camps, including an official who shot himself in his arm in
protest.
Simultaneously, harsh laws were enacted - such as a law that
prevented people from even gleaning leftover grain from
the fields, or grain that had fallen by chance on the ground
(The penalty was ten years' hard labour, and over two
hundred thousand people were sentenced under the said
law).
More than two thousand people were executed.

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Those found with hidden caches of food were severely
punished. As an example, an 80-year-old grandmother who
possessed a sack of potatoes was deported to Siberia.
Also, simultaneously, an internal passport system was put
into force that prevented people from starvation-hit areas
from leaving those areas.

Seven million people died.

The good died first. Those who shared their food with
others, who would not steal, who would not prostitute
themselves for food.
Those who would not eat corpses.
These died first.

At the height of the famine, nearly thirty

thousand people died daily.

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The life expectancy for a child
born in 1933, assuming it
survived the actual famine
itself, was between seven and
ten years.

Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and

Luhansk were depopulated of
Ukrainians due to the famine.

The government of the Soviet

Union then moved Russians
into these areas, to give Russia
a permanent 'false claim' to
these regions.

In effect, the present claims Russia makes to

Donetsk and Luhansk are based upon its
previous butchery of the local population by
starvation in these areas!

But the real crime is of even more immense

proportions.

In the terrible years of the famine, the Soviet

Union was actually exporting grain – and
other kinds of food – to garner foreign
exchange… foreign exchanged obtained at
the cost of the lives of millions of human
beings.

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The Soviet Union exported two million, seven
hundred thousand tonnes of grain, of which
one million, eight hundred thousand tonnes
were exported directly through Ukrainian
seaports!

Nineteen thousand tonnes of cereals were also

exported through Ukrainian seaports during the
Holodomor famine, as were three thousand five
hundred tonnes of meat and two thousand five hundred
tonnes of fish, as well as four hundred tonnes of butter.

This vast export of food in the midst of a famine

that was even then killing seven million human
beings in Ukraine is unforgiveable.

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Oppression during the starvation years of
Holodomor…
Even as people were starving to death, Soviet purges,
oppression and brutality continued. Nearly forty thousand
people were arrested, of which a thousand were executed,
while eight thousand were sent to forced-
labour concentration camps. Three thousand
more were deported to distant parts of
Russia.

Mass deportations of Ukrainians and

the replacement of the indigenous
population with Russians.
The replacement of the Ukrainian dead from
Holodomor with immigration from Russia
had begun to give Russia a permanent ethnic
claim to Eastern Ukraine. Soviet authorities
decided to accentuate this with a policy of
mass-deportations on a massive scale.
In the years between 1940 and 1953, six
hundred thousand people were forcibly
deported from Ukraine, shoved into unheated
cattle wagons where there was only a hole in
the floor for sanitation, and sent on journeys
to distant parts of Russia. Thousands died in
transit; thousands more died in the horrible
conditions of starvation rations and forced
labour that they were subjected to on arrival.
The homes and properties of the deported
people were given to ethnic Russian immigrants.
This represents a serious attempt to remove the claim of the
Ukrainian people to their own nation.

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This horrific policy continues today…

Russia today has forcibly deported one million, six hundred

thousand Ukrainians from Russian held areas of Ukraine –
this number includes two hundred and sixty thousand
children. There have been reports of children deliberately
being separated from their parents, and being sent to
different destinations. Russia also set up what it called
‘filtration camps’ in regions of Ukraine
occupied by it, where thousands of
Ukrainians were interrogated, usually to
find out whether they supported the
Russian occupation of Ukraine.

Those who were not careful enough in their

replies were taken away, and subjected to
torture.

Many were never seen again.

Members of my family in Ukraine tell me that the homes of

many of these missing people were then given to ethnic
Russians willing to settle in Ukraine, thus forcibly
decreasing the Ukrainian population and increasing the
Russian population of Ukraine.

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To return to History…
The advent of WWII interrupted the wave
of Soviet purges, arrests, torture and
executions in Ukraine.

With German armies sweeping across Ukraine, Soviet

officials were faced with a difficult question – what were
they to do with the thousands of political prisoners that they
had amassed?

There was, of course, no question of simply setting them

free, and it was too much trouble, with German armies
advancing so rapidly, to transport them to Russia.

NXVD death squads provided a far simpler ‘final solution’ to

the problem, unleashing a wave of mass-executions in
prisons all across Ukraine.

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Three thousand prisoners were executed in Lviv, fifteen
hundred prisoners in Lutsk, more than five hundred in
Dubna, and around three thousand more in Zolochiv and
Strya.

All in all, perhaps ten thousand political prisoners

were executed in prisons across Ukraine.

Look upon the face of horror,

and know why Ukraine will never be ‘Russian’.

Such atrocities must never happen again.

But they already have.

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The advancing Germans discovered hundreds of rotting
corpses in prisons and in ditches in each city that they took,
or dumped in the rivers. Some bodies bore the marks of
extensive torture.

The stench that arose from these mass-graves was

unbearable, so much so that the Germans who discovered
the heaps of corpses were forced to wear gas masks to
protect themselves from the horrible miasma of the dead.

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When the war was done…
And yet, Soviet Russia was not done with Ukraine. After the
war came the Stalinist terror, with its paranoid elimination
of everyone who ‘might’ be a threat to the regime.

With this came a dedicated effort to

erase Ukraine as a nation.

The cornerstone of this was an almost

complete suppression of the Ukrainian
language, especially in schools and
universities, and in the suppression of
all cultural expressions of Ukrainian
national identity.

The suppression covered language,

books, and every form of artistic
expression.

The very name Ukraine was

suppressed, being replaced with terms
like ‘Little Russia’.

The names of cities, towns and settlements were ‘Russified’,

with Kyiv becoming Kiev, and so on.

But more than this, there was an active attempt to rewrite

history – as Soviet Russia so often tried to do, with so many
nations, there were immense efforts to rewrite the real
history of Ukraine with a narrative that denationalized
Ukraine and exalted Russia.

Or rather, an attempt was made to write Ukraine into

history as forever having been but a lesser component of a
greater Russia.

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What is the source of such hatred?
Ah, when we ask that question, we come to the heart of the
matter.
Who were the ‘Rus’?
The original Rus were Norse warriors who first settled the
golden fields of Ukraine around a thousand years ago.

Perhaps the real core of Russia's antipathy for Ukraine is the

fact that the Norse-settled Kyivan 'Rus' were actually the
original Rusyns, and are, therefore, somehow perceived as
the ultimate threat to Russia's 'national identity'.

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 THE WAR IN UKRAINE
– TRUTH AND DECEPTION
Let us begin this by touching upon broken faith, in the shape of
the Budapest Memorandum.
When the Soviet Union broke apart, Ukraine was left in
possession of a great many nuclear weapons, making it, in fact,
the third largest nuclear power in the world. Under pressure
from Russia and an extremely short-sighted United States,
Ukraine agreed to give up these nuclear weapons, in an
agreement called the Budapest Memorandum.
According to the terms of the agreement, in return for Ukraine
giving up its nuclear weapons, the Russian Federation, the
United States, and the United Kingdom agreed to forever
respect the independence, the sovereignty, and the existing
borders of Ukraine, and to never use force – or even threaten to
use force – against Ukraine.
This – according to the Memorandum, and this is clearly stated
– included not only the use of military force, but also economic
coercion. In effect, these three states – Russia, the US, and the
UK, agreed never to threaten the independence, sovereignty or
borders of Ukraine in any way.
But this was not all!
These three nations also guaranteed the security of Ukraine in
the event that Ukraine was threatened in any way.
Russia’s invasions of Ukraine are more than mere aggression –
they are also a statement that agreements between nations can
no longer be trusted.
They are a testament to the fact that Russia is a nation without
honour, and that Russia’s word as a nation is worth nothing.
Let the World Beware!

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The Actual Invasion…
The invasion of Ukraine started with the annexation of
Crimea, which Russia claimed after eradicating the Crimean
Tatars, the original inhabitants of the region!
Russian troops wearing no official markings or insignia – in
violation of all the rules of warfare, simply seized the region.
This is an actual picture of these troops, below…

After this, Russia amassed huge forces across the border

from Ukraine’s Donbas, while their foreign ministry – in
2014, just as they would later in 2022 – continuously
assured the world that ‘there would be no invasion’.
It is important to mention here that Ukraine – very naively,
with such a neighbour – maintained an open border policy
with Russia, where Russians could cross the border without
a visa.

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Russia took advantage of this to bring in its people, not only
to seize Crimea, but also to stage fraudulent ‘protests’ and
riots in the Donbas, where Russians pretending to be locals
demanded a separate government from Ukraine.
Russia then sent in armed soldiers disguised as civilians,
turning this into an ‘armed insurgency’. When the Ukrainian
army successfully engaged these ‘insurgents’ and beat them
back, Russia abandoned all pretence and sent in the heavily
armed tanks and troops massed along Ukraine’s borders.

Ukraine’s army was ill-prepared – at the time – for such an

all-out invasion, and was beaten back.
Horrifically, Russia offered a ‘green corridor’ to hundreds of
Ukrainian soldiers trapped in a pocket if they would lay
down their arms, and when these unarmed soldiers moved
down this supposed ‘green corridor’, the Russian army
ruthlessly massacred them all.

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Then began a grinding oppression of the Donbas.

Russian propaganda worked on the population, especially the

children, but that, despicable as it may seem, was only the ‘soft’
part of their approach.

People who supported Ukraine were rounded up and tortured,

their families threatened if they did not abandon their stance –
and in many cases, these people and their families simply
disappeared.

Armed gangs roamed the streets, abducting anyone who was

suspect, entirely cowing the population.

Yet the population of Ukraine fought back for eight long years,
while the government of Russia created a propaganda
campaign that painted the Ukrainians as ‘Nazis’, a narrative
that successfully prevented the world from arming them
effectively.

So much might have been

done – Ukraine might
have been given units of
HIMARS in advance of the
2022 invasion, or, even
better, been equipped
with Western fighter
aircraft.

The all-out war in

Ukraine in 2022 has
shown that Russia’s air-
force is so incompetent
that, had Ukraine had an effective, modern air-force, Ukraine
would have quickly gained air-superiority, ending the conflict.

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But Ukraine had no air-force. It had no navy. It had no long-
range missiles capable of striking the Crimean bridge.
It had no long-range precision missile artillery.
And… thanks to the irresponsible shenanigans and ‘promises’
of the UK and the US… it also had no nuclear deterrent. A nation
that had once had the third largest nuclear arsenal in the
world.

So much suffering – because nations played at ‘politics’, and

failed to arm Ukraine against even obvious aggression after
2014.
And because Russia, as a nation, absolutely cannot keep its
word.

So…
Why did Putin directly intervene in Ukraine?
There’s more to Ukraine than meets the eye.
Did you know that the engines
of Russia’s cruise missiles, the
targeting systems of their
tanks, the engines of their
combat helicopters and
warships – did you know that
these were all produced in
Ukraine?
For Russia to lose influence in
Ukraine threatens the very
survival of its military.
And what has Russia to be proud of, as a nation, in this
modern age, but its military.

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There is more.
Russia’s economy is severely dependent upon the earnings
from its oil and natural gas exports. In his decades in office,
Putin has not diversified that economy. Now, not only did
Ukraine have coal mines in the Donbas, and oil deposits in
Crimea, but immensely large fields of natural gas were also
discovered in the Donbas in 2010. Ukraine is geographically
right next door to Europe.
Why should Europe buy gas and oil from Russia when it
could buy these commodities that much more easily from
Ukraine? Perhaps Ukraine might even have decided to
undercut Russia’s prices… in which case, Russia would face,
not only outright poverty, but economic catastrophe.

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Ukraine is also an agricultural powerhouse – the breadbasket
of Europe. If it were part of Russia, its vast production of food
would not only secure Russia against food shortages, and keep
food prices low, but, in terms of exports, would provide Russia
with much-needed foreign exchange.

Ukraine also possesses perhaps the richest resource of all – its

people. Ukrainians are clever and technologically very
proficient, and, in terms of education, in advance of many
Russians today, because Russia
has, since the 1980s, been
cutting back on education to
fund its military.

Ukrainians also are – as the

world has seen – ferocious
fighters. As a part of Russia,
Ukrainian soldiers would truly
make Russia the superpower it
pretends to be – as Ukrainian
soldiers did for the Soviet Union
in the last century.

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But, most importantly of all, Russia has a failing population
in any case, with its population showing a decline over the
last decades. Ukraine’s population thus does indeed
represent the greatest treasure of all – a precious treasure
trove of forty million brilliant and clever people, scientists,
industrialists, thinkers, inventors and warriors.

It’s hardly any surprise that Russia has, since February

2022, deported one million, six hundred thousand
Ukrainians to Russia – of which two hundred and sixty
thousand are children.

So…
These are the motivations behind Putin’s war in Ukraine.

Simple greed.

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Discount all the complex reasons Russia – or rather, Russia’s
President – gives for the war. You have to give your people
good, seemingly sane reasons to go to war, because
otherwise they would never accept it. For war is the ultimate
insanity.

Look past these petty deceptions of Russia’s brutal dictator,

and see beneath them the most common and most ordinary
of all human motivations… simple greed.

The invasion of Ukraine is mere armed banditry on the scale

of a nation.

But Putin has one even more obvious motivation for making
war upon Ukraine, and that motivation is perhaps the most
potent of all – fear.

Putin has Russia locked down, and the Russian people

slavishly accepting their fate. They no longer hope for a
democracy, and – unlike nation after nation surrounding
them – no longer even hope to one day be free.

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If the people of Ukraine – who, culturally and historically,
have so much in common with Russia, in so many ways, build
a wonderful, prosperous nation next door, if they build lives
of freedom and happiness, if they can even speak their
minds freely…

…then Russians may start to wonder why they cannot.

And, in wondering that, may start down the path that

introduces men like Putin to the revolutionary spectre
of a rope, and a lamp-post.

If that is not cause for fear, what is?

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 RUSSIA’S INTENTIONS HAD IT
ACHIEVED VICTORY
Russia’s intentions, had it actually achieved victory in
Ukraine, were nothing short of chilling.
By labelling the Ukrainians ‘Nazis’, Russia tapped directly
into the generations-old hatreds of its population. This
ensured that no matter what crimes were committed against
the Ukrainians in the event of a Russian conquest, a good
portion of the ageing Russian population would approve –
after all, if the Ukrainians were ‘Nazis’, the old enemy, the
old monster ‘come alive again’, they were, by definition, also
not human.
For when you think of someone as ‘not human’ or ‘evil’,
anything and everything that is done to them can then be
justified.

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What was intended to be done to them?
According to what various Russian leaders have said
publicly, Russia officially considers a significant portion of
the population of Ukraine ‘passive Nazis’, that is to say ‘Nazi
sympathizers’.

In the event of a Russian victory, and in those areas

controlled by Russia, it was eventually intended that the
mass of the Ukrainian population be subject to severe
ideological and cultural repression. The very concept of
Ukraine as a nation was to be suppressed, and all expression
of such a concept to be punished rigorously by either prison,
or deportation into distant parts of Russia.

The Ukrainian language and uniquely Ukrainian cultural

mores were to be suppressed using similar measures. At the
same time, every effort was to be taken to ‘Russify’ Ukraine
– to entirely replace Ukraine’s cultural and national identity
with that of Russia.

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There are portions of this ‘Russification’ process that are
particularly reprehensible, and which I must therefore
touch upon.

The first is the ‘breaking of the spirit’ of

known Ukrainian sympathizers.
As you can imagine, Russia has compiled
vast lists of these. These people were to
have been arrested as soon as Russia felt
its position was sufficiently secure. They would then be
subjected to ‘de-nazification’ – a brutal course of systematic
mental and physical torture, with the additional coercion of
threats to a person’s family.

Many innocents were tortured in this manner in the

occupied territories of Ukraine. If a person broke, they were
then made to record videos condemning their former
loyalties, and their previous
point of view, and abjectly
‘apologizing to the Russian
people’.
If they did not break, the
torture continued, to end,
eventually, in prison or
deportation – or in death;
and their families would
share their fate, to a greater
or lesser extent.
Many in the occupied
territories were executed in
this manner. In some cases, the family was executed with the
accused, as happened to the husband of a Ukrainian
government official, whose corpse was found in a pit.

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These crimes were conducted on a considerable scale in
parts of Ukraine that Russia held, with people in Kherson
disappearing mysteriously, never to be seen again… unless
they eventually appeared in one of the videos I have
described, in which case they were allowed to return to their
homes, and thenceforth were utterly and totally obedient to
the Russian authorities. Their spirits had been broken.

For the rest… the rest is silence.

Silence, and Death,
under the two-faced shadow
of the Russian ‘eagle’.

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Indeed, this has actually being going on in the
Donbas and in Crimea since the first Russian
invasion of 2014.

But Russian methods of ‘Russification’ are even more

insidious and unethical than this.

Little children going to

schools are taught an entirely
‘Russified’ syllabus, in which
they learn a false narrative of
history that entirely
obliterates the Ukrainian
national identity, its history
and its culture… and its
language.

In effect, Ukrainian children would – if Russia had taken

secure control of contested areas – have been brought up to
be Russian, thereby permanently consolidating Russia’s
claim to the region.
Russia has done this before, in many different regions, and
the process had already begun on a small scale in contested
areas like Kherson, with Russia offering lavish salaries to
Russian teachers willing to teach in these areas.

Fortunately, because of the threat posed by the Ukrainian

Army, there were few takers – but had the Ukrainian Army
not posed so potent a threat, the future of the children of
Ukraine would have been dire indeed.

How brainwashed the children of the Donbas and

of Crimea already are, after eight years of
occupation, is a thought to indeed give one
pause.

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Russian leaders said that they would not consider Ukraine
‘de-nazified’ until an entire generation of Ukrainian
children had grown to adulthood under the ‘Russification’
education system that they intended to implement –
horrifically, they intended to indoctrinate an entire nation.
Those of the older generation who resisted this process
would either disappear, or find themselves at hard labour in
some distant part of Russia.
Russia intended to obliterate the very concept of Ukraine as
a nation from the minds of the Ukrainian people. They
intended to brainwash the next generation into having no
such concept.
In effect, the Ukrainians, in the dystopian future that Russia
was trying to usher in, would think of themselves as ‘Little
Russians’. But they are not. And never will be.
For Russia is a killer of babies; the nation that razes to the
ground cities of immortal beauty…

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And yet… the crime intended becomes even
more heinous.

Russian leaders have said that the horrific war unleashed

against civilians in Ukraine was deliberate – that the
Ukrainian people have been subjected to this ‘hardship’ –
the horror of total war unleashed upon innocent people,
even children – as a ‘historical lesson’! They feel that the
atrocities of this war are a fitting atonement for Ukraine’s
‘guilt’.

I have never known – in my lifetime – such manipulative and

deliberate evil.

This was indeed the Cold War resurrected, and an attempt

being made to bring back the mechanized terror of the
Stalinist era, when fear walked the streets, and every man’s
hand was turned against his neighbour, and your friend – or
a little child – could turn informer.

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If the free nations of the world had allowed
Russia to retain the areas it had occupied, the
people of those areas would have been
sentenced to the horrors I have been recounting.

These people included members of my family.

By sending weapons and humanitarian aid to Ukraine; by
sending ammunition and artillery, and especially the
HIMARS missile systems, the free peoples of the world
have helped to save the freedoms of millions of human
beings.
Yes, the free peoples of the world have helped save the
Ukrainian people from the suffering and torment of the
hell-on-earth that Russia unleashed in Ukraine.

It is good that you had pity.

It is good that you had mercy.

For the Russians would not.

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 THE MYTH OF A 'RUSSIAN' CRIMEA

Crimea was annexed by Russia in 1783 with a population of

Crimean Tatars about one million strong. Russia then began
a regime so repressive that three hundred thousand
Crimean Tatars fled to Turkey. An additional two hundred
thousand Crimean Tatars fled to Turkey during the Crimean
War.

These were replaced by an influx of ethnic

Russians until Crimean Tatars became a minority
in their own land.

But this was only the

beginning.

During Holodomor, food

from Crimea was sent to
‘more crucial’ regions of
the Soviet Union, leading
to a hundred thousand
Crimean Tatars starving to
death.
More Crimean Tatars were
executed in the Stalinist
purges.

The Tatar population of Crimea now fell to just

nineteen percent of the total population of the
peninsula.

Stalin decided to further reduce this number.

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One hundred and ninety thousand Crimean Tatars
were forcibly deported in cattle wagons to the Uzbek
SSR, two thousand miles away.

According to one deportee, they were given just fifteen

minutes to prepare for deportation, and given no
information about what was happening to them.
Many believed they were being taken to execution.

As is usual during callous mass-deportations by the

Russians, eight thousand people died in transit, while
between thirty to forty thousand died upon arrival, in the
harshest conditions of exile, which included forced labour
on minimal rations. Children were often the first to die.
An NKVD report shows that twenty seven percent of
Crimean Tatars were thus eliminated.

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 Eighty thousand homes in Crimea fell vacant, and three
hundred and sixty thousand acres of land lay abandoned.
Those exiled lost all their property, which was often taken
over by ethnic Russians, and never returned.

The Soviet government also cleansed the area of all other

ethnicities, including Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians,
Romanians, Italians, and more.
The total number of people deported and replaced with
ethnic Russians numbered two hundred and twenty
eight thousand.

The NKVD then found that

deportations had not been fully
completed on the Arabat Spit.
Rather than deport these Tatars,
they simply loaded hundreds of
them onto an ageing ship, and
sank the ship in the Azov Sea.
Those who survived the sinking
were gunned down.
The image to the right shows their
bodies, washed ashore by the tides…

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Essentially, the Tatar population of Crimea was almost
completely replaced by ethnic Russians, and the Tatars’
properties seized by them.
The Tatars were barred from returning by Russia, and this
ban was not lifted for forty-five years. When it was finally
lifted, and the Crimean Tatars began to return, no
recompense was made to them for the loss of their property.

Crimean Tatars then formed a mere twelve

percent of the population.

This is the true history of ‘Russian’ Crimea.

There is actually no such thing.

There is no ‘Russian’ Crimea – there is only an area

brutally depopulated of its original inhabitants, and
stolen by a grasping and heartless race.

The very concept of a ‘Russian’ Crimea is the admission of a

crime of unimagined brutality.

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Crimea was eventually merged with Ukraine – however,
when the Russians again invaded it in 2014, nearly ten
thousand Crimean Tatars fled due to a policy of systematic
intimidation by the Russian authorities.
The sheer arrogant brutality of first cleansing a region of its
original inhabitants and replacing those inhabitants with
Russians, and then, years later, laying claim to that region on
the basis of it having a majorly Russian population, is
beyond measure… and is a good instance of cold-blooded
Russian imperialism, and their policy of ‘Russification’.
Horrifically enough, when the Russians occupied Kherson,
Russian soldiers forced their way into the homes of Crimean
Tartars in Kherson, abducting them. These people were
never seen again.

The horror continues…

As it has for a hundred years.

As it will for a hundred years to come.

Unless you, my reader, whether you be European,

American, Asian – or Russian – move to stop it.
Beyond any question of nation or race, let this be
the time for humanity to prove its humanity!

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 PART II
RUSSIAN CRIMES
AGAINST OTHER
NATIONS

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 ONE CENTURY OF RUSSIAN
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Russian crimes against humanity have been continuous in
their history, and continue even today… but two terrifying
periods in Russian history illustrate the terrible lengths that
Russia is willing to go to in terms of mass-slaughter – The
‘Red Terror’, and Stalin’s ‘Great Terror’.
You may think the names themselves sufficiently
illustrative, yet no mere title can encompass such horror, as
will be evident below…

1917 – 1922… The ‘Red Terror’

The ‘Red Terror’ is an exemplary example of the Russian
capacity for committing horrific crimes against their own
people, and against people within areas that they controlled.

It is estimated that Soviet Russia executed up to

thirty thousand people each year during this
period, for a total of around one hundred and fifty
thousand people slaughtered.

There were ethical socialists who tried to protest this

horror. They – quite predictably – became additional victims
to the Red Terror.

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One such person was Maria
Spiridonova, who spoke heroically
and eloquently against the mass-
murders.

She was arrested many times, and

imprisoned in a tiny cell within the
Kremlin. Repeated imprisonments
ultimately destroyed her health.

She was then arrested for the last

time in 1937, along with her husband,
father-in-law, step son and other
members of her family.

Here is a part of her own statement against the Russian

‘tradition’ of mass-murder, written shortly before her
death…
“A nation beautiful with apple blossom, in which science and
art and beauty flourish; a nation that has books, education for
all, and medicine for the ill. The sun is ours, and the children
that we raise… and above all this, we have truth.
And yet, in the dark corners of our nation we also have this
enormous scale of merciless and bloody executions.
Let me be the last of your victims, but end the executions.”

She was shot along with a hundred and fifty others in a

forest.
She was buried in a mass-grave.
The site of her grave is not known.

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It is the continuous murder of noble and idealistic people
like this, carried out continuously over decades, that has
made Russia the land of darkness it is today, where the
murder of innocents has become so common, where the
natural humanity of the population has become so
deadened, that even the murder of children in an
unnecessary war… is now no longer felt.

And the machine of inhumanity that is Russia rolls on.

But onwards, in the catalogue of massacre…

1936 – 1938… Stalin’s ‘Great Purge’ or ‘Great

Terror’
One notes the prevalence of the word ‘terror’ in the
recounting of Russia’s history. Stalin’s Great Terror claimed
a horrendous number of victims in every nation that the
Soviet Union controlled. The image below shows one such
victim, hanged at a lamp-post.

The total number of executed

victims across the Soviet Union
numbered around 700,000, this
not counting those tortured,
imprisoned, or deported to
Siberia.

Each nation and region under Soviet

control suffered.

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If we take Poland as an example, there were a
144,810 arrests there, with a 111,091 being
executed!

Even the families of those murdered in this way suffered,

with the children being put into orphanages, and the wives
being sentenced to up to a decade of hard labour.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet,

18,000 Buddhist Lamas were shot in Mongolia.

The Elimination of the Finest Minds Available

Two thousand writers, poets, artists and intellectuals were

arrested, of which three out of four were executed.

Twenty seven astronomers were executed simply because

the imbecile Soviet authorities believed research into
sunspots to be against Marxism!

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 An aged theatre director was beaten
nearly to death with leather straps, and
then shot, while his wife was later
murdered.
Les Kurbas, shown to the left, and perhaps
Ukraine’s greatest movie and theatre
director of the twentieth century, was
shot, as was one of Ukraine’s greatest
writers of drama.
Victims also include the Azerbaijani pianist
Khadija Gayibova and the Finnish educator
Aino Forsten (shown to the right), who was
executed along with her husband.
People who were being forced to denounce
innocent associates – thus sentencing them
to torture and death – sometimes committed
suicide, thus showing more humanity and
ethics than an entirely inhuman and
unethical state.
A nation that has fallen into the habit of executing thinkers and
idealists should not be surprised if it then loses touch with both
thoughts and ideals.

Multiple Waves of Mass-Murder

While we speak of the Great Terror, let us also not forget the
systematic eradication of the ‘kulaks’, the more successful
peasant farmers in the regions controlled by the Soviet Union.
Nearly two million people were deported into permanent exile
in distant parts of the Soviet Union, the property of three and a
half million people seized by the state.
Six hundred thousand people died during this process.

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Ethnic populations were often targeted for massacre. So
were priests, nuns and religious leaders. Ironically enough,
for a ‘Soviet’ state, workers who went on strike were
subjected to especial brutality.
Let us not forget the Cossacks, half a million of whom were
deported, while ten thousand were executed.

Let us not forget the Tambov peasant rebellion, of whose

members 100,000 were arrested or deported – including the
families of the rebels, and 15,000 executed.
Let us not forget the Kurapaty Forest in Belarus, where
200,000 people were executed, most of them members of
the intelligentsia – clever, gifted, thinking people, people of
the sort who forge the future of a nation – stolen away from
Belarus by brutal, imbecile murderers.

Let us not forget the Bykivnia Forest in Ukraine, where

between 100,000 to 200,000 Ukrainians were executed.
When the crimes committed by the Soviets at Bykivnia were
mentioned by the Ukrainian poet Vasyl Symonenko, he was
beaten to death by the Soviets, dying of smashed kidneys
shortly after the beating.

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Let us not forget the more than 8,000 people whose bodies
were found near Odessa, victims of the Red Terror.

Let us not forget the Katyn massacre,

where 22,000 Polish officers and
members of the intelligentsia died.

Let us not forget Butovo, hard by

Moscow, where 20,000 more innocents
lie buried.

Let us not forget the enormous army of

11.3 million men that Soviet Russia
maintained as a force for oppression –
and what it did to those who refused to
fight… or refused to oppress and murder
the innocent.
Eight hundred thousand men who refused
to fight or who escaped from the army
were arrested; of these, thousands were
executed.
Let us not forget the 30,000 highly capable officers
imprisoned or executed, simply because their superiors
were so stupidly paranoid as to attack their own army.

Let us not forget that those who have been mentioned here
are but a small part of those who perished in this catalogue
of horror and inhumanity.

Let us not forget.

Seemingly, Russia has.

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 The Widespread Use of Torture
Let us not simply take the word ‘executed’ at face value,
allowing it to sanitize our thoughts. Let us remember how
those executions were accomplished, and that the Russians
have traditionally used methods of wholesale torture that
place their civilization back in the Dark Ages.
People were slowly put into furnaces or into boiling water.
People were skinned alive with knives, or scalped. Victims
were crucified and stoned and impaled on long spikes, or
strangled; or buried while still alive.
People were rolled in barrels spiked with nails, dipped into hot
tar, made to swallow liquid lead, or thrown into holes in the ice
of frozen rivers.
When one Red commander did not have enough available
victims to meet his ‘quota’, he simply executed all the patients
in a hospital!
In Ukraine, detachments of torturers from China placed metal
containers with rats against prisoners’ bodies, and then heated
the containers so that the maddened animals tunnelled into
the bodies of the victims.
They would take a person outside in the dead of winter, and
pour water on them so that a person gradually froze to death.
Incidentally, this very year, Russian forces treated Ukrainian
prisoners of war to this particular torture, so that some
prisoners lost toes to frost-bite.
The heroic defenders of Azovstal in Mariupol were ordered to
surrender by the Ukrainian government. When they did so,
they were subjected to horrific tortures. One video surfaced at
this time of a Ukrainian soldier being castrated by a Russian.
Ultimately, to hide the evidence of these crimes, the Russian
army killed many of the Azovstal prisoners in an ‘explosion’.
Nothing has changed.

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Sexual Blackmail
With the threat of such a horrific death hanging over anyone
arrested, it became common practice for Soviet officers to
sexually blackmail the wives of arrested men to sleep with
them, in exchange for a release for the husband, or even
simply for better treatment for him in prison.

Imprisoning the Guiltless

The Soviets casually sentenced anyone who managed to
resist ‘re-education’ efforts to many years of forced labour.
However, it was possible to be sentenced to forced labour
for no crime at all, like one man who went out of his house
to buy groceries, and was picked up by a patrol.

The reason for this was that prisoners were a source of free
labour for the Soviet Union, who could be made to work
without rights or rest on starvation rations. Many innocent
people suffered and died under this system – so much so,
that ultimately the nations of the free world refused to buy
goods that were ‘produced in blood’.

And they who would murder their own people – even those
brightest and most noble – shall they then hesitate to put
their neighbours to the sword?

Read on, to learn of relentless Russian aggression against

other nations over the last century…

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 A HUNDRED YEARS OF RUSSIAN
MILITARY AGGRESSION
There can never be surrender to Russia.

Surrender is always followed by the installation of a puppet

government completely controlled by Russia.

But that is a comparatively small thing compared to the

terrible repression that follows – the arrests and torture of
the most intelligent and most freedom-loving members of
the population, the breaking of the spirits of such people, or
their outright execution.

Then there are the immense numbers of people deported to

distant parts of Russia, while their place in the occupied
nation is taken by tens of thousands of native Russians,
giving Russia a pretext to invade the afflicted nation ‘to
protect the Russian population’ for all time to come.

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When Russia takes a nation, it decimates all the members of
the population that resist or love freedom, while
simultaneously instituting such a programme of
propaganda in schools and in the media that resistance to
Russia ultimately becomes almost impossible, and no one
even dreams of freedom.

Russian governments have perfected these methods by

practicing them upon their own people.

The following pages contain a history of Russia’s continuous

interference with and crimes against neighbouring nations
over the last century, as well as Russian crimes against
humanity, conducted even against their own people.

They read as a damning catalogue of horror.

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 1917 – 1918…
The First Moves of the Soviet Empire
In these first years, the Soviet Union would make its first
moves towards the brutal subjugation of neighbouring
states, arrogantly dispatching armies to simultaneously
crush Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Finland.

Surprisingly enough, in these early years, all four countries

fought back courageously, pushing the Soviet armies back,
and forcing them to sue for peace. Finland, memorably,
pushed its borders outwards almost to St. Petersburg.

The Russians, however, would return in later years with

armies that outnumbered their opponents many times over,
and crush all opposition in these nations.

For now, however, for a little while, the Baltic nations

experienced freedom, and Finland outright victory.

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1918… The Division of Belarus
The nation was split between Soviet Russia and Poland, with
the portion under Russian control becoming a puppet state
– a state of affairs that continues to this day.
Belarus would never truly regain its freedom.
Russia has crushed the hopes and aspirations of the
Belarussian people, which the Belarussian people
responded to by fighting against the Russian invaders in
Ukraine in combat units that were entirely Belarussian.

1918… The Division of Ukraine

Ukraine was similarly divided between Soviet Russia and
Poland.
This division that was followed by the horrific years of the
‘Red Terror’ and brutal mass-murders that have already
been touched upon… and the countless brutalities that
would follow under Stalin’s murderous regime.

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1920… Annexation of Azerbaijan
The Eleventh Army of Soviet Russia invaded Azerbaijan,
crushed its independence movement, and created the
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.
Twenty thousand people died fighting the invasion.

1920… Invasion of Armenia

Russian forces invaded Armenia in alliance with Turkey,
dividing the nation.
Officers who fought in defence of Armenia were imprisoned
and tortured.

1921… Invasion of Mongolia

Russian forces invaded the country and established a
government loyal to Russia.
Collectivization was attempted, leading to economic disaster,
which caused the people to rebel. Helpless against the air
bombardment that Russia unleashed against them, thousands
perished. During Stalin’s Purge, between three to five percent
of the population were eliminated. Eighteen thousand
Buddhist lamas were also executed. The Purge crushed
Mongolian culture and reduced it to ruins.

1921… Annexation of Georgia

Stalin being a Georgian, there was
hardly any chance that Georgia would
remain an independent nation. The
Red Army marched in and captured
the capital in an all-out invasion of the
nation that ended with the annexation
of Georgia.
Red army soldiers rampaged through
the streets, and engaged in extensive
looting. Yet the true horror was still to
come…

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1924… Suppression of Georgia
There was a strong movement for independence in Georgia,
which the central Soviet leadership allowed to germinate,
the better to crush it.
When the uprising finally began, it was easily crushed by
Soviet forces, with more than twelve thousand people being
executed by the Soviets – including the most educated
portion of Georgian society, and the Georgian nobility, while
another twenty thousand were deported to different parts
of Soviet Russia, including Siberia.

Russia then went on to rewrite

history, creating the myth of a
‘popular uprising of Georgian
socialists’ – a myth that was force-
fed to Georgian children in Soviet
schools for decades to come.
Consider the little children of
modern Ukraine, and how they
would have been forced to study
Russian propaganda in much the
same manner, had Russia won its
war of brutal oppression.

1924… Estonia – A Soviet-Engineered Coup

A large number of Soviet operatives crossed the border into
Estonia, and, in alliance with communist elements in the
country, attempted a coup. Armed units attacked military
colleges and government offices, captured a railway station
and attempted to seize power, but were defeated.
This was Soviet Russia’s second attempt at seizing Estonia –
it would finally succeed during the horrific years of World
War II.

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1929… China – Chinese Civilians Tortured

Though the war with China was a

relatively legitimate dispute
over control of a jointly-
administered railway, yet the
Soviet government committed
human rights abuses on a vast
scale against Chinese citizens in
their territory.

Seven thousand Chinese languished in jail, while at least

sixteen hundred were forced to work on a railway line on
starvation rations, forcing many to actually commit suicide
to escape the torment.

Those who worked slowly were whipped, or otherwise

tortured.

The assets of thousands of Chinese were seized, and without

any means to support themselves, most of them eventually
fled to China.
As always, Russian crimes affect all, their own people and
neighbouring nations alike. Yet no crime is perhaps as
despicable as…

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1939… The Division of Poland with Nazi Germany
When Hitler attacked Poland,
Soviet Russia joined in the
invasion, forcing the Poles to fight
a war on two fronts against
impossible odds.
Russia and Nazi Germany
effectively divided Poland between
themselves. The conflict was to
raise the curtain on a new World
War.
Then began a Russian campaign of oppression, as they
arrested and imprisoned half a million Poles.
One out of ten adult men in Poland was
imprisoned.
One million Poles were deported to
distant parts of the Soviet Union in cattle
wagons under the most harsh conditions.
They were followed by another wave of
deportations that contained an
additional two hundred thousand Poles.
In two years’ time, Russia caused the
deaths, through execution and by other
means, of one hundred and fifty thousand
Poles.
One instance of mass-executions by the
Russians was when they infamously
executed twenty-two thousand Polish
officers and members of the intelligentsia, gunning them
down in cold blood, in what is known as the Katyn Massacre.

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The Russians banned the use of the Polish currency, and replaced
it with the rouble, but did not allow any exchange between the
currencies – this meant the entirety of the Polish people instantly
lost all their savings.
Simultaneously, businesses and farms were all seized by the
Russians.
All Polish political parties were crushed and outlawed, all media
controlled by the Soviet state, all Polish voices silenced.

1939… The Invasion of Finland

With a non-aggression pact in place
with Nazi Germany, and with
trainloads of crucial resources for
the Nazi war machine moving from
Russia into Germany, Russia was
freed to turn its attention to Finland.
The Soviet Union staged a border
incident, shelling and destroying one
of their own border posts, and using
this as a pretext for war – this would become a standard for Russia
in initiating its wars of conquest in innumerable conflicts to come.
The Russian invasion was massive, and their goal was probably
the reduction of Finland to a puppet state. With hardly any
ammunition, and no tank forces, the people of Finland yet stood
against the Soviet army, inflicting upon it immense losses.
Volunteers from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and other nations
joined the Finnish army. Ultimately, however, the Soviets broke
through Finnish defences and seized nine percent of the territory
of Finland before the ceasefire brought hostilities to a halt.
When the peace treaty was signed by him, the Finnish president
said, ‘Let the hand wither that signs this monstrous treaty!’
Despite this, this conflict was a humiliation for Russia, with
Russian casualties estimated at about three hundred thousand
killed or wounded, and thousands of tanks.

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1940… Annexation of Estonia
Now began the deliberate annihilation of the Baltic nations.
Under threat of a massive invasion by the Red Army, Estonia
was coerced into allowing the Red Army complete access to
their territory. Shortly after large amounts of Red Army units
entered the country, Russian soldiers in civilian clothes
simulated a ‘revolution’ and actively attacked various areas of
government, toppling the government. ‘Elections’ were held,
bringing a new puppet government into power, the results of
which elections were announced to the world long before they
were revealed to the Estonian people. Estonia was annexed as
a Soviet Republic. Then began a period of severe oppression,
and mass deportations to Siberia.
Eight thousand people were imprisoned, of which more than
two thousand were executed.

More than ten thousand people were deported into distant

parts of the Soviet Union, while thirty thousand were forced to
work at hard labour, in intense cold, on starvation rations –
forty percent of these died under these conditions. And yet
there would be even more executions and deportations after
WWII. Ironically enough, the only time the deportations did not
occur was in the three years that the nation was held by Nazi
Germany.

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 1940… Annexation of Latvia
Latvia was similarly taken over by Russian forces, with two
hundred thousand troops massing at the border, opposed by
a small Latvian army numbering about eighteen thousand.

Latvia surrendered, and about a hundred thousand Russian

troops entered the country. Once again, fake elections were
held, followed by the installation of a puppet government.
The results of these elections were given to the press of the
western world before the
elections were supposedly
completed.

Latvia was annexed by the

Soviet Union, and a wave of
‘Red Terror’ left thirty-five
thousand dead.

Thousands were deported

by rail in cattle wagons,
with mere holes in the
floor for the elimination of bodily wastes, packed in in such
great numbers that many died even in transit. More died in
the first harsh winter in Siberia.

The Soviets planned to deport over seven hundred thousand

Latvians, and only the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union
prevented this.

Official Russian propaganda denies these heinous crimes to

this day, still claiming that the Baltic states joined the Soviet
Union ‘voluntarily’.
The evil that Russia does to this day is grounded to the fact
that it seldom admits to or apologises for wrongdoing in its
past, or educates its citizens regarding the same.

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 1940… Annexation of Lithuania
Once again, Russia created a pretext for an invasion, and
seized Lithuania with around a hundred and seventy
thousand troops.
This was followed by the usual faked elections and the
installation of a puppet government that immediately
petitioned to be merged with the Soviet Union.
The political repression began even before the elections,
crushing all opposition.
Twelve thousand people were arrested and imprisoned, and
seventeen thousand deported, many of whom would die in
transit, or upon arrival in the labour camps of Siberia.

The financial assets of Lithuania were seized, including

banks and private accounts. This was followed by a massive
nationalization program that created immense shortages.

Note that the destruction that Russia inflicted upon its

neighbours must be measured, not only in terms of human
suffering, but in terms of the economic disaster that they
created with their ‘religion of socialism’. An economic
disaster that each state has had to rebuild from thereafter.

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1944… Poland Reduced to a Puppet State
When the Red Army approached Warsaw in the endgame of
WWII, the Polish resistance rose against the Germans. The
Red Army held off, and allowed the Polish resistance to be
slaughtered by the Germans, possibly to better control the
country later.
It is estimated that two
hundred thousand civilians
died, along with around
sixteen thousand Polish
freedom fighters.
The Red Army eventually
took the country, and
established a government
loyal to Russia, leading to the
nation eventually becoming
another puppet state, the
Polish People’s Republic.

1944 – 1956…
The Crushing of the Baltic Partisans
Over fifty thousand citizens of the Baltic states formed a
resistance movement that continued for many years before
being brutally crushed by Soviet Russia.

Resistance leaders were horribly tortured, including by

running wires into their eyes, and by castration. Torture was
followed by execution, while the families of partisans either
killed or captured were deported to Siberia.

Farms and villages sympathetic to the partisans faced harsh

reprisals.

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1956…
The Crushing of the Hungarian Revolution
First let us discuss the causes of the Hungarian Revolution. One
of these was a Soviet ‘Five Year Plan’ that tried to heavily
industrialize a nation built around agriculture, and which
possessed neither coal nor iron mines – not that agriculture in
the country amounted to much after Soviet ‘collectivisation’.

There was also an immense mismanagement of resources that

led to extreme shortages and food rationing. More than half the
population existed beneath the minimum standards of living.
The wages for an entire day’s
work on one of the collective
farms was insufficient to buy
bread enough to sustain life.
People had no winter clothing.

Unrest was augmented by the

fact that the puppet Soviet
government in Hungary was
extremely repressive, purging
thousands of ‘unreliables’, and
relocating tens of thousands of
non-communists.

There was also a school program

in place that was geared towards
educating children towards a
policy of ‘Russification’.

In 1956, the Hungarian revolution began when a crowd of

twenty thousand Hungarians chanted the refrain from the
patriotic song, Nemzeti Dal, ‘We swear, we swear, that we no
longer will be slaves!’ and shouting, ‘No more comrades.’

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 It was of no use.
The Russian Army moved into the country, with two
thousand tanks and a force of over one hundred and fifty
thousand men, using their brute-force tactics of levelling
entire city blocks and bludgeoning the civilian population of
a nation into submission.
The people of Hungary fought
back with great courage, but
were slowly and systematically
decimated.
The Russian Army crushed
whole city blocks with aerial
bombardments and artillery
fire, breaking the resistance of a
brave people, and setting up a
fraudulent puppet government.
As usual, in the aftermath, there
were thousands of arrests, with
twenty two thousand being
imprisoned, and three hundred
executed. The arrests and
executions would continue for
two years.

The Hungarian army was also

purged. Going on strike was
made punishable by death.
Once again, immense suffering was meted out to a people
whose only crime was aspiring for freedom.
What is most tragic is that the Hungary of today seems to
have forgotten these many crimes, and is, in many ways, a
puppet, once again, of Russia.

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1968… The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
In response to liberal reforms in what is termed the Prague
Spring, Russia gathered armies from the Warsaw Pact nations.
The invaders numbered around half a million men. Since
Czechoslovakia offered little or no active resistance, the entire
country was swiftly put under occupation.

Citizens who peacefully protested were beaten brutally. The

subsequent puppet government clamped down on the press,
and completely repressed free speech.

1967-1969…
The Arming of Nations warring against Israel
Russia helped initiate the war by sending false intelligence
reports to Egypt that Israel was massing its forces for an attack.
Simultaneously, it armed the nations opposed to Israel on a
massive scale… and
then was as massively
humiliated when Israel
swiftly defeated those
nations using Western
weaponry.
Russia responded by
stepping up aid, setting
up radar stations in the
opposing nations, and
sending in anti-air
missiles. Around fifteen
thousand Soviet troops landed in Egypt, and Russian pilots in
Mig-21s and reconnaissance planes began to patrol the skies.
Israel fought back and inflicted losses on both Egyptian and
Syrian forces – as well as on Russian units; but was ultimately
pressured into a ceasefire agreement.

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1979… The Invasion of Afghanistan
When the regime in Afghanistan began to
move away from the Soviet sphere of
influence, the Soviets – as usual –
responded with an invasion, sending
about a hundred thousand troops into the
country.
Typically, the Russian soldiers
participating in the invasion were
reportedly told that special forces from
the United States were operating in the
country, and had to be suppressed. The
Afghan leader’s palace was stormed by
Russian special forces, and he and his
family were butchered.
Unfortunately for Russia, the Afghan
people decided upon resistance, and this
mountainous country is extraordinarily
conducive to such resistance.
As resistance mounted, the Soviet forces responded with
mass-slaughter. It is estimated that about two million
Afghans were killed.

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1989… The Tbilisi Massacre
Georgia was slowly moving towards independence, with
increasing demonstrations in favour of this. The Soviet
Army was ordered to suppress one such demonstration.
They did so by brutally massacring the protestors.
Armed with batons and sharp spades, the Soviet Army
blocked all avenues of escape and then proceeded to beat
the protestors to death.
The attacks were vicious. Victims were chosen seemingly at
random. The attackers sometimes ignored an obvious target
to chase another person some distance before dispatching
them.
Victims included 19 women, many of whose corpses were
made unrecognizable by repeated blows to the head, and a
16-year-old girl who was chased and beaten to death by
Russian soldiers – her killing actually being caught on video.

The higher leadership disclaimed all responsibility, leading

to an actual ‘syndrome’ in the Russian army of soldiers being
unwilling in future to take action on their own initiative, or
to take any action not clearly endorsed by a higher
authority.
This is something that hamstrings the Russian Army to this
day.

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1991… Creating a ‘frozen conflict’ in Georgia
Russia prevented Georgia from moving closer to the west by
supporting the small South Ossetian ‘separatist’ movement.
By creating a breakaway state and a frozen conflict, Russia
ended the aspirations of the Georgian people, who wished to
move closer to Europe and the West. It was effectively aided
in its aims by the short-sightedness of Western leaders who
chose to let Russian aggression go unchallenged, thereby –
for all practical purposes – rewarding Russia for the use of
military force by allowing it to achieve exactly what it wished
to achieve through the use of that force.
Russian military units are – of course – now stationed in
South Ossetia.
Russia well profited from the lessons learned here, and
would thenceforth repeatedly employ this strategy of
creating ‘frozen conflicts’. They thus use the very
constitutions of western blocs like NATO and the EU against
them, and against nations wishing to join with them.

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Russian Invasions of Chechnya…
…1991 onwards

When Chechnya declared its independence, Russia

responded with – who would have guessed it? – an invasion.
However, they met bitter resistance, and this invasion was
beaten back.
However, when Vladimir Putin needed support in coming to
power, there were a series of apartment bombings in Russia
that were supposedly executed by the Chechens – except
that Russian police actually caught FSB agents in the process
of planting one such bomb; these agents being later released
under orders from the government. Vladimir Putin used this
pretext to launch a new invasion of Chechnya.

The invasion began with an air bombardment, after which

Russian invaders advanced slowly under heavy artillery fire
– the usual, and perhaps only Russian strategy when dealing
with difficult conflicts.

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As they advanced, the Russians set up ‘filtration camps’ in
the rear, in which they interrogated and ‘sorted’ civilians.
Russian missiles targeted civilian buildings and refugee
convoys in an appalling – but usual – disregard for human
life, while the bombing and shelling of residential areas
continued. It is known that the Russian Army also
deliberately targets medical personnel in all conflicts, a
barbarous policy unseen for centuries.
The Russian army laid siege to the capital, crushing it in one
of the most brutal assaults since WWII. The Chechens
continued to resist, but the Russian Army slowly
consolidated its control over the country, finally reducing
Chechnya to a puppet state.

The war in Chechnya helped shape the Russian

government’s strategy of controlling all media coverage and
shaping the narrative for their citizens in Russia in regard to
any conflict or geopolitical situation. This strategy would
ensure unswerving support in the years to come from the
majority of an increasingly disoriented Russian population.

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2008… Invasion of Georgia
When Georgia began making overtures to NATO and the EU,
Russia amassed an invasion force along its borders.
Simultaneously troops from ‘South Ossetia’ began an intense
artillery bombardment of Georgian positions. When
Georgian troops responded, Russia claimed that the
Georgians were ‘committing genocide’, and the Russian
army invaded Georgia in strength, taking several cities and
advancing on the capital.

Though France brokered a ceasefire, Russia recognized the

‘independence’ of two Georgian regions, ‘South Ossetia’, and
‘Abkhazia’, and now maintains military bases in both
regions. During the conflict, both regions had taken the
opportunity to conduct an ethnic cleansing of Georgians, as
well as destroying Georgian villages, and preventing the
return of Georgian refugees. Those Georgians who remained
were pressured into accepting Russian passports.
This invasion was directed towards preventing Georgia
joining the European Union. Ironically, this invasion turned
Russia away from the post-Soviet path of drawing closer to
the West, and towards a path of increasing isolation.

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2015… Intervention in Syria
Russian forces intervened in Syria to directly save the
dictatorship of Bashar Al-Assad, who inherited the
dictatorship from his father, who was dictator for twenty-
nine years before him!

Russia employed their usual murderous tactics of levelling

entire cities, similar to those presently used by them in
Ukraine, causing vast civilian casualties.

Russian forces not only deliberately attacked civilian

targets, but also rescue workers responding to bombings
and fires.

To do this, Russian war planes

would attack a civilian target, then
return shortly afterwards to
release munitions on those who
came forward to help the injured –
a brutal and inhumane method of
making ‘war’ that does not belong
in this century.

Russian forces would deliberately

target populated areas, and even
hospitals. As in Ukraine, brutal
thermite munitions were also
used, even against civilians. Air strikes were also conducted
against a refugee camp.

Chemical weapons were also used against the civilian

population.

At least twenty three thousand Syrian civilians have been

killed by Russian forces.

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 RUSSIAN DEPORTATIONS OF
ENTIRE PEOPLES
Russia, in an attempt to break the links of ethnic populations
with their respective homelands, often deported entire such
populations.

These deportations were carried out with unparalleled

brutality, often separating families; with the affected
peoples being transferred packed into unheated and
uninsulated cattle trucks in which thousands died before
the journey was even complete.

The lack of basic hygiene and

overcrowding in the trucks meant
that infections and epidemics of
diseases like typhus ran rampant.

When they arrived in exile,

deported ethnic populations were
put to hard labour, working twelve
hour days with no days of rest.

Often, more than twenty percent of

the deported population died
under this treatment.

A total of three million, three

hundred thousand people were
forcibly deported in this manner,
and sent to different parts of the
Soviet Union during WWII, and in
the period immediately after it.

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The Crimean Tatars
The deportation of the Crimean Tartars was dealt with in the
chapter, ‘The Myth of a ‘Russian’ Crimea’ on page 230.

Kalmyks
The Kalmyks consisted of Mongolian tribes that settled
along the Volga. This ethnic group were Tibetan Buddhists,
and spoke a dialect of Mongolian. The Kalmyks strenuously
resisted the Bolshevik revolution, fighting in the White
Russian Army so long as armed resistance was possible, and
continuing the fight against both Communism and
collectivization long afterwards in partisan bands.

Reprisal was severe. First, Stalin destroyed their religion,

razing all Kalmyk Buddhist temples to the ground.

At this point, what with losses in the war against Bolshevism,

and Kalmyk refugees leaving Soviet Russia, there were only
about a hundred and thirty thousand Kalmyks left.

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In 1943, classifying the Kalmyks as ‘unreliables’, the Soviet
Union decided to deport them to Siberia. NKVD forces gave
the people a twelve hour window to prepare for
deportation. Each family was allowed five hundred
kilograms in luggage, and all foreign currency was seized.

Twenty six thousand households, totalling ninety three

thousand people – a majority of the Kalmyk population –
were deported in cattle trucks. Around fifteen hundred
people died on the journey.

When they arrived in Siberia, they were put to forced labour,

working twelve hour days with no days of rest. In two years’
time, thirteen thousand people were dead. An additional
four thousand Kalmyk children also died at this time.

Ultimately, NKVD reports would show the elimination of up

to nineteen percent of the deported Kalmyk population.
Taken overall across the Soviet Union, the Kalmyk
population was reduced by twenty percent.

While many Kalmyks were eventually allowed to return to

their homeland, by 1990, they now formed only forty nine
percent of the population there.

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Chechen-Ingush
The Chechens had always
resisted Russian imperialism,
going as far back as 1785,
which inevitably led to them
being classified as ‘unreliables’
once their lands were
conquered.

Between 1847 and 1867, in a

mere twenty years, the
Chechen population was
reduced from one and a half million people to about a
hundred thousand.

Nevertheless, Chechen resistance continued for a century.

By 1943 Chechen populations had begun to recover.

Then Soviet troops entered the region, and conducted a

forcible deportation of about six hundred thousand
Chechens and Ingush to different parts of the Soviet Union.
Those who resisted were butchered immediately.

In one instance, six hundred people who resisted

deportation were forced into a barn, which was set on fire.
The general in charge was commended for this action.

The people were loaded into freight wagons. When there

were not enough wagons, the surplus people were simply
shot. Similarly, if anyone was frail, or weak, or elderly, and
could not walk as quickly as the rest, they were also shot.

Fifty percent of those deported were children.

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After this, the entire Soviet Union was scoured for other
Chechens and Ingush – around four thousand of these were
found, and also forcibly deported. Those who arrived in exile
were provided with no facilities. In one region, homes were
provided for five thousand out of thirty thousand households.
People lived in tents without heating. All were put to forced
labour, and paid nothing for this labour but coupons for food.
Regional authorities were harsh to being draconian – in some
instances, Chechen children were beaten to death by officers.
Any who tried to escape were caught and shot – in one instance,
over two thousand escapees.
It is estimated that two hundred
thousand Chechens and Ingush
died in exile, from hard labour,
starvation and from the cold
winters they had no defence
against.
Exiles were not only not allowed
to leave, but were also not
permitted to move more than a
couple of kilometres from their
place of exile.
Meanwhile, the Soviet Government destroyed all Chechen and
Ingush libraries, effectively eliminating their culture, and
destroying many rare books. The very names of these
nationalities were also removed from all the records of the
Soviet Union, including books.
While the people of Chechnya were exiled, native Russians
moved into their homes. While the Chechen people were finally
allowed to return from exile around 1956, they were still
barred from government for years to come.
It may be seen from this passage how great a betrayer of his
people Ramzan Kadyrov truly is.

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Balkars
These are a Turkic race of the Caucasus.
During the 1920s, the Russian government arrested
seventeen thousand people in the region, and executed
nearly two thousand.
In 1944, the Russian rulers labelled the Balkars an
‘unreliable people’ and ordered their deportation. This was
carried out with ruthless efficiency, and the entire
population of thirty seven thousand people was moved to
other parts of the Soviet Union. When WWII ended, those
Balkars who served in the Red Army were removed from
service and deported as well.
Perhaps seven to eight thousand Balkars died in transit and
in the harsh conditions of exile described elsewhere in this
document. This was twenty percent of their population.
While the Balkars were eventually allowed to return home
more than a decade later, they returned to find their land
and property destroyed, and themselves reduced to poverty.

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Karachays
The Karachays are another Turkic people. Despite the fact
that over twenty thousand of them served in the Red Army,
they were slated for deportation in 1943, by the usual
methods described above.

Seventy thousand Karachays were forcibly deported in

cattle trucks, thirty percent of which were women, and fifty
percent children.
Around seven thousand died in transit, or in the first years
of exile – that is, ten percent of those exiled.

When the Karachay Red Army soldiers came back from the
war, they were sent into exile as well. A hunt was made
through the Soviet Union for remaining Karachays, and they
were also exiled.

Though the Karachays were allowed to return in 1956, they

found their homes occupied by Russians, and they had to
find new homes.

No compensation was ever given them, of course.

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Meskhetian Turks
The Meskhetian Turks were a strongly Turkic culture
inhabiting the Meskheti area in Georgia.
In 1944 a hundred and fifteen thousand Meskhetian Turks
were deported from their homes to other parts of the Soviet
Union. The usual methods of
deportation were used, with
people being packed into freezing
cattle wagons. People were given
barely two hours to prepare for
departure.
Upon arrival in exile, they were
subjected to the usual twelve-
hour-day forced labour, without
rest days, and were allowed no
political rights for more than a
decade.
Information based upon Soviet records shows that fifteen
thousand Meskhetian Turks died as a result of deportation
and the conditions of exile, eliminating more than fifteen
percent of their population.
Meskhetian Turks faced the resentment of local population,
riots and other violent instances of discrimination in exile.
The worst atrocity was yet to come, for the Meskhetian
Turks were never allowed to return to their homeland. They
remain, effectively, a stateless people to this day.

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Other major groups deported by Russia…
There were mass deportations from the Baltic states. There
were the usual immense numbers of deaths in transit and in
exile. Most of those exiled did not return.

Estonians: Between 1941 and 1949, thirty-two thousand

people were deported from Estonia to Siberia.

Lithuanians: One hundred and thirty thousand were

deported from Lithuania, and another one hundred and fifty
thousand Lithuanian partisans and political prisoners were
sent to prison camps.
Around thirty thousand of the
deported died in exile. Captured
partisans were often subjected
to extreme tortures that
included having wires run into
their eyes and castration, and
then executed.

Latvians: Sixty thousand

people were deported from
Latvia.
Around ten thousand died in
exile.

Volga Germans: The Volga Germans were descended

from Germans who settled along the river Volga at the
invitation of Catherine the Great. With the advent of WWII,
these were of course targeted for deportation by the Russian
government.
Nine hundred and fifty thousand people were deported to
forced labour camps, some of which were in the arctic. One
third of these people did not survive, and continued
persecutions led to the eradication of the German population
in Russia. Their lands and homes were taken over by ‘good’
Russian communists.

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Soviet Greeks: Fifty thousand Greeks living in the Soviet
Union were forcibly deported to distant parts of the USSR. The
deportees mainly came from Crimea, Krasnodar Krai, and from
the coast of the Black Sea.
Conditions in transit and in exile were horrible, as in all such
deportations. There were large numbers of deaths, but official
statistics, in this case, are unavailable.

Ingrian Finns: These were Finns living in the Ingrian

region, with a population of about one hundred and forty
thousand. These were all deported in 1936. Ethnic Russians
were given their properties.
Of these deported Finns, four thousand were executed, and ten
thousand sent to prison camps.
Under the harsh conditions of
transit and exile, the Ingrian Finn
population fell to one hundred
and fifteen thousand.

Soviet Koreans: In 1937,

one hundred and seventy
thousand Soviet Koreans from
the Far East were deported six
thousand four hundred
kilometres across the Soviet
Union.
Of these, up to fifty thousand died in transit, as well as from
exposure to harsh winters and starvation in exile.

Germans deported from Romania: Around

seventy-five thousand Germans living in Romania were
deported to various parts of the Soviet Union.
At least thirty percent of these were sent to hard labour in
mines, and twenty-five percent were forced to work in
construction. Three thousand died in exile.

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There were many more deportations of various
populations and ethnicities than those listed
here. However, this chapter gives one some idea
of the scale of these deportations. Let us, in
conclusion, remember a lost people…

The Circassian Genocide

What you have been reading about above is actually not a
new policy for the Russian nation, but is something that has
been carried out for centuries.
Let us observe a moment of silence
and remember the genocide of the
Circassian people, ninety percent
of whom were eradicated or
removed from their homeland as
far back as 1864.
One and a half million people are
thought to have perished.
Russian rulers encouraged their
soldiers to rape Circassian women,
to engage in mass-murder, and to
even use Circassians in ‘scientific
experiments’.
Circassian villages would be
surrounded and burned to the
ground, while their entire
populations would be butchered.
The region of Kabarda, for example, was reduced in
population from three hundred and fifty thousand to thirty-
seven thousand.

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One Russian general in charge of this genocide was so barbaric
that he used to have spears outside his tent, each with a
Circassian head spiked on it. The said
general also burned Circassian men and
women alive because he found it
‘entertaining’, and kept a collection of
preserved Circassian heads under his bed.
Essentially, Russia reduced the Circassian
people to a tenth of their original number,
with a loss of perhaps one and a half million
people! The cleared areas were resettled
with ethnic Russians.

A British witness to this genocide at

the time said that the only crime of
these people was that they were
not Russian.
Those Circassians that exist today live mainly in Turkey, and
many of them have been entirely assimilated into Turkish
culture, no longer thinking of themselves as Circassian, but as
Turks. Bear witness, then, to the death of a culture; to the
annihilation of an entire people.

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 CONCLUSION
You have seen why Russia must be stopped.

Russia is the world’s last empire, and it acts as an empire in

a world that has long evolved beyond such selfishness and
brutality. Russia must be brought to its senses, must be
shown, in a way that even it can understand, how wrong it is
to eradicate entire populations and flatten entire cities – the
fact that it has still to be shown this underlies everything
that is wrong in Russian culture.

We must draw the red line here. This far, and no further.

The world must say, with one collective voice…

‘ENOUGH!’

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