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This is Boris Romanchenko. He survived four different nazi concentration camps - last Friday he was killed by the Russians in his home in Kharkiv.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/tj8xeu/this_is_boris_romanchenko_he_survived_four/
speak easy
(9,402 posts)meadowlander
(4,414 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,215 posts)But Putin is not surprised at the brutality. That is by design and construction. Another part of the dictator trap: ruthlessness is the only way they survive. Until it bites them. The bite is coming, PutZ.
ffr
(22,698 posts)Somehow the Russians are getting elected to positions in our government. We must put an end to this.
liberalla
(9,322 posts)In his own home!
just so wrong...
calimary
(81,805 posts)ffr
(22,698 posts)We cannot have Russian Nazi's killing people of any denomination, let alone Russian Nazi's that have set out to kill Jews.
I can only imagine what Putin has cooked up for the hostages he's set away to Russian concentration camps.
This is horrible!
DENVERPOPS
(9,038 posts)WASF
gordianot
(15,284 posts)Required reading in Putins State he even repatriated his body to Russia. Ilyin was a major Nazi collaborator with a grudge against Ukraine. Putin is living his dream.
bobacatt
(23 posts)In having defeated Nazism in the war they know as the Great Patriotic War. (Partly this was useful propaganda to keep people proud when they were impoverished; partly it served to keep people from knowing that a lot of the Russian dead were killed by Stalin not Germany.). WW2 heroism is a touchstone of the Russian people. At least it was until 1991. And I am guessing this hasnt changed.
Putins Denazification nonsense is just him tapping this vein of Russian historic pride - Remember the heroism of our country in the 1940s, when we saved the world? We are the nation that stops Nazis. We must do it again.
It is just smart propaganda. Putin doesnt actually believe it. But his followers probably do.