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Commemorations For 75th Anniversary of V.E. Day Ignore 27m Citizens Of Soviet Union killed By German Fascism And Its Allies

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the defeat of German fascism and its allies .
Across the world there will be events commemorating the ‘ greatest generation ’ which defeated Nazi tyranny and secured peace in Europe .
Pious words aplenty will pour from the mouths of politicians who will use the occasion to wave the patriotic flag and use wartime rhetoric to try and consolidate support for their social and economic policies battling the twin threats of economic depression and the Covid-19 pandemic .
During the VE Day commemorations Western media outlets and politicians will no doubt continue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Two and eulogise the role of the D-Day landings in bringing about Hitler ’ s defeat .
Ignoring the role of the Soviet Union and its Red Army in breaking the back of the German Wehrmacht .
Nothing will be said about the resurgence of neo-fascism in Germany which has resurrected the myth of the ‘ clean Wehrmacht ’ .
Alternative for Germany has now achieved the status of being the largest opposition party in the Bundestag and has substantial representation in the state parliaments of Germany .
It is central to this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Wehrmacht for killing over 27 million citizens of the Soviet Union .
It brings to mind the famous warning that Bertolt Brecht gave to German workers after the war : Alexander Gauland , co-founder of the AfD and one of its leading lights in the Bundestag , has commented how , “ Germans should be proud of “ the achievements of German soldiers ” during World War 2 .
Gauland has gone further and praised the ‘ bravery of German soldiers ’ .
According to Gauland millions of German soldiers served with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the criminal policies of the Nazi dictatorship .
This represents yet another attempt to rewrite history and perpetuate the myth of the ‘ Clean Wehrmacht ’ whose reputation was ‘ unblemished ’ by the military campaigns that it fought on behalf of Hitler ’ s genocidal regime .
This myth that was firmly rooted in large parts of the German population was first challenged by the hugely controversial exhibition “ War of Annihilation Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941 to 1944″ that toured 33 cities in the mid to late 1990s .
It was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ massive protests ’ to such a degree that it was suspended and later re-released after some ‘ editing ’ .
Twenty years later and here we are commemorating the 75th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany .
At a time of Cold War 2.0 it is unlikely we will have any kind of acknowledgement by the Western media or political classes of the terrible price paid by the people of the Soviet Union in the defeat of Nazi Germany .
This revisionist history is also exemplified in the resolution passed by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Nazi regime and Soviet Union for the outbreak of World War 2 .
This piece of revisionist history contains may omissions regarding the war .
As journalist Jamie McKay noted at the time the motion was passed , one of the gravest omissions is Worse still , is the fact that the motion laments the many victims of the Nazi dictatorship and Stalin ’ s regime and makes no mention of the 27 million Soviet citizens who were killed by German fascism and its many allies from all over Europe .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the unsuspecting people of the Soviet Union represents the largest act of genocide committed by any government during the bloody 20th century .
The American military historian Jeff Rutherford in his account of the Wehrmacht ’ s genocidal activities , Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front : The German Infantry ’ s War , 1941-45 , has commented : Origins of the war of extermination against the Soviet Union By late summer 1940 Hitler stood triumphant astride the continent of Europe .
Considering his next move he was decisively influenced by economic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ situation in Europe and in Germany undermined the Reich ’ s power .
It also brought back memories of Germany ’ s defeat in 1918 when endemic hunger helped bring about the Revolution of October 1918 which led to widespread mutiny within the armed forces and the nations ’ signing of the armistice in November .
Hitler and his advisors were determined to make sure there would be no repeat of this home front trauma again .
Hitler was obsessed by the threat posed by communism and its heartland in the Soviet Union @ @ @ @ @ @ @ communist uprisings during the 1918-23 period had led to widespread social instability across Germany .
He saw Communism as a mortal threat to both Germany and the European continent .
Since coming to power in January 1933 Hitler had warned the German people of the mortal danger posed by Communism to their way of life .
He linked the threat of Communism with his fanatical anti-Semitism and portrayed the USSR as a ‘ Jewish-Bolshevik ’ menace that would have to be dealt with one day .
As an aside , central to British @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the objective of turning Hitler ’ s attentions eastward towards the Soviet Union .
As he looked eastward Hitler saw the natural solution to his problems lay in the invasion and destruction of the Soviet Union .
Its agricultural and mineral resources together with its vast land mass would provide the Reich with a sustainable means of creating a new empire based on Aryan supremacy .
However , the invasion of the Soviet Union would represent a new kind of warfare that was a radical departure from the traditional forms that had prevailed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1939-40 .
This new war of annihilation would be ideological in nature .
The Soviet Union was not just to be conquered .
Its major cities would be destroyed and urban population decimated in their millions while the rural population would serve as slave labour for the Reich .
At a meeting of 200 senior military commander on 30 March 1941 Hitler clearly outlined the Wehrmacht ’ s approach to the coming war with the USSR .
Franz Halder , chief of the general staff of the army high command ( OKH ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his diary .
According to Halder the Fuhrer declared that the upcoming clash with the Soviet Union would be a “ war between two ideologies ” that would be very different to the war in the West during 1939-40 .
The Soviet Union represented a threat to Germany ’ s existence .
Hitler made it clear to his senior commanders that : Hitler impressed upon his audience that ” Bolshevik commissars ” serving in the Red Army as well as the ‘ Soviet intelligentsia ” needed to be destroyed as they had ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be excused from the conventions of normal warfare as they needed to ‘ defend themselves with the means ” that the evil Bolsheviks would surely use .
In other words , German soldiers were given legal immunity to commit acts of murder against Red Army prisoners and the civilian population .
This genocidal approach to the coming war with the USSR was codified in a series of criminal orders that were given to units throughout the Wehrmacht .
The first of these orders concerned the close cooperation between the SS Einsatzgruppen and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Soviet Union .
On 28 April an agreement was reached that established a division of labour between the two organisations .
As Wehrmacht troops advanced they would be closely followed by the SS death squads who would be responsible for ‘ pacifying ’ rear areas .
This pacification was to involve the immediate execution of Red Army commissars , communist bureaucrats and intellectuals as well as Jewish males of military age .
The second genocidal order came on 13 May known as the Barbarossa Decree ( “ Decree on the Jurisdiction of Martial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Troops ” ) which removed any legal constrains upon German soldiers on how they prosecuted the war in the east .
It left them free to destroy villages and commit acts of mass murder with impunity .
Partisan attacks on the Wehrmacht were to be met with the principle of collective responsibility whereby whole communities could be annihilated for any such attacks .
The order declares : This was closely followed by a third order , ’ Guidelines for the Conduct of the Troops in Russia ‘ which was issued on 19 May @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the conduct of soldiers during the invasion of the USSR : This quartet of genocidal orders was completed on 6 June 1941 with the issuance of the notorious Commissar Order by the German High Command .
It instructed German soldiers that all Red Army prisoners should be immediately sifted for ” active representatives of the Bolshevist ideology ” .
Those identified as such should be immediately executed or handed over to SS units for execution .
The order made it clear that : The troops must be aware that : 1 .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ law is false .
They are a danger to our own safety and to the rapid pacification of the conquered territories .
2 .
The originators of barbaric , Asiatic methods of warfare are the political commissars .
So immediate and unhesitatingly severe measures must be undertaken against them .
They are therefore , when captured in battle , as a matter of routine to be dispatched by firearms.
” The genocidal nature of the war in Soviet Union was further cemented by the Reich ’ s adoption of its food polices towards @ @ @ @ @ @ @ These became known as the “ Starvation Plan ” and envisaged that 30 million Soviet citizens would die from the Wehrmacht ’ s seizure of foodstuffs as it lived off the land during its advance into the vast hinterland of the USSR .
The German High Command saw the upcoming campaign as a brief , brutal , ideologically driven conflict that would involve the mass murder of the Soviet population and Red Army soldiers taken as prisoners .
It put considerable efforts into propaganda campaigns aimed at ensuring the rank and file of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of them in the war of annihilation to come .
Historian Jeff Rutherford has noted the propaganda efforts of the German High Command which involved extensive efforts at “ ideological education ” .
Soldiers attended a series of lectures outlining the Nazi ideology on a range of topics which emphasized the “ special mission ” in the east which was a life and death struggle for Germany .
Rutherford has observed : Rutherford ’ s detailed examination of letters and diaries of soldiers in Army Group North reveal that large numbers of German @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and ideas of this ideological indoctrination ’ .
Many would become Hitler ’ s willing executioners in the ensuing race war on the eastern front that left over 20 million civilians dead .
Military records from Wehrmacht infantry divisions together with letter and diaries from rank and file soldiers reveal the total complicity of the German army in the genocide committed against the people of the Soviet Union .
Operation Barbarossa , code name for the Nazi invasion of the USSR , gave Army Group North the task of destroying Red Army forces @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Leningrad .
By 8 September 1941 an exhausted Army Group North had reached the suburbs of the city and the front stabilized as both sides took time to regroup .
The Red Army had halted the German juggernaut at a huge cost in casualties and prevented Army Group North from capturing the city .
On 22 September 1941 units of Army Group North received a Fuhrer directive that gave them the genocidal task of laying siege to the city and destroying its inhabitants through a blockade that would cause mass starvation : Military @ @ @ @ @ @ @ account of these events The Siege of Leningrad writes : The siege of Leningrad lasted 900 days and killed between 800,000 and 1 million civilians .
All told the number of civilians and soldiers who perished during the siege of Leningrad amounted to 1.6-2 million dead .
David M. Glantz has put this figure in perspective : Destruction of villages and their inhabitants by Army Groups North , Centre and South The great Russian writer Ales Adamovich wrote an auto-biographical novel Khatyn about his experiences of surviving the war as a partisan in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which mentions that 9,200 villages in Belarus alone were destroyed by the Wehrmacht .
In over 600 of these villages the inhabitants were shot or burned alive .
When villages were destroyed the population were either killed , evacuated or left to starve .
The Wehrmacht was expected to live off the land for a large part of its provisions leading to mass looting of food and animals from the civilian population leading to widespread starvation for many .
Adamovich ’ s novel quotes from a Wehrmacht report of the massacre of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ September 21 , 1942 .
According to the filed report by a Captain Pels : Meanwhile , hundreds of thousands of Soviet civilians were evacuated by Wehrmacht forces to be used as slave labour in German war industries where many died of neglect and abuse .
In northern and southern Russia the civilian population had similar experiences .
In many cases villages were destroyed and the inhabitants murdered as reprisals for partisan attacks on German units .
In other cases , villages and their inhabitants were destroyed by brutalised soldiers who saw civilians @ @ @ @ @ @ @ military operations .
On many occasions , villages were destroyed by retreating German units .
Rutherford has noted how the destruction of civilian housing became part of the army ’ s “ daily routine ” before Hitler ’ s demand that all , “ farms given up [ by army units in retreat ] are to be burned.
” This left massive numbers homeless and destined to die of hunger and exposure during the harsh Russian winters .
Over a million dwellings were destroyed by the Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union leaving over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ winter of 1941-42 the genocidal activities of Wehrmacht soldiers also extended to forcibly taking felt boots and winter clothing from Soviet civilians .
The 123rd Infantry Division issued an instruction to its men that , “ all felt boots are to be immediately taken from the population without consideration of age or sex , ” condemning large numbers of men , women and children to frostbite and death .
Hitler ’ s order to this effect was not issued until late December yet German units across all fronts had been operating in this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ army ruthlessly mobilized all village inhabitants , including children , for forced labour for the construction of fortifications and other defensive tasks .
Refusal to work was often met with instant execution .
This use of forced labour had been prevalent within the Wehrmacht since June yet it reached new heights during the winter of 1941-42 as it struggled to cope with the Russian winter .
Not surprisingly , many tens of thousands died from this forced labour as civilians workers were given tiny rations while working outside in sub zero temperatures many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ During the Wehrmacht ’ s invasion of the USSR it took millions of Red Army soldiers prisoner .
Immediately , commissars and any others suspected of communist sympathies were weeded out for execution .
The remaining troops were stripped of their food supplies , and clothing during the winter of 1941-42 , and sent on death marches to so called camps .
In the main these consisted of open areas surrounded by barbed wiring and watch towers with no housing for prisoners .
Daniel Goldhagen , in his book Hitler ’ s Willing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ young , healthy Soviet POWs ” were killed by the German army units , “ mainly by starvation… in less than eight months ” of 1941–42 .
Between 150,000 and 500,00 Soviet prisoners of war ( POWs ) were transferred to Nazi concentration and extermination camps .
Most were killed by firing squad or gassing .
It is worth noting that Zyklon B was tested on Red Army prisoners before being used at Auschwitz and other death camps .
Thousands of Soviet POWs also died from starvation or exposure .
At several camps @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nazi guards .
At Sobibor a 2nd Lt. Alexander Perchevsky led a successful mass break out which forced the SS to close the camp and cover up the evidence of its mass murder .
Meanwhile , hundreds of thousands of Soviet POWs ended up being used as slave labourers in German industries .
Over 200,000 died during their forced labour .
Peter Calvocoressi and Guy Wint in their book Total War have observed that 5.7 million Red Army soldiers were taken into captivity by the German army , Of these 3.5 million had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that this mass murder of Red Army soldiers was no accident : The destruction of the Jewish population of the USSR As the Wehrmacht advanced into the Soviet Union during the summer of 1941 the Einsatzgruppen death squads followed close behind .
Their tasks was to round up and murder the Jewish population of the Soviet state .
Hitler had made it clear that in his mind the struggle against Bolshevism and Jewry was inextricably interlinked .
Estimates vary but many suggest around 1 million Soviet Jews were murdered principally by mass shooting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were shipped to the extermination camps in Poland to be gassed to death This genocidal murder was chronicled by two Red Army journalists Illya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman who produced The Black Book : The Ruthless Mass Murder of Jews by German-Fascist Invaders Throughout The Temporarily Occupied Regions of the Soviet Union and in the Death Camps of Poland During the War of 1941-45 .
Some of the evidence that they gathered was used at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials and helped convict leading Nazis .
The mass murder of Soviet Jewry was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Final Solution of the Jewish Question ” .
The historian Yitzhak Arad makes the point that the Nazi regime also viewed these actions , “ as a means of destroying the Soviet state and of preparing the territories of the Soviet Union for German colonization.
” On the 75th anniversary of the defeat of German fascism we should remember the Nazi genocide against the people of the Soviet Union .
It is a genocide that has been largely ignored by the West due to its Cold War against the USSR which continues @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2.0 waged against Russia .
The British military historian Richard Overy provides us with a succinct yet powerful testimony to the genocide suffered by the people of the Soviet Union at the hands of German fascism :

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This year marks the 75th anniversary of the defeat of German fascism and its allies. Across the world there will be events commemorating the ‘greatest generation’ which defeated Nazi tyranny and secured peace in Europe. Pious words aplenty will pour from the mouths of politicians who will use the occasion to wave the patriotic flag and use wartime rhetoric to try and consolidate support for their social and economic policies battling the twin threats of economic depression and the Covid-19 pandemic.
During the VE Day commemorations Western media outlets and politicians will no doubt continue to rewrite the history of World War Two and eulogise the role of the D-Day landings in bringing about Hitler’s defeat. Ignoring the role of the Soviet Union and its Red Army in breaking the back of the German Wehrmacht.
Nothing will be said about the resurgence of neo-fascism in Germany which has resurrected the myth of the ‘clean Wehrmacht’. Alternative for Germany has now achieved the status of being the largest opposition party in the Bundestag and has substantial representation in the state parliaments of Germany. It is central to this revisionist history which denies the responsibility of the Wehrmacht for killing over 27 million citizens of the Soviet Union.
It brings to mind the famous warning that Bertolt Brecht gave to German workers after the war:
“For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.”
Alexander Gauland, co-founder of the AfD and one of its leading lights in the Bundestag, has commented how, “Germans should be proud of “the achievements of German soldiers” during World War 2. Gauland has gone further and praised the ‘bravery of German soldiers’. According to Gauland millions of German soldiers served with distinction and should take no blame for the criminal policies of the Nazi dictatorship.
This represents yet another attempt to rewrite history and perpetuate the myth of the ‘Clean Wehrmacht’ whose reputation was ‘unblemished’ by the military campaigns that it fought on behalf of Hitler’s genocidal regime.
This myth that was firmly rooted in large parts of the German population was first challenged by the hugely controversial exhibition “War of Annihilation Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941 to 1944″ that toured 33 cities in the mid to late 1990s. It was received by a deluge of criticism and ‘massive protests’ to such a degree that it was suspended and later re-released after some ‘editing’.
Twenty years later and here we are commemorating the 75th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany. At a time of Cold War 2.0 it is unlikely we will have any kind of acknowledgement by the Western media or political classes of the terrible price paid by the people of the Soviet Union in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
This revisionist history is also exemplified in the resolution passed by the European Parliament in 2019 which blames the Nazi regime and Soviet Union for the outbreak of World War 2. This piece of revisionist history contains may omissions regarding the war. As journalist Jamie McKay noted at the time the motion was passed, one of the gravest omissions is
” … the absence of any recognition that the EU’s very existence was made possible by the military campaigns of both the Red Army and other communist affiliated groups. The Nazis were not defeated by a roster of liberally-minded and benevolent democrats as some nostalgic films, like Christopher Nolan’s recent Dunkirk, have presented it.”
Worse still, is the fact that the motion laments the many victims of the Nazi dictatorship and Stalin’s regime and makes no mention of the 27 million Soviet citizens who were killed by German fascism and its many allies from all over Europe.
The genocidal race war that Hitler launched against the unsuspecting people of the Soviet Union represents the largest act of genocide committed by any government during the bloody 20th century.
The American military historian Jeff Rutherford in his account of the Wehrmacht’s genocidal activities, Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front: The German Infantry’s War, 1941-45, has commented:
“While the Wehrmacht’s participation in the Holocaust was perhaps the vilest stain on its mantle, its treatment of Soviet civilians constituted the larger crime in terms of scale that it committed during the war.”
Origins of the war of extermination against the Soviet Union
By late summer 1940 Hitler stood triumphant astride the continent of Europe. Considering his next move he was decisively influenced by economic and ideological factors.
The worsening food situation in Europe and in Germany undermined the Reich’s power. It also brought back memories of Germany’s defeat in 1918 when endemic hunger helped bring about the Revolution of October 1918 which led to widespread mutiny within the armed forces and the nations’ signing of the armistice in November. Hitler and his advisors were determined to make sure there would be no repeat of this home front trauma again.
Hitler was obsessed by the threat posed by communism and its heartland in the Soviet Union. He had seen first hand how communist uprisings during the 1918-23 period had led to widespread social instability across Germany. He saw Communism as a mortal threat to both Germany and the European continent.
Since coming to power in January 1933 Hitler had warned the German people of the mortal danger posed by Communism to their way of life. He linked the threat of Communism with his fanatical anti-Semitism and portrayed the USSR as a ‘Jewish-Bolshevik’ menace that would have to be dealt with one day.
As an aside, central to British and French diplomacy throughout the 1930s was the objective of turning Hitler’s attentions eastward towards the Soviet Union.
As he looked eastward Hitler saw the natural solution to his problems lay in the invasion and destruction of the Soviet Union. Its agricultural and mineral resources together with its vast land mass would provide the Reich with a sustainable means of creating a new empire based on Aryan supremacy.
However, the invasion of the Soviet Union would represent a new kind of warfare that was a radical departure from the traditional forms that had prevailed during the conquest of continental Europe during 1939-40. This new war of annihilation would be ideological in nature. The Soviet Union was not just to be conquered. Its major cities would be destroyed and urban population decimated in their millions while the rural population would serve as slave labour for the Reich.
At a meeting of 200 senior military commander on 30 March 1941 Hitler clearly outlined the Wehrmacht’s approach to the coming war with the USSR. Franz Halder, chief of the general staff of the army high command (OKH), recorded Hitler’s lecture in his diary.
According to Halder the Fuhrer declared that the upcoming clash with the Soviet Union would be a “war between two ideologies” that would be very different to the war in the West during 1939-40. The Soviet Union represented a threat to Germany’s existence. Hitler made it clear to his senior commanders that:
“communism [is] an enormous danger for our future … We must forget the concept of comradeship between soldiers. A Communist is no comrade before or after the battle. This is a war of extermination. (…) Commanders must make the sacrifice of overcoming their personal scruples.”
Hitler impressed upon his audience that ”Bolshevik commissars” serving in the Red Army as well as the ‘Soviet intelligentsia” needed to be destroyed as they had ”earned no mercy.” German soldiers were to be excused from the conventions of normal warfare as they needed to ‘defend themselves with the means” that the evil Bolsheviks would surely use. In other words, German soldiers were given legal immunity to commit acts of murder against Red Army prisoners and the civilian population.
This genocidal approach to the coming war with the USSR was codified in a series of criminal orders that were given to units throughout the Wehrmacht.
The first of these orders concerned the close cooperation between the SS Einsatzgruppen and the Wehrmacht during the invasion of the Soviet Union. On 28 April an agreement was reached that established a division of labour between the two organisations. As Wehrmacht troops advanced they would be closely followed by the SS death squads who would be responsible for ‘pacifying’ rear areas. This pacification was to involve the immediate execution of Red Army commissars, communist bureaucrats and intellectuals as well as Jewish males of military age.
The second genocidal order came on 13 May known as the Barbarossa Decree (“Decree on the Jurisdiction of Martial Law and on Special Measures of the Troops”) which removed any legal constrains upon German soldiers on how they prosecuted the war in the east. It left them free to destroy villages and commit acts of mass murder with impunity. Partisan attacks on the Wehrmacht were to be met with the principle of collective responsibility whereby whole communities could be annihilated for any such attacks. The order declares:
“German soldiers who commit crimes against humanity, the USSR and prisoners of war are to be exempted from criminal responsibility, even if they commit acts punishable according to German law.”
This was closely followed by a third order,’ Guidelines for the Conduct of the Troops in Russia‘ which was issued on 19 May 1941. It gave detailed guidelines regarding the conduct of soldiers during the invasion of the USSR:
“Bolshevism is the deadly enemy of the National Socialist German people. This corrosive Weltanschauung – and those who support it – are what Germany’s struggle is against. This struggle demands a ruthless and strenuous crackdown on Bolshevik agitators, irregulars, saboteurs and Jews, and the complete elimination of both active and passive resistance. The Asiatic soldiers, in particular, are inscrutable, unpredictable, underhand and unfeeling.”
This quartet of genocidal orders was completed on 6 June 1941 with the issuance of the notorious Commissar Order by the German High Command. It instructed German soldiers that all Red Army prisoners should be immediately sifted for ”active representatives of the Bolshevist ideology”. Those identified as such should be immediately executed or handed over to SS units for execution. The order made it clear that:
“In the battle against Bolshevism, the adherence of the enemy to the principles of humanity or international law is not to be counted upon. In particular it can be expected that those of us who are taken prisoner will be treated with hatred, cruelty and inhumanity by political commissars of every kind.
The troops must be aware that:
1. In this battle mercy or considerations of international law is false. They are a danger to our own safety and to the rapid pacification of the conquered territories.
2. The originators of barbaric, Asiatic methods of warfare are the political commissars. So immediate and unhesitatingly severe measures must be undertaken against them. They are therefore, when captured in battle, as a matter of routine to be dispatched by firearms.”
The genocidal nature of the war in Soviet Union was further cemented by the Reich’s adoption of its food polices towards the coming war in the east. These became known as the “Starvation Plan” and envisaged that 30 million Soviet citizens would die from the Wehrmacht’s seizure of foodstuffs as it lived off the land during its advance into the vast hinterland of the USSR.
The German High Command saw the upcoming campaign as a brief, brutal, ideologically driven conflict that would involve the mass murder of the Soviet population and Red Army soldiers taken as prisoners.
It put considerable efforts into propaganda campaigns aimed at ensuring the rank and file of the Wehrmacht clearly understood what was expected of them in the war of annihilation to come.
Historian Jeff Rutherford has noted the propaganda efforts of the German High Command which involved extensive efforts at “ideological education”. Soldiers attended a series of lectures outlining the Nazi ideology on a range of topics which emphasized the “special mission” in the east which was a life and death struggle for Germany. Rutherford has observed:
“The cumulative effect of this concerted effort to indoctrinate the rank and file and of the criminal orders was to create an atmosphere in which German soldiers and policemen, as the unquestioned Herrenmenschen, were actively encouraged to murder specific groups of Soviet citizens and treat others as mere obstacles to final victory.”
Rutherford’s detailed examination of letters and diaries of soldiers in Army Group North reveal that large numbers of German soldiers had clearly absorbed the ‘language and ideas of this ideological indoctrination’. Many would become Hitler’s willing executioners in the ensuing race war on the eastern front that left over 20 million civilians dead.
Military records from Wehrmacht infantry divisions together with letter and diaries from rank and file soldiers reveal the total complicity of the German army in the genocide committed against the people of the Soviet Union.
Siege of Leningrad 1941-1944
Operation Barbarossa, code name for the Nazi invasion of the USSR, gave Army Group North the task of destroying Red Army forces in the Baltic region and then capturing Leningrad. By 8 September 1941 an exhausted Army Group North had reached the suburbs of the city and the front stabilized as both sides took time to regroup. The Red Army had halted the German juggernaut at a huge cost in casualties and prevented Army Group North from capturing the city.
On 22 September 1941 units of Army Group North received a Fuhrer directive that gave them the genocidal task of laying siege to the city and destroying its inhabitants through a blockade that would cause mass starvation:
“The Fuhrer has decided to erase the city of St. Petersburg form the face of the earth. I have no further interest in the existence of this large city after the deaf of the Soviet Union…We propose to blockade the city tightly and erase from the earth by means of artillery fire and continuous bombardment from the air.”
Military historian David M. Gantz, in his account of these events The Siege of Leningrad writes:
“The German blockade of Leningrad trapped more than 3 million souls in the city. With winter approaching, the food and fuel supplies cut off, and inadequate reserves dwindling, the city’s inhabitants faced a frozen hell of starvation and disease while they fought for survival under enemy fire.”
The siege of Leningrad lasted 900 days and killed between 800,000 and 1 million civilians. All told the number of civilians and soldiers who perished during the siege of Leningrad amounted to 1.6-2 million dead.
David M. Glantz has put this figure in perspective:
“These figures associated with the defence of a single city are six times greater than the United Sates’ total death toll during the entirety of World War 2.”
Destruction of villages and their inhabitants by Army Groups North, Centre and South
The great Russian writer Ales Adamovich wrote an auto-biographical novel Khatyn about his experiences of surviving the war as a partisan in Belarus. Adamovich cites a military archive which mentions that 9,200 villages in Belarus alone were destroyed by the Wehrmacht. In over 600 of these villages the inhabitants were shot or burned alive.
When villages were destroyed the population were either killed, evacuated or left to starve. The Wehrmacht was expected to live off the land for a large part of its provisions leading to mass looting of food and animals from the civilian population leading to widespread starvation for many.
Adamovich’s novel quotes from a Wehrmacht report of the massacre of the inhabitants of the village of Zabolotye on September 21, 1942. According to the filed report by a Captain Pels:
“The outcome of the operation was the following: 289 people were shot, 151 farmsteads were burned down, 700 head of cattle were rounded up, as well as 400 pigs, 400 sheep and 70 horses.”
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of Soviet civilians were evacuated by Wehrmacht forces to be used as slave labour in German war industries where many died of neglect and abuse.
In northern and southern Russia the civilian population had similar experiences.
In many cases villages were destroyed and the inhabitants murdered as reprisals for partisan attacks on German units. In other cases, villages and their inhabitants were destroyed by brutalised soldiers who saw civilians as obstacles in the way of their military operations. On many occasions, villages were destroyed by retreating German units. Rutherford has noted how the destruction of civilian housing became part of the army’s “daily routine” before Hitler’s demand that all, “farms given up [by army units in retreat] are to be burned.”
This left massive numbers homeless and destined to die of hunger and exposure during the harsh Russian winters. Over a million dwellings were destroyed by the Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union leaving over 25 million people homeless.
During the winter of 1941-42 the genocidal activities of Wehrmacht soldiers also extended to forcibly taking felt boots and winter clothing from Soviet civilians. The 123rd Infantry Division issued an instruction to its men that, “all felt boots are to be immediately taken from the population without consideration of age or sex,” condemning large numbers of men, women and children to frostbite and death. Hitler’s order to this effect was not issued until late December yet German units across all fronts had been operating in this manner for several weeks.
The German army ruthlessly mobilized all village inhabitants, including children, for forced labour for the construction of fortifications and other defensive tasks. Refusal to work was often met with instant execution. This use of forced labour had been prevalent within the Wehrmacht since June yet it reached new heights during the winter of 1941-42 as it struggled to cope with the Russian winter. Not surprisingly, many tens of thousands died from this forced labour as civilians workers were given tiny rations while working outside in sub zero temperatures many without winter clothing or felt boots.
The mass murder of Red Army prisoners
During the Wehrmacht’s invasion of the USSR it took millions of Red Army soldiers prisoner. Immediately, commissars and any others suspected of communist sympathies were weeded out for execution. The remaining troops were stripped of their food supplies, and clothing during the winter of 1941-42, and sent on death marches to so called camps. In the main these consisted of open areas surrounded by barbed wiring and watch towers with no housing for prisoners.
Daniel Goldhagen, in his book Hitler’s Willing Executioners has noted that “2.8 million young, healthy Soviet POWs” were killed by the German army units, “mainly by starvation… in less than eight months” of 1941–42.
Between 150,000 and 500,00 Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) were transferred to Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Most were killed by firing squad or gassing. It is worth noting that Zyklon B was tested on Red Army prisoners before being used at Auschwitz and other death camps. Thousands of Soviet POWs also died from starvation or exposure.
At several camps Red Army prisoners organised uprisings against their Nazi guards. At Sobibor a 2nd Lt. Alexander Perchevsky led a successful mass break out which forced the SS to close the camp and cover up the evidence of its mass murder.
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of Soviet POWs ended up being used as slave labourers in German industries. Over 200,000 died during their forced labour.
Peter Calvocoressi and Guy Wint in their book Total War have observed that 5.7 million Red Army soldiers were taken into captivity by the German army, Of these 3.5 million had died by mid 1944. They comment that this mass murder of Red Army soldiers was no accident:
“This slaughter of prisoners cannot be accounted for by the peculiar chaos of the war in the east…. The true cause was the inhuman policy of the Nazis towards the Russians as a people and the acquiescence of army commanders in attitudes and conditions which amounted to a sentence of death on their prisoners.”
The destruction of the Jewish population of the USSR
As the Wehrmacht advanced into the Soviet Union during the summer of 1941 the Einsatzgruppen death squads followed close behind. Their tasks was to round up and murder the Jewish population of the Soviet state. Hitler had made it clear that in his mind the struggle against Bolshevism and Jewry was inextricably interlinked. Estimates vary but many suggest around 1 million Soviet Jews were murdered principally by mass shooting during 1941-42. Hundreds of thousands more were shipped to the extermination camps in Poland to be gassed to death
This genocidal murder was chronicled by two Red Army journalists Illya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman who produced The Black Book: The Ruthless Mass Murder of Jews by German-Fascist Invaders Throughout The Temporarily Occupied Regions of the Soviet Union and in the Death Camps of Poland During the War of 1941-45. Some of the evidence that they gathered was used at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials and helped convict leading Nazis.
The mass murder of Soviet Jewry was part of Hitler’s so called “Final Solution of the Jewish Question”. The historian Yitzhak Arad makes the point that the Nazi regime also viewed these actions, “as a means of destroying the Soviet state and of preparing the territories of the Soviet Union for German colonization.”
Nazi genocide in the Soviet Union
On the 75th anniversary of the defeat of German fascism we should remember the Nazi genocide against the people of the Soviet Union. It is a genocide that has been largely ignored by the West due to its Cold War against the USSR which continues to this present day with Cold War 2.0 waged against Russia.
The British military historian Richard Overy provides us with a succinct yet powerful testimony to the genocide suffered by the people of the Soviet Union at the hands of German fascism:
“There is no dispute that the Soviet population suffered out of all proportion to the suffering of the Soviet allies, and suffered in many cases was not a quick end from a bomb or bullet but an agonizing end from starvation, or torture, or enslavement, or from countless atrocities whose mere recital still, after the accumulation of almost sixty years of further miseries world wide, humbles and defeats the imagination.”
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southfront--2020-05-09--Houthis Target Saudi-led Coalition Aerial Formation Over Al-Jawf

The Houthis announced on May 9 that the Yemeni Air Defense Force had targeted an aerial formation of the Saudi-led @ @ @ @ @ of al-Jawf .
A spokesman for the Yemeni group , said the formation , that @ @ @ @ @ was targeted with a “ Fatir-1 ” air-defense system .
The Fatir-1 system , which @ @ @ @ @ Houthis in August of 2019 , is a locally-upgraded Soviet-made SA-6 “ Gainful.
” The @ @ @ @ @ of 22 km .
The system was successfully used to shot down many combat drones @ @ @ @ @ the U.S. over the last year .
Recently , the Houthis began using the system @ @ @ @ @ Houthis growing air-defense capabilities are starting to pose a serious threat to the Saudi-led coalition @ @ @ @ @ year , the Yemeni group made a major achievement when it shot down a Torido @ @ @ @ @ with an anti-aircraft missile .
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The Houthis announced on May 9 that the Yemeni Air Defense Force had targeted an aerial formation of the Saudi-led coalition over the northern province of al-Jawf.
A spokesman for the Yemeni group, said the formation, that consisted of several warplanes, was targeted with a “Fatir-1” air-defense system.
“The aggressor’s warplanes were confronted with Fatir-1 missiles, which forced them to retreat while they were attempting to carry out hostile acts in the province of al-Jawf,” the spokesman, Brig. Gen. Yahya Sari, said.
The Fatir-1 system, which was first revealed by the Houthis in August of 2019, is a locally-upgraded Soviet-made SA-6 “Gainful.” The system has an effective range of 22 km.
The system was successfully used to shot down many combat drones of the Saudi-led coalition and the U.S. over the last year. Recently, the Houthis began using the system against fighter jets.
The Houthis growing air-defense capabilities are starting to pose a serious threat to the Saudi-led coalition air power. Earlier this year, the Yemeni group made a major achievement when it shot down a Torido IDS combat aircraft over al-Jawf with an anti-aircraft missile.
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southfront--2020-05-09--In Video: Strategic Bombers In Low Pass Over Russian City

This is how the Victory Day ( May 9 ) looks in Russia .
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southfront--2020-05-09--ISIS Terrorists Ambush Nigerian Army Convoy, Capture Several Vehicles (Photos)

Those are not ISIS but grasshoppers mde by overpopulation by too good medical and food help by west .
We should stop that .
Back to good old days , where they as routine starved millions as contraseption .
When I was a child I learned that UN by Unicef and others would help up those people up to a better and longer lived standard of life .
I can only see its as in my overferilized lake nearbye .
You can almost cross it on verysmall fish , which also eat each other .
Should we and I support @ @ @ @ @ @ @ So I am for helping and even adopting only the ones , which is for changes , which makes improvements making not so many babies to feed instead .
We see the same in people naming themselves as develloped .
Iran is a very good example .
50 % are unimplyed , they are nt even able to have enough food and even blame Americans for it .
They cant even upgrade their farming for food even they also only manuel has millions of hands for it .
True its more fun to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but its irresponsiblity of the worst kind .
When organisations fx try to plant trees and by that make wood and take back agrarland – and turn around – the forest is gone .
They are happy for good water from below , but are not able to or dont care about repair .
Does people like them deserve someone like us .
I dont think so .
Inmay places it also seemes only the women works and men decide , what the women has to do .
I really dont get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
When I see the picture I think : Are we some Gods for them and luck just as grashoppers are bad luck .
I kind of think so .

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On May 8, ISIS announced that its terrorists had ambushed a convoy of the Nigerian Armed Forces (NAF) in the northeastern Nigerian province of Borno.
The convoy was ambushed on the highway linking Maiduguri, the capital of Borno, and the town of Damboa. ISIS’ news agency, Amaq, claimed that several Nigerian service members were killed or injured in the ambush.
Amaq released photos of two pick-ups armed with machine guns and a truck, which were captured by ISIS terrorists in the course of the ambush.
The Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA), formerly known as Boko Haram, is active in Nigeria as well as in Chad, Niger and Cameroon. Boko Haram, which was founded in 2002, was among the first Jihadi groups to join ISIS.
Nigerian government forces dealt a major blow to the terrorist group in the last few years. However, the group’s cells are still farily active in Borno, especially in the area bordering Lake Chad.
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southfront--2020-05-09--Facebook Engine Censors Iconic Photo With Soviet Flag Raised Over Reichstag As Trump Claims U.S. And

Facebook Engine Censors Iconic Photo With Soviet Flag Raised Over Reichstag As Trump Claims U.S. And U.K. Won WW2

Thanks to US President Donald Trump , we know taht it ’ s the US and the UK defeated Nazi Germany in the World War 2 .
This claim is a brilliant example of the current state of the Western political and educational system .
Therewriting of real history and fake claims to push own agenda have become an integral part of the Western political class .
Social media feeds are filled with historic shots marking Victory Day , but Facebook seems to have taken issue with one that symbolizes the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany , and it keeps @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Taken during the Battle of Berlin on May 2 , 1945 , Yevgeny Khaldei ’ s ‘ Raising a Flag over the Reichstag ’ commonly springs to mind when it comes to the subject of World War II and Victory Day celebrations .
It universally appears in literature , documentaries and , indeed , in social media posts .
RT has even reenacted the iconic moment as part of its V-Day project .
All the more puzzled , then , were social media users who tried posting the iconic shot on Facebook on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years since the defeat of Nazi Germany .
While the vintage black-and-white versions of the famous photo seemed to pass FB algorithms with flying colors , the version skilfully colorized by Olga Shirnina ( aka Klimbim ) –showing the Soviet flag in its original bright red– set off alarm bells .
“ Your post goes against our Community Standards on dangerous individuals and organisations , ” was the message shown to several RT employees who ’ d set out to verify the reports and tried to post the picture .
The warning appeared @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which the image just vanished altogether .
Details provided in the warning only broadly outline the topics banned on FB , such as terrorism and incitement of hate and violence .
There is no indication that FB has ever consistently associated the Soviet symbols with any on the list , although the network does have a history of erroneously censoring certain historic shots .

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Thanks to US President Donald Trump, we know taht it’s the US and the UK defeated Nazi Germany in the World War 2. This claim is a brilliant example of the current state of the Western political and educational system. Therewriting of real history and fake claims to push own agenda have become an integral part of the Western political class.
On May 8, 1945, America and Great Britain had victory over the Nazis! "America's spirit will always win. In the end, that's what happens." pic.twitter.com/umCOwRXWlB — The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 8, 2020
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RT reports (source):
Social media feeds are filled with historic shots marking Victory Day, but Facebook seems to have taken issue with one that symbolizes the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, and it keeps deleting a recently-colorized version of it.
Taken during the Battle of Berlin on May 2, 1945, Yevgeny Khaldei’s ‘Raising a Flag over the Reichstag’ commonly springs to mind when it comes to the subject of World War II and Victory Day celebrations. It universally appears in literature, documentaries and, indeed, in social media posts. RT has even reenacted the iconic moment as part of its V-Day project.
All the more puzzled, then, were social media users who tried posting the iconic shot on Facebook on May 9, as Russia marked 75 years since the defeat of Nazi Germany. While the vintage black-and-white versions of the famous photo seemed to pass FB algorithms with flying colors, the version skilfully colorized by Olga Shirnina (aka Klimbim) –showing the Soviet flag in its original bright red– set off alarm bells.
#Facebook has banned the iconic photograph of a #Soviet solider waving the #USSR flag over the #Reichstag in May 1945. The social network claims the image violates its community guidelines for dangerous people and organizations… MORE: https://t.co/arpDN9Ss0P pic.twitter.com/KGtGwE4D5J — RT (@RT_com) May 9, 2020
“Your post goes against our Community Standards on dangerous individuals and organisations,” was the message shown to several RT employees who’d set out to verify the reports and tried to post the picture. The warning appeared minutes after posts were completed, after which the image just vanished altogether.
Details provided in the warning only broadly outline the topics banned on FB, such as terrorism and incitement of hate and violence. There is no indication that FB has ever consistently associated the Soviet symbols with any on the list, although the network does have a history of erroneously censoring certain historic shots.
Shirnina herself tried to post the photo on May 9 – only to get suspended by Facebook for three days for “violating Community Standards,” according to a screenshot she posted on Russian social network VK. RT has sent a request to Facebook, seeking clarification.
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southfront--2020-05-09--Al-Qaeda Operations Room Claims Responsibility For Recent Attack On Hmeimim Air Base

The al-Qaeda-affiliated Wa Harid al-Muminin operations room has claimed responsibility for the recent rocket attack on the Russian Hmeimim Air Base in southern Lattakia .
Forces of the operations room launched four Grad rockets from their positions in the town of Tardin at the air base in the afternoon of May 9 .
The rockets fell in farmlands , far away from the air base , causing no damage whatsoever .
“ With the grace of God Almighty , the air base of the Russian occupier in the Hmeimim area was targeted with Grad rockets and accurate hits were achieved @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Worlds , ” the operations room claimed in a short statement .
The Wa Harid al-Muminin operations room was established in October of 2018 by Jamat Ansar al-Islam , Jabhat Ansar al-Islam , Horas al-Din and Ansar al-Tawhid with the aim of sabotaging any peaceful agreement on Greater Idlib .
Earlier this month , Ansar al-Tawhid , one of Wa Harid al-Muminin ’ s biggest factions , defected from the operations room for no clear reason .
The rocket attack on the Hmeimim Air Base is a major violation of the March 5 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russian Aerospace Forces and the Syrian Arab Army ( SAA ) will likely respond soon .
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The al-Qaeda-affiliated Wa Harid al-Muminin operations room has claimed responsibility for the recent rocket attack on the Russian Hmeimim Air Base in southern Lattakia.
Forces of the operations room launched four Grad rockets from their positions in the town of Tardin at the air base in the afternoon of May 9. The rockets fell in farmlands, far away from the air base, causing no damage whatsoever.
“With the grace of God Almighty, the air base of the Russian occupier in the Hmeimim area was targeted with Grad rockets and accurate hits were achieved, Thank God, Lord of the Worlds,” the operations room claimed in a short statement.
The Wa Harid al-Muminin operations room was established in October of 2018 by Jamat Ansar al-Islam, Jabhat Ansar al-Islam, Horas al-Din and Ansar al-Tawhid with the aim of sabotaging any peaceful agreement on Greater Idlib.
Earlier this month, Ansar al-Tawhid, one of Wa Harid al-Muminin’s biggest factions, defected from the operations room for no clear reason.
The rocket attack on the Hmeimim Air Base is a major violation of the March 5 Russian-Turkish agreement on Greater Idlib. The Russian Aerospace Forces and the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) will likely respond soon.
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southfront--2020-05-09--More Syrian Militants Return From Libya In Coffins

At least seven Syrian militants were killed in the last few days while fighting for the Government of National Accord ( GNA ) in Libya , the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ( SOHR ) reported on May 9 .
According to the monitoring group , the dead bodies of the militants were sent to the Turkish-occupied part of northern Aleppo .
The militants were killed in clashes with the Libyan National Army ( LNA ) around the capital , Tripoli , and the city of Misrata .
The slain militants were fighting for the al-Mu ’ tasim Brigade , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hawks Brigade , the al-Hamza Division and the Suleyman Shah Brigade .
In spite of these heavy losses , Turkey is deploying more Syrian militants in Libya .
8,000 Syrians are currently fighting for the GNA there .
At least 3,100 others are preparing for deployment in Libya .
“ Most of the factions no longer have a desire to send fighters to fight in Libya , especially in light of the extremely difficult conditions of the fighters there and Turkey ’ s failure to fulfill the temptations it promised to provide in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s report reads .
Earlier this week , hundreds defected from the Turkish-backed Sultan Murad Division as result of disagreements related to the group ’ s involvement in the Libyan war .
Syrian militants have failed to make any serious achievement in Libya , so far .
Currently , most Syrians are being used by GNA forces as “ cannon fodder ” on Tripoli ’ s hottest frontlines .
MORE ON THIS TOPIC : • Over 20 Syrian Militants Killed In Libya In Last Few Days : Monitoring Group

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At least seven Syrian militants were killed in the last few days while fighting for the Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on May 9.
According to the monitoring group, the dead bodies of the militants were sent to the Turkish-occupied part of northern Aleppo. The militants were killed in clashes with the Libyan National Army (LNA) around the capital, Tripoli, and the city of Misrata.
“The death toll of pro-Turkish factions as a result of military operations in Libya has reached 268,” the UK-based group said in a report.
The slain militants were fighting for the al-Mu’tasim Brigade, the al-Sultan Murad Brigade, the Northern Hawks Brigade, the al-Hamza Division and the Suleyman Shah Brigade.
In spite of these heavy losses, Turkey is deploying more Syrian militants in Libya. 8,000 Syrians are currently fighting for the GNA there. At least 3,100 others are preparing for deployment in Libya.
“Most of the factions no longer have a desire to send fighters to fight in Libya, especially in light of the extremely difficult conditions of the fighters there and Turkey’s failure to fulfill the temptations it promised to provide in the beginning,” the SOHR’s report reads.
Earlier this week, hundreds defected from the Turkish-backed Sultan Murad Division as result of disagreements related to the group’s involvement in the Libyan war.
Syrian militants have failed to make any serious achievement in Libya, so far. Currently, most Syrians are being used by GNA forces as “cannon fodder” on Tripoli’s hottest frontlines.
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southfront--2020-05-09--U.S. Forces Established New Base In Syria’s Deir Ezzor – Report

U.S. forces have established a new base in the eastern Syrian governorate of Deir Ezzor , the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ( SOHR ) reported on May 8 .
According to the UK-based monitoring group , the new base was established near the town of al-Jazarat in the northern Deir Ezzor countryside .
U.S. forces shipped loads of supplies to the new base over the last few days .
The monitoring group also revealed that U.S. forces are currently working to expand their base in the al-Omar oil fields .
Large reinforcements are reportedly being deployed in the base @ @ @ @ @ @ @ air and land to their bases in al-Shaddadi and Qasrok in the countryside of al-Hasakah .
The U.S. is reportedly working to solidify its presence in northeast Syria .
Last year , U.S. forces withdrew from bases in Aleppo and Raqqa to facilitate a Turkish attack on their ally , the Syrian Democratic Forces ( SDF ) .
The U.S. influence in the region shrunk as a result of this move .
Now , the U.S. appears to be worried by the growing presence of Russia and Syrian government forces in the northeast @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deploying addition forces in the region , but also establishing strong relations with local tribes .
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U.S. forces have established a new base in the eastern Syrian governorate of Deir Ezzor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on May 8.
According to the UK-based monitoring group, the new base was established near the town of al-Jazarat in the northern Deir Ezzor countryside. U.S. forces shipped loads of supplies to the new base over the last few days.
“More than 300 [supply] trucks entered Syria’s territory in the last few days and headed to the al-Omar oil fields in the eastern Deir Ezzor countryside, later a large number of these trucks headed to al-Jazarat,” the SOHR’s report reads.
The monitoring group also revealed that U.S. forces are currently working to expand their base in the al-Omar oil fields. Large reinforcements are reportedly being deployed in the base.
U.S. forces also sent reinforcements by air and land to their bases in al-Shaddadi and Qasrok in the countryside of al-Hasakah.
The U.S. is reportedly working to solidify its presence in northeast Syria. Last year, U.S. forces withdrew from bases in Aleppo and Raqqa to facilitate a Turkish attack on their ally, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The U.S. influence in the region shrunk as a result of this move.
Now, the U.S. appears to be worried by the growing presence of Russia and Syrian government forces in the northeast. Moscow and Damascus are not only deploying addition forces in the region, but also establishing strong relations with local tribes.
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southfront--2020-05-09--Greater Idlib Militants Launch Rockets At Russian Hmeimim Air Base In New Provocation

In a major violation the ceasefire in Greater Idlib , militants stationed in the region carried out on May 9 a rocket attack on the Russian Hmeimim Air Base in southern Lattakia .
According to pro-government sources , the militants launched at least four rockets at the air base from their positions in the town of Tardin in the northern Lattakia countryside .
The Syrian Arab News Agency ( SANA ) confirmed the attack .
According to the state-run news agency , the rockets fell in farmlands .
There was no immediate claim for the attack .
However , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is controlled by al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay ’ at Tahrir al-Sham ( HTS ) , the Turkistan Islamic Party ( TIP ) and Ajnad al-Kavkaz ( AK ) .
The rocket attack on the Hmeimim Air Base was the most notable violation of the Russian-Turkish agreement on Greater Idlib , which was reached on March 5 .
The Russian Aerospace Forces and the Syrian Arab Army ( SAA ) will likely respond to this violation in the nearest future .
Russian and Syrian warplanes could resume airstrikes on militants ’ positions in Greater Idlib .
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In a major violation the ceasefire in Greater Idlib, militants stationed in the region carried out on May 9 a rocket attack on the Russian Hmeimim Air Base in southern Lattakia.
According to pro-government sources, the militants launched at least four rockets at the air base from their positions in the town of Tardin in the northern Lattakia countryside.
The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) confirmed the attack. According to the state-run news agency, the rockets fell in farmlands.
There was no immediate claim for the attack. However, the area from which the rockets were launched is controlled by al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) and Ajnad al-Kavkaz (AK).
The rocket attack on the Hmeimim Air Base was the most notable violation of the Russian-Turkish agreement on Greater Idlib, which was reached on March 5.
The Russian Aerospace Forces and the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) will likely respond to this violation in the nearest future. Russian and Syrian warplanes could resume airstrikes on militants’ positions in Greater Idlib.
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southfront--2020-05-09--Turkish Army Captures Two Kurdish Fighters Wearing DIY ‘Invisibility’ Suits (Photos)

Late on May 8 , the Turkish military captured two Kurdish fighters who attempted to infiltrate one of its positions @ @ @ @ @ town of Ras al-Ayn in northeast Syria .
Turkish sources shared photos of the captured @ @ @ @ @ foil suits .
The fighters apparently thought that the suits would make them completely invisible @ @ @ @ @ According to the sources , the fighters were members of the People ’ s Protection @ @ @ @ @ The Kurdish faction is the largest component of the Syrian Democratic Forces ( SDF ) @ @ @ @ @ northeast Syria with direct support from the U.S.-led coalition .
The SDF has not commented @ @ @ @ @ thus far .
The Kurdish-led faction suspended all military operations against Turkish forces in northeast @ @ @ @ @ with ceasefire agreements brokered by Russia and the U.S. For the last few months , @ @ @ @ @ claiming that Kurdish forces are plotting attacks on its troops in northeast Syria .
The @ @ @ @ @ al-Ayn is the first evidence of such attempts .
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Late on May 8, the Turkish military captured two Kurdish fighters who attempted to infiltrate one of its positions in the vicinity of the town of Ras al-Ayn in northeast Syria.
Turkish sources shared photos of the captured fighters who were wearing tin foil suits. The fighters apparently thought that the suits would make them completely invisible for thermal surveillance systems.
According to the sources, the fighters were members of the People’s Protection Units (YPG). The Kurdish faction is the largest component of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is ruling over northeast Syria with direct support from the U.S.-led coalition.
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2 PKK’YPG’li terörist yeni yakalandı. pic.twitter.com/PSQ0UYrEOu — PES ETMEDİK ?? (@TSKgerigeldi) May 8, 2020
The SDF has not commented on the Turkish claims, thus far. The Kurdish-led faction suspended all military operations against Turkish forces in northeast Syria last November in accordance with ceasefire agreements brokered by Russia and the U.S.
For the last few months, the Turkish military has been claiming that Kurdish forces are plotting attacks on its troops in northeast Syria. The failed infiltration attempt near Ras al-Ayn is the first evidence of such attempts.
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southfront--2020-05-10--Advances Of Ansar Allah: Jauary 1 – May 10, 2020 (Map Update)

Click to see the full-size image This map provides a general look at the advances of Ansar Allah ( the @ @ @ @ @ against Saudi-led forces in the period from January 1 to May 10 , 2020 .
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This map provides a general look at the advances of Ansar Allah (the Houthis) in their battle against Saudi-led forces in the period from January 1 to May 10, 2020.
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southfront--2020-05-10--Military Situation In Afghanistan On May 10, 2020 (Map Update)

If i were the Taliban i would clear that small pocket of US/nato sponsored and trained ISIS scum from the @ @ @ @ @ telling that they have set up camp there on the Pakistani border .
Maybe the @ @ @ @ @ this flotsam of scum in Afghanistan ?
Since fake muslim scum appeared on the scene @ @ @ @ @ seem so bad , but then again we westerners only had fake news outlets to @ @ @ @ @ Pakistan was so helpful to the US/nato when they mounted their last illegal invasion of @ @ @ @ @ to ferry across their border choppers full of fake muslim terrorists and loads of cash @ @ @ @ @ the US a fake Tim Osman to shoot at and ‘ bury-at-sea ’ .

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A brief overview of the recent developments in Afghanistan:
At least 4 security personnel were killed and seven others went missing after a Taliban attack in the Balkh district of Balkh province;
The Taliban released a group of 28 government fighters in Herat province. A total of 148 government prisoners have been released by the group so far;
4 protestors and 2 police officers were killed during protests in Ghor province;
56 government troops surrendered to the Taliban in Dawlat Abad, Khas Balkh, Char Bolak, Deh Dadi, Zaray, Kishindih, Chahi, and Sholgara districts of Balkh province.
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southfront--2020-05-10--Military Situation In Syria On May 10, 2020 (Map Update)

LNA bombing turkey brains—drones at Tripoli airport…these 3rd rate grifter imperialists should abandon Cyprus—one of many illegal fascist acts condoned @ @ @ @ @ and US economies contract their delusions dissipate….now the turks , amerikans , Israelis r despised @ @ @ @ @ of evil along w their little cousin Saudi medieval–abia….and all oppress their local populations—blacks , @ @ @ @ @ USA , Houthis , Shia in medieval SA , Palestinians/Arabs in Israel , Kurds , @ @ @ @ @ the Armenians and cleansed the Georgians—they do permit the crimean tatars to harvest they tomatoes @ @ @ @ @ as the turkeys

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A brief overview of the recent developments in Syria:
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southfront--2020-05-10--Military Situation In Yemen On May 10, 2020 (Map Update)

Situation in Yemen is about to turn into a mother of all nightmares for the cowardly Saudi fuckwits .
Stay @ @

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A brief overview of the recent developments in Yemen:
Ceasefire violations were reported in al-Hudaydah;
Saudi-led coalition warplanes struck the Sarwah area 6 times;
Saudi-led coalition warplanes struck the Majzar area 17 times;
Saudi-led coalition warplanes struck Saadah province 7 times;
Saudi-led coalition warplanes struck the Qatabah area 8 times;
Clashes between Ansar Allah and Saudi-led forces were reported in Dhale province;
Clashes between Ansar Allah and Saudi-led forces were reported in Marib province.
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southfront--2020-05-10--CV90120-T Light Tank (Infographics)

CV90120-T Light Tank (Infographics)

Not to mention that Sweden has a very good ratio of seeing its defense programs come to fruition .
Especially @ @ @ @ @ US , where constant political interference makes for a high failure rate and military industrial @ @ @ @ @ serves to extract money from the US tax payer to the defense industry .
In @ @ @ @ @ track record of delivering what was required in time and on budget .
The only @ @ @ @ @ the Cold War ended and a lot of programs , like Grippen , were suddenly @ @ @ @ @

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The CV90120-T light tank was developed by Sweden’s BAE Systems Hagglunds as a private venture. It’s based on the Combat Vehicle 90 family of tracked combat vehicles.
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southfront--2020-05-10--Venezuela Seizes Abandoned Colombian Military Boats, Weapons (Photos)

The failed attempt of US mercenaries operating from Colombia to stage a coup in Venezuela continues developing with more and @ @ @ @ @ May 9 , Venezuela ’ s military said it seized three abandoned Colombian light combat @ @ @ @ @ the Orinoco river area .
This happened several days after the government accused its neighbor @ @ @ @ @ staged by US mercenaries .
The Defense Ministry said the boats were equipped with machine @ @ @ @ @ had no crew , adding they were discovered as part of a nationwide operation to @ @ @ @ @ freedom and sovereignty.
” Colombia ’ s Navy said that boats were just dragged away @ @ @ @ @ Probably , US mercenaries also appeared in Venezuela thanks to ‘ strong currents ’ in @ @ @ @ @ THE TOPIC :

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The failed attempt of US mercenaries operating from Colombia to stage a coup in Venezuela continues developing with more and more details appearing.
On May 9, Venezuela’s military said it seized three abandoned Colombian light combat boats that soldiers found in the Orinoco river area. This happened several days after the government accused its neighbor of aiding a failed invasion staged by US mercenaries.
The Defense Ministry said the boats were equipped with machine guns and ammunition, but had no crew, adding they were discovered as part of a nationwide operation to guarantee Venezuela’s “freedom and sovereignty.”
Colombia’s Navy said that boats were just dragged away by strong river currents. Probably, US mercenaries also appeared in Venezuela thanks to ‘strong currents’ in the area.
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southfront--2020-05-10--Venezuela Charges US Ex-Special Forces Soldiers With “Terrorism & Conspiracy”

The two US ex-special forces turn mercenary soldiers captured by Venezuela Monday as they tried to lead a small anti-Maduro invasion force into the country appeared in a Venezuelan court on Friday , alongside some dozen other alleged conspirators and detained mercenaries .
Luke Alexander Denman , 34 , and Airan Berry , 41 have been charged with “ terrorism and conspiracy ” for the failed raid , which new details say included a total of 17 people coming ashore on fishing boats from a staging ground in neighboring Colombia .
Venezuelan media also claims that eight among the mercenary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Venezuelan defectors – were gunned down when they tried to enter the country .
Denman and Berry have specifically been charged with “ terrorism , conspiracy , illicit trafficking of weapons of war and ( criminal ) association.
” There ’ s officially no death penalty in the Venezuelan legal code , with the charges faced by the Americans bringing a max 25-30 years in prison .
Maduro and Caracas officials have ultimately blamed the plot on President Trump , something which the US president and admin officials were quick to deny , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ used “ a small little group ” .
“ If I wanted to go into Venezuela , I wouldn ’ t make a secret about it .
I wouldn ’ t send a small little group , it ’ d be called an Army , ” Trump told FOX on Friday .
Meanwhile Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab has issued an Interpol arrest warrant for ex-Green Beret and head of the Florida-based security firm Silvercorp Jordan Goudreau .
Goudreau had initially been boasting of being behind the failed coup attempt and giving @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s now under investigation by US authorities .
The US army has since confirmed the men formerly served as members of the Green Berets and had been deployed to Iraq .
Venezuelan state officials have claimed the group was going to be paid $ 212 million to orchestrate the overthrow of Maduro on behalf of opposition leader Juan Guaido and his US and Colombian backers .
While distancing itself from the fiasco , the State Department has pledged to “ use every tool that we have available to try to get them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Mike Pompeo .

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The two US ex-special forces turn mercenary soldiers captured by Venezuela Monday as they tried to lead a small anti-Maduro invasion force into the country appeared in a Venezuelan court on Friday, alongside some dozen other alleged conspirators and detained mercenaries.
Luke Alexander Denman, 34, and Airan Berry, 41 have been charged with “terrorism and conspiracy” for the failed raid, which new details say included a total of 17 people coming ashore on fishing boats from a staging ground in neighboring Colombia.
Silvercorp mercenaries Venezuela captured following this week’s failed invasion face charges including terrorism, conspiracy, & illicit arms trafficking. They face 25-30 yrs in prison US citizens Luke Denman & Airan Berry are among them pic.twitter.com/1o3cGstd6a — Anya Parampil (@anyaparampil) May 9, 2020
Venezuelan media also claims that eight among the mercenary force – reportedly mostly made up of Venezuelan defectors – were gunned down when they tried to enter the country.
Denman and Berry have specifically been charged with “terrorism, conspiracy, illicit trafficking of weapons of war and (criminal) association.”
Captured mercenaries after botched ‘Bay of Pigs-style’ raid into Venezuelan territory. Image source: Defense Ministry of Venezuela/Al Jazeera.
There’s officially no death penalty in the Venezuelan legal code, with the charges faced by the Americans bringing a max 25-30 years in prison.
Maduro and Caracas officials have ultimately blamed the plot on President Trump, something which the US president and admin officials were quick to deny, with Trump noting he would never have used “a small little group”.
“If I wanted to go into Venezuela, I wouldn’t make a secret about it. I wouldn’t send a small little group, it’d be called an Army,” Trump told FOX on Friday.
RT @laradiodelsur: Mercenary Airan Berry shows the contract between Silvercorp, Juan Guaidó, JJ Rendón and Sergio Vergara signed in October 2019 to execute terrorist plans in Venezuela pic.twitter.com/i8HsNimMHN — Nicolás Maduro (@maduro_en) May 7, 2020
Meanwhile Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab has issued an Interpol arrest warrant for ex-Green Beret and head of the Florida-based security firm Silvercorp Jordan Goudreau.
Goudreau had initially been boasting of being behind the failed coup attempt and giving media interviews from Florida, and he’s now under investigation by US authorities.
Vets are dunking mercilessly on these failed Silvercorp mercenaries who were the masterminds behind that edgelord Bay of Pigs in Venezuela. I talked with a few ex-special forces operators and rounded up the memes roasting this fiasco. Story never ends! https://t.co/ORZz0Lw5kG — Ben Makuch (@BMakuch) May 8, 2020
The US army has since confirmed the men formerly served as members of the Green Berets and had been deployed to Iraq. Venezuelan state officials have claimed the group was going to be paid $212 million to orchestrate the overthrow of Maduro on behalf of opposition leader Juan Guaido and his US and Colombian backers.
While distancing itself from the fiasco, the State Department has pledged to “use every tool that we have available to try to get them back,” according to recent statements by Mike Pompeo.
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southfront--2020-05-10--Luhu-Class (Type 052) Multi-Role Guided Missile Destroyer (Infographics)

Click to see the full-size image The Type 052 ( Luhu-class ) has been one of the first modern multi-role @ @ @ @ @ built by China .
Only two warships of the Type 052 class are still in @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Liberation Army Navy Surface Force .
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The Type 052 (Luhu-class) has been one of the first modern multi-role guided missile destroyers designed and built by China. Only two warships of the Type 052 class are still in active service with the People’s Liberation Army Navy Surface Force.
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southfront--2020-05-10--In Video: Belarus Holds Massive Victory Day Parade

On May 9 , Belarus held a fully-fledged military parade to mark the 75th anniversary of Victory Day .
“ @ @ @ @ @ will condemn us , ” Lukashenko said commenting on the decision to hold the event @ @ @ @ @ Do not rush to draw conclusions , let alone condemn us , the heirs of @ @ @ @ @ … We simply could not асt differently , we had no other choice .
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On May 9, Belarus held a fully-fledged military parade to mark the 75th anniversary of Victory Day.
“There will be people who will condemn us,” Lukashenko said commenting on the decision to hold the event despite coronavirus concerns. “Do not rush to draw conclusions, let alone condemn us, the heirs of the victory, the Belarusians … We simply could not асt differently, we had no other choice.”