BRICS, Russia/Cold War 2.0 and the Buzz Around Russia’s New Ultra-Heavy Drone

August 10, 2019, Strategic Culture Foundation (Russia) https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/08/10/cold-war-2-and-buzz-around-russia-new-ultra-heavy-drone/

Tim Kirby*

The Cold War perception of space travel as being very human-oriented with man conquering Mars to build the Capitalist or Communist cities of tomorrow has been completely replaced by the reality that drones are much better suited for space exploration than humans. When it comes to military aviation the situation is similar. The strongest and weakest point of any pilot is his brain, which cannot stand the massive gravitational forces that ultra-modern fighter jets are capable of creating. So it is no surprise that at some point the US, Russia and China will unveil a drone big enough and capable enough to replace any current generation bombers and fighters removing the limitations of the human body’s weakness to big gravity from military aviation. And, as of a few days ago the Russians did just that.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation just released video to the public of a test of their new massive pilotless aircraft called “The Hunter”. This demonstration was

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

Reparations from World War II: That Case Is Not Yet Closed/Репарации по итогам Второй мировой войны: вопрос окончательно не закрыт

08.05.2015, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia), Фонд стратегической культуры http://www.fondsk.ru (Россия)

 

Valentin KATASONOV

As a rule, when Western economists offer estimates of the reparations that were delivered to the USSR after the Second World War, they more or less agree with the figures published in the 1980s by the West German government. The overwhelming majority of the reparations sent to the USSR from the countries of Eastern Europe were in the form of the products being manufactured at that time in those nations. It is worth noting that some Eastern European countries were sending reparations to the USSR while simultaneously receiving Soviet aid. The following table provides estimates taken from the work of the American economist Peter Liberman. These figures show that 85% of all the reparations deliveries from Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union came from the German Democratic Republic.

The balance of transfers from the countries of Eastern Europe to the USSR, 1945-1960

The Economic Price of the Soviet Victory in the Great Patriotic War/ Экономическая цена победы СССР в Великой Отечественной войне

06.05.2015, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia), Фонд стратегической культуры http://www.fondsk.ru (Россия)

Valentin KATASONOV

The West continues to disavow the USSR’s momentous contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany and her satellites. But there is documentary proof that can refute any speculation on this subject. Suffice it to point to the economic price of the victory won by the people of the Soviet Union.

The war caused an astronomical level of financial damages to the USSR. On Nov. 2, 1942, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree establishing the Extraordinary State Commission for Identifying and Investigating Crimes Perpetrated by the German–Fascist Invaders and Their Accomplices, and the Damage Inflicted by Them on the Citizens, Collective Farms, Social Organizations, State Enterprises, and Institutions of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War. After the war, that commission published the following statistics: the German-Fascist invaders and their accomplices razed 1,710 towns and more than 70,000 villages and hamlets, depriving approximately 25 million people of shelter. They destroyed about 32,000 factories, 84,000 schools and other educational institutions, and demolished and looted 98,000 collective farms.1In addition, they

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

Ucrânia, Украина/Bela entrevista do condecorado e querido comandante de tanques de codinome ''Panzer'' que infelizmente veio a falecer no dever no dia 16 de Fevereiro. Descanse em paz, guerreiro!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13lMjAak1nI

Frente Brasileira de Solidariedade com a Ucrânia

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UCRÂNIA - Blindado, Comandante da milícia da Novarrússia

Eduardo Lima

Published on Mar 17, 2015

Entrevista com o ex-oficial soviético, voluntário da Novarússia.
Ele deu sua vida por seu país, por seu Donbass.

Acesse o site Guerra na Ucrânia: http://bit.ly/siteucra

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Vídeo: #Gorlovka (# Горловка), um dos municípios foi 'comer balas' da campanha #ATO de UAF prepara licenciados.

Facebook Reinhard Lenfant

https://t.co/Cm7DxX53xM

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Achin Xola

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VIDEO: ‪#‎Gorlovka (‪#‎Горловка) một trong những thị trấn bị 'ăn đạn' nhiều nhất từ chiến dịch ‪#‎ATO của UAF.

https://t.co/Cm7DxX53xM

Как выглядит город Горловка после военных событий. Удручающий вид

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Reinhard Lenfant

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3 VIDEOS taken from a drone camera give a birdseye view of liberated towns: #‪#‎Yasinovataya ‪#‎Uglegorsk ‪#‎Gorlovka https://vk.com/strelkov_info……

Tuchola: Polish Death Camp for Russians/Тухоль: польский лагерь смерти для русских

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

Nikolai MALISHEVSKI

In early November a memorial to «the victims of Maidan» was suddenly erected on the Wilenski square, Warsaw, no matter the plans had envisioned the restoration of the Brotherhood in Arms Statue devoted to commemorate dozens of thousands of Red Army soldiers who lost their lives to liberate Poland from fascism in the days of WWII. The fact sparked a wave of indignation but it was not the desecration of the soldiers’ memory that caused it. Here is a message posted to Kresy.pl – «Maidan means a square in Ukrainian. Ukrainians made Poles come to maidan before they were slaughtered (in Volyn. – Author’s note). In some populated areas the swamps with remains of the victims are still called maidans».

Some time before that the plans to erect the memorial to Polish death camp victims (Red Army soldiers who died in 1922-23) in Kraków’s Rakowicki Cemetery had been cancelled…

To make clear what exactly happened to the victims in question I offer to have a look at what happened in the second largest concentration camp that was located in the vicinity of Tuchola. The camp was built during the First World War. In 1919 the place became a prison for the soldiers of Ukrainian and Belarusian formations, the civilians who had sympathy for the Soviet government and the interned officers of the White Army.

In December 1920 Polish Red Cross worker Natalia Kreiz Velezhinska said the prisoners lived dug-outs with stairs going down. The interned