An op-ed for state news agency RIA Novosti titled "What Russia should do with Ukraine" by pundit Timofei Sergeitsev has created quite a stir today
The rhetoric is truly horrific, even by the standards of what I'm used to seeing from pro-Kremlin media
Below are a few quotes:
"Denazification is a set of measures aimed at the nazified mass of the population, which technically cannot be subjected to direct punishment as war criminals"
"However, besides the elite, a significant part of the masses of the people, who are passive nazis, are accomplices to Nazism. They have supported the Nazi authorities and indulged them..."
"...The just punishment for this part of the population is possible only as the bearing of the inevitable hardships of a just war against the Nazi system"
"The name Ukraine can seemingly not be retained as the title of any fully denazified state formation on the territory liberated from the Nazi regime"
"Denazification is inevitably also deukrainisation – a rejection of the large-scale artificial inflation of the ethnic element of self-identification of the population of the territories of the historical Malorossiya and Novorossiya begun by the Soviet authorities"
"Unlike, let’s say, Georgia or the Baltics, Ukraine, as history has shown, is unviable as a national state, and attempts to 'build' one logically lead to Nazism"
"The Banderite elite must be liquidated, its reeducation is impossible. The social 'swamp' which actively and passively supports it must undergo the hardships of war and digest the experience as a historical lesson and atonement" END
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It’s now the final day of Putin’s three-day reelection, so here’s a new thread
To start us off, this is pro-war pop star Shaman (Yaroslav Dronov) crossing himself as he casts his vote
As if Putin requires divine intervention to secure his victory… t.me/rian_ru/235852
And now for an actual shaman!
The Supreme Shaman of Russia and Tyva, Kara-ool Dopchun-ool, has cast his vote in Kyzyl t.me/tass_agency/23…
A man has been detained in Ufa for trying to put a photo of Navalny into the ballot box
Not yet clear what he’ll be charged with, but an election official said he was "obstructing the operations of electoral commissions", which carries up to a 5yr term t.me/ovdinfo/21113
On day one of three, the spectacle of Putin’s re-election is already serving up plenty of content, so here’s a thread:
Pro-war singer Stas Mikhailov performing at a polling station in Omsk
Mikhailov previously said that musicians who had left Russia after the invasion would "crawl back on their knees" t.me/sotaproject/76…
At a polling station inside a folklore centre in Arkhangelsk, voters can watch traditional dancing by women in folk attire and even get their hands on some free pancakes t.me/sotaproject/76…
Footage is circulating of what is reportedly the aftermath of a Russian Su-34 crashing into a block of flats in the city of Yeysk in Krasnodar Territory
Judging by the bangs, it was loaded up with ammunition
The pilot apparently managed to eject
The Defence Ministry confirms that it happened during a training flight. Apparently one of the engines caught fire during take off t.me/rian_ru/182155
Which of course raises the question of why it was carrying live ammunition...
By now we've all seen the hunt for scapegoats by Russian military bloggers playing out following the defeat to Ukraine in Lyman
But what did state TV's mammoth Sunday night news shows have to say about it?
A brief 🧵
Well, Channel One's programme didn't even mention Lyman!
Instead, war correspondent Dmitry Kulko said in his report that "in the last month since Kyiv announced its offensive on Lysychansk, the 20km frontline has turned into a cemetery for Ukrainian fighters"
NTV was only slightly less evasive. Anatoly Mayorov mentioned it but gave the impression that 🇷🇺 had dealt 🇺🇦 a blow
"Kyiv sent its most combat capable units to the slaughter in Lyman, where we were forced to withdraw to different positions because of the threat of encirclement"
It's just like coronavirus when the Kremlin didn't want to be seen by the Russian public as responsible for lockdowns so delegated all such unpopular decisions to the regional authorities