© Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/AFPDeputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev
The German parliament on Wednesday designated the Stalin-era wave of mass hunger - which Kiev calls the "Holodomor" - as genocide. Speaking at the office of the ruling United Russia party, which he chairs, Medvedev unleashed a scathing rebuke of German lawmakers. Medvedev, referring to the mass atrocities committed by Nazi troops between 1941 and 1945 on Soviet territory, said:
"Germans are now teaching us about humanism. Let them remember their own history, what they did on our nation's territory. They are telling us about the 'Holodomor', about something else. It's a shame to listen to all this coming from the lips of high-ranking officials, they should repent for three generations to come."On Wednesday, the German parliament adopted a resolution declaring that the 1930s Soviet famine a "genocide" against the Ukrainian people. However, as the Russian Foreign Ministry pointed out, the document ignored the fact that a "terrible famine was running rampant not only in Ukraine, but across the entire nation, claiming millions of lives."
In a statement on Thursday, the ministry denounced Berlin's move as "provocative."
"This is another attempt to justify and spur the Western-inspired and sponsored campaign to demonize Russia in Ukraine," as well as to pit ethnic Ukrainians against Russians and other peoples of former Soviet republics, it said.
The famine that struck the Soviet Union in the early 1930s was caused by severe drought and forced collectivization of agriculture under Joseph Stalin. According to various estimates, it killed up to eight million people in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia.
The total Soviet losses during WWII are estimated at about 27 million. Around 18 million of them were civilians who were killed, died of hunger, or succumbed to other factors due to unprecedented extermination policies adopted by the Nazi Germany on the occupied territories.
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A Polish painting stolen from the National Museum in Warsaw has been sold at a Berlin auction house despite Polish requests that be withdrawn from the sale. Wassily Kandinsky's watercolour 'Ohne Titel – Lot 31’ went for EUR 310,000, the Polish embassy in the German capital confirmed.Marcin Król, the Polish consul in Berlin, who was present at the auction, said earlier that the picture had been included in the Interpol database of stolen works of art.The picture was stolen from the National Museum in Warsaw on June 14, 1984. It had been bought by the museum in 1982.The provenance presented by the Grisebach auction house, the host of the sale, clearly showed that the painting had been part of the Polish public collection, and that it had a stamp testifying to the fact that it had come from the National Museum in Warsaw.The Grisebach auction house had been asked by the Polish Culture Ministry to withdraw the picture from auction but it decided to proceed with the sale despite the fact that Poland had sent to Germany all documents confirming its provenance.
The Germans have thievery deep in their genes… but they like to do „projection” of that on the Poles (like „travel to Poland, your car's already there” etc.).
[Link] - you pick the one you like.....we have one in our foyer as one enters the home a welcome guest and if what you say is true - it is just another shame upon Germany. Germany should be ashamed and Kandinsky was a genius....just another Russian genius I reckon along with Mendeleev, Prokofiev, Kropotkin and many others.
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Peace - Ken!
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Kandinsky - Verstummen
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I truly love this artwork.
ps - there must be several versions of this artwork cause the one in the image is not exactly the same as the one in our foyer!
that is great I think!
Media Obscures Key Reason For Russian Retreat From Kherson; Namely to Prevent the Destruction of the Nova Kakhovka Dam [Link]
Puttin' on the Ritz:
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Germany just like the EU, bunch of puppets, they are toast.