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james's avatar

a fascinating account karl... of course i was unaware of much of this and your knowledge of history adds to the article here... here is a lavrov quote - " Instead of becoming a bridge between East and West, Germany has become an arena for a global confrontation between the two systems."

ain't that the truth?? germany is like a play thing for the west still and apparently some germans know this and some don't... i wonder if and when germany will flip?? it would require an acknowledgement of them being manipulated badly... the nordstream terrorist attack is only a part of it.. thanks for the article, you've gotten from a helpful person - natalya volkova. thanks natalya..

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First of all, I would like to make it unmistakably clear that nothing excuses the monstrous crimes committed by Hitler's Germany. Absolutely nothing. But now, as a German, I would like to say something on this subject. The right lessons can only be learned from history if history is not falsified. But it has been falsified from day one. Who said: "History is written by the victors"? I have to be extremely brief at this point. Therefore in bullet points.

When you talk about the Second World War, you have to talk about the First World War. Even more, you have to go back to the year 1871. In 1871, the "German Reich" was founded as a monarchy. Otto von Bismarck was an important player. Incidentally, a Russophile politician In 1871, Germany began a very successful economic and technological development. Germany's reputation for engineering, industriousness, discipline, order and industry emerged from this period.

It was the British Empire that was in decline and looked with hostility on the growing competition in Germany. Even more so when Germany began to realize colonial ambitions.

It was Great Britain that planned, organized and provoked the First World War. Kaiser Wilhelm I sent a written peace offer to London in the final days of the war.

Let us not forget the great power ambitions of France at the time, which was allied with Great Britain. Incidentally, this is a historical anachronism.

Most people don't even know what the Treaty of Versailles was all about. This dictate condemned the German people to terrible misery and was intended to deindustrialize Germany. At the same time, it laid the foundations for the later rise of fascism and National Socialism. Incidentally, "National Socialism" was a marketing ploy. Nothing about what was to come was socialist. The Anglo-Saxons, Great Britain and the USA pumped massive amounts of money, material, industrial investment and organization into Germany to arm Hitler's regime so that he could wage war against the Soviet Union.

Valentin Mikhailovich Falin was the best expert on Germany in the defunct Soviet Union. Even before his death, he spoke openly about the true developments in European history. It was he who suggested that historians from all over Europe should come together and re-examine European history together. Only if history was dealt with honestly and realistically could there finally be peace in Europe.

History is currently being falsified again in the war against Russia. This time by the Europeans and even by the Germans. This falsification can hardly be surpassed in its repulsiveness and abomination.

It was George Friedemann who said in Chicago in 2015 that the USA has successfully managed to prevent German technology and engineering from allying itself with Russian raw materials and masses of people since 1871. The USA has been doing exactly the same to this day. Unfortunately successfully.

I would also like to add that the EU now wants to ban books printed on paper. Allegedly because of CO2. For a long time now, many thousands of books have secretly not been published and are no longer available to buy. It is a subtle form of "book burning".

Only an ignorant people can wage war.

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