Unavoidable Punishment: Nuremberg Trials Seventieth Anniversary/Кара неотвратима. Нюрнбергскому процессу – 70 лет

23.11.2015, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia), Фонд стратегической культуры http://www.fondsk.ru (Россия)

Yuriy RUBTSOV*

Those who resort to force, real or imaginary, and violence to subjugate other nations have failed to learn well the lessons of history. Be it the bombings of former Yugoslavia, the wars in Iraq and Libya, the neo-Nazi regime coming to power in Ukraine or nurturing terrorist groups in Syria – there are always specific people who initiate, finance and carry out the crimes against peace and humanity. They should remember the lessons of Nuremberg war crimes trials held 70 years ago.

The idea of the trials was put forward almost simultaneously by all parties to the anti-Hitler’s coalition. As far back as June 22, 1941, the Soviet Union said the Nazi leadership had to stand the trial for unleashing the war.

The need for an international trial over the criminals was first indicated on Oct. 14, 1942, in the Soviet Government’s statement «Of the responsibility of the Hitlerite aggressors and their accomplices for crimes committed in the occupied countries of Europe». The statement said, «The Soviet Government considers it essential to hand over without delay to the courts of the special international tribunal, and to punish according to all the severity of the criminal code, any of the leaders of Fascist Germany who in the course of the war have fallen into the hands of States fighting against Hitlerite Germany». 

In their turn, the governments of the United States and Great Britain made the statements on the responsibility of Hitlerites for heinous crimes committed against humanity in October, 1941. The decision to set up an international tribunal was taken at the Potsdam conference of the allied powers. The agreement stated, «War criminals and those who have participated in planning or carrying out Nazi enterprises involving or resulting in atrocities or war crimes shall be arrested and

Operation Unthinkable – Allies Were Bearing Secret Malice/Немыслимое. Союзники с камнем за пазухой

25.05.2015, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia), Фонд стратегической культуры http://www.fondsk.ru (Россия)

Yuriy RUBTSOV

In late May 1945 Josef Stalin ordered Marshall Georgy Zhukov to leave Germany and come to Moscow. He was concerned over the actions of British allies. Stalin said the Soviet forces disarmed Germans and sent them to prisoners’ camps while British did not. Instead they cooperated with Germans troops and let them maintain combat capability. Stalin believed that there were plans to use them later. He emphasized that it was an outright violation of inter-government agreement that said the forces surrendered were to be immediately disbanded. The Soviet intelligence got the text of secret telegram sent by Winston Churchill to Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery, the commander of British forces. It instructed to collect the weapons and keep them in readiness to give back to Germans in case the Soviet offensive continued.

According to the instructions received from Stalin, Zhukov harshly condemned these activities speaking at the Allied Control Council (the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and France). He said the world history knew few examples of such treachery and refusal to observe the commitments on the part of nations that had an allied status. Montgomery denied the accusation. A few years later he admitted that

Golden Prague was Liberated by Soviet Tanks/Свобода для Златой Праги пришла на броне советских танков

12.05.2015, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia), Фонд стратегической культуры http://www.fondsk.ru (Россия)

Yuriy RUBTSOV 

The act of unconditional capitulation signed on May 9, 1945 did not put an end to hostilities in Europe. The German High Command’s ordered the forces in the north-west of Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands to lay down arms. There was no reason to continue resistance there. The fight was to go on in the east. Army Group Centre (1^st and 4^th Tank and 17^thArmy) led by Field Marshall Ferdinand Schörner and elements of Army Group Ostmark (operational in Austria and Czechoslovakia) led by Generaloberst (Senior General) Lothar Rendulic were concentrated in Czechoslovakia to offer stiff resistance to the Red Army. The 900 thousand strong German force possessed 9, 7 thousand artillery pieces and mortars, 1, 9 thousand tanks and self-propelled guns, as well as around one thousand combat planes.

The new government of Gross Admiral (Grand Admiral) Karl Dönitz resisted the Soviet troops in the western and central parts of Czechoslovakia to ensure German troops would surrender to the British or Americans and not the Soviet troops. The Russia’s Western allies never did anything to change it hoping to diminish the success of Red Army and, subsequently, the extent of Soviet influence in

Western Propaganda and Doctor Goebbels/Западная пропаганда и доктор Геббельс

23.04.2015, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia)

Фонд стратегической культуры http://www.fondsk.ru (Россия)

Yuriy RUBTSOV

Czech historian Eve Hahnová wrote an article About Anti-Russian Stereotype of Goebbels propaganda. It says that the contemporary Western media looks very much like Nazi propaganda in fascist Germany. Offering her comments on Goebbels diaries, Eve Hahnová says the West uses an artificially created image created by Nazi propaganda by the end of WWII. The «threat coming from the East» and «Russian menace» revive Hitler’s propaganda stereotypes.

The conclusion is obvious. At the start of the war Nazi propaganda affirmed that Hitler had to unleash an offensive to the east preventing a possible Soviet attack. The Nazi propaganda machine ended up spreading a whopping big lie. Goebbels was the first to spread rumors about many thousands of German women raped by Soviet soldiers. On March 1945, he wrote in his diary that

70-th Anniversary of Victory. Fundamental Treatise on the History of Russia's 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War Came Out in Russia/К 70-летию Великой Победы. В России издана 12-томная история Великой Отечественной войны

03.04.2015, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia)

Фонд стратегической культуры http://www.fondsk.ru (Россия)

 

Yuriy RUBTSOV

 

In not so distant 2008 Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Ministry of Defence to prepare for publication the twelve volumes of the treatise titled The 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War. The mission is accomplished – the 12th volume has come out recently. It is a really overarching project and this time the authors have tried to come up with something new. Unlike the fundamental works that had been issued in the Soviet Union, the authors carefully avoided the risk of pertinent descriptions of dispositions and military activities overshadowing the political, economic, diplomatic, social, spiritual and everyday life aspects of such a complex phenomenon as the Great Patriotic War.

Practically all the best specialists of the country were convened to take part in the work. Around 200 experts in various fields (military and civilian historians, economists, political scholars and lawyers) from different research institutes of Academy of Sciences and public organizations, military and civilian educational institutions (the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, the Academy of Military Science the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, the Academy of Military Science the Academy of Federal Security Service of Russian Federation, the General staff college of the Russian Federation´s armed forces, the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of Russian Federation, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, the Lomonosov Moscow State University, The Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian