Ukraine accuses Russian forces of seizing 2,000 artworks in Mariupol

[highplainsdem]

Source: Guardian

Ukrainian officials have accused Russian forces of seizing “over 2,000 artworks” from museums in the occupied city of Mariupol and moving the pieces to areas of the Russian-controlled Donbas region.

“The occupiers ‘liberated’ Mariupol from its historical and cultural heritage. They stole and moved more than 2,000 unique exhibits from museums in Mariupol to Donetsk,” the Mariupol city council said in a statement posted on its Telegram channel on Thursday.

They said the haul includes several original works by the 19th-century Mariupol native Arkhip Kuindzhi and the famed Russian romantic painter Ivan Aivazovsky as well as a unique handwritten Torah scroll, and the Gospel of 1811 made by the Venetian printing house for the Greeks of Mariupol.

“Mariupol city council is preparing materials for law enforcement agencies to initiate criminal proceedings and make an appeal to Interpol,” the council added.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/29/ukraine-accuses-russian-forces-of-seizing-2000-artworks-in-mariupol

[agingdem]

1. How very Hitler of Putin...

confiscating artwork..(see Monuments Men)

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. I just did, two nights ago. I ought to turn the DVD back into the library this afternoon. NT

[JudyM]

6. First thing I thought of, too.

Laying bare that he has no ethics whatsoever. As if we didn’t know that.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

2. Tactics learned from the best/worst...

...Hitler, Stalin, Xerxes...

[Strelnikov_]

4. So, who is Putin's Goering?

They seem to be heart attacking at a pace I cannot keep up with.

[Evolve Dammit]

5. It's 1940 redux. Jeezus we are a miserable species. FU Putin. Keep it up. Paybacks are a bitch.

Maybe you will get the nuclear confrontation you seem to seek. Your choice, I suppose. You will be dead of course, but maybe that is of little interest to you? A suicidal, sociopathic, war criminal, dictator at that point. Checking all the boxes...

[ck4829]

7. Kick