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May 27 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Prescott Bush, Auschwitz, and Silesia: The History You Don’t See in Schoolbooks
Whenever people talk about “financial ties to the Third Reich,” the spotlight somehow always skips over the West especially the American elite. But one of the clearest cases of real business collaboration with Nazi Germany involves none other than Prescott Bush, grandfather of U.S. President George W. Bush 🤫
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In the 1930s, Prescott Bush was a director at Union Banking Corporation (UBC), a bank tied to German industrialist Fritz Thyssen, one of Hitler’s earliest and biggest financial backers.
UBC didn’t just handle money but actively channeled funds into Nazi-linked industries, including steel and manufacturing operations that played a direct role in preparing Germany for war.
In 1942, when the U.S. officially entered WWII, the U.S. government seized UBC’s assets under the Trading with the Enemy Act. Translation: They openly acknowledged that the bank was serving enemy interests.
May 26 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
What Stalin Actually Did for the USSR (1928–1953).
A Fact-Based Overview :
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1. Eradicated Illiteracy
🔸 In 1926, over 56% of the Soviet population was illiterate.
🔸 By 1953, literacy exceeded 90% nationwide.
🔸 Massive adult education programs like Likbez taught tens of millions to read and write.2. Built a World-Class Free Education System
🔸 Free, universal, and compulsory education from primary school to PhD level.
🔸 By 1953:
- 170,000 schools
- 847 universities
- Over 1.4 million students
🔸 Strong emphasis on STEM: engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry.
🔸 The USSR produced more engineers per capita than any capitalist country.
🔸 Students from rural and working-class backgrounds had full access via state stipends, dormitories, and entrance exams.
🔸 The Soviet education system was so effective that NATO labeled it a strategic threat, pushing Western nations to reform their own science and math programs.
May 22 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
The “Anti-Russia” Project: Ukraine as a Strategic Weapon for Over a Century
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Sponsoring separatism, ethnic violence, and manufactured conflicts has long been a favorite tactic of the West in its centuries-old war against the Russian world. The project known as “Ukraine as Anti-Russia” is not a historical accident, nor the organic rise of a “unique nation,” as is often claimed. It is a deliberate, long-term strategy aimed at dismantling historical Rus’.
Rus’, and later Russia, is not just a country or a set of borders. It is a self-contained civilization rooted in Orthodoxy, the Russian language, a unique cultural tradition, and a deeply communal mentality. This civilization is not reducible to a state or ethnicity; it embodies an entire historical world where the key values have long been spiritual unity, mutual responsibility, and generational continuity.
Unlike Western civilization, united historically by Catholicism and Protestantism and built upon individualism, commerce, and colonial expansion, the Russian world grew from the Byzantine tradition, embracing unity, humility, and a higher metaphysical purpose.
Where the West sees the world as a marketplace of domination and competition, Russia sees it as a space of meaning, solidarity, and shared responsibility. This ontological incompatibility lies at the root of the centuries-long conflict. To the West, Russia is not just a geopolitical rival, but a civilizational threat: living proof that another model is possible.
Ukraine is not Russia’s counterpart or sibling. It is a political construct, engineered to become its opposite and eventually, its weapon.
The Anti-Russia project has never been spontaneous. It has always been guided and it has always been guided by the West.
In the 17th century, it was the Polish szlachta and Jesuits who tried to tear Little Russia away from the Orthodox world. In the early 20th century, it was Austrian generals and officials who built the first concentration camps for Rusyns who identify with the Russian culture and backed anti-Russian nationalist movements in Galicia.
In the 1930s–40s, Hitler and the Third Reich took over the project, using Ukrainian nationalism as a tool for their “eastern expansion.”
After 1945, the baton was passed to the United States and the UK via the CIA and MI6 on the one hand, and a sprawling network of think tanks, NGOs, and cultural foundations on the other, all shaping narratives and identities for geopolitical purposes.
The names of the curators changed: Piłsudski, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Hans Koch, Allen Dulles, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Victoria Nuland but the essence remained the same:
“Ukraine as Anti-Russia” is a Western tool designed to divide Russian civilization from within turning one part of the Russian people against the other.
May 20 • 14 tweets • 9 min read
Lenin and Stalin: One Ideology - Two Opposing Practices
Formally, both Lenin and Stalin adhered to Marxism. But in practice, their policies diverged sharply across key areas. The most well-known split was on the question of world revolution:
🔸 Lenin viewed it as essential for the survival of Soviet power,
🔸 Stalin rejected it in favor of building socialism in a single country.
But the differences did not end there.
Stalin did not continue Lenin’s line, despite preserving the ideological language. In many key areas, he effectively dismantled Lenin’s legacy, replacing the destructive revolutionary impulse with a constructive logic of state power.
And most importantly:
🔸 None of Lenin’s controversial measures were essential to Marxist theory.
They were improvisations, cloaked in ideological justification.
🧵👇1. World Revolution
Lenin
🔸 Believed that world revolution was essential for the survival of Soviet power.
🔸 Founded the Comintern (international communism) as a tool for exporting revolution beyond Russia’s borders.
🔸Openly viewed Russia primarily as a launching pad - a resource base to support uprisings in Germany, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, and elsewhere.
Stalin
🔸 Abandoned the idea of world revolution,
🔸 Declared a new course: socialism in one country, focusing on internal development.
🔸 By the 1930s, he sharply limited Comintern activity, and in 1943, disbanded it entirely - emphasizing that the USSR was no longer exporting revolution, but defending itself as a sovereign state.
Here is what Marxist theory is for those who don’t know ⤵️
May 19 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The 1936 Soviet Constitution (aka “Stalin’s Constitution”) is often considered one of the most progressive of its time. Not in the “liberal” sense, but because of how far it went in declaring rights and social guarantees, way ahead of what Western democracies were offering back then.
Here’s why 🧵👇1. Universal, equal, direct voting rights with no class restrictions
🔸 Before 1936, some people in the USSR, like former nobles, priests, and “kulaks”, couldn’t vote.
🔸 The 1936 constitution gave full voting rights to everyone, including the right to be elected.
Meanwhile:
🔸 In the U.S., African Americans in the South were still blocked from voting using literacy tests, poll taxes, and violence.
🔸 In Switzerland, women didn’t get voting rights until 1971.
🔸 In Britain, full adult suffrage only came in 1928, and political power was still heavily influenced by class.
May 19 • 20 tweets • 3 min read
I seriously can’t with these Americans (or other English-speaking influencers) who’ve never opened a history book, yet run around screaming about “60 million Christians killed by the USSR/the Bolsheviks”.
Meanwhile, you Christians spilled more Christian blood than any atheist regime ever could - and somehow you’re completely unaware of it. That’s what makes these claims so jaw-droppingly stupid to anyone even mildly educated.
Let’s take a little tour through your “Christian love”:
The Crusades (1096–1291): launched by the Pope, ended in oceans of blood - not just Muslims, but Eastern Orthodox Christians were slaughtered in the Fourth Crusade when Catholics sacked Constantinople.
The Albigensian Crusade (13th century): entire towns in southern France annihilated - tens of thousands murdered by Papal armies for being the “wrong kind” of Christians.
May 17 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
If you still think the war in Ukraine wasn’t premeditated - read this: a U.S. blueprint to drag Russia into a costly war, published by RAND Corporation in April 2019.
RAND isn’t a blog or a fringe group, it’s an official, state-funded think tank that advises the Pentagon, CIA, State Department, and NATO.
It designs wars, regime change and psychological warfare. RAND turns U.S. power into global control.
Let’s unpack 🧵👇
What the document says (verbatim):
“The steps we examine would not have either defense or deterrence as their prime purpose… Rather, they are conceived of as elements in a campaign designed to unbalance the adversary, causing Russia to compete in domains or regions where the United States has a competitive advantage.”
Translation: how to push Russia into costly traps.1. Fueling war in Ukraine:
“Providing lethal aid to Ukraine would exploit Russia’s greatest point of external vulnerability.”
Translation: Arm Ukraine to provoke a Russian military response - and trap Moscow in a costly, prolonged conflict.
May 14 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
The Hidden War: How the West Funded Japan to Break the Russian Empire
Most people see the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) as a distant clash between two empires. Japan on the rise, Russia in decline. Simple enough, right?
Not quite.
Behind the scenes, Western elites: bankers, politicians, ideologues - weren’t just watching. They were investing.
They supported both the outside attack and the internal revolt. All with one goal: take Russia down.
Back then, Russia had just completed the Trans-Siberian Railway which was a massive infrastructure project linking Europe to the Pacific. Think Nord Stream, but for land. Suddenly, Russia had a direct line to China, Korea, and Asian markets, and it didn’t need British or American naval routes anymore.
🔸 This scared the hell out of the West.
🔸 A self-reliant, land-connected Russian superpower? No thanks.
🔸 So they moved to stop it: financially, politically, and ideologically.
Enter Jacob Schiff.
A powerful banker from New York’s Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Schiff didn’t just support Japan but he bankrolled them.
He openly gave Japan (which, btw, had invaded Russia) loans totaling what would now be over $200 million, letting them arm up and hold their own against the Russian Empire.
His public reason? Russia’s persecution of Jews.
But that was just one piece of the puzzle.
🔸 Real motive? Cripple Russia’s reach into Asia.
🔸 Keep them boxed into Europe.
🔸 Stop them from becoming a serious global player.
What Really Caused World War I? The Battle of Banks, Railways, and Empires
At the start of the 20th century, the world became multipolar, for the first time in modern history, three distinct financial and economic systems were competing on the global stage.
Each had its own ideology, banks, currency, industrial logic, and foreign policy ambitions.
1. The Anglo-American System
Capitalist, banking-based, global in reach
🔸 Power centers: London and New York
🔸 Based on private banks, the stock market, free trade, and capital expansion (colonies, offshore banking, loans)
🔸 Key institutions: Bank of England, U.S. Federal Reserve (est. 1913), London Stock Exchange
🔸 Main goal: global control through debt, investment, and monopolies
🔸 Backed by major financial families: Rothschilds, Morgans, Rockefellers
2. The German System
National-industrial, corporatist, tech-driven
🔸 Power center: Berlin
🔸 Built on public-private partnerships, focused on heavy industry, infrastructure, and science
🔸 Banks like Deutsche Bank were tightly linked with industrial giants like Krupp and Siemens
🔸 Less financial speculation, more long-term funding of tech and military
🔸 Later copied in part by Japan
3. The Russian System
State-led, centrally controlled model
🔸 Power center: St. Petersburg / Moscow
🔸 In the early 1900s: Witte’s reforms, rapid railroad construction, and foreign capital brought under state control
🔸 Creation of a State Bank, national monopolies (like Prodamet, Prodvagon), and a system of concessions
🔸 Unique feature: a mix of tight top-down control with Western capital (especially from France and Belgium)
Here’s solid evidence that these three systems were in direct competition:
1. Germany vs Britain: The Baghdad Railway
🔸 Deutsche Bank financed a railway from Berlin to Baghdad through the Ottoman Empire: Britain and France’s backyard
🔸 Britain feared this would give Germany:
- Access to Mesopotamian oil
- A route to the Persian Gulf (threat to India)
- Economic and military power in the region
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🔸 The Berlin–Baghdad Express by Sean McMeekin
🔸 British Foreign Office archives (1903–1914)
2. Russia vs Germany: The Balkans and Southeastern Europe
🔸 Russia saw the Balkans as its natural sphere of influence
🔸 Germany backed Austria-Hungary’s 1908 annexation of Bosnia, sparking a diplomatic crisis with Russia
🔸 German banks started financing Balkan infrastructure (railways, ports), pushing out Russian interests
🔸 Russian Foreign Ministry Archives
🔸 Reports from the 1908 “Bosnian Crisis”
🔸 Memoirs of Alexander Izvolsky (Russian FM)
3. Britain vs Russia: Persia (Iran)
🔸 In 1907, Britain and Russia divided Persia into spheres of influence (north for Russia, south for Britain) to avoid direct conflict
🔸 Before that, they were in open competition for oil rights, trade routes, and military bases
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🔸 1907 Anglo-Russian Convention
🔸 India Office Records – British Library
4. France and Britain vs Russia, then alliance through loans
🔸 In the 1800s, France and Britain feared Russian expansion, especially in Asia.
🔸 Russia built a railroad that connected western and eastern Russia, strengthening its position in Asia.
🔸 But in the late 19th century, France became Russia’s biggest lender, trying to build an anti-German bloc
🔸 Britain joined the alliance in 1907, forming the Triple Entente to counter Germany and Austria-Hungary
Poland: The Dream of an Empire “From Sea to Sea” and the Plan to Break Up Russia (1914–1921)
In the early 20th century, Poland was still chasing the dream of rebuilding its old “empire”, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, whose borders in the 16th–17th centuries stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. The idea of “Polska od morza do morza” (Poland from sea to sea) wasn’t just a poetic slogan; it was a real geopolitical goal, openly backed by Polish nationalists led by Jozef Pilsudski.
But this wasn’t just about regaining independence, it was about pushing eastward, hard. The plan involved taking control of lands that were historically part of ancient Rus’: places like Kiev, Volhynia, Podolia, Chernihiv, Minsk, and Smolensk. In Polish political thought, these regions were called temporarily lost Polish borderlands, even though they had long belonged to the Orthodox Russian world and were only under Polish or Lithuanian control for limited periods of time.
Poland’s goal wasn’t about national self-determination, it was about building a new colonial buffer zone under Polish control, carved out of the ruins of the Russian Empire.
Jozef Pilsudski, who would later become head of the Polish state, was the main architect behind this doctrine.
In his 1904 memorandum, addressed to the Japanese government, Pilsudski stressed the need to use various non-Russian ethnic groups in the fight against Russia across the Baltic, Black, and Caspian regions. He argued that Poland, thanks to its history and “love of freedom,” should take the lead in “liberating” the peoples oppressed by Russia.
This document makes it clear: long before the Bolsheviks came to power, the Polish elite already saw Russia as the main enemy and viewed its territory as something to be broken up and brought under Polish influence.
📖 Full text of the memorandum (in Polish) was later published in Pilsudski’s collected works:
Pilsudski, Jozef. “Memorial zlożony Ministerstwu Spraw Zagranicznych w Tokio”, in Pisma zbiorowe, vol. 2 pilsudski-pisma.online/Tom%202/249-me…
May 11 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
When the U.S. Realized It Was Losing the Brain War to the USSR
Back in 1959, a group of Americans visited the USSR and when they came back, they realized the real threat to the US wasn’t missiles.
It was Soviet education.
No joke, that’s a quote from Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who literally said:
“The real and present danger to the United States is the Soviet high school.”
There was even a full NATO report written in 1959 just about Soviet education.
And right after that, the U.S. rushed to improve its own school system.
Let’s unpack 🧵👇
After WWII, the Soviet Union was recovering fast. By 1957, they had launched the first artificial satellite - Sputnik.
While it was flying through space, the West started paying close attention.
NATO, led by the U.S., became increasingly curious and nervous about how the USSR was advancing so quickly and achieving such impressive progress.
Soon, “journalists,” “scientists,” and “researchers” began showing up in the Soviet Union, many of them quietly trying to understand what exactly was fueling this unexpected momentum.
As a result, in 1959, NATO compiled a classified analytical report on education in the USSR.
In May of that year, Dr. C.R.S. Manders prepared a report for NATO’s Science Committee titled
“Scientific and Technical Education and Manpower Resources in the USSR.”
The report covered the entire Soviet education system, starting from kindergarten all the way to universities and research institutes.
It detailed how talent was identified and developed early on, with a clear focus on math, science, and discipline at every level.
Excerpts from the document
Introduction:
“Just 40 years ago, the USSR faced famine, illiteracy, and a shortage of skilled workers.
Today, it challenges the U.S. for global leadership a transformation unmatched in modern history.”
II. Factors Behind the Rapid Growth of Soviet Education
“Many elements drove the USSR’s educational progress, especially in science and technology.
Though focused on technical fields, much of this also applies to broader intellectual development.
Soviet methods often differed from those in the West, and those differences are noted here.”
Russia Before the Revolution: A Strong Nation Betrayed from Within and Undermined from Abroad
By the early 1900s, Russia wasn’t some backward empire, it was a country on the rise. The ruble was backed by gold, the economy was growing fast, factories were popping up, cities were expanding, and railroads were stretching across the map. Russia was exporting grain, oil, metals, you name it. It was already one of the top five economies in the world and had a real shot at becoming a major power in Eurasia.
And yet, in 1917, everything collapsed. Why? 🧵👇
Not a “prison of nations,” not “Asiatic backwardness”, but a country torn by internal contradictions, and feared by powers that didn’t want Russia to grow beyond what they could control. In this post, however, we’ll focus on the internal issues.
Yes, Imperial Russia had problems - just like any fast-modernizing nation. But it wasn’t collapse or savagery, as simplistic Western narratives suggest. The problem wasn’t the people or even the Tsar himself, it was an elite that feared losing power but refused to think about the future of the country.
At the root: the legacy of serfdom
The system of serfdom, formalized under Peter the Great and entrenched throughout the 18th century, tied peasants to the land and to their landlords for generations.
Even the “enlightened” Catherine the Great refused to abolish it, fearing backlash from the nobility.
It basically turned millions of people into permanent dependents, stuck in place with no way up. Systems like this existed elsewhere: the U.S. didn’t abolish slavery until 1865, and feudal structures lingered in parts of Europe too.
For the elites, that system was gold: they got free labor, total control, and a built-in social hierarchy where they ruled as mini-kings. Serfs paid taxes, worked the land, and could even be sold while their owners lived off the profits without any real responsibility.
That kind of setup split society in two and planted the seeds for future revolt.
May 10 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
Russia under Nicholas II was not a backward empire - it was one of the world’s fastest-growing and most powerful nations. The facts speak for themselves.
Economic Strength & Global Position
🔶 By 1913, Russia had the 4th largest GDP in the world, behind only the USA, Germany, and Britain, ahead of France and Japan.
🔶 In terms of GDP growth rate, Russia was among the fastest-growing economies globally, averaging 6–9% annual growth between 1890 and 1913.
🔶 It held the 3rd largest gold reserve globally, 1.695 billion gold rubles, surpassed only by the USA and France.
🔶 The ruble was stable and backed by gold since Witte’s 1897 monetary reform, making it one of the most reliable currencies in the world.
🔶 Foreign direct investment poured into Russia, especially from France, Belgium, and Britain, financing railroads, industry, and banking.
🔶 Russia was the #1 grain exporter, supplying up to 40% of the world’s wheat and rye and earning consistent trade surpluses.
🔶 The Russian Empire produced 25% of global barley and was a major supplier of flax, oats, and butter as well.
🔶 By 1914, Russia had over 80,000 kilometers of railways, the 2nd longest network in the world after the United States, including the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway.
🔶 Russia ranked in the top 3 globally in coal and iron output.
Witte’s Economic Reform (1890s)
Witte’s reform gave Russia a hard, stable currency, integrated it into the global financial system, and laid the foundation for the economic boom of the early 20th century.
🔶 1 ruble = 0.774 grams of pure gold (official rate set by the reform).
🔶 The reform eliminated silver and paper money instability, anchoring the ruble to real value.
🔶 It made the ruble fully convertible, it could be freely exchanged for gold, like the British pound or U.S. dollar.
🔶 With the ruble being as solid as gold, Russia became creditworthy and could borrow on better terms.
🔶 Inflation was low, and the ruble became one of the most respected currencies in Europe.
Photo: Saint-Petersburg, 1880s
May 7 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
“Night Witches”: Heroines of the Sky in the WW2
During World War II, there was a badass group of Soviet women pilots called the “Night Witches.” They flew old, slow wooden planes at night and dropped bombs on enemy positions. Most of them were young girls, students with no combat experience when the war started. But they became legends.
These women pulled off 8–9 missions a night, manually loading bombs that weighed up to 300 kg each. Over one shift, a single pilot could carry over a ton of explosives. And they did it all under heavy enemy fire: searchlights, anti-aircraft guns, etc.
Their planes, called Po-2 (originally U-2), were developed in 1927. You might know them by their nickname, “Kukuruznik”- they got it because after the war they were used in farming to dust crops.
By 1941, these planes were completely outdated and were originally used just for training. But someone realized they could actually work for light bombing runs at night, and here’s why.
The U-2 was so slow, about 120 km/h, that it could be shot down with a regular rifle. Flying one of these things in daylight over enemy territory would’ve been a death sentence. The planes had zero protection: no armor, no real weapons but they were they could glide almost silently.
The pilots would cut their engines just before reaching the target, letting the plane drift silently over enemy positions. The only sound was the soft “whoosh” of the wind over the wings, like a broomstick flying through the air.
That’s actually how they got their nickname:
“Night Witches” or Nachthexen (German) from terrified German soldiers who said they sounded like broomsticks in the dark.
The psychological effect was massive:
🔸Germans were afraid to sleep at night.
🔸Anti-aircraft crews were constantly on edge, trying to spot a ghost in the sky.
🔸And imagine the humiliation: being attacked night after night by young women in outdated planes that didn’t even make a sound.
One German officer reportedly said:
“We simply couldn’t catch them. They came from nowhere and disappeared into the night.”
These women completed a mind-blowing 23,672 combat missions on those rickety planes.
May 6 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
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.
May 6 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
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.
May 3 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
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.
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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.
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.
Apr 29 • 15 tweets • 8 min read
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
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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…
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.
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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.