Author: Cemil Kerimoglu

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In the shadowed corners of the internet, a Russian website emerged like a grim auction block, eerily resembling an online slave market, where profiles of Ukrainian children – kidnapped from Russian-occupied territories – were advertised for “adoption.” Accompanied by descriptions of their physical builds, eye and hair color, temperaments, and ages, these listings reduced Ukrainian children to commodities, dangling them before prospective Russian families eager to claim a piece of the spoils.

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Their names were Liana and Iryna. They were 16- and 23-year-old Ukrainian girls. They were refugees who escaped the barbaric Russian invasion and sought refuge in wonderful, civilized Western countries; Liana in Germany and Iryna in the U.S. Liana managed to escape Mariupol, her hometown that Russians razed to the ground, plundering, raping, and torturing its population. They believed that they had escaped the savages, stepping into a realm where civilization reigned supreme, untouchable by such primal threats. (more…)

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Many mainstream observers and analysts in the West struggle to grasp how Russia – considered a key force in the Allied victory over Nazi Germany – now exhibits behaviors strikingly similar to the ideology it helped defeat. Even more perplexing to mainstream observers is Russia’s use of World War II’s legacy as a tool of militaristic pride. (more…)

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Western historians and analysts have always failed to comprehend Russia. Among many other things, its imperial nature has been puzzling to Westerners. For obvious reasons, there has been a tendency to compare it to Western colonial empires. (more…)