© SputnikUkrainian nationalists march in Kiev to mark the 112th birthday of World War II Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, January 1, 2021.
"The forgetting of history, their spiritual and moral values, their roots, if you like, all this has become one of the main reasons for what we are now seeing in Ukraine," he said, referring to the ongoing conflict, which he described as one that pitted the authorities against their own people from the outset.
Lavrov accused the West of trying to rewrite history by "instilling oblivion of Russian roots" and promoting ideas in Ukrainian society that led to what he called "social amnesia."
"This was used by the Americans and Europeans to bring an openly Russophobic Nazi regime to power in Ukraine that declared war against its own people, seizing power through an illegal coup d'etat, calling those who disagreed with this coup terrorists, and starting a real war against them," he said.
Lavrov noted that among European countries, there are two views on confronting their own history with Nazism - some seek to "quickly erase the pages of their national shame," while others see Nazi ideology as a "tool for maintaining their positions on the European political scene." He pledged that Russia would continue to fight both trends.
"Our ambition is to ensure that this sacred memory never leaves history, never leaves the memory of all generations, that it remains unchanged. And we are convinced of our historical, moral and human rectitude," he concluded.
Commemorations of World War II-era nationalist figures with ties to Nazi Germany have been common in Ukraine. Ukrainians hold annual torchlight marches in honor of Stepan Bandera, a leader in the militant Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), which collaborated with Nazi Germany and was involved in the massacre of more than 100,000 Poles, Jews, Russians, and Soviet-aligned Ukrainians. Less than two months ago, the Ukrainian city of Rivne marked the 120th birthday of Ulas Samchuk, a Nazi collaborator and anti-Semitic propagandist who welcomed the mass killings of Jews during the war.
Moscow has repeatedly warned of a Nazi revival in Ukraine, citing "denazification" as a central aim of its military operation against Kiev. Western officials and media, however, have largely downplayed such concerns, often dismissing the allegations as "Russian propaganda."
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That entire area has such a fascinating but widely disputed history, so I suppose there will never be concensus on the earliest of developments. [Link]
So what history?
I find Lavrov's comment on what happened to the Ukraine applicable to most nations today. For instance, let me change the word Ukraine:
" The forgetting of history, their spiritual and moral values, their roots, if you like, all this has become one of the main reasons for what we are now seeing in Canada/United States/Great Britain/Ireland...,"
The NWO is doomed. Their sustainable development is a scam and is doomed, Their sex with children dreams are doomed. Their sex with animals are doomed, isreali's excluded.
I would only add that it is not "forgetting", it is engineered through education and mockingbird media.
Whatever you think you own, whatever you believe is due you from your labours is conditional because the facilities of the state provided the means by which you imagine you deserve profit.
You did not pay for the roads, canals, wars, railways, postal system, banks, customs, laws, courts, protection. The state provides all this from the get-go. Without charge. You merely pay for its upkeep. But you did not invest and risk the building of the whole apparatus of the civil state. Therefore, your claim to ownership is subject to the higher claim of the state as usufruct.
Sherman held that by rebellion according to usufruct all property reverted to the federal govenment from which it came and was maintained. Thomas Jefferson held that according to the law of usufruct passing on by inheritance property unearned by the other party must be prohibited or the republic would be at risk of acquiring a new artistocracy
Apply the Law of Usufruct here. Whatever is on the ground is what it is. Wipe out everything past as not legitimate. And go forward with clean hands.
Not certain what Marx thought about this angle.
Whatever you think you own, whatever you believe is due you from your labours is conditional because the facilities of the state provided the means by which you imagine you deserve profit.
You did not pay for the roads, canals, wars, railways, postal system, banks, customs, laws, courts, protection. The state provides all this from the get-go. Without charge. You merely pay for its upkeep. But you did not invest and risk the building of the whole apparatus of the civil state. Therefore, your claim to ownership is subject to the higher claim of the state as usufruct.
Sherman held that by rebellion according to usufruct all property reverted to the federal govenment from which it came and was maintained. Thomas Jefferson held that according to the law of usufruct passing on by inheritance property unearned by the other party must be prohibited or the republic would be at risk of acquiring a new artistocracy
Apply the Law of Usufruct here. Whatever is on the ground is what it is. Wipe out everything past as not legitimate. And go forward with clean hands.
Not certain what Marx thought about this angle.