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Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has announced plans to host the first International Anti-Fascist Congress.
Shoigu told reporters about the new event on Tuesday, saying it would be held in August, in conjunction with the "Army-22" international military technology forum near Moscow. The initiative is meant to "unite the efforts of the international community in the fight against the ideology of Nazism, neo-Nazism in any form of its manifestation in the modern world."
Russia is calling attention to its anti-fascism agenda at a time when it's attacking Ukraine, which it claims is partly down to a desire to "denazify" the former Soviet republic.
President Vladimir Putin last week, announcing the military operation against Kiev, said:
"Your fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers did not fight the Nazi occupiers and defend our common Motherland to allow today's neo-Nazis to seize power in Ukraine."While the US and other NATO members have accused Russia of citing false pretexts to justify an "unnecessary war" in Ukraine, Moscow has argued that Western leaders are supporting neo-Nazis in the country. An estimated 27 million Soviet citizens were killed during World War II, primarily by Nazi Germany. Modern-day Ukraine has embraced a number of WWII Nazi collaborators - including Stepan Bandera - as national heroes.
Delegations from 129 countries have reportedly been invited to attend the military forum. It's not clear how much international participation the Anti-Fascist Congress will attract, at a time when the US and its allies are calling on countries around the world to punish and isolate Russia over the conflict in Ukraine.
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Look at the 2014 coup in Ukraine; this was no democratic revolution. Look at the USA coup in 2020; engineered installation of Bribem and his puppet masters. I give Putin the benefit of the doubt despite his graduating from WEF. I also give the Virginia governor the same, though he has a CFR background.
Fascism won. In fact, many Nazis came to the US after the war. (Google Operation Paperclip.)
Government ownership of the means of production means that politicians also own the consequences of their policies.
More insidious is government control of the economy, while leaving ownership in private hands. That way, politicians get to call the shots, but when their bright ideas lead to disaster, they can always blame those who own businesses in the private sector.
Russian friends have stated that everyone in Russia knows this.
However, that doesn't contradict your statement as Marx was German-Jewish.
As for the question, I'm certain that a particular (cough) deputy PM will not be invited.
OK, tis 1409, I got the book in front of me. The name of the book is as follows: "Fields, Factories, & Workshops". Author is Peter Kropotkin. Now, let me find a page randomly. Tis 1410.
Page 51 in the book I have (I'll provide a reference for this)....there is a map near the bottom and I'll type the paragraph just above. Here goes in italics:
However, it must not be believed that the soil of Belgium is more fertile than the soil of this country. On the contrary, to use the words of Laveleye, "only one half, or less, of the territory offers natural conditions which are favourable for agriculture"; the other half consists of a gravelly soil, or sands, "the natural sterility of which could be overpowered only by heavy manuring." Man, not nature, has given to the Belgium soil its present productivity. With this soil and labour, Belgium succeeds in supplying nearly all the food of a population which is denser than that of England and Wales, and numbers 589 inhabitants to the square mile. (Then the map was presented....)
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Kropotkin was a Russian genius and really there is no cancelling Russian music nor cancelling Russia as a country.
The book was first published in 1898 by G.P. Putnam & Sons
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Now if I could offer up temper sentiment, Belgium seems to have changed much since 1898. Once it was self-sufficient, now it is just a servant of nefarious entities I reckon. Thank-you for giving a peasant a moment to speak, and now I will depart because I have more important things to take care of.....not the least of which are the cabbage plants I got growing in my driveway. What a shame it is the wisdom of Kropotkin is only blowing in the wind these days, but sometimes an idea that resonates takes time to manifest. Time will tell.