The largest evacuation of factories, farms, and entire industries in history saved the USSR - and played a decisive role in defeating Nazi Germany.

At the start of the war, the USSR had no solid plan for mass evacuation. Only on the 3rd day of the Nazi invasion in 1941, the Soviet leadership set up the Council for Evacuation. A special directive soon followed: factories, machinery, fuel, grain, livestock, cultural treasures, and millions of people were to be moved east - fast.

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⬇️ In the photo: Evacuation of industrial equipment from a Soviet defense plant to the Urals, 1942. Trains poured toward the Urals, Siberia, and Central Asia almost nonstop. At peak times, half of the country’s entire railway fleet was used just for evacuation. Just one factory Zaporizhstal required 8,000 railcars to move its equipment.

In cities like Chelyabinsk, the scale was surreal. One chief engineer stood on his feet for 48 hours straight overseeing the unloading of machines by shop section. He was kept going by thermoses of cocoa laced with stimulants delivered by the local NKVD office.

⬇️ In the photo: Defense plant equipment unloaded near unfinished workshops, Urals, autumn 1941.

Everything you’ve been taught about communism is a lie.

If you think communism means gulags, slavery, and everyone starving to death - stick around, the reality might surprise you. 🧵👇

I’m not trying to convert anyone to communism - relax.

All I’m saying is, Western propaganda has been feeding you lies about the USSR and Russia for decades, maybe centuries.

Whether you like communism or not? That’s between you and Karl Marx. A bit of communist history.

Believe it or not, the idea of communism existed long before the USSR, long before Marx, and even long before the word “communism” itself.

Let’s start with Plato.
Yes, that Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher.

In his work The Republic, he described a society where:

🔶 The elite had no private property
🔶 Children were raised collectively
🔶 Everything was shared to prevent selfishness and inequality

The idea is simple: if you want justice, remove the sources of egoism: money, property, competition.

And for those who claim communism is a “Jewish idea”, it’s worth noting: Plato was Greek.

Fun fact:

In the USSR during the 1930s–40s, an official paper was published that harshly criticized Plato, insisting his utopia “had nothing in common with communism.” 🙈

Why? Because people began to notice the similarities.

And since Plato was a Greek part of the “bourgeois” West, the Soviet Union wanted to distance itself from that, even if the ideas were strikingly close.

Ethnic Cleansing in Karelia, USSR: Finland’s Dirty Secret of WWII

From 1941 to 1944, the Finnish army occupied Eastern Karelia (USSR), where it established a regime of terror targeting the Soviet population of the region.

On October 24, 1941, the first Finnish concentration camp for Soviet civilians of Slavic origin, including women and children, was established in Petrozavodsk. The goal was ethnic cleansing: the elimination of the Russian population in the Finnish-occupied region of Karelia.

🧵👇 By the end of 1941, over 13,000 civilians were imprisoned. By mid-1942, the number rose to nearly 22,000. In total, around 30,000 people passed through 13 camps. Roughly one-third died, from starvation, disease, and forced labor. These figures do not include POW camps, where conditions were equally deadly. Since most men were drafted in the early days of the war, the majority of the labor force in the camps consisted of women and children.

In April 1942, Finnish politician Väinö Voionmaa wrote home:
“Out of 20,000 Russian civilians in Äänislinna, 19,000 are in camps. Their food? Rotten horse meat. Children scavenge garbage for scraps. What would the Red Cross say if they saw this?”

In 1942, the death rate in Finnish camps exceeded that of German ones. Testimonies describe corpses being hauled daily, teenagers forced into labor, and women and children made to work 10+ hour shifts in forests and camps, unpaid until 1943.

📖 rabkrin.org/vojonmaa-vyajn…

The Holodomor Myth: A Fairytale for the Historically Illiterate

Let’s spell it out simply:
The majority of Jews in the USSR lived in one place …. Ukraine.

Why?

Because under the Russian Empire, Jews were legally allowed to settle mainly in what is now Ukraine and Belarus (the “Pale of Settlement”).
When the Soviets came to power, those restrictions were lifted but guess what?

Most Jews stayed where they were.
They didn’t suddenly scatter across Russia or move to Siberia.

If the Soviet government had wanted to “exterminate” Ukrainians or Christians, it would have also been “exterminating” a massive part of its own Jewish population along with Muslims in Kazakhstan as the famine affected it as well. If this information alone isn’t enough for you to realize you’re being lied to, I have more.

In the early 1930s, there was a massive environmental disaster droughts destroyed crops across the USSR, including Ukraine, Kazakhstan, the Volga region, and the Caucasus.

The earth cracked open. Rivers dried up. Entire harvests failed before anyone could even collect grain.

And guess what?

The western part of today’s Ukraine, which at the time was controlled by independent Poland, also experienced a famine.
Yes, Lviv was part of Poland back then and it too suffered from famine at the same time.

People there starved to death too.
Poland didn’t even bother counting how many people died. But you’ll never hear about any of this because it doesn’t fit the fairy tale you’re supposed to believe.

No Stalin, no Bolsheviks and yet, people still died from hunger.

At the same time, the United States had the Dust Bowl, where Americans starved to death, lost their farms, and lived in tents.

Exposing @Truthtellerftm Propaganda - The Real Facts

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Lie: ❌gulag prisoner

Truth: ✅Soviet prisoners of war standing before barracks in Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria

ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/all… Lie: ❌ Russia acknowledged the Holodomor as a genocide or intentional famine. Russia also acknowledges 7 million victims in Ukraine.

Truth ✅: Russia said that “there is no historical evidence that the famine was organized along ethnic lines.

Russia acknowledges 7 million deaths across all the regions affected by the famine and illnesses, which include: the Volga Region, the Central Black Earth Region, the North Caucasus, the Urals, Crimea, part of Western Siberia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Belarus.

Direct link to the Russian Duma website which he actually cites but lies about what the Russian Duma says. Click page 4 ⏩ duma.consultant.ru/documents/9558…

x.com/truthtellerftm…

Nazi Practices of Blood and Skin Extraction from Soviet Children

Much has been written about the atrocities committed by the Nazis in Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Buchenwald, and Dachau. Far less, however, is known about the history of concentration camps specifically for Soviet and Slavic children.

These children were classified by the Nazis as “racially inferior” (Untermenschen) and were used as a source of donor blood for the needs of the German army, military hospitals, and medical experiments.

Wounded German soldiers required vast amounts of donor blood. But there was nowhere to obtain it. So, the Nazis turned to… children. A children’s concentration camp was established in the utility buildings on the grounds of a military hospital in the territory of the Belorussian SSR and others like Salaspils (Latvia). The children’s concentration camp at Krasny Bereg was established specifically for the systematic extraction of donor blood. Upon arrival, each child underwent a medical examination and was issued a tag bearing their personal information and blood type. The blood type was of particular importance, as it was the children’s blood that the Nazis sought most of all.

The children were divided into two groups. The first group was sent to a holding facility for children with Type O blood, their blood was completely drained. The second group was subjected to repeated blood draws, with each child undergoing the procedure between 8 and 16 times. Only those in the second group had any real chance of survival.

As the German army suffered massive casualties, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and officers wounded, the demand for fresh blood continued to grow. And with it grew the number of crimes committed by Nazi doctors, in the children’s concentration camp at Krasny Bereg and in numerous Wehrmacht military hospitals.

Leningrad: A Deliberate Genocide and the Immortal Heroism of the Soviet People

When modern revisionists claim “If Hitler wanted to destroy Leningrad, he would’ve done it” and that “Stalin used the population as a human shield”, they ignore historical fact or deliberately distort it. The truth is undeniable: The Nazis planned not to capture Leningrad, but to annihilate it, along with its inhabitants. 🧵👇 “Wipe the City Off the Map” - Nazi Policy, Not Rhetoric

On September 29, 1941, the German High Command (OKH) issued an internal directive:

“The Führer has decided to wipe the city of St. Petersburg off the face of the earth… We have no interest in keeping the population alive. Requests for capitulation will be ignored. The problem of feeding and housing the population cannot and should not be solved by us.”

This wasn’t battlefield strategy. It was a genocidal policy.
The plan was to surround Leningrad and starve the population to death, as part of the broader “Hunger Plan”, which aimed to depopulate vast areas of Eastern Europe to make way for German settlers.

The Nazi objective was extermination by starvation, not occupation.
The city was never meant to be taken, only destroyed.

Source: avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/02-13-46.a…

How liberal rhetoric paved the way for violent regimes: the untold story of Hitler’s rise

This thread isn’t a thrilling story but kinda boring. No one will make a five-hour film about it with smiling “Aryan” women and heroic music. It’s about money, deals, and power politics, the real story behind Hitler’s rise. Get ready, it’s very long.

👇🧵 In 2009, the OSCE passed a resolution equating Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union as equally responsible for starting WWII. According to this logic, Nazi crimes = Stalin’s crimes.

But here’s what they won’t tell you:

Hitler was getting large foreign sums as early as 1923. German Chancellor Brüning wrote in his memoirs that the money came through Swiss and Swedish banks but no one knows who really sent it.

In 1922, US military attaché Truman Smith met with Hitler and gave him a glowing report.

Through Truman Smith, Hitler was introduced to Ernst Hanfstaengl, a Harvard graduate who had known Franklin D. Roosevelt during their time at the university. Hanfstaengl funded Hitler, crafted his public image through early propaganda efforts, and opened doors to British elites. Later, in a surreal twist, he even worked with the American administration during WWII.

Below the pictures of Hitler and Hanfstaengl.

So before calling Stalin the “other Hitler,” maybe ask:
Who was helping the real one rise to power?

🎂 On the birthday of a certain infamous figure, Adolf Hitler, let’s talk not so much about him, but about those who stood behind him. Those who created the conditions for his rise, who invested, supported, and directed him. Yes, it sounds provocative, but the deeper you dive into historical documents, the clearer the picture becomes: Hitler wasn’t the architect of the empire, he was its storefront mannequin.

And let’s be honest: if we’re seeing a growing wave of historical revisionism in the West today the romanticizing or softening of Hitler’s image - it’s no surprise. After all, this wasn’t solely a German project. It belonged, in large part, to Western elites, who profited handsomely and consolidated immense power through it. It was a project built for war, a tool for reclaiming their lost concessions in the USSR: oil, gold, timber, coal, and much more. Now, I know what you might be thinking: “Of course you’re saying this, you’re Russian - everything leads back to the USSR with you.” Fair. But let’s set emotion aside for a moment and just look at facts.

Many still cling to the convenient myth that Hitler lifted Germany “off its knees” after Versailles (Germany’s defeat in WW1), that he was some kind of economic genius who built the Third Reich on hard work and national pride. But that illusion quickly fades when you look closer. What’s behind this so-called “economic miracle” is actually an ocean of foreign capital, industrial technologies, patents, strategic resources, and logistical integration into global supply chains, poured generously into Nazi Germany after Western investors were pushed out of the Soviet Union.

Let’s not forget: Germany before Hitler wasn’t an undeveloped country. Quite the opposite. It was one of the world’s most advanced industrial nations, a central power in WW1, with sophisticated infrastructure, engineering, and heavy industry. The Versailles Treaty didn’t destroy Germany, it merely restricted and humiliated it. By the 1930s, less than 15 years after the war ended, the foundations of a powerful economy were still there, they simply needed reviving. And that revival came in the form of foreign investments, debt relief, and massive rearmament: all strategically supported by the West.

Not Just the Bolsheviks: The Hidden Hand of Germany, Britain, and the U.S. in Russia 1917 and Beyond

Did you know Lenin and Trotsky didn’t always agree?

Lenin was all about working with Germany, while Trotsky preferred the United States. Maybe it’s not a coincidence in 1917, the U.S. government actually gave Trotsky a temporary American passport to help him return to Russia during the revolution. So yes, America helped him.

At first, the Americans and British hoped Trotsky would help them influence Russia after the Tsar was gone.
But when Lenin took control and pushed his plans that favored Germany, they got frustrated.

That’s when they basically said:

“If Trotsky won’t do what we want, maybe we should bring back Kerensky, the guy who ran the first (February) revolution.”

Here’s the actual quote from a British intelligence officer in 1918:

“If we decide that Trotsky does not want or is unable to invite us, then we can summon Kerensky and other leaders of the original republican revolution… and do what Trotsky was unwilling or unable to do.”

This wasn’t just a random opinion. Wiseman was Britain’s top intelligence representative in America, and Colonel House was the closest man to the U.S. President. So this message came from the highest levels of American and British strategy circles.

📖Charles Seymour, The Intimate Papers of Colonel House, p. 421.
archive.org/stream/intimat… The West Didn’t Need to Bring Back Kerensky After All… They Had a Smarter Plan

They didn’t end up needing to bring back Kerensky (the guy from the February Revolution).
Why? Because a clever plan was already in motion, and guess what? Trotsky played a key role in it.

Look what the U.S. Ambassador to China wrote to President Woodrow Wilson on June 29, 1918:

“It would be a great mistake to allow the Czechoslovak troops to leave Russia. With a little support, they can control all of Siberia. If they were not there, they should be sent even from the ends of the earth.”

📖Source: U.S. State Department Archives, FRUS 1918 Russia Vol. II, Document 311

The Key They Erased: The Truth About the Bolshevik Revolution That Changes Everything

There are numerous historical facts that are deliberately silenced. Western historians endlessly reinterpret the events of 1937 under Stalin, but are reluctant to talk about the genocide that took place between 1917 and 1925. You are told in detail about the executions of figures like Ezhov, Kamenev, Zinoviev, but you hear almost nothing about the millions of Russian people tortured and murdered by those same men.

Why is that? Why is there so little interest in the Civil War in Russia and the early 1920s, especially in the West? Why do the same institutions react hysterically to 1937? What happened in Russia from 1917 to 1924 that no one wants to talk about?

What actually occurred during the Civil War was unprecedented in world history, and has been swept under the rug ever since.👇🧵 The Mass Killings They Don’t Teach You About

During Lenin and Trotsky’s rule, a wave of brutal killings swept across Russia.

It was called the Red Terror.

Who did they kill?
Everyone: priests, monks, teachers, farmers, nobles, writers, women, children, no one was safe.

The violence wasn’t limited to big cities.
It happened everywhere: in towns, villages, and across the countryside, from Moscow to Siberia and the Far East.

Foreign mercenaries: Latvians, Lithuanians, and Chinese soldiers, were often hired to do the killing.
They had no connection to the Russian people and were known for their cruelty.

Some Examples:

🔸 Moscow and Petrograd (St. Petersburg) – Starting in 1918, people were taken to the basements of secret police buildings and shot.

🔸 Krasnodar (then called Yekaterinodar) – In 1920, after the Red Army took the city, they executed 300 to 500 people a day, by quota.

🔸 Omsk – In 1919, after the Bolsheviks captured the city, they killed officials, students, priests, so many that locals said bones were hauled away on sleds.

They were especially cruel to peasants who rebelled:

🔸 Tambov Rebellion (1920–1921), peasants were gassed, villages burned, and families deported.
🔸 Rebellions in Ukraine, Siberia, and the Urals were crushed the same way.

Women and Children Were Not Spared:

🔸 Wives of officers and priests, noblewomen, teachers all shot as “dangerous to society.”
🔸 Girls as young as 12 were executed along with their parents.
🔸 Some women were stripped naked before being shot.
🔸 Commissars even put on costumes, drank, and laughed while carrying out the killings.

“They turned executions into a show,” wrote Ivan Bunin in Cursed Days.

This shows that the war wasn’t really against the “bourgeoisie”, it was a war against the people of Russia. Everyone suffered, including the Jewish population, but the main target was the Russian population and the Orthodox Church: the core of Russia’s identity and statehood.

Pictures of the Soviet Store Counters

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The First Concentration Camps in Europe Were for Russians: How “Ukrainian Identity” Was Created Through Genocide

In the early 20th century, parts of ancient Rus’ - including Galicia, Bukovina, and Carpathian Ruthenia (now Western Ukraine) were under the control of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Until the late 1800s, the local people spoke Russian, called themselves Russians or Rusyns, followed the Orthodox faith, and saw Russia as their cultural and historical homeland - the true continuation of Kievan Rus’.

But the Austro-Hungarian rulers saw this identity as a threat. They feared the people might support Russia. So they came up with a plan: destroy the Russian identity and replace it with something new, something loyal to the Empire.

That new identity would later be called "Ukrainian." How the Austro-Hungarian Empire forced Ukrainization

🔶 Schools banned the Russian language. Instead, they introduced a new artificial "Ukrainian dialect," supported by Austrian and German scholars.
🔶 Teachers who identified as Russian were fired.
🔶 Russian churches, schools, and libraries were closed or taken over by pro-"Ukrainian" groups.
🔶 Russian newspapers and books were banned.
🔶 Writers were given money and rewards for publishing in Ukrainian.
🔶 To get a job, go to school, or publish anything — people had to stop calling themselves Russian and become “Ukrainian.”

Why Ukraine Doesn’t Qualify as the Successor of ‘Kievan Rus’.

Since 2014, Ukraine has been busy inventing a national identity from scratch. History? Doesn’t matter. Facts? Optional. Logic? Throw it out the window. The result? A confused mess of revisionism where everyone and everything is magically “Ukrainian.” But let’s unpack this fairytale.

Myth #1: Ukraine is the true successor of Kievan Rus

Let’s start with the obvious. In the time of Rus, there were no “Ukrainians.” Not even the concept. Zero. Zilch. The people were called Rus, that’s what the Greeks called them too: Ῥῶς (Ros), and later Ῥωσία (Rosia). There was no magical country called “Ukraine” in the 10th century.

Even the term “Kievan Rus” didn’t exist at the time. Historians in 19th-century Russia (not Ukraine) invented that label just to describe a specific period when Kiev was a center of power. Back then, it was just Rus - no prefixes, no qualifiers.

For the record:
🔸The first capital of Rus was Staraya Ladoga (modern Russia),
🔸Then Novgorod,
🔸Then Kiev, but only for part of the 10th to early 12th centuries.

After that, Rus split into various centers - Vladimir, Suzdal, then eventually Moscow. So Kiev was the capital for a while, sure. But using that to claim the whole legacy? That’s like Rome claiming it owns modern Germany because they used to camp there. Myth #2: Ruthenia = Ukraine?

Nice try. “Ruthenia” is just Latin for Rus. Polish and Hungarian sources used the word “Rutheni” to describe eastern Slavs living under their rule, not some special Ukrainian tribe. And now modern Ukrainians try to parade it around as “proof” they’re a unique people?

Let’s be clear:

🔸Rus (Old Russian) = original name
🔸Rosia (Greek) = Byzantine records
🔸Ruthenia (Latin) = Western European term

All different names for the same people, the same civilization. No Ukrainians. Not until the 19th century. Sorry.

When Russia Has Gold, the West Sees Evil

Gold & Demons: How Every Gram Turns a Russian Leader into a “Threat” to the West
(From Nicholas II to Putin)

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Nicholas II (1894–1917), peak of gold in Imperial Russia.
The West: “Baaaad guy!”
🔸 1897: Russia adopts the gold standard
🔸 1914: Gold reserves reach 1311 tons (3rd in the world after France and the U.S.)
🔸 Early 1917: Nearly 1400 tons - the empire’s all-time high
🔸 Western elites acknowledge Russia’s power, but anti-monarchist rhetoric explodes, especially in France and Britain

After 1917: Gold shock and chaos
The West: “We don’t care about Russia. Whatever.”
🔸 Imperial gold ends up in Bolshevik hands
🔸 Massive losses through looting, foreign intervention, and backdoor diplomacy
🔸 By the early 1920s: only 200–300 tons remain “Lenin’s Gold” (1920–1922)
The West: “Lenin is whatever. Not a threat.”
🔸 Bolsheviks secretly transfer around 50 tons of gold through the Baltics to the Bank of England
🔸 Part of it is seized due to legal claims by émigrés and former owners (like the Nobel family)

Western Banks: Were their hands clean?
🔸 Banque de France and Bank of England accepted Soviet gold
🔸 They demanded “proof of origin”, but still resold it
🔸 Rothschilds? No direct proof, but firms like Morgan Guaranty Trust and affiliates likely took part

The Forgotten Civilization Beneath Russian Soil

Arkaim isn’t just an ancient city. It’s a challenge to everything we thought we knew about history.
An archaeological discovery so big, it should have rewritten textbooks but somehow, almost no one knows about it.

In 1987, in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region, archaeologists accidentally uncovered the remains of a massive circular city from the Bronze Age. The area was about to be flooded for a reservoir, but the land revealed its secret Arkaim.
The city was so precisely planned, many couldn’t believe it was built almost 3,800 years ago.

What’s even stranger after the discovery, Western researchers visited… then silence.

No big headlines. No publicized reports.
Why hasn’t one of the greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century entered global consciousness?
Maybe because it breaks too many “accepted truths.” Arkaim is a city that doesn’t fit the mold

🔸 A perfect circle, with concentric walls, planned streets, drainage, and ventilation systems.
🔸 The architecture is aligned to the stars and the sun, just like Stonehenge or the pyramids of Giza.
🔸 Officially dated to 3,800 years ago, just a few centuries younger than the Great Pyramid, but older than Ancient Greece and Rome.
🔸 Geomagnetic anomalies have been recorded in the area. Sensitive people report strange sensations: surges of energy, clarity of mind, or dizziness.
🔸 And all around the site, archaeologists found swastikas - ancient solar symbols.

Yes, swastikas — but not the Nazi kind. Or rather… not originally.

How Hitler “borrowed” the symbols of the ancient Aryans

The swastika is one of the oldest solar symbols on Earth, used for thousands of years in India, Persia, among Slavs, Celts, and other Indo-European peoples.
It represented the sun, movement, life, balance, and eternal cycles.

Hitler adopted it intentionally. He believed Germans were descendants of the ancient Aryans, the legendary people he thought brought strength and culture to the world. That’s why the Nazis borrowed:

🔸 The swastika as an Aryan emblem.
🔸 The “Heil” salute taken from the Roman salute to the emperor.
🔸 Runes are mystical Celtic and Germanic symbols believed to hold magical power.
🔸 Zoroastrian imagery - fire and light motifs from ancient Persia representing cosmic duality.

But while Hitler was obsessed with “Aryan roots,” genetics tells a very different story.

Who were the Aryans really?

The word “Aryan” is often shrouded in myth, but in historical terms, the Aryans were real Indo-European tribes, speakers of ancient languages that would evolve into Sanskrit, Slavic, Greek, Latin, Celtic, and others.
They weren’t mythical supermen, they were real people: warriors, priests, builders.

And Arkaim? It’s one of their cultural centers.

The people who lived there belonged to the Sintashta culture, spoke a language close to ancient Sanskrit, and some later migrated south, becoming the Indo-Aryans of India and bringing their knowledge with them.

The 1915 'Parvus Memorandum' outlined Germany's strategy to destabilize Russia from within by funding and supporting the Bolshevik Revolution.

Yes, this actually happened. Let’s look at one of WWI’s most explosive secret plans.

In March 1915, Dr. Alexander Parvus (real name: Israel Gelfand), a Marxist revolutionary, submitted a memorandum to the German Foreign Ministry, titled ‘Preparation of a Mass Political Strike in Russia’. The document is historically significant because the plan was approved and funding began. There exists at least one signed receipt from Parvus acknowledging receiving of funds - 1 million rubles which is ≈ $85–120 million USD (in modern purchasing power).

His goal?
Use revolution to bring down the Russian Empire and end the war on the Eastern Front (First World War). Parvus was well-connected, he had ties to Lenin, Trotsky, and German elites.

His plan was brutally strategic:

“Russia’s war effort can be destroyed not by armies, but by revolution at home.”

The memorandum outlined concrete steps:
🔸Fund Bolshevik propaganda and newspapers
🔸Smuggle materials into Russia
🔸Support worker uprisings and strikes
🔸Fuel separatism in Ukraine, Finland, the Caucasus
🔸Sabotage railroads and communications
🔸Disrupt supply lines to the front
🔸Provide support to Russian revolutionary émigrés in the United States to spread anti-Tsarist agitation abroad and pressure allies from outside

Parvus wrote:

“The political strike must begin in Petrograd and spread to key industries and railways… The objective is to paralyze transport and the war economy.”

The biggest con of the century: Western leaders’ assurance to the USSR - ‘Not an inch to the east.’

That’s what they told Gorbachev. American, German, British, French leaders even NATO all gave their word back in the early ’90s: NATO wouldn’t move eastward after Germany reunited. The Cold War was ending, and Moscow was stepping back peacefully, without a fight, believing that the West would now turn toward peaceful cooperation instead of confrontation.

They trusted the West. Pulled troops out. Let Eastern Europe go. Dissolved the Warsaw Pact. All in the name of building a new world: one based on peace and partnership.

In return? Just words. Vague assurances. No formal treaties. No signatures.

And then? Everything changed.

Year after year, NATO crept east. Poland. Hungary. The Czech Republic. Then the Baltics. And finally, talk of Ukraine and Georgia, right on Russia’s doorstep. That old promise? Suddenly it was “never written down,” “misunderstood,” or “not legally binding.”

What was once a guarantee became a ghost.

To Russia, it felt like betrayal. To the West, just strategy. But trust was gone, and the consequences are still unfolding today.

Let’s look at the actual memorandums of these promises.🧵👇 1. USA – James Baker (Secretary of State)
Date: February 9, 1990
Document: Memorandum of Conversation – Baker and Gorbachev, Kremlin

“There would be no extension of NATO’s jurisdiction for forces of NATO one inch to the east.”

That’s what James Baker told Gorbachev clear as day. “Not one inch to the east.” It was said during a critical meeting in Moscow, as the USSR was agreeing to let a unified Germany stay in NATO. The understanding? That NATO wouldn’t expand further, especially not into Eastern Europe.

Secretary of State James Baker’s well-known promise of “not one inch eastward” was just one of many assurances given by Western leaders at the time. Throughout the negotiations over German unification in 1990 and continuing into 1991 Western officials repeatedly assured Gorbachev and other Soviet leaders that NATO would not expand eastward, aiming to ease Soviet security concerns as the Cold War came to an end.

Ever dreamed of visiting Russia? Forget the Trans-Siberian Railway. Here’s a 10-day itinerary through the legendary Golden Ring of Russia. Explore the country’s most beautiful and historic cities, where onion domes, cobblestone streets, and UNESCO-listed architecture bring centuries of rich heritage to life.

Day 1 – Moscow → Sergiev Posad

🔸Travel time: ~1.5 hours by car (70 km)
🔸City highlights:

Sergiev Posad founded in 1337 is the spiritual heart of Russia and home to the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Explore colorful churches, golden domes, and rich monastic history.

🔸Stay at:
Hotel Posadsky – simple and walkable to the Lavra or
Imperial Village Hotel – cozy wooden architecture with local charm Day 2 – Sergiev Posad → Pereslavl-Zalessky

🔸Travel time: ~1.5 hours (95 km)
🔸City highlights:

A quiet town on Lake Pleshcheyevo, founded in 1152. It was an important center in Northeastern Rus’, where princely power was developing and the first white-stone churches were buil known as the birthplace of the Russian navy (thanks to Peter the Great’s toy fleet) and home to ancient churches.

🔸 Stay at:
Albitsky Sad Hotel – modern rooms and garden views
West Hotel Pereslavl – simple and comfortable

The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) was founded in 1929. By 1940, it had divided into two factions, one of which, under Stepan Bandera’s leadership, went on to establish the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in 1942. The UPA became notorious for brutal attacks on civilians, acts now recognized as ethnic cleansing and genocide. Their targets included Poles, Russians, Jews, and even ethnic Ukrainians.

Symbols associated with OUN and UPA are still used in Ukraine today. The red-and-black flag, historically linked to the UPA is widely used among Ukranian army.

Additionally, Stepan Bandera has been recognized as a national hero. Streets have been named in his honor, and numerous monuments and museums have been dedicated to his life and political activities.

Below are some well-documented cases of crimes committed by Bandera’s followers during World War II period. 👇🧵 June 30 - July 2, 1941. Lviv.

Nationalists from Bandera's OUN launched a large-scale pogrom, which resulted in the deaths of several thousand Jews.

4,000 died

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv_pogr…

How Europe Set Up the USSR and Pushed Hitler East

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When Hitler came to power in 1933, Stalin immediately gets suspicious.

📖 Hitler literally wrote in his book that Slavs are “inferior” and their lands should belong to Germans.
🔎 Stalin goes like:
“Uh, excuse me, WHAT?! This dude is seriously out for blood. We need to do something before it’s too late.”

1933-1939: Europe Helps Hitler While Ghosting the USSR

While the USSR is out here trying to build an anti-Hitler alliance, Europe’s just chillin’ like nothing’s happening, meanwhile signing deals with Hitler.

📜 1934 – Poland signs a non-aggression pact with Germany
🔸Poland is the FIRST (!!) to sign a friendship pact with Hitler.
🔸Stalin goes WTF: “Are y’all stupid? He’s gonna eat you first!”

(German Ambassador Hans-Adolf von Moltke, Polish leader Józef Piłsudski, German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and Polish Foreign Minister Józef Beck meeting in Warsawon 15 June 1934, five months after issuing the declaration 👇) 📜 1935 – Britain lets Hitler build up his navy
🔸Britain straight-up tells Hitler, “Yeah man, go ahead and build your warships.”
👀Stalin is watching this mess unfold, speechless.

📜 1935 – USSR signs mutual assistance treaties with France and Czechoslovakia.
🔸If Czechoslovakia gets attacked, the USSR is READY to help.

📜 meanwhile 1936 🇯🇵Japan signs Anti-Comintern Pact (Anti-Soviet alliance with Germany)

📜 1938 – The Munich Agreement (Western Betrayal Level 1000)
🔸Britain, France, Italy, and Germany decide Hitler can have the Sudetenland (part of Chechoslovakia).

🔸By the late 1930s, Czechoslovakia had built up a solid modern army, cranking out machine guns, tanks, and artillery right in their own backyard. They weren’t just making weapons—they were one of the biggest arms suppliers in Europe at the time.

🔸And the wildest part? Czechoslovakia itself wasn’t even INVITED to the talks about its own country.

Stalin: “Yo, what about Czechoslovakia? Did you ask them how they feel about that?”

Europe: Crickets.

🔸At this point, Stalin KNOWS the West is just feeding Hitler hoping he’ll go attack the USSR next.

1938: Poland Joins the Looting Party

When Britain and France throw Czechoslovakia under the bus, Poland doesn’t try to help, nope, they run in to grab some land too!

📢 Poland invades the Teschen region of Czechoslovakia in October 1938.
💬 Stalin at this point:
“Oh, okay, so while Hitler’s grabbing territory, Poland’s out here looting too? I’ll remember that later.”

🇬🇧 Meanwhile in 1938, Britain randomly signs ITS OWN anglo-German declaration with Hitler!

⚠️ Final score:
🔸Czechoslovakia is betrayed by literally EVERYONE, including Poland.
🔸Stalin now knows for sure: Europe is setting him up.