Shortly after Israel’s UN delegation left the room before Lavrov’s voting, calling RU presidency ‘a farce’, Russia bombed residential area in Judaism holy site Uman, killing 15 civilians, including 2 children. Russia’s MoD bragged about it. #RussiaIsATerroristState#RusskiyMir
The Russian #RusskiyMir ideology is utterly antisemitic. Early this full-scale invasion, the Russians shelled Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial in Kyiv and damaged Drobytsky Yar Holocaust memorial in Kharkiv. /2
The Russians destroyed two synagogues in Mariupol, a synagogue in Bakhmut, damaged a synagogue in Kharkiv. /3
While the Ukrainian commander-in-chief Zaluzhnyi celebrates Passover with the Ukrainian Chief Rabbi, the Russian Chief Rabbi had to flee from Russia and urged Jews to do the same before it is not too late. Feel the difference. /4
For those who know Russia and their #RusskiyMir concept good, this does not come as a surprise. Antisemitism and antiukrainianism were always merged in Moscow, which hated both the Jews and the Ukrainians, calling both “Nazis” (a general Russian insult) /5
The same antisemitic and antiukrainian vibe is clearly visible today in Russian propaganda. Compare these cartoons presenting @ZelenskyyUa in a way identical to Nazi cartoons from the 1940s and Soviet cartoons from the 1970s. #RusskiyMir is antisemitism plus antiukrainianism. /6
So coming back to Uman: it is not a surprise, that #RusskiyMir Russia has bombed Judaism holy site Uman on the very first day of the full-scale invasion, in the early morning February 24th, killing at least one civilian and wounding five. /7
Russia's MoD press secretary General Konashenkov officially confirmed shelling of Jewish holy site Uman and the Uman's synagogue, claiming that (no surprise) "Nazis are gathering in the synagogue". /8
Well, we all know that for Russia any Jew a Nazi. Because Russia calls "a Nazi" anyone who wants to live free and not under Russia's imperial slavery. Especially if those free people are Jews or Ukrainians, or (horrible dictu) both. /END
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
This is Eid festival in Moscow this year. One needs to give a perspective. Moscow is a 14m city with a massive Muslim population, many are discriminated labour force from Central Asia. Moscow has THREE mosques, and only ONE really functional (this one) /1
Since over a decade, Moscow authorities massively build Orthodox Churches (they even started a program "walking-distance church"). There are 1227 Russian Orthodox churches in Moscow, with 88 new churches being constructed since 2010, out of new 200 planned churches. /2
I believe, the fact that since decades no Mosque has been constructed in Moscow is a part of deliberate policy. Every Muslim holiday, it provides the Russians with impressive pictures of the “hordes of the Muslims” which “occupy” the streets in Moscow, creating a scarecrow. /3
THREAD: In the previous discussion on war atrocities amid Russo-Ukrainian war, many focused on the phenomenon of war violence, explaining the RU atrocities by a sort of a general violent behaviour amid wars. It is a wrong approach. It ignores Russia. /1
The concept "war is hell, people tend to turn into beasts" is very popular. Stories of atrocities from Mỹ Lai in Vietnam or Al-Ghraib in Iraq seem to confirm this common knowledge and turn to banality. But especially in Russo-Ukrainian war this banal knowledge doesn't help. /2
Russian atrocities in Ukraine have nothing to do with what Western people who have zero experience with daily Russia tend to explain with "war brutalisation". No. Russian atrocities in this war are exactly on the level of normal Russian civilian life, plus weapons. /3
A German professor Sönke Neitzel from @unipotsdam, commenting beheading of a Ukrainian POW by the Russians: "We must (!) assume (!!!) that the Ukrainians treat the Russian POWs not less brutal".
In his interview he brings numerous examples from WWII with the main idea "war is hell, both sides do terrible things". His scientific work was also dedicated (at least partly) the phenomenon of war atrocities. This is all good and humanistic, but ignores SYSTEMATIC terror.
Some comment here, he should be on a Russian payroll or something. I don't think so. I think he has not noticed how he had become a prisoner of his own very high and very shiny moral ivory tower. It happens to those who dive into abstract theory and disconnect from reality. Sad.
In 2018, I visited Bakhmut, bought some soda from this decommissioned German DHL delivery truck re-used as a mobile shop, and got a digital award for staying in “Hotel Bakhmut” in the city center. Now the city does not exist anymore because of the Russian terror.
There was a stadium behind the hotel - I tried to make my jogging exercise there, but it was extremely hot at noon in July, and I gave up after 3 km (instead of planned 10). Neither the hotel nor the stadium exist anymore.
Next day, we went to Mayorske checkpoint about 40 km from Bakhmut - the last Ukraine-controlled position before the Russia-occupied territory. People could cross the contact line there. Of course on the days when the Russians did not shell the checkpoint (they did it regularly).
Springtime for Putin & Russia: a former @BoellStiftung Moscow office director, a great friend of 🇷🇺, & a Holodomor denier happily goes to 🇷🇺. As @berlin_bridge says “If you’re not worried to go to Russia bc you’ve been speaking out against the war, you’re doing something wrong”
As I posted a very personal story of how a grandmother of my first wife has nearely died in Holodomor, Jens found time to come to the discussion and deny Holodomor saying „there was famine everywhere“. It is like saying, „not only Jews were killed by the Nazis, the Germans too“.
Being married to a daughter of Vasili Shukshin, one of the most prominent Russian nationalists and antisemites from the Soviet cultural scene is not a sin. A sin is to value his father-in-law’ cultural heritage and make pilgrimage to his museum.
When #RussianWorld#RusskiyMir comes to you, your life gets destroyed, and everything you loved gets smashed. See what the Russians brought to Ukraine.
1: Bakhmut.
(This THREAD was inspired by @Mariana_Betsa's comparison of Mariupol before and after #RusskiyMirMeansDeath came)