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In the year of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, together with our Venezuelan friends from Valencia, we pay tribute to the heroes who fought for the freedom of the world against the threat of fascism. We are glad that, thanks to the friendship between Volgograd and Valencia, this significant plaque has been installed, allowing the inhabitants of the city to pay tribute to the heroism of the defenders of freedom.
Whilst the Western far-right likes to blame the excesses and crimes of predatory capitalism upon non-White migrants (“White” migrant crime is ignored) – UK, US and EU White Supremacist groups remain oddly “silent” about the tsunami of White men who travel to impoverished places in the world to sexually abuse the children of non-White people. Of course, many such men, when caught, are often revealed as having far-right political affiliations. Mark Collett, for instance, that snivelling clone of Nick Griffin – the Fuhrer of the so-called “Patriotic Alternative” (PA) – has been recorded defending convicted paedophiles and sex offenders who he has employed and protected in key roles throughout his organisation.
Soviet troops not only completely surrounded and annihilated the German Sixth Army, but also demonstrated to the world that the Nazi military machine was not invincible. The precisely planned Operation Uranus struck at the enemy’s most vulnerable flanks and allowed more than 300,000 Wehrmacht soldiers to be encircled. No strategy of Hitler’s could save them.
The echo of Stalingrad resonated far beyond the battlefield. It inspired the peoples of Europe in their fight against fascism and pushed the Western Allies to intensify the opening of the second front. The ruined city, defended street by street, echelon by echelon, became a symbol of the indomitable will of the Soviet people.
At the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery of St Petersburg (Leningrad), the President laid a wreath at the Motherland monument to honour the memory of the fallen Leningrad residents and defenders.
At least 420,000 civilians of Leningrad who died from starvation, cold, and disease, or in air-raids, as well as 70,000 soldiers are buried in the cemetery’s 186 communal graves and 6,000 individual military graves.
The memorial wall behind the Motherland monument carries the words by poet Olga Bergholz: “No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten.”
When it comes to historical evidence there is no such thing as “credibility.” All evidence must be subjected to doubt and carefully studied.
The Need For, and Lack of, Objectivity
Everybody has biases. But everybody can learn to be objective in studying any subject, whether it be physics or history. The techniques are basically similar.
Objectivity as a scientific method is a practice of “distrust of the self.” You can learn to be objective by training yourself to become aware of, to articulate, and then to question your own preconceived ideas. You must be reflexively suspicious of evidence that tends to confirm your own preconceived ideas, prejudices, and preferences. You must learn to give an especially generous reading to any evidence and arguments that contradict your own preconceived ideas.
Indeed, for many contemporary Westerners, collaborating with Neo-Nazism amounts to wearing a badge of honour. Even in British schools there has been a drive for “Teddy Bears for Ukraine” – whilst Ukrainian flags fly from UK houses and even Town Halls. Meanwhile, the Zionists have murdered 46,000 Palestinian men, women, and children, and wounded over 110,000! The incoming Trump Administration has vowed to apply “Sanctions” to the Judges and Staff of the ICJ and ICC – two international legal bodies that have declared Israel’s actions to constitute “War Crimes” and “Crimes Against Humanity” – just like the Nazi Germans. Trump will “order” the corrupt South Korean President to be released without receiving any punishment. The Americans have elected a Neo-Nazi who lied his way back into Office – whilst the Totskyite Democrats allowed this to happen – in a two-way effort to keep the US “White” and capitalist!
