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Americans have no point of reference to understand or appreciate the staggering losses that the Soviet Union incurred in beating back the Nazis. In the battle of Moscow, where German forces arrived on the outskirts of Moscow in December 1941, several hundred thousand Russian soldiers perished. When the Soviets turned the table on the Germans and launched a counteroffensive in December 1941 that ended on 7 January 1942, an additional 139,586 were killed or missing in action.
We Americans like to indulge the fantasy that we endured great sacrifice in World War II. The war was a transforming event in terms of creating an industrial behemoth in the United States. Most families were not touched by grief after losing a soldier, sailor, airman or Marine. The exact opposite is true in Russia.
We are approaching the 80-day mark in the Ukraine/Russia war. There are no reliable figures on the number of killed in action on either side. However, it does appear that four times the number of Ukrainian soldiers and foreign mercenaries are dead compared to Russian losses.
The United States and NATO are making a grave error if they dismiss Russian fears about an invasion from the west as a mere pre-text for conquering territory. Russia has one advantage the west does not - its cultural heritage has not been diluted by a flood of foreign immigrants. If you consider the population shift in America and Europe over the last 60 years, the percentage of the population with a relative that fought in World War II has shrunk. I am not suggesting legal immigrants are bad or evil. But immigrants come to America or Europe with a different history. Their ancestors were not buying U.S. war bonds to back the attack. The losses experienced in a conflict like World War II stays with those who knew the pain firsthand.
'[Spørgsmålet om, hvorvidt vi har tilladt vestlige matematikere at dominere i vores disciplin, er ikke mindre relevant, end om vi har tilladt vestlige forfattere at dominere litteraturområdet. Det kan endda være vigtigere, om ikke andet fordi matematik er noget mere central for videnskabens fremskridt end litteraturen.'
»Jeg opfordrede Dem til at drøfte økonomiske og finansielle spørgsmål ... i betragtning af de sanktioner, som det såkaldte vestlige samfund - et imperium af løgne, som jeg kaldte det i min tale - forsøger at gennemføre mod vores land.'Udtrykket 'løgnens imperium' blev opfundet af Ruslands præsident sidste torsdag, da han annoncerede lanceringen af offensiven i Ukraine. Da USA er en 'systemdannende magt', er hele det kollektive Vesten blevet et sådant 'imperium', sagde han dengang.
"Jeg tillader mig selv at citere Adolf Eichmann, som sagde at for at kunne ødelægge en nation, så må du først og fremmest tilintegøre dets børn. Fordi, hvis du dræber forældrene, så vil børnene vokse op og tage hævn. Ved at dræbe børnene - så vil de aldrig vokse op og nationen vil forsvinde," sagde han, mens et foto af Eichmann dukkede frem på skærmen.Eichmann var en senior SS officer som spillede en nøglerolle i at sætte op Nazi koncentrationslejre under 2. verdenskrig. Han blev trods flugt til Latinamerika fanget og retsforfulgt i Israel i 1960, hvor han blev dømt til døden for hans krigsforbrydelser.
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