Maria Zakharova: "In Memory of All Victims of the Holocaust"

I initially posted this at my VK and thought about using it for my Sunday Sermon item as I have no idea what I’ll be capable of after my AAA surgery tomorrow and release from the hospital on Saturday. But I got a request from a friend who is unable to properly share it from VK for me to post it here, and so I have. This topic will be revisited at some point in the future as it connects with many past actions that continue to have present connections, primarily the utter disregard for the Other when we are all Others, including the Class doing the most disregarding now and historically. And so, here it is:

I've recently commented on the fact that WW2's Holocaust affected far more than just those who worshiped the Hebrew religion, and that by far the greatest number of victims in the European Theatre were Slavs by a factor of at least five and up to as high as twelve depending upon how one counts the dead and those who weren't born. In the Asian Theatre and for WW2 as a whole, the Chinese were the ethnicity that suffered the most deaths and unborn—70-90 million—from 1931 to 1945. But only one ethnicity has monopolized the Holocaust “franchise” to the neglect of all others which forms the basis for Zakharova's article published by Rossiyskaya Gazeta. There's more evidence backing Ms. Zakharova than she uses, the saving of Nazism by the USA and UK at the end of WW2 being the most important, but also the roots of Anti-Slav thought going back to the Kaiser prior to WW1. We can go further back to Francis Bacon's call for Genocide in his 1622 book, which built on the 15th Century Papal Bulls and the Crusades that were first waged against what were deemed heretic “non-Christians” who by the Roman Church's definition didn't qualify as human. Thus, it isn't all together very surprising to read what follows:

The persistent unwillingness to see the Nazi nature of the Kiev regime has deep-rooted reasons, which are fueled by the nationalism rooted in the West, mixed with ideas of superiority and exclusivity.

I'll give you a concrete example.

Decades after one of the worst tragedies of the Second World War, the siege of Leningrad, Germany decides to pay compensation to the city's residents in 2021.

How much is the cost of almost 900 days and nights that have claimed a million lives, military and civilian, while the vast majority of the inhabitants died of hunger? How much did you rate the feat of an entire city as the feat of an entire nation? How to pay for the gravest war crime in the history of not only the Great Patriotic War, but of all mankind?

It would seem that all these questions pale in comparison with Berlin's declared desire for repentance.

But that wasn't the case.

Compensation is due, from the point of view of the Germans, not to everyone. But only those who can confirm their Jewish origin. Vile and inexplicable division on the basis of nationality. Here it is, segregation, food for neo-Nazism.

The Russian side has repeatedly raised this issue with Germany. Almost two years have passed, and this "by blood" rule still applies, despite criticism from our side of such an act of racial discrimination.

In those terrible years, Leningraders did not look at each other's passports or at the cut of each other's eyes. Worked together, defended together, shared bread crumbs together, survived together. They died together, too.

But almost 80 years later, official Berlin decided that one of the very few surviving veterans, witnesses of those terrible events, is more worthy than others, because in his veins flows blood with different genetic characteristics. Does it remind you of anything?" This is the breeding ground for the reincarnation of Nazism and fascism.

By segregating blockade runners based on nationality, Germany simultaneously pays veterans of the Wehrmacht and, in some cases, even those who served in SS punitive units. For example, the case of Heinz Barth, an 80-year-old former Nazi SS officer, who is serving a life sentence in a German prison for participating in the massacre of hundreds of civilians in the French city of Oradour in June 1944. He was sentenced by a GDR court, but after German reunification in 1990, he was entitled to a monthly payment of $ 450 because he lost a leg during the war. Depending on the rank and merits, the pension of veterans who fought in World War II is estimated in hundreds or thousands of euros. Recently it became clear that Berlin officially pays veteran collaborators-that is, those who voluntarily collaborated with the Third Reich and the occupation authorities. According to AFP, 1,532 people in Europe receive such pensions, including 573 in Poland, 184 in Slovenia, 101 in Austria, 94 in the Czech Republic, 71 in Croatia, 54 in France, 48 in Hungary, 34 in the UK, the same number in the Netherlands, 18 in Belgium.

Once again: Germany in the XXI century pays collaborators who handed over Jews and partisans to the police, but does not want to pay Leningrad residents who survived the blockade.

It is all the more frightening to read a new interview with the already well-known Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine, Mikhail Brodsky, in which he once again justifies the neo-Nazi Kiev regime.

Do you know why it's especially scary? From the fact that the words about "heroes Bandera and Shukhevych" are uttered not only by a Jew, but also by a Leningrader.

Yes, Mikhail Brodsky was born and raised in Leningrad.

And so he says: "No one has the right to teach me or other Israeli officials how to properly preserve the memory of the Holocaust and how to deal with issues of historical memory. In 90% of cases, we vote in support of Ukraine in the UN and other international organizations. We are considering joining the Crimean Platform. I do not rule out that at some point Israel will decide to join the Crimean Platform. Israel is now actively engaged in transferring an early warning system to Ukraine, which, I hope, will work in the near future. At least part of this system should be operational in September."

Why doesn't anyone dare teach anyone how to preserve the memory of the Holocaust? The Holocaust is the persecution and mass extermination of representatives of various ethnic and social groups by the Nazis.

This is exactly how it is recorded in the most important international documents.

UN General Assembly resolution A/RES / 60 / 7: "The Holocaust, which led to the extermination of one-third of Jews and countless other minorities, will always serve as a warning to all people about the dangers of hatred, bigotry, racism and prejudice."

UNESCO resolution 34C / 61: "The General Conference is mindful that the Holocaust, which resulted in the extermination of one-third of Jews and countless other minorities, will always serve as a warning to all people about the dangers of hatred, bigotry, racism and prejudice."

OSCE Berlin Declaration: "The Participating States undertake to promote the preservation of the memory of the tragedy of the Holocaust and, where appropriate, education in this area, as well as awareness of the importance of respect for all ethnic and religious groups."

Of course, there are many UN General Assembly resolutions that are not accepted by individual countries. These documents are not binding, and those who disagree with them are not required to comply with them. But in this case, one of the main initiators of the resolution was Israel and Russia. The list of co-authors includes more than 100 States. Moreover, the resolution was adopted by consensus – that is, by all countries, without a vote. Accordingly, the definition of the Holocaust mentioned in the text does not raise any questions.

So we are guided by these universal and unanimously approved provisions in connection with the obvious manifestations of ethnic hatred, segregation and xenophobia in Ukraine with the support of the West.

Another thing is that in our country, we do not share the Victory over fascism or the tragedy of the Nazis ' extermination of people on the basis of nationality. Just as our victory is "one for all", so on the Day of Remembrance and Mourning, we commemorate everyone who was tortured by the Nazis, regardless of their national, religious or other affiliation. After all, the monuments to the liberators of Europe from Nazism, installed on the graves of Red Army soldiers in the EU countries, are protected only by Russia and individual activists from other countries, as well as not dividing the memory of them into national, geographical or religious pieces.

By the way, the term "Holocaust" has a well-established meaning in world historiography and its content is not limited to describing the atrocities of the Nazis exclusively against the Jewish population.

Take, for example, the definition in Britannica:

Holocaust, Hebrew Shoʾah (“Catastrophe”), Yiddish and Hebrew Ḥurban (“Destruction”), the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II.

In other words, it is the systematic, State-sponsored and State-sponsored murder of 6 million men, women and children of Jewish origin, as well as millions of other people, carried out by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II.

Or in the Cambridge Dictionary:

The Holocaust was the systematic murder of many people, esp. Jews, by the Nazis during World War II.

In other words, the Holocaust is the systematic murder of a large number of people by the Nazis, especially (but not exclusively) Jews during the Second World War.

And here is the definition from the American Webster Dictionary:

Usually the Holocaust: the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II

The Holocaust was the Nazi mass murder of civilians in Europe, especially Jews, during World War II.

Now about what kind of "uncountable number of representatives of other minorities" they were. There is no need to invent or think out anything. Everything is in the documents of the Nuremberg Tribunal. Consider only one group – the Slavs.

The concept of the Ost Master Plan (1942) provided for the "resettlement" of more than 30 million Slavs and the "Germanization" of the European East up to the Urals. This plan was combined with the "final solution of the Jewish question": at the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, the extermination of 11 million European Jews was discussed.

Here is the content of one of the key Nuremberg documents − a memo from an employee of the Ministry of Eastern Territories Affairs dated August 19, 1942, containing instructions from Martin Bormann (Nuremberg document R-36, US-699): "The Slavs must work for us, but if we no longer need them, let them die. Vaccinations and German healthcare are therefore unnecessary. Slavic fertility is undesirable, let them use condoms or have abortions, the more the better. Education is dangerous. It's enough if they can count to a hundred. The most that is acceptable is an education that gives us useful mercenaries."

The German Heinrich Himmler also spoke significantly about the Slavs, for whose words and actions, apparently, modern Germany does not want to be responsible: "We know what Slavs are. The Slav was never able to construct anything. The Slavs are a mixed people based on an inferior race with drops of our blood, unable to maintain order and self-government. This low-quality human material is no more capable of maintaining order today than it was 700 or 800 years ago, when these people called the Varangians, when they invited the Ruriks. We will treat these human animals decently. However, it would be a crime against one's own blood to take care of them and inspire them with any ideals and thereby make it even more difficult for our children and grandchildren to treat them" (This" Posen " speech of Himmler was also included in the Nuremberg documents).

I would like to recall the words of the great Soviet writer, Leningrader Daniil Granin, uttered, by the way, on the rostrum of the German Bundestag: "On the walls of the Reichstag, you could still read the inscriptions of our soldiers, among them I remember one remarkable one:" Germany, we came to you so that you don't come to us." Hatred is a dead-end feeling, with no future in it. You must be able to forgive, but you must also be able to remember. It's hard to remember the war years, any war is blood and dirt. But the memory of the dead millions, tens of millions of our soldiers is necessary. Almost all my fellow soldiers and friends died in the war, they passed away not knowing whether we would be able to defend the country, whether Leningrad would survive, and many left with a sense of defeat. I would like to tell them that we won after all, and that they did not die in vain. In the end, it is not force that always prevails, but justice and truth."

As with Mikhail Brodsky, and with the Germans, who again decided to divide people by nationality, if not contemporaries, then descendants will ask: how could they betray the memory of the past?

Do you understand why we should remember the Holocaust? Not because the Nazis then killed one or more specific nationalities, but because in principle it is impossible to discriminate against people on the basis of nationality: whether it is psychological violence against one person or the mass murder of millions.

By the way, this is also recorded in UN General Assembly resolution A/RES/60/7: "The Holocaust will always serve as a warning to all people about the dangers of hatred, bigotry, racism and prejudice." Therefore, where there is the glorification of the Nazis, the murder of people on the basis of nationality, the prohibition of national identity, there it is necessary to remember the Holocaust. It is necessary to remember, because it is for this purpose and recorded in international law… But more and more often they don't remember. The Holocaust is not just one date in a year. This is our common cultural code, designed to remind us of the dangers of dehumanization.

Unfortunately, no genocide has taught humanity anything like that. But worst of all, today the descendants of victims themselves become lawyers for the executioners of their ancestors. And this is already one step before the apocalypse.

And, returning to Germany's failure to pay compensation to non-Jewish victims of the siege, I would like to emphasize that by humiliating the victims of the Holocaust with segregation, Berlin is rapidly sinking into a new abyss of nationalist hell.

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