Now Russia targets Ukrainian media, bombs Kyiv public TV station, located directly at the Babyn Yar memorial site, where Nazis have killed over 30,000 Jews in 1941. So Putin is currently bombing memorial site for victims of the Europe's biggest massacre on Jews.
A normal denazification: you arrest Nazis, educate your people not to attack neighbour countries, be nice.
Russian "denazification": your chauvinist president wants to annex neighbours, attacks every country around him, kills civilians and bombs Holocaust memorial site.
Russian "denazification": your chauvinist president wants to annex neighbours, attacks every country around him, kills civilians and bombs Holocaust memorial site.
This map demonstrates the proximity of Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial site and the public TV station.
The northern part of Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial site is clearly hit by Russian air raid, the southern one maybe. Putin bombs Holocaust graves.
As some ask, why they built TV station at the memorial, it is important to clarify the history. The TV station was Soviet-built. Soviets wanted to suppress memory about Jews, Babyn Yar topic was banned. The first memorial was build after the collapse of the USSR, in free Ukraine.
So it was "nationalistic" Ukraine which revived the memory about Holocaust victims, and it was the Soviets (who Putin admires) who built fist a landfill for industrial waste (yes!) on Babyn Yar, and later a TV station. They also banned a poem "Babyn Yar" by star poet Yevtushenko.
In official Soviet historiography, there was no place for the Holocaust. Killed Jews were called "killed Soviet citizens". Soviet Union was an anti-semitic state grooming hate against Jews. Here is my old thread on Soviet anti-semitism + anti-ukrainianism:
https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1393970377186029574
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