All of these are just a few samples of Ukraine's fascist legacy. People in Israel are aware of this and, perhaps for that reason, do not support the massive anti-Russian sanctions.
The President of Ukraine Selinsky is courted in Germany and welcomed in the Bundestag. His ambassador Melnyk is a frequent guest on German talk shows and news programs. How close the ties are between the Jewish President Zelensky and the fascist Azov regiment was shown, for example, when Zelensky allowed right-wing Azov fighters to have their say in a video appearance in front of the Greek parliament. In Greece, most parties opposed this affront.
Certainly not all Ukrainians revere these inhuman fascist role models, but their followers are in large numbers in the Ukrainian army, police authorities, the secret service and in politics. Well over 10,000 Russian-speaking people have lost their lives in eastern Ukraine's Donbass region since 2014 because of this hatred of Russians incited by the government in Kyiv. And now, in the last few weeks, the attacks against Donetsk in the Donbass have once again massively increased. There are hundreds dead and seriously injured.
It is incomprehensible to me that German politics is again supporting the same Russophobic ideologies on the basis of which the German Reich found willing helpers in 1941, with whom they cooperated closely and murdered together.
All decent Germans should reject any cooperation with these forces in Ukraine against the background of German history, the history of millions of murdered Jews and millions upon millions of murdered Soviet citizens in WWII. We must also vehemently reject the war rhetoric emanating from these forces in Ukraine. We Germans must never again be involved in a war against Russia in any way.
We must unite and stand together against this madness.
We must openly and honestly try to understand the Russian reasons for the special military operation in Ukraine and why the vast majority of people in Russia support their government and president in it.
Personally, I want to and can understand the viewpoint in Russia and that of Russian President Vladimir Putin very well.
I have no distrust of Russia, because the renunciation of revenge against Germans and Germany has determined Soviet and later Russian policy since 1945.
The people of Russia, at least not too long ago, didn't harbor any grudges against us, even though almost every family has a war death to mourn. Until recently, people in Russia could differentiate between fascists and the German population. But what is happening now?
All friendly relationships that have been built up with great effort are now in danger of being broken off, even potentially destroyed.
Russians want to live undisturbed in their country and with other peoples - without being constantly threatened by Western states, neither through the incessant military build-up of NATO in front of Russia's borders, nor indirectly through the underhand construction of an anti-Russian state in Ukraine using exploitation historical nationalist fallacies.
On the one hand, it is about the painful and shameful memory of the outrageous and cruel war of annihilation that fascist Germany inflicted on the entire Soviet Union - especially the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian republics.
On the other hand, the honorable commemoration of the liberation of Europe and Germany from fascism, which we owe to the people of the USSR, including the resulting obligation to stand up for a prosperous, reasonable and peaceful neighborhood with Russia in Europe. I associate this with understanding Russia and making this understanding of Russia (again) politically effective.
Vladimir Putin's family survived the siege of Leningrad, which lasted 900 days from September 1941 and cost almost 1 million lives, most of whom starved to death. Putin's mother, believed dead, had already been taken away when the injured father, who returned home, is said to have noticed that his wife was still breathing. He then saved her from being taken away to a mass grave.
We must understand and commemorate all this today, and also bow with great respect to the Soviet people.
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