While Germany has recently provided significant help to Ukraine, Berlin has also significant historical responsibility vis-a-vis Kyiv. In 1941-44, Germany devastated Ukraine. Since 2014, Berlin has indirectly helped Moscow to devastate Ukraine,.../1
@DUHK_2020 @DGO_Berlin @dgapev
@DUHK_2020 @DGO_Berlin @dgapev @Konflikt_Sicher @FiS_Heidelberg @VitscheBerlin @StimmeUkraine @GermanyinUA @UKRinDEU @DUF_Forum @DerDuod @GERonOstpolitik @VHDtweets ...with its long-lasting energy and modernization partnerships with Putin's regime. To permit other Europeans to give their German tanks to Ukraine is the least what Berlin can, in view of such responsibility, do today for Kyiv. /END
#StandWithUkraine #Vergangenheitsbewältigung
@DUHK_2020 @DGO_Berlin @dgapev @Konflikt_Sicher @FiS_Heidelberg @VitscheBerlin @StimmeUkraine @GermanyinUA @UKRinDEU @DUF_Forum @DerDuod @GERonOstpolitik @VHDtweets #StandWithUkraine: Very grateful to the soon 400 retweeters & 1,500 likers of this comment which is speedily approaching 50,000 views. These are for some @TwitterDE users, to be sure, pathetic numbers. They are, in my circle of #politicsnerds, in the upper range of circulation.🙏
PS: Many Wehrmacht soldiers may have never gone to Soviet Ukraine on their own will. Recently, German businesspeople & politicians cooperated with Russia certainly not to prepare it for war against Ukraine. Yet, they bear responsibility for their deeds.
@DUHK_2020 @DGO_Berlin @dgapev @Konflikt_Sicher @FiS_Heidelberg @VitscheBerlin @StimmeUkraine @GermanyinUA @UKRinDEU @DUF_Forum @DerDuod @GERonOstpolitik @VHDtweets While many have liked or retweeted (thanks!) the above tweet, I am particularly grateful to dozens of anonymous #trolls attacking its message. The accumulating reactions from angry users hiding their names give the reassuring feeling that the argument went in the right direction.
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