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Mastermind of genocide in Ukraine. How Solovyov becomes Putin's number one propagandist

5 November, 2022 Saturday
09:48

Simonyan, Skabeyeva and Solovyov long ago became not only the luxury propagandists of today's Russia, but also those who made the idea of ​​genocide as commonplace as going to the nearest kiosk and buying beer and cigarettes. Are such people subjected to international tribunals?

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Russian propagandists of various ranks are now deciding what to do in the event of Putin's departure with his staunchest allies — Bortnikov and Patrushev. Some, like the privileged Ksenia Sobchak, negotiate a safe escape. Others, like Dud, Katz and Shulman, lurked abroad in search of a new master with a demonstrably democratic shell. But people like Skabeyeva or Simonyan and Solovyov have no choice - too much was invested for status, square meters and access to the Kremlin. Talent in exchange for a place under the red sun.

The mentioned trinity is incredibly reminiscent of Joseph Goebbels, Gunter d'Alquen and Julius Streicher. This trinity became the striking force of the propaganda of the Third Reich, which incited the Germans of that time to aggression, crimes against humanity and the genocide of the Jews.

When it became clear that Hitler's reign would come to an end, Joseph Goebbels asked to poison his six children on May 1, 1945, and then committed suicide himself along with his wife. If he had remained alive, he would have 100% been expected by the Nuremberg Tribunal and the death penalty. Therefore, when Margarita Simonyan, who is currently closest to Putin, flatteringly calls him an incredible, fantastic and convincing leader, you can very clearly see the picture when in the near future they will swallow a cyanide pill with her husband Tigran Keosayan.

Olga Skabeyeva is a woman from a Russian province, from where they go to war in droves to earn benefits and the status of a participant in hostilities. She was so eager to become a star on the First Channel that at one point she turned into a toilet cistern, an animal, and a demon at the same time. The best punishment for her in the future is prison, labor camps and a veto on public activities. This is how Max Amann and Gunter d'Alquen were punished.

But the most interesting of this trio is Vladimir Solovyov, a person who is very closely associated today with calls for the genocide of Ukrainians.

It is very interesting now to watch old archive videos where American journalists came to interview the young and promising algebra and physics teacher Vova Solovyov. “The hope of Russian science,” the journalist summed up the conversation with a modern fashionable man in a knitted vest. If only they knew what would happen next.

The democratic Solovyov fiercely defended NTV from usurpation of its power. “The next generations will be ashamed to look in the eyes!” Vova said then, wearing a dermantine jacket and with a fluffy mustache above his lip.  But somewhere a little further on, there was an opportunity to become a consultant for the Nashi project, created by the administration of the President of the Russian Federation, and then to go to "watch" for Russian television - and it went well.

The current Solovyov regularly calls for strikes on civilians and for erasing Ukrainian cities from the face of the earth. For example the calls to deal with Kharkiv: “I don't understand what the hell, they regularly attack Belgorod. Yesterday, with an American missile that was shot down. I don't understand this. Well, somehow the border needs to be pushed back so that Belgorod is not fired upon. This is a threat to our country. Push back the border by 200 km. If you can't move the border, then shoot with the Smerch system.”

It was precisely for the international tribunal in The Hague that he clearly stated:

“I am very worried about the fate of Belgorod. If necessary, it is needed to create scorched earth so that no one comes up. So that Ukraine understands: a blow to Belgorod - there is no Kharkiv. Yes, f**k … everything to demolish, so that Lviv is not even close. Yes, it’s not humane, it’s terrible, but is it normal to hit Belgorod?”

It is interesting that Solovyov, still a young and democratic liberal, opposed the war with Ukraine back in 2008. This is what he said then: “There will never be any war between Russia and Ukraine. Because any person who seriously tries to commit such an act is a criminal, and I can't even imagine what scale it is.”

Even in 2013, when Russia launched its spy tentacles very deeply in Crimea and the topic of taking back Khrushchev's gifts to Ukraine had already begun, Solovyov still had glimpses of common sense.

“There is no legal justification for returning Crimea. Why Crimea? Why not Finland? It was also given by Lenin. It used to be ours. Let's collect the borders of the empire before 1905 - who will determine?” he said at one of the fan meetings.

“Khrushchev gave absolutely legitimately. There were absolutely legitimate legislative acts. How many Ukrainian and Russian lives do you propose to sacrifice for Crimea, which has long become a Crimean Tatar territory?” he said in the fall of 2013.

However, now Solovyov calls as if nothing had happened... to strike at the places of concentration of Ukraine's Armed Forces in the Zaporizhzhia region. And if any Russian soldier refuses to do this, then he should immediately be branded with the article "Treason to the Fatherland", "Counter-revolutionary uprising", "Espionage", "Sabotage", "Terrorism" and generally branded as "enemy of the people".

A separate point is anti-Americanism. Solovyov proposed detonating a nuclear warhead in space to destroy the SpaceX Starlink constellation of satellites.

“Can we launch rockets? In space. And bye bye to Elon Musk's groupings,” Solovyov said during his live broadcast.

But 15 years ago, Solovyov, with his hipster hair, clearly said how the culture of the United States differs from that of the Russian Federation:

“How can you talk about the great culture of Russia if the urinals in America are clean and ours are dirty?”

This propagandist is the unearthed hero of the Third Reich, Julius Streicher. His newspaper, Der Stürmer, published stories of Jewish ritual murders of Aryan children, and blamed Jews for such things as the Hindenburg airship explosion in 1937. There were a lot of caricatures in the newspaper, sometimes openly pornographic, as well as complaints about Jews who interfere with the lives of Aryans: a patient of a psychiatric hospital complained that he was illegally brought there by Jews; the buyer wrote that they did not bring him a shirt from a store belonging to a Jew, and so on in each edition. In his articles, Streicher used the most frank images. He gave anti-Semitism a scientific tone, proving that an Aryan woman, whose blood is damaged by a Jew, will never be able to give birth to full-fledged Aryan children. Julius was a gifted orator and actively spoke throughout Germany with anti-Semitic speeches. One on one like the current Solovyov against the Ukrainians.

Putin's favorite propagandist is only interested in one thing — is there a chance to return the confiscated villa on Lake Como? “They stole my Italian property from me - let them choke,” this phrase is heard in almost every public speech.

It remains to be wondered what Solovyov is capable of - to surrender his Fuehrer in order to be able to see his home at least once out of the corner of his eye. Or to repeat the fate of Julius Streicher absolutely identically. The editor-in-chief was executed by the Nuremberg Tribunal for anti-Semitic propaganda and calls for genocide. He was the only one of the defendants at Nuremberg who was found guilty solely of printed propaganda, and not of actual participation in the decision-making of war and genocide.

Today's Russia played the winner for so long, talked so much about the need to defeat fascism and Nazism, that it essentially repeated the Third Reich in detail. Only the copy will always be worse than the original.  Even as inhumane as the era of Adolf Hitler.

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