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Kherson governor calls Hitler 'liberator' addressing veterans on Victory Day
RT,
9 May, 2014
Addressing the public on a Victory Day, the governor of Ukraine’s southern Kherson region trampled on the feelings of many veterans and desecrated the memory of all those who perished during the war against Nazi Germany by calling Hitler a “liberator.”
9 May, 2014
Addressing the public on a Victory Day, the governor of Ukraine’s southern Kherson region trampled on the feelings of many veterans and desecrated the memory of all those who perished during the war against Nazi Germany by calling Hitler a “liberator.”
Governor
of Kherson region Yuri Odarchenko was booed by thousands including
WWII veterans when he told the previously cheering crowd that the
Soviet Union tried to enslave Ukraine, while Hitler on the other hand
tried to bring freedom to their land.
“Those
[Soviet] aggressors justified their capture not only by their desire
to seize others' territory and enslave the people, but they also put
forward slogans about liberating nations and people that inhabit the
lands which Hitler hoped to capture,” Odarchenko
told the crowd.
Painting
his version of the events further, he challenged history by saying
that “if
you read history books, we have a number of documentaries on this,
then we see that he [Hitler] first of all put forward a slogan of
liberating people from the communist yoke, and liberating people from
the tyrant Stalin,” Odarchenko
said, sparking anger and outraged by the crowd.
As
thousands yelled out “shame”,
a young woman with a child approached the governor, stripped him of
the microphone, before throwing it away.
Historians,
citing data available from
Second Secretary of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party of
Ukraine, shows that Nazi forces in Kherson region killed 72,130
citizens and shipped about 40,000 to Germany to work in labour camps,
while Germans ruled a crucial port on the Black Sea and Dnieper River
from August 21, 1941 to March 13, 1944. Other historians place the
figures at 105,000 Soviet citizens killed and more than 60,000 sent
to Germany as slave labor.
As
far as Hitler's vision of liberty and justice for the people of
Ukraine, there are those among the veterans who still remember what
Nazi reign in Kherson was all about. Many witness accounts of the
Nazi's actions were written down in history books.
“All
those arrived were stripped naked and led to the trench,” eyewitness
A. K. Mestkovsky recalled in V. Baraniuk’s historic study of
Hitler’s ‘liberation’ of
Soviet ‘sub-humans’ in
Kherson region. “The
adult women and the elderly were stripped to their underwear, placed
by the trench on their knees, and shot by the machine guns.”
In
the autumn of 1941, about 10,000 Jews were killed in the city of
Kherson alone. It is estimated that at least 47,000 Red Army soldiers
died while force-crossing the Dnieper as they tried to liberate the
city from the Nazis.
The
Kherson governor offended the veterans on their most important
holiday, Russia's deputy Prime Minister, Dmitry Rogozin, said in his
twitter post, calling him a “bastard.”
Any
attempts to rewrite history and equate executors with their victims
are unacceptable, the Russian leadership continues to stress. Russian
President Vladimir Putin has numerously reiterated Russia's position
on the Soviet nation’s struggle during the Great Patriotic War and
said future generations should know the truth about WWII heroes.
“We
will always guard this sacred, unfading truth, and we will not allow
the heroes to be betrayed or forgotten – everyone who saved peace
on the planet, not sparing oneself [from death],” Putin said at
the Red Square parade on May 9.
While by no means trying to justify this (it is an outrage to call Hitler a liberator), by comparison Stalin caused vastly more mass-murder in Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteWhat is more RELEVANT however is how FASCIST Ukraine is becoming, that they would have governors of regions like Kherson praising Hitler, the same city of Kherson which is currently beating up anyone who dares protest or hold a sign that is pro-russian.
The "Right Sector" fascists in Ukraine are, like their collaborationist grandparents (most of them are descended of collaborators, White Russian Cossacks and so forth) during WW2, siding with Hitler again, because they view Russia as the "Stalin" oppressing them today.
You know for all the talk of Russia's oppressions, it's worth noting when the Maidan protests happened, that Yanukovych stepped down from power rather than embroil the country in a civil war like the Right Sector scum who took over.
And the USA has already been caught on tape saying the installed Right Sector as puppets. You can listen to the youtube of the conversation between US diplomats about who they want to rule Ukraine weeks BEFORE Maidan happened. There are similar smoking guns if you listen to the ENTIRETY of the "Fuck the EU" conversation that was also leaked.
So really it's a choice of being a puppet government of the USA, or becoming part of Russia, so you can see why the Russian-speakers in the East choose their mother country that speaks the same language they do. The Western Ukrainians who use violence to keep them are denying freedom which makes them hypocrites. The USA's patriots were only 3% of the population when they seceded. The Eastern Ukrainians have a clear majority in favor of independence in many areas.
Frankly both choices must suck for the people there. The best option for Eastern Ukraine would be independence but they'd likely have a hard time making it on their own and would be better off being part of Russia rather than a puppet.