Chilling emails from within Russia’s FSB intelligence service talk about orders “from the very top” for civilians to be taken to concentration camps in a bid to conquer Ukraine.
The extent to which Putin planned to bring Ukraine to heel with extreme violence had it not held out is revealed in emails sent by a source in the FSB to a Russian human rights activist. Under the name Wind of Change, they were sent to Vladimir Osechkin, the founder of Gulagu, which highlights abuses in the country’s prisons. The emails are believed to originally be the work of one FSB officer but it's thought several now contribute to the emails.
The source says that the FSB, with the help of some Russian Military Intelligence, would carry out a “total cleansing” of society and politics in Ukraine. “And after all this, we could install any government in Kiev,” says the source.
The FSB anticipated resistance among the Ukrainian population but was ordered to deal with it ruthlessly in instructions that came “from the very top”.
In the emails, Wind of Change goes into detail about how the measures would be meted out to ordinary Ukrainians who dared to resist the Russian occupiers. This includes a “big terror” that “is being planned for Kherson, which will go through several stages”. The first would be reducing “massive protests down to local skirmishes, and to cause severe injuries to individual protesters”. “As soon as the mass of protests is reduced, the final stage of ‘door-to-door terror’ will begin.
“Here the FSB will play first fiddle and people will be detained in their homes at night during curfew and transferred to Russian territories - concentration camps and worse. “It is assumed that protests will cease completely after such cleansing.”
Russia expert at the Chatham House foreign policy think-tank, Keir Giles, told The Sun Online the documents chime with what we know about Putin’s plans for Ukraine. Giles, the author of Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You, pointed to preparations of mobile crematoria to follow its forces into Ukraine as a signal of Russia's murderous intentions. “If you saw that and they weren’t expecting to fight a war and were expecting to walk in and take over you would ask ‘who was that for?' “So they were planning to execute, murder and dispose of very large numbers of Ukrainian civilians. “That’s what the crematoria were for, that’s what the body bags were for.”
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said that there have been over 16,000 forced deportations carried out by Russia.
Ukrainian Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi said that the Wagner mercenaries trying to take Bakhmut are losing “considerable strength” and “very soon” his forces would take advantage of that “opportunity.” The Wagner Group is so desperate for fighters, it is recruiting on Pornhub.
Nope: "A recent survey finds that 30% of Republicans and 19% of Democrats support bombing the fictional nation of Agrabah."
Obviously what happened there is that the person questioned assumed it was some ISIS city they hadn't heard of, and rather than admit they didn't know, since it had a muslim-sounding name and the context of the questioning led them to that conclusion, they just converted it to something like "should be bomb ISIS."
Hell, when I just saw you write that, I thought "wtf is Agrabah, isn't that from that Disney movie Aladdin?" and of course it was, but I don't fault some people for not knowing that off the tops of their heads.
I think for myself and follow my own principles. If my enemies agree with me in part, good, less to fight about. I never change my positions based on what my enemy does. I am a rock, I let my enemy be the wave that breaks upon me.
Unfortunately a sufficiently corrupted "democracy" yields none of the benefits of democracy. Just look at Pakistan, India, and various other places. Democracy is no guarantee of success. In fact, as a realist, I would tell you that many countries such as Afghanistan were not culturally ready for democracy and therefore never should have been forced into it. Democracy only works AFTER a people is ready to make it work.
Another thing about democracy is that in many cases it requires rejection of universal suffrage to work in many places. For example, would democracy have worked in Afghanistan if voting was limited SOLELY to male property owners as it was in the early United States? Probably!
Giving women the vote was a luxury the United States could not afford from 1776 to 1920. We are still the worse off for it in many ways. Forcing that bullshit on Afghanistan was a recipe for failure.
Something similar may have been true in Russia. If Democracy was limited to only people with true power, then it could not be corrupted. Corruption happens because fools are manipulated by elites. Take away the fools right to vote and that problem is solved. If Russians in the 90s were only led by male property owners, perhaps the power dynamics would have truly reflected the reality and corruption would have had no power vacuum of fools to rush into.
LOL. But it shows that a lot of Republcians are retarded Jingoists who just want to bomb stuff, even if they don't know what it is. That's more than half of your anti-Russia Republicans. Of the 70% who are sane, the majority are anti-Ukraine.
You may wonder: why is the enemy doing this. It is not required that you change your position based on that, but not to ask the question puts you at risk of being a useful idiot for stuff that you find repellent.
It never works. I never see a democracy where the will of the people, rather than the will of the elites, rules supreme. Like I told you, almost no one here agrees with mass immigration. But because the elites do, we get mass immigration, whether we like it or not.
Probably not actually. It may have worked if you limited it to wealthy property owners, i.e. who actually wields effective control in established "democracies". In Afghanistan, they don't know how to effectively manipulate the system to get their way, like they do in our "democracies", which means they throw in their lot with the Taliban.
I knew it. You see things as they are, so why do you pretend otherwise? Only the rich have true power, never ordinary people.
I know American conservatives have the idea that giving votes to ordinary people is bad, because apparently things would be much better if Gates and Zuckerberg had 100% rather than 99% of the power, but this does not really work for Russia in the 1990s.
No one owned property! And even when some did, they were the worst people in the country (as in the US).
LOL no, that's not how polling works, you can't say that at all. You can't make any of those assumptions at all, and especially not over a poll from many years ago.
If anything it's the far right fringe which would have wanted to bomb any muslims, who have now shifted to being pro-putin.
Wrong, that is not what being a "useful idiot" is. Only an idiot tries to speculate about his enemies motives and then changes his policy position based on his speculation. NPC behavior. Try having principles instead.
You can make reasonable inferences from the evidence.
FAR RIGHT
Right, it's the people who are anti-intervention who wanted to bomb people.
Also, I don't think anyone in Murica is "pro-Putin". But you are pro-Ukrainian fascists.
And so much good your "principles" have done over the past few decades. Your own country has gone to hell, and you're dragging the rest of the world (at least those who are your puppets) down with you.
Maybe obeying CNN's dictates isn't the best strategy after all. You have not given anyone any reason to hate Putin.