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speak easy

(9,294 posts)
Wed Apr 13, 2022, 06:10 PM Apr 2022

Calls for concentration camps on Russian State TV

Last edited Wed Apr 13, 2022, 06:51 PM - Edit history (1)

As Russia’s war in Ukraine flounders, ominous rhetoric gains ground

RIGA, Latvia — After a month of fighting, the architects of Moscow’s war against Ukraine had to explain to Russians why Kyiv had not fallen. That’s when the most menacing rhetoric began.

On state television, a military analyst doubled down on Russia’s need to win and called for concentration camps for Ukrainians opposed to the invasion.

Two days later, the head of the defense committee in the lower house of parliament said it would take 30 to 40 years to “reeducate” Ukrainians.

And on a talk show, the editor in chief of the English-language television news network RT described Ukrainians’ determination to defend their country as “collective insanity.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/13/russias-war-ukraine-founders-ominous-rhetoric-gains-ground/
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Calls for concentration camps on Russian State TV (Original Post) speak easy Apr 2022 OP
Hey, just like the Nazis used! Clash City Rocker Apr 2022 #1
They only hate the Nazis because they invaded them. Crunchy Frog Apr 2022 #13
I've dealt with obvious Russian posters on Quora, who claim that Jewish Nazi isn't an oxymoron Clash City Rocker Apr 2022 #16
Oh, God. Putin is going full Nazi. brer cat Apr 2022 #2
'You become the things that you hate' speak easy Apr 2022 #3
All RWers: every accusation is a confession. PCIntern Apr 2022 #4
Give Ukraine the fighter planes they endlessly ask for. Fuck Putin and his Nuke Threat. n/t RKP5637 Apr 2022 #5
Exactly! BigOleDummy Apr 2022 #6
Me, too. Deuxcents Apr 2022 #7
Waiting for comment from Tucker Carlson.. Permanut Apr 2022 #8
...or for dim donnie to rasp, "Jeeeniuhhhsss!" Grokenstein Apr 2022 #11
Hard to believe we have WWII redux bucolic_frolic Apr 2022 #9
Pol Pot Putin. C_U_L8R Apr 2022 #10
Yeah, he has really trashed the nation. He's a sociopath psychopath on a Stalin-mission and RKP5637 Apr 2022 #12
Russia is just one big concentration camp. patphil Apr 2022 #14
1 in 4 Russians do not have modern plumbing now. onecaliberal Apr 2022 #15

Crunchy Frog

(26,619 posts)
13. They only hate the Nazis because they invaded them.
Wed Apr 13, 2022, 07:49 PM
Apr 2022

Last edited Wed Apr 13, 2022, 09:47 PM - Edit history (1)

They never objected to anything else that the Nazis did, and were in fact doing most of those things themselves.

Clash City Rocker

(3,398 posts)
16. I've dealt with obvious Russian posters on Quora, who claim that Jewish Nazi isn't an oxymoron
Wed Apr 13, 2022, 09:44 PM
Apr 2022

Think about how indoctrinated you’d have to be to believe that.

speak easy

(9,294 posts)
3. 'You become the things that you hate'
Wed Apr 13, 2022, 06:19 PM
Apr 2022

A victim of bullying - a socialist opponent of RW fundamentalism. A warning to all. Hatred hates life.

bucolic_frolic

(43,257 posts)
9. Hard to believe we have WWII redux
Wed Apr 13, 2022, 06:52 PM
Apr 2022

There was of course a pact between Nazi Germany and USSR about 1939. In the chaos following WWII, I read that US intelligence relied on former Nazis for information on the USSR because they knew the territory and had contacts with other Nazis. It's only a hop, skip and jump to the idea there may have been a bit of integration between the two. So is this why it's surfacing today?

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
12. Yeah, he has really trashed the nation. He's a sociopath psychopath on a Stalin-mission and
Wed Apr 13, 2022, 07:39 PM
Apr 2022

his ego is bruised.

patphil

(6,202 posts)
14. Russia is just one big concentration camp.
Wed Apr 13, 2022, 08:55 PM
Apr 2022

They've been at it for generations, and there is no end in sight.

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