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Oct 10 5 tweets 2 min read
As a bandit state in full breach of international law, Russia should be expelled from all international institutions and designated a state sponsor of terrorism.
A bandit state = a state that invades other countries and makes a mockery of the principles and the norms recognized by civilized humanity in pursuit of predatory goals.

Aron Trainin, The Criminal Responsibility of the Hitlerites, July 1944
Crimes against peace = acts of aggression, propaganda of aggression, the violation of peace treaties, provocations designed to stir up trouble between countries, the support of fifth columns, and terrorism.

Aron Trainin, The Criminal Responsibility of the Hitlerites, July 1944
Russia is guilty of crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

Russia must be removed from the UN Security Council.

It's time to take back our international institutions and to show that the Nuremberg Principles still mean something.

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Sep 23
“In the Security Council (where it possesses and has abused the veto), and in the General Assembly… the USSR has increasingly attempted to cover its aggressive aims… with vicious charges of fascism, war-mongering and imperialism against [other] states..." 1951
"The most menacing examples of Soviet behavior in the United Nations... may be called offenses against peace through various forms of aggression. In each of these cases the USSR has used its... special position in the United Nations to ham-string the United Nations." 1951
Working through archival materials on the early United Nations today. The Security Council veto has of course always been an issue.
Read 4 tweets
Jun 7
Talk of a "Mariupol Tribunal" has me doing a deep dive into the history of Soviet show trials... and how they were covered by the New York Times and other Western media outlets.

Walter Duranty's coverage of the Moscow Trials is of course particularly egregious.
Lots of great examples of what not to do.
Duranty covered these trials as if the charges were credible... quoting from the Soviet prosecutor at great length. He also covered them as high drama.
Read 7 tweets
Jun 6
Russian show trials in Donetsk will begin by targeting three foreign prisoners-of-war--two from Britain and one from Morocco.
Russian news sources proclaim that "this public trial will be watched by the whole world." And that "it will be a kind of mini-Nuremberg. trial of Ukrainian and European Nazism."
svpressa.ru/war21/article/…
This is the start of what the Russian State Media is calling the "Mariupol Tribunal."
Read 11 tweets
Apr 12
Russia has become a totalitarian society. Public opinion does not matter. It's all about complacency.
I teach a course on Totalitarianism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Here are some reading recommendations from my syllabus.
Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness 1933-1941: A Diary of the Nazi Years. The entries from 1933 are especially powerful.

"Every new government decree, announcement, etc. is more shameful than the previous one..."

"And... everyone's keeping his head down..."
Read 17 tweets
Apr 6
As a result of the efforts of Raphael Lemkin, the term #genocide was included in the Indictment for the #Nuremberg Trials of 1945-46 under the category of War Crimes.
British deputy chief prosecutor Sir David Maxwell Fyfe used the term in June 1946 #Nuremberg during his cross-examination of Konstantin von Neurath, former Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
Maxwell Fyfe reminded Neurath that the prosecution was charging him and many of his fellow defendants with genocide, “which we say is the extermination of racial or national groups.”
Read 14 tweets
Apr 5
In his closing speech at the #Nuremberg Trials in 1946, British chief prosecutor Sir Hartley Shawcross used the term #genocide to describe the Nazis’ “deliberate and systematic plan” to wipe out peoples and cultures.
Shawcross revisited the evidence about the Einsatzgruppen and Auschwitz.

But he also reminded the Tribunal that #genocide had not been limited to the murder of Jews and Gypsies.
Shawcross emphasized that the Nazis had pursued genocide “in different forms” in Poland, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and Alsace-Lorraine.
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