If you need a reminder (or know someone who does) of why #Russia invaded #Ukraine in the first place, my friend @tjmac87 is live-streaming #Putin's Speech from Feb 21 2022 right now, with an accurate English translation!

Tune in here 👇🏽

youtube.com/live/yoHVVF2kV…
Here #Putin is tracing the roots of the current war, back to what he considers #Lenin’s fateful error:

Making concessions to the Ukrainian nationalists (who fought for an independent #Ukraine during the Civil War) when #Ukraine joined the #USSR in 1922.
From my own research into this period of history, Putin is absolutely correct.

Lenin should have known the types he was dealing with — evil monsters, out to destroy #Russia — after all he’d seen from them between 1917-21.

They’d be back 20 years later, w/ Germany’s backing!
Even after the Nazis were defeated by Russia, this Soviet artwork from 1945 warned that the #NazisInUkraine would return again to cause more trouble if not dealt with swiftly and severely!

#Stalin captured, imprisoned, and executed many after the war, but many more escaped…
Future leaders of the Soviet Union and Russian Federation (including #Putin himself) failed to deal with the growing threat of the #Nazis next door.

All the while, the West armed and funded Ukraine, preparing to start #WWIII with #Russia.

Now Putin HAS to deal with it.
Putin is dealing with it now — albeit with great reluctance.

In this speech he called the Ukranian people “comrades” and addressed them as family. But much has changed over the past year when he spoke those words.

He never wanted a second Civil War, or #WWIII; but here we are
In fairness to #Lenin, he did what seemed like the right thing at the time.

He didn’t have a crystal ball 🔮— certainly couldn’t have predicted the future.

This was his reasoning on “self-determination” for #Ukraine when she joined the #USSR 100 years ago:
#Trotsky’s published warnings about “the Ukranian question” are instructive in hindsight.

Unfortunately, by the time he wrote this article in May of 1939, it was too late — the Ukrainian nationalists were already marching in lockstep w/ #Nazi Germany:

marxists.org/archive/trotsk…

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Feb 2
I apologize if I blocked anyone unintentionally. Been using Secateur app to block NAFO accounts and all their followers.

Just noticed that somehow, the app is blocking some good people that I didn’t mean to block!

I’m now trying to un-block those who got blocked by mistake…
For the life of me I still can’t figure out why pro-Russia accounts would be voluntarily following NAFO trolls or pro-Ukraine accounts, but somehow they got caught in the Secateur app mass blocking list. Sorry! Please don’t be offended! 🇷🇺
Crap! I’ve accidentally blocked several hundred of my favorite people… it’s gonna take a while to fix this, but am working on it!
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Feb 1
Millions of German and Ukranian #Nazis participated in the horrors of #WWII — yet only a handful were tried at #Nuremberg.

22 defendants were charged with war crimes, and only 12 were convicted.

This documentary film explains why so few were tried.

Here is a list of the #Nazi defendants at #Nuremberg, and details of each case.

All were German.

The #NazisInUkraine all dodged the proverbial bullet.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_A…
In the subsequent #Nuremberg trials occurring between 1946-49, more #Nazis were tried and convicted.

An underwhelming 97 in all.
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Jan 31
That moment when you realize.. Image
“Those damn commies were so mean to us after we slaughtered 26 million of them!” 😭
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Jan 30
The #NazisInUkraine pre-dated the German #Nazis by more than 2 decades.

Ukrainian nationalists exterminated Jews by the hundreds of thousands after 1917 because of their #communist politics, first and foremost. Race was a *secondary* consideration.
youtube.com/clip/UgkxDXmmS…
Watch the full lecture here. The professor’s remarks regarding the Ukrainian nationalists targeting of Jews due to their alleged Bolshevik politics begins 8 minutes and 19 seconds in.

I recommend watching the full video to grasp the full story.
I also made a video about this recently, with @RealCalebMaupin and @tjmac87 — connecting the anti-communist, anti-Jewish ideology of the Ukrainian nationalists with their German #Nazi collaborators.

It’s such important hidden history we MUST understand!
Read 5 tweets
Jan 30
In the September 8, 1919 New York Times, the president of the Ukrainian Association of Jews warned US President Woodrow Wilson of the coming genocide that had already begun in #Ukraine.

He correctly predicted the exact number — 6 million — who would die in the #Nazi #Holocaust.
These crimes of 1918-19 were not committed against Ukrainian Jews by Germans.

They were committed BY Ukrainian nationalists who over the next 2 decades would join forces with Nazi Germany.

This was the forgotten Holocaust before the Holocaust.

200,000 Jews were slaughtered between 1917-21 in #Ukraine — by any metric, a genocide.

Yet these pogroms are not even talked about by the #Holocaust Museums in the United States and Jerusalem.

It is vitally relevant to what happened in #WWII, and in today’s #UkraineRussiaWar.
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Jan 29
This incredible footage was taken during the Constitutional Crisis of 1993, when tens of thousands of Russians turned out in the streets to defend the former Soviet Union and protest Boris Yeltsin — the LEAST popular leader in #Russia’s history!

Check out those “American values” the Yeltsin police forces learned from the Waco siege — which had occurred 6 months earlier in April 1993!
The Russian Constitutional Crisis clashes of 1993 make our January 6th look like child’s play.

These angry Soviets fought for their country they felt had been stolen from them — and they fought ferociously!
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