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        History repeats itself again and again   
        Ward Dossche - 2:292/854   
      
        From a prosperous, modern, well organized European-style democracy and   
        economy; an enemy without scruples has turned Ukraine into a   
        Moon-landscape reminiscent at how Berlin looked at the very end of   
        WW2.   
      
        War crimes have been committed, the proof is obvious but that doesn't   
        make much impression on the rogue-state which Russia now is.   
      
        In spring 2019 I went to visit Oradour-sur-Glane in France, near   
        Limoges. On June 10 1944, 4 days after D-Day in Normandy, a unit of   
        the German SS entered the village and murdered hundreds of men, women   
        and children.   
      
        The destroyed village has been preserved as a monument.   
      
        I could not wrap my mind around it that these German SS soldiers also   
        had fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers and pretty well were aware of   
        the atrocity which they were committing without giving it a second   
        thought. I urge everyone to try and go to Oradour at least once in   
        their life ...   
      
        78 years later soldiers are again uselessly killing innocent   
        civilians because they were ordered to do so. Soldiers are good at   
        obeying orders, that's what they are paid for. Switching off the   
        brain. Follow the order and do not question.   
      
        It is 2022 ... a million and a half Ukrainian refugees, mostly  women   
        and children, the largest refugee crisis since WW2 the UN  calls it   
        and Europe is opening its mind and heart and its bank-account for   
        these people in need fleeing from ... from "what" exactly ... A   
        regime which has lost all sense for normalcy intent on annihilating a   
        peaceful well organized European-style democracy and economy ...   
      
        The refugees will be safe and taken care of, but can you imagine  what   
        the fate will be of the ones that remain behind in the homeland?   
      
        Rape is a weapon for submission, it is recognized as a war-crime.  But   
        Russia has already committed war crimes the past week, which they   
        know are as good as unable to become prosecuted, and they will not   
        stop at this one. And Ukrainian women have already been raped by   
        Russian troops, Russian propaganda will call it ...  propaganda ...   
        but Western human rights watchers still on-site paint  the actual   
        story.   
      
        Hundreds of Russian soldiers have died and their families are without   
        news, mothers having lost a child and unable to mourn it or bury it.   
        It's all kept out of the media. And please do not call it "a war" or   
        you risk 15 years of imprisonment ... It seems that during the darkest   
        days of hard-core Russian Communism people had more rights than in ...   
      
      
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