..."zachistka" -- cleansing. The Russians hunted people on lists...

[babylonsister]

“Under Republicans, not another penny will go to Ukraine. Our country comes first. They don’t care about our border or our people.” —Marjorie Taylor Green
Published by digby on November 4, 2022
(She deleted the tweet)


She needs to STFU. What a dumb, arrogant and hostile creep, the worst of all possible worlds.

It was a cold, gray morning, March 4 in Bucha, Ukraine. Crows cawed. By nightfall, at least nine men would walk to their deaths at 144 Yablunska street, a building complex that Russians turned into a headquarters and the nerve center of violence that would shock the world.

In this image from March 4, 2022, surveillance video provided by the Ukrainian government, Russian troops lead nine men at gunpoint to their headquarters on Yablunska Street in Bucha, where they would be tortured and executed. (Ukrainian government via AP)

Later, when all the bodies were found strewn along the streets and packed in hasty graves, it would be easy to think the carnage was random. Residents asking how this happened would be told to make their peace, because some questions just don’t have answers.

Yet there was a method to the violence.

What happened that day in Bucha was what Russian soldiers on intercepted phone conversations called “zachistka” — cleansing. The Russians hunted people on lists prepared by their intelligence services and went door to door to identify potential threats. Those who didn’t pass this filtration, including volunteer fighters and civilians suspected of assisting Ukrainian troops, were tortured and executed, surveillance video, audio intercepts and interviews show.

The Associated Press and the PBS series “Frontline” obtained surveillance camera footage from Bucha that shows, for the first time, what a cleansing operation in Ukraine looks like. This was organized brutality that would be repeated at scale in Russian-occupied territories across Ukraine — a strategy to neutralize resistance and terrorize locals into submission that Russian troops have used in past conflicts, notably Chechnya.

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https://digbysblog.net/2022/11/04/under-republicans-not-another-penny-will-go-to-ukraine-our-country-comes-first-they-dont-care-about-our-border-or-our-people-marjorie-taylor-green/

[Irish_Dem]

1. The GOP works for Putin.

[PortTack]

2. The arms ways and means cmte says they will pass a bill in the lame duck session if the traitors

Take the house that will fund Ukraine for the next 2 years. She’s full of shit!

And yes, it will pass in the senate as well. Mcconnell openly rebuked mccarthy saying that there needed to be more aid to Ukraine, not less.

[Oneironaut]

3. Wow. Im terms of return value, we're hitting the lottery in Ukraine!

Russia essentially destroyed its army in 8 months, and is so desperate at this point, they’re kidnapping 60-year-old drunks on the side of the road to fight. Putin looks like a fool and will be known for this forever. All for minimal investment on our part.

Is Margorie Taylor Green a traitor or just an idiot?

[tblue37]

4. Why not both?

[babylonsister]

5. Don't forget cleansing. I believe that's a war crime.

This seems to be a new revelation, so maybe it will have legs. Ir is outrageous.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. Russians should be fighting Putin for their country. We need to vote Putineers out, here.

Remember when Moscow Mitch and the Gangsters Of Putin did this?


They are still Putin's pets.