Suvorov crossing the Panix Pass by Alexander von Kotzebue

1905 05 14 Tsushima, Battleship 'Imperator Aleksandr III'

May 14, 1905. Tsushima Strait. The flagship "Prince Suvorov" is already on fire. The Japanese begin firing on the following Guards battleship "Emperor Alexander III"

1974-Georgy Zhukov

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (Russian: Георгий Константинович Жуков; 1 December 1896 – 18 June 1974) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union. He also served as Chief of the General Staff, Minister of Defence, and was a member of the Presidium of the Communist Party (later Politburo). During World War II, Zhukov oversaw some of the Red Army's most decisive victories.

He served in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. Gradually rising through the ranks, by 1939 Zhukov had been given command of an army group and won a decisive battle over Japanese forces at Khalkhin Gol, for which he won the first of his four Hero of the Soviet Union awards. In February 1941, Zhukov was appointed as chief of the Red Army's General Staff.

In 1945, Zhukov commanded the 1st Belorussian Front; he took part in the Vistula–Oder Offensive, and the Battle of Berlin, which resulted in the defeat of Nazi Germany, and the end of the war in Europe. In recognition of Zhukov's role in the war, he was chosen to accept the German Instrument of Surrender, and inspect the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945.

After the war, Zhukov's success and popularity caused Joseph Stalin to see him as a potential threat.[1] Stalin stripped him of his positions and relegated him to military commands of little strategic significance. After Stalin's death in 1953, Zhukov supported Nikita Khrushchev's bid for Soviet leadership. In 1955, he was appointed as Defence Minister and made a member of the Presidium. 

 In 1957, Zhukov lost favour again and was forced to retire. He never returned to a position of influence and died in 1974. Zhukov is remembered as one of the greatest Russian and Soviet military leaders of all time, along with Alexander Suvorov and Mikhail Kutuzov.

Alexander Grigoryevich Kruchina (1905-1987).

Layout of the poster "Glory to the Soviet people - the conqueror of space!" 1961.

Paper, gouache.

There are editorial notes, signatures on the margins.

Soviet graphic artist, illustrator, poster artist, postcard artist.

Worked in the field of socio-political poster; author of posters dedicated to the Soviet Army, DOSAAF, sports, etc. Collaborated with the Military Publishing House of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, "Fine Arts", "Young Guard". He performed a series of postcards - heroes of the Soviet Union, masters of arts of the Soviet Union (composers and writers). In the 70s, he performed graphic portraits of film directors: S. A. Gerasimova, Yu. A. Zavadsky, R. L. Carmen, Yu. ME. Raizman; artists: I. C Ilyinsky, S. C Obraztsova, S. I. Yutkevich, N. Min Uzhviy, ballerinas G. S. Ulanova, composers Giacomo Puccini and Camille Saint-Saëns, other representatives of domestic and foreign art.

The most famous posters: "Be a skillful and brave scout" (1941), "Protect our native Moscow" (1940s), "Be always on alert", "Do rowing and sailing!", "Learn to swim! Join DOSAAF!", "A glorious page of the history of our Motherland. To the centenary of the heroic defense of Sevastopol 1854-1855" (all -1954), "Glorious feats of the hero-anti-aircraft man Nikolai Andryushko" (1955), etc.

Circulation postcards and posters A. City Kruchins are stored in the funds of the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (CMVS of the Russian Federation), the Military Historical Museum of the Pacific Fleet, the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg (GMI St. Petersburg), the State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky, Murom Historical and Art Museum (MIHM), Museum-Reserve "Dmitrovsky Kremlin" (MZDK), Novorossiysk Historical Museum-Reserve (NIMZ), Rybinsk State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve, State Memorial Museum of A. C Suvorov (GMM A. C Suvorov), Sergiev Posad Museum-Reserve, GKM named after Min P. Starostin, National Library of Belarus (NBB), in private Russian collections.

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And another post in support of Ukraine.

We haven't visited a city in a while, so tonight we're visiting Izmail in Odesa Oblast. It dates from the 12th century when the fortress of Izmail was built by Genoese merchants (it was known as Licovrissi, then) on the Danube River. It passed to several different rulers over the centuries, but in 1484, the area was conquered by the Ottoman Empire. Its current name comes from the name of an Ottoman Grand Vizier. By the 16th century, it had become the main fortress of the Ottoman Empire in the area. Eventually, it was taken by muscovy a few times and also ended up being part of Moldavia and Romania. After WWII, it ended up being part of muscovy again. The monument to Alexander Suvorov, who was the "russian" commander who captured the fortress in Russo-Turkish War of 1787-1792, was taken down in November 2022 & has been placed in storage until officials decide where to put it permanently. Maybe it should stay in storage.

#StandWithUkraine

#SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦🌻

Odessa

Founded by decree of Empress Catherine II in 1794 on the site of a fortress built not earlier than Alexander Suvorov.

Historically, the city was settled by settlers, immigrants from the central part of Russia and Jews

national composition of odessa in 1897:

Russians~60%

Jews~30%

The city became the main port of the Russian Empire on the Black Sea.

After 70years existence of Soviet Union and Ukrane we had ~50% Ukrainian sectarians and ~40% of Russian

After the burning of Russian activists alive (as far as I know, as a Russian, this is not accepted in Europe) on May 2, 2015, for Odessa, the demolition of historical sites, torture and disappearances of people, the crisis and rocket strikes became the norm

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/69465

Whoa. I just read this translation of Putin's speech on the inclusion of those four territories from Eastern Ukraine into Russia.

This is kinda long but totally worth reading! If you've had any doubts that Putin is working with Trump and the white hats, this will put them to rest:

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Citizens of Russia, citizens of the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, residents of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, deputies of the State Duma, senators of the Russian Federation,

As you know, referendums have been held in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. The ballots have been counted and the results have been announced. The people have made their unequivocal choice.

Today we will sign treaties on the accession of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Lugansk People’s Republic, Zaporozhye Region and Kherson Region to the Russian Federation. I have no doubt that the Federal Assembly will support the constitutional laws on the accession to Russia and the establishment of four new regions, our new constituent entities of the Russian Federation, because this is the will of millions of people. (Applause.)

It is undoubtedly their right, an inherent right sealed in Article 1 of the UN Charter, which directly states the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples.

I repeat, it is an inherent right of the people. It is based on our historical affinity, and it is that right that led generations of our predecessors, those who built and defended Russia for centuries since the period of Ancient Rus, to victory.

Here in Novorossiya, [Pyotr] Rumyantsev, [Alexander] Suvorov and [Fyodor] Ushakov fought their battles, and Catherine the Great and [Grigory] Potyomkin founded new cities. Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought here to the bitter end during the Great Patriotic War.

We will always remember the heroes of the Russian Spring, those who refused to accept the neo-Nazi coup d'état in Ukraine in 2014, all those who died for the right to speak their native language, to preserve their culture, traditions and religion, and for the very right to live. We remember the soldiers of Donbass, the martyrs of the “Odessa Khatyn,” the victims of inhuman terrorist attacks carried out by the Kiev regime. We commemorate volunteers and militiamen, civilians, children, women, senior citizens, Russians, Ukrainians, people of various nationalities; popular leader of Donetsk Alexander Zakharchenko; military commanders Arsen Pavlov and Vladimir Zhoga, Olga Kochura and Alexei Mozgovoy; prosecutor of the Lugansk Republic Sergei Gorenko; paratrooper Nurmagomed Gadzhimagomedov and all our soldiers and officers who died a hero’s death during the special military operation. They are heroes. (Applause.) Heroes of great Russia. Please join me in a minute of silence to honour their memory.

(Minute of silence.)

Behind the choice of millions of residents in the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, is our common destiny and thousand-year history. People have passed this spiritual connection on to their children and grandchildren. Despite all the trials they endured, they carried the love for Russia through the years. This is something no one can destroy. That is why both older generations and young people – those who were born after the tragic collapse of the Soviet Union – have voted for our unity, for our common future.

In 1991 in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, representatives of the party elite of that time made a decision to terminate the Soviet Union, without asking ordinary citizens what they wanted, and people suddenly found themselves cut off from their homeland. This tore apart and dismembered our national community and triggered a national catastrophe. Just like the government quietly demarcated the borders of Soviet republics, acting behind the scenes after the 1917 revolution, the last leaders of the Soviet Union, contrary to the direct expression of the will of the majority of people in the referendum of 1991, destroyed our great country, and simply made the people in the former republics face this as an accomplished fact.

I can admit that they didn’t even know what they were doing and what consequences their actions would have in the end. But it doesn't matter now. There is no Soviet Union anymore; we cannot return to the past. Actually, Russia no longer needs it today; this isn’t our ambition. But there is nothing stronger than the determination of millions of people who, by their culture, religion, traditions, and language, consider themselves part of Russia, whose ancestors lived in a single country for centuries. There is nothing stronger than their determination to return to their true historical homeland.

For eight long years, people in Donbass were subjected to genocide, shelling and blockades; in Kherson and Zaporozhye, a criminal policy was pursued to cultivate hatred for Russia, for everything Russian. Now too, during the referendums, the Kiev regime threatened schoolteachers, women who worked in election commissions with reprisals and death. Kiev threatened millions of people who came to express their will with repression. But the people of Donbass, Zaporozhye and Kherson weren’t broken, and they had their say.

I want the Kiev authorities and their true handlers in the West to hear me now, and I want everyone to remember this: the people living in Lugansk and Donetsk, in Kherson and Zaporozhye have become our citizens, forever. (Applause.)

We call on the Kiev regime to immediately cease fire and all hostilities; to end the war it unleashed back in 2014 and return to the negotiating table. We are ready for this, as we have said more than once. But the choice of the people in Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson will not be discussed. The decision has been made, and Russia will not betray it. (Applause.) Kiev’s current authorities should respect this free expression of the people’s will; there is no other way. This is the only way to peace.

We will defend our land with all the forces and resources we have, and we will do everything we can to ensure the safety of our people. This is the great liberating mission of our nation.

We will definitely rebuild the destroyed cities and towns, the residential buildings, schools, hospitals, theatres and museums. We will restore and develop industrial enterprises, factories, infrastructure, as well as the social security, pension, healthcare and education systems.

We will certainly work to improve the level of security. Together we will make sure that citizens in the new regions can feel the support of all the people of Russia, of the entire nation, all the republics, territories and regions of our vast Motherland. (Applause.)

Today I would like to address our soldiers and officers who are taking part in the special military operation, the fighters of Donbass and Novorossiya, those who went to military recruitment offices after receiving a call-up paper under the executive order on partial mobilisation, and those who did this voluntarily, answering the call of their hearts. I would like to address their parents, wives and children, to tell them what our people are fighting for, what kind of enemy we are up against, and who is pushing the world into new wars and crises and deriving blood-stained benefits from this tragedy.

Our compatriots, our brothers and sisters in Ukraine who are part of our united people have seen with their own eyes what the ruling class of the so-called West have prepared for humanity as a whole. They have dropped their masks and shown what they are really made of.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the West decided that the world and all of us would permanently accede to its dictates. In 1991, the West thought that Russia would never rise after such shocks and would fall to pieces on its own. This almost happened. We remember the horrible 1990s, hungry, cold and hopeless. But Russia remained standing, came alive, grew stronger and occupied its rightful place in the world.

Meanwhile, the West continued and continues looking for another chance to strike a blow at us, to weaken and break up Russia, which they have always dreamed about, to divide our state and set our peoples against each other, and to condemn them to poverty and extinction. They cannot rest easy knowing that there is such a great country with this huge territory in the world, with its natural wealth, resources and people who cannot and will not do someone else’s bidding.

The West is ready to cross every line to preserve the neo-colonial system which allows it to live off the world, to plunder it thanks to the domination of the dollar and technology, to collect an actual tribute from humanity, to extract its primary source of unearned prosperity, the rent paid to the hegemon. The preservation of this annuity is their main, real and absolutely self-serving motivation. This is why total de-sovereignisation is in their interest. This explains their aggression towards independent states, traditional values and authentic cultures, their attempts to undermine international and integration processes, new global currencies and technological development centres they cannot control. It is critically important for them to force all countries to surrender their sovereignty to the United States.

In certain countries, the ruling elites voluntarily agree to do this, voluntarily agree to become vassals; others are bribed or intimidated. And if this does not work, they destroy entire states, leaving behind humanitarian disasters, devastation, ruins, millions of wrecked and mangled human lives, terrorist enclaves, social disaster zones, protectorates, colonies and semi-colonies. They don't care. All they care about is their own benefit.

I want to underscore again that their insatiability and determination to preserve their unfettered dominance are the real causes of the hybrid war that the collective West is waging against Russia. They do not want us to be free; they want us to be a colony. They do not want equal cooperation; they want to loot. They do not want to see us a free society, but a mass of soulless slaves.

They see our thought and our philosophy as a direct threat. That is why they target our philosophers for assassination. Our culture and art present a danger to them, so they are trying to ban them. Our development and prosperity are also a threat to them because competition is growing. They do not want or need Russia, but we do. (Applause.)

I would like to remind you that in the past, ambitions of world domination have repeatedly shattered against the courage and resilience of our people. Russia will always be Russia. We will continue to defend our values and our Motherland.

The West is counting on impunity, on being able to get away with anything. As a matter of fact, this was actually the case until recently. Strategic security agreements have been trashed; agreements reached at the highest political level have been declared tall tales; firm promises not to expand NATO to the east gave way to dirty deception as soon as our former leaders bought into them; missile defence, intermediate-range and shorter-range missile treaties have been unilaterally dismantled under far-fetched pretexts.

And all we hear is, the West is insisting on a rules-based order. Where did that come from anyway? Who has ever seen these rules? Who agreed or approved them? Listen, this is just a lot of nonsense, utter deceit, double standards, or even triple standards! They must think we’re stupid.

Russia is a great thousand-year-old power, a whole civilisation, and it is not going to live by such makeshift, false rules. (Applause.)

It was the so-called West that trampled on the principle of the inviolability of borders, and now it is deciding, at its own discretion, who has the right to self-determination and who does not, who is unworthy of it. It is unclear what their decisions are based on or who gave them the right to decide in the first place. They just assumed it.

That is why the choice of the people in Crimea, Sevastopol, Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson makes them so furiously angry. The West does not have any moral right to weigh in, or even utter a word about freedom of democracy. It does not and it never did.

Western elites not only deny national sovereignty and international law. Their hegemony has pronounced features of totalitarianism, despotism and apartheid. They brazenly divide the world into their vassals – the so-called civilised countries – and all the rest, who, according to the designs of today's Western racists, should be added to the list of barbarians and savages. False labels like “rogue country” or “authoritarian regime” are already available, and are used to stigmatise entire nations and states, which is nothing new. There is nothing new in this: deep down, the Western elites have remained the same colonisers. They discriminate and divide peoples into the top tier and the rest.

We have never agreed to and will never agree to such political nationalism and racism. What else, if not racism, is the Russophobia being spread around the world? What, if not racism, is the West’s dogmatic conviction that its civilisation and neoliberal culture is an indisputable model for the entire world to follow? “You’re either with us or against us.” It even sounds strange.

Western elites are even shifting repentance for their own historical crimes on everyone else, demanding that the citizens of their countries and other peoples confess to things they have nothing to do with at all, for example, the period of colonial conquests.

It is worth reminding the West that it began its colonial policy back in the Middle Ages, followed by the worldwide slave trade, the genocide of Indian tribes in America, the plunder of India and Africa, the wars of England and France against China, as a result of which it was forced to open its ports to the opium trade. What they did was get entire nations hooked on drugs and purposefully exterminated entire ethnic groups for the sake of grabbing land and resources, hunting people like animals. This is contrary to human nature, truth, freedom and justice.

While we – we are proud that in the 20th century our country led the anti-colonial movement, which opened up opportunities for many peoples around the world to make progress, reduce poverty and inequality, and defeat hunger and disease.

To emphasise, one of the reasons for the centuries-old Russophobia, the Western elites’ unconcealed animosity toward Russia is precisely the fact that we did not allow them to rob us during the period of colonial conquests and forced the Europeans to trade with us on mutually beneficial terms. This was achieved by creating a strong centralised state in Russia, which grew and got stronger based on the great moral values ​​of Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism, as well as Russian culture and the Russian word that were open to all.

There were numerous plans to invade Russia. Such attempts were made during the Time of Troubles in the 17th century and in the period of ordeals after the 1917 revolution. All of them failed. The West managed to grab hold of Russia’s wealth only in the late 20th century, when the state had been destroyed. They called us friends and partners, but they treated us like a colony, using various schemes to pump trillions of dollars out of the country. We remember. We have not forgotten anything.

A few days ago, people in Donetsk and Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye declared their support for restoring our historical unity. Thank you! (Applause.)

Western countries have been saying for centuries that they bring freedom and democracy to other nations. Nothing could be further from the truth. Instead of bringing democracy they suppressed and exploited, and instead of giving freedom they enslaved and oppressed. The unipolar world is inherently anti-democratic and unfree; it is false and hypocritical through and through.

The United States is the only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons twice, destroying the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. And they created a precedent.

Recall that during WWII the United States and Britain reduced Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne and many other German cities to rubble, without the least military necessity. It was done ostentatiously and, to repeat, without any military necessity. They had only one goal, as with the nuclear bombing of Japanese cities: to intimidate our country and the rest of the world.

It actually continues to occupy Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea and other countries, which they cynically refer to as equals and allies. Look now, what kind of alliance is that? The whole world knows that the top officials in these countries are being spied on and that their offices and homes are bugged. It is a disgrace, a disgrace for those who do this and for those who, like slaves, silently and meekly swallow this arrogant behaviour.

They call the orders and threats they make to their vassals Euro-Atlantic solidarity, and the creation of biological weapons and the use of human test subjects, including in Ukraine, noble medical research.

It is their destructive policies, wars and plunder that have unleashed today’s massive wave of migrants. Millions of people endure hardships and humiliation or die by the thousands trying to reach Europe.

They are exporting grain from Ukraine now. Where are they taking it under the guise of ensuring the food security of the poorest countries? Where is it going? They are taking it to the self-same European countries. Only five percent has been delivered to the poorest countries. More cheating and naked deception again.

In effect, the American elite is using the tragedy of these people to weaken its rivals, to destroy nation states. This goes for Europe and for the identities of France, Italy, Spain and other countries with centuries-long histories.

Washington demands more and more sanctions against Russia and the majority of European politicians obediently go along with it. They clearly understand that by pressuring the EU to completely give up Russian energy and other resources, the United States is practically pushing Europe toward deindustrialisation in a bid to get its hands on the entire European market. These European elites understand everything – they do, but they prefer to serve the interests of others. This is no longer servility but direct betrayal of their own peoples. God bless, it is up to them.

But the Anglo-Saxons believe sanctions are no longer enough and now they have turned to subversion. It seems incredible but it is a fact – by causing explosions on Nord Stream’s international gas pipelines passing along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, they have actually embarked on the destruction of Europe’s entire energy infrastructure. It is clear to everyone who stands to gain. Those who benefit are responsible, of course.

The dictates of the US are backed up by crude force, on the law of the fist. Sometimes it is beautifully wrapped sometimes there is no wrapping at all but the gist is the same – the law of the fist. Hence, the deployment and maintenance of hundreds of military bases in all corners of the world, NATO expansion, and attempts to cobble together new military alliances, such as AUKUS and the like. Much is being done to create a Washington-Seoul-Tokyo military-political chain. All states that possess or aspire to genuine strategic sovereignty and are capable of challenging Western hegemony, are automatically declared enemies.

These are the principles that underlie US and NATO military doctrines that require total domination. Western elites are presenting their neocolonialist plans with the same hypocrisy, claiming peaceful intentions, talking about some kind of deterrence. This evasive word migrates from one strategy to another but really only means one thing – undermining any and all sovereign centres of power.

We have already heard about the deterrence of Russia, China and Iran. I believe next in line are other countries of Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, as well as current US partners and allies. After all, we know that when they are displeased, they introduce sanctions against their allies as well – against this or that bank or company. This is their practice and they will expand it. They have everything in their sights, including our next-door neighbours – the CIS countries.

At the same time, the West has clearly been engaged in wishful thinking for a long time. In launching the sanctions blitzkrieg against Russia, for example, they thought that they could once again line up the whole world at their command. As it turns out, however, such a bright prospect does not excite everyone – other than complete political masochists and admirers of other unconventional forms of international relations. Most states refuse to ”snap a salute“ and instead choose the sensible path of cooperation with Russia.

The West clearly did not expect such insubordination. They simply got used to acting according to a template, to grab whatever they please, by blackmail, bribery, intimidation, and convinced themselves that these methods would work forever, as if they had fossilised in the past.

Such self-confidence is a direct product not only of the notorious concept of exceptionalism – although it never ceases to amaze – but also of the real ”information hunger“ in the West. The truth has been drowned in an ocean of myths, illusions and fakes, using extremely aggressive propaganda, lying like Goebbels. The more unbelievable the lie, the quicker people will believe it – that is how they operate, according to this principle.

But people cannot be fed with printed dollars and euros. You can't feed them with those pieces of paper, and the virtual, inflated capitalisation of western social media companies can't heat their homes. Everything I am saying is important. And what I just said is no less so: you can't feed anyone with paper – you need food; and you can't heat anyone’s home with these inflated capitalisations – you need energy.

That is why politicians in Europe have to convince their fellow citizens to eat less, take a shower less often and dress warmer at home. And those who start asking fair questions like “Why is that, in fact?” are immediately declared enemies, extremists and radicals. They point back at Russia and say: that is the source of all your troubles. More lies.

I want to make special note of the fact that there is every reason to believe that the Western elites are not going to look for constructive ways out of the global food and energy crisis that they and they alone are to blame for, as a result of their long-term policy, dating back long before our special military operation in Ukraine, in Donbass. They have no intention of solving the problems of injustice and inequality. I am afraid they would rather use other formulas they are more comfortable with.

And here it is important to recall that the West bailed itself out of its early 20th century challenges with World War I. Profits from World War II helped the United States finally overcome the Great Depression and become the largest economy in the world, and to impose on the planet the power of the dollar as a global reserve currency. And the 1980s crisis – things came to a head in the 1980s again – the West emerged from it unscathed largely by appropriating the inheritance and resources of the collapsed and defunct Soviet Union. That's a fact.

Now, in order to free itself from the latest web of challenges, they need to dismantle Russia as well as other states that choose a sovereign path of development, at all costs, to be able to further plunder other nations’ wealth and use it to patch their own holes. If this does not happen, I cannot rule out that they will try to trigger a collapse of the entire system, and blame everything on that, or, God forbid, decide to use the old formula of economic growth through war.

Russia is aware of its responsibility to the international community and will make every effort to ensure that cooler heads prevail.

The current neocolonial model is ultimately doomed; this much is obvious. But I repeat that its real masters will cling to it to the end. They simply have nothing to offer the world except to maintain the same system of plundering and racketeering.

They do not give a damn about the natural right of billions of people, the majority of humanity, to freedom and justice, the right to determine their own future. They have already moved on to the radical denial of moral, religious, and family values.

Let’s answer some very simple questions for ourselves. Now I would like to return to what I said and want to address also all citizens of the country – not just the colleagues that are in the hall – but all citizens of Russia: do we want to have here, in our country, in Russia, “parent number one, parent number two and parent number three” (they have completely lost it!) instead of mother and father? Do we want our schools to impose on our children, from their earliest days in school, perversions that lead to degradation and extinction? Do we want to drum into their heads the ideas that certain other genders exist along with women and men and to offer them gender reassignment surgery? Is that what we want for our country and our children? This is all unacceptable to us. We have a different future of our own.

Let me repeat that the dictatorship of the Western elites targets all societies, including the citizens of Western countries themselves. This is a challenge to all. This complete renunciation of what it means to be human, the overthrow of faith and traditional values, and the suppression of freedom are coming to resemble a “religion in reverse” – pure Satanism. Exposing false messiahs, Jesus Christ said in the Sermon on the Mount: “By their fruits ye shall know them.” These poisonous fruits are already obvious to people, and not only in our country but also in all countries, including many people in the West itself.

Today, we are fighting for a just and free path, first of all for ourselves, for Russia, in order to leave dictate and despotism in the past. I am convinced that countries and peoples understand that a policy based on the exceptionalism of whoever it may be and the suppression of other cultures and peoples is inherently criminal, and that we must close this shameful chapter. The ongoing collapse of Western hegemony is irreversible. And I repeat: things will never be the same.

The battlefield to which destiny and history have called us is a battlefield for our people, for the great historical Russia. (Applause.) For the great historical Russia, for future generations, our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. We must protect them against enslavement and monstrous experiments that are designed to cripple their minds and souls.

Today, we are fighting so that it would never occur to anyone that Russia, our people, our language, or our culture can be erased from history. Today, we need a consolidated society, and this consolidation can only be based on sovereignty, freedom, creation, and justice. Our values ​​are humanity, mercy and compassion.

And I want to close with the words of a true patriot Ivan Ilyin: “If I consider Russia my Motherland, that means that I love as a Russian, contemplate and think, sing and speak as a Russian; that I believe in the spiritual strength of the Russian people. Its spirit is my spirit; its destiny is my destiny; its suffering is my grief; and its prosperity is my joy.”

Behind these words stands a glorious spiritual choice, which, for more than a thousand years of Russian statehood, was followed by many generations of our ancestors. Today, we are making this choice; the citizens of the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics and the residents of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions have made this choice. They made the choice to be with their people, to be with their Motherland, to share in its destiny, and to be victorious together with it.

(Applause.)

Events 12.22 (before 1950)

AD 69 – Vespasian is proclaimed Emperor of Rome; his predecessor, Vitellius, attempts to abdicate but is captured and killed at the Gemonian stairs. 401 – Pope Innocent I is elected, the only pope to succeed his father in the office. 856 – Damghan earthquake: An earthquake near the Persian city of Damghan kills an estimated 200,000 people, the sixth deadliest earthquake in recorded history. 880 – Luoyang, eastern capital of the Tang dynasty, is captured by rebel leader Huang Chao during the reign of Emperor Xizong. 1135 – Three weeks after the death of King Henry I of England, Stephen of Blois claims the throne and is privately crowned King of England, beginning the English Anarchy. 1216 – Pope Honorius III approves the Dominican Order through the papal bull of confirmation Religiosam vitam. 1489 – The forces of the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, take control of Almería from the Nasrid ruler of Granada, Muhammad XIII. 1769 – Sino-Burmese War: The war ends with the Qing dynasty withdrawing from Burma forever. 1788 – Nguyễn Huệ proclaims himself Emperor Quang Trung, in effect abolishing on his own the Lê dynasty. 1790 – The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Alexander Suvorov and his Russian armies. 1807 – The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson. 1808 – Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto and Choral Fantasy. 1851 – India's first freight train is operated in Roorkee, to transport material for the construction of the Ganges Canal. 1851 – The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., burns. 1864 – American Civil War: Savannah, Georgia, falls to the Union's Army of the Tennessee, and General Sherman tells President Abraham Lincoln: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah". 1885 – Itō Hirobumi, a samurai, becomes the first Prime Minister of Japan. 1888 – The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement. 1890 – Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia. 1891 – Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography. 1894 – The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason. 1906 – An Mw  7.9 earthquake strikes Xinjiang, China, killing at least 280. 1920 – The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR. 1921 – Opening of Visva-Bharati College, also known as Santiniketan College, now Visva Bharati University, India. 1937 – The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City. 1939 – Indian Muslims observe a "Day of Deliverance" to celebrate the resignations of members of the Indian National Congress over their not having been consulted over the decision to enter World War II with the United Kingdom. 1940 – World War II: Himara is captured by the Greek army. 1942 – World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon. 1944 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge: German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!" 1944 – World War II: The People's Army of Vietnam is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indochina, now Vietnam. 1945 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman issues an executive order giving World War II refugees precedence in visa applications under U.S. immigration quotas. 1948 – Sjafruddin Prawiranegara established the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia (Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia, PDRI) in West Sumatra.

English below

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#היום בשנת 1730, נולד הגנרליסימו לעתיד אלכסנדר ואסילייביץ’ סובורוב.

סובורוב מפורסם בכך שמעולם לא הפסיד אף קרב, מה שמעיד על התובנה האסטרטגית שלו ועל יכולות המנהיגות הצבאית שלו. הקריירה הצבאית של סובורוב, שנמשכה יותר מחצי מאה, התבלטה בגישתו החדשנית ללוחמה. הוא התגייס לצבא הקיסרי הרוסי בגיל צעיר ועלה במהירות בסולם הדרגות הודות להצלחותיו בשדה הקרב.

שיטתו, שהיתה שונה מהשיטות הרגילות והנוקשות של בני דורו, הדגישה מהירות, הפתעה ונטילת יוזמה. גמישות טקטית זו מילאה תפקיד מכריע בניצחונותיו הרבים על יריבים שונים, כולל האימפריה העות’מאנית וצרפת.

בנוסף להישגים הצבאיים, סובורוב תרם תרומה משמעותית למדע הצבאי ולחינוך צבאי. הוא היה למחבר הספר “מדע הניצחון”, שבו סיכם את הניסיון והידע שלו ויצר מדריך למנהיגים צבאיים עתידיים, שנלמדה באקדמיה הצבאית הקיסרית.

עבודה זו הדגישה את החשיבות של מורל, משמעת ויכולת הסתגלות, עקרונות שנותרו רלוונטיים במחשבה הצבאית.

סובורוב אולי שיחק שח בשדה הקרב, אבל בערוב ימיו הסתכסך עם הצאר פאבל הראשון, שהדיחו מהצבא על רקע התנגדותו להכנסת מנהגים פרוסיים לצבא הרוסי. אבל זה כבר סיפור אחר.

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Today in 1730, the future Generalissimo Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov was born.

Suvorov is famous for never losing a single battle, which is a testament to his strategic insight and military leadership abilities. Suvorov's military career, which lasted more than half a century, was distinguished by his innovative approach to warfare. He enlisted in the Russian Imperial Army at a young age and quickly rose through the ranks, thanks to his successes on the battlefield.

His method, which was different from the usual and rigid methods, and consists of emphasized speed, surprise and taking the initiative. This tactical flexibility played a crucial role in his many victories over various opponents, including the Ottoman Empire and France.

In addition to military achievements, Suvorov made a significant contribution to military science and education. He was the author of the book "The Science of Victory", in which he summarized his experience and knowledge and created a guide for future military leaders, which was studied at the Imperial Military Academy. This work emphasized the importance of morale, discipline and adaptability, principles that remain relevant in military thought.

Suvorov may have played chess on the battlefield, but in the twilight of his life he quarreled with Czar Pavel I, who dismissed him from the army due to his opposition to the introduction of Prussian customs into the Russian army. But that's another story.

torture and rape to force prisoners to go to war in Ukraine

from gulagu.net (7/25/23):

About torture in the Federal Penitentiary Service and coercion to go to war in Ukraine. Men in the colonies began to be raped for refusing to fight: “Hello Vladimir! I ask you to help the convicts serving sentences in IK-15, the special regime of the Main Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Chelyabinsk Region (Kopeysk). upon arrival in the colony, if the convict refuses to write that he will cooperate with the administration and does not agree to go to the "SVO", severe torture was immediately applied to this convict. After the use of torture, of course, many did and signed everything, and those who, even after the use of torture, stood their ground and refused everything, they were already subjected to violent acts of a sexual nature in a perverted form, and this was filmed on video (as in OTB-1 Saratov). sadists said: "If you tell anyone what is happening here, other convicts will see this video and you will move to the" harem ". Engaged in these tortures and rapes are agents of the Federal Penitentiary Service - convicts who were brought from Omsk and Kirov. One of them is Boyarintsev Denis, nicknamed "Baker". This bl_dina is a maniac sick in the head. The names of these bl_dey are hidden by employees, they wear tags with other people's data and it is very difficult to find out their real data, and this is a dangerous undertaking. There are very few who are ready to write complaints, the majority are morally and mentally broken. For those who dared and wrote complaints, this turned against them, on the contrary, they were tortured for this, and their complaints did not go further than the colony. We repeatedly asked for help in various ways to the thief Seryoga Asatryan, who is sitting here in the region in the prison in Verkhneuralsk, brought to him that lawlessness was taking place here, in particular, many times through the peasants, who from IK-15 after being tortured in poor condition were taken to the hospital in LPU-3, Chelyabinsk. And we were convinced that our requests for help reached this Seryoga Asatryan, because after that the head of the operational department of the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Chelyabinsk region Makarov Anton Vladimirovich came to us in IK-15 with other operatives and called the peasants who wrote a little about helping Seryoga Asatryan. Makarov said what is happening here - Seryoga is well aware and he will not help you in any way, because he knows that if he climbs here, he will go back to Krasnoyarsk. And he even offered these men his phone if they want to talk to Seryoga. And knowing everything that happens in IK-15, this Seryoga Asatryan did nothing to help the peasants, at least somehow alleviate their plight. All these tortures and rapes in IK-15 take place under the personal control of Anton Vladimirovich Makarov, head of the operational department of the GUFSIN of Russia in the Chelyabinsk region, and with the tacit consent of the thief Seryoga Asatryan. Mokhov Alexander and Suvorov Pavel are now in the ShIZO after being tortured. Also, after the torture, when they wanted to rape Yevgeny Sokolov, he seriously cut his veins, and he was taken away in poor condition to LPU-3, Chelyabinsk. The men from IK-15 called me and said that on July 18 and 19 prosecutors from the Prosecutor General's Office and men who are in ShIZO and PKT came to them, they complained about torture and rape, and these prosecutors recorded everything and interrogated everyone and even went to the hospital in LPU-3, Chelyabinsk, and there they interrogated the men who, after being tortured in IK-15, were taken there to hospital, and even a criminal case was initiated against the employees under Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (http://xn--j1ar.xn--p1ai/). (http://xn--j1ar.xn--p1ai/) Now these prosecutors have left and the locals want to hush up the cases of rape, the employees of the GUFSIN come to IK-15, and by persuasion and threats, now with the help of the same thief Seryoga Asatryan, they are trying to silence the peasants so that they don’t speak for the facts of rape, and so that the peasants no longer complain, and in fact continue to live on a far-fetched these bl_dyami regime. Dear Vladimir Valeryevich, in general, all the men from IK-15 came to the unanimous opinion that we should turn to you ... ".

To the attention of the PMC, the HRO, the HRC, the CSS of the Federal Penitentiary Service, the TFR and prosecutors.

(google translated)

Esta es la historia de un sencillo y afable joven de 16 años llamado Grisha, quien tendrá que separarse de su amada Sonya y emprender un gran viaje, ya que, por voluntad del destino, deberá servir al invencible comandante Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov. Grisha participará en emocionantes aventuras, pero deberá ser testigo de los eventos clave de la legendaria campaña suiza de Surovov y tendrá que participar en peligrosas intrigas para poder demostrar que todos pueden convertirse en héroes.

Alexander Suvorov march

Odesa City Council has voted to remove two monuments related to the Russian imperial presence in Odesa from the city streets, and to move them to the Odesa Fine Arts Museum.

One of the monuments being removed is “The Founders of Odesa,” a sculptural group featuring the Russian Empress Catherine II surrounded by her favorites — José de Ribas, François Sainte de Wollant, Grigory Potemkin, and Platon Zubov. The monument was inaugurated in 1900, removed 20 years later, and reinstalled in 2007, leading to further efforts by local activists to have it taken down.

Another monument being banished is the equestrian sculpture of the Russian general Alexander Suvorov, inaugurated in 2012. The bronze is a copy of the Suvorov monument in Izmail, a city in southwestern Ukraine.

Out of the 44 councillors present, 43 voted for the removal of “The Founders of Odesa,” and 41 supported taking down the Suvorov monument, as clear from the video published on the City Council’s Telegram channel. The Ukrainian news service Hromadske reports that some of the councillors were absent during the vote.

The idea to move the two imperial monuments to the Odesa Fine Arts Museum came from Councillor Alexandra Kovalchuk, who is also the museum’s deputy director. Kovalchuk herself didn’t take part in the vote.

In August 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky supported the petition to remove the Catherine II monument and asked the City Council to consider the question.

In September, Odesa Mayor Gennady Trukhanov proposed creating a park to commemorate Odesa’s “imperial and Soviet past,” where some of the city’s historically controversial monuments could be gathered and preserved.

In recent months, “The Founders of Odesa” monument was repeatedly vandalized by the locals: in September, they poured red paint over it twice, and earlier this month Catherine’s head was covered by an executioner’s red hood, while a rope with a noose was placed in her right hand.

According to RBC Ukraine, preparations for removing the monument began in early November.

Подземная церковь в честь римского императора Константина, сделавшего христианство государственной религией Римской империи, и в честь его матери Елены. Примыкает к Воскресенскому собору Новоиерусалимского монастыря с востока. Войти туда можно из собора, спустившись из деамбулатория на 6 метров по лестнице в 33 ступени. В этой подземной церкви погребены жена и сын Александра Васильевича Суворова. Медный и позолоченный иконостас создан мастерами Иваном Петлюхиным, Гаврилой Серебрениковым и Иоганном Думом на деньги графа Алексея Григорьевича Разумовского. Тот происходил из запорожских казаков и стал одним из самых высших сановников при императрице Елизавете Петровне. Город Истра, Московская область. Underground church in honor of the Roman emperor Constantine, who made Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire, and in honor of his mother Helen. It adjoins the Resurrection Cathedral of the New Jerusalem Monastery from the east. You can enter there from the cathedral, descending from the ambulatory 6 meters down the stairs in 33 steps. The wife and son of Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov are buried in this underground church. The copper and gilded iconostasis was created by craftsmen Ivan Petlyukhin, Gavrila Serebrenikov and Johann Doom at the expense of Count Alexei Grigoryevich Razumovsky. He came from the Zaporozhye Cossacks and became one of the highest dignitaries under the Russian Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. City of Istra, Moscow region. #Россия #Russia #Москва #Moscow #Istra #NewJerusalem #НовыйИерусалим #Истра #монастырь #monastery #church #церковь #собор #cathedral #fortification #крепость #HolyLand #СвятаяЗемля #фортепиано #пианист #преподаватель #репетитор #репетиторы #concertpianist #педагог #школамузыки #урокимузыки #музыкалка #музыкальнаяшкола #учительмузыки (at Церковь Константина и Елены) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkJhTEogCmt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=