Ein fünfteiliger Podcast über den Vernichtungskrieg der deutschen Wehrmacht in der Donbas-Region

"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away …

So in etwa stellen wir uns den Zweiten Weltkrieg vor, insbesondere in Osteuropa, in der Sowjetunion. Meistens stellen wir uns gar nichts vor, denn der deutsche Vernichtungskrieg bleibt immer noch östlich unserer Erinnerung. Viele Orte, die von der Wehrmacht besetzt oder gar vernichtet wurden, sind nicht zum Bestandteil unserer Erinnerung geworden. Wir erzählen die Geschichte eines dieser Orte: Donezk im Donbas, der Stadt, die damals den Namen des sowjetischen Diktators Josef Stalin trug – STALINO."

#Podcast #Geschichte #Ukraine #Donbas #Donezk #Stalino #UdSSR #NSGeschichte #WehrmachtsVerbrechen #VernichtungsKrieg

Stalino | дekoder
https://war.dekoder.org/de/stalino

RE: https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/116257885230047520

#Dixocrats are Dixoctats

#Obama #Biden #Trump

#Imperialism on global South is #imperialism by the federated western capital seeking totalitarian control of people and resources of the entire planet

#Donbas #Iran #Venezuela #Nigeria #Algeria

Today, only such collectibles souvenirs from auctions serve as a reminder that in 2012, #Donetsk was one of the host cities for EURO 2012 and people could fly there from all over the world.

And it turned out that, all things considered, for the people of Donetsk, the world doesn’t end at Rostov, Moscow and industrial plants 100% controlled by the local mafia.

Back then, I was still driving from #Poland through the #Ukraine including #Donbas to the #Caucasus, and seeing the non-stop renovations of roads, hotels and stadiums that had been going on since 2011, I thought that even there, things were changing for the better.

And I suppose that was precisely the moment when #Putin realised that Ukraine and the Donbas might slip away from him towards economic independence, so he decided to restore everything to the default state of the classic ‘Russkiy Mir’ – that is, squalor, poverty and unemployment, in which the Soviet man is 100% dependent on the state. If not that, no sane person with stable job and pension would voluntarily sign a contract with Russian army to participate in “meat wave” attacks on another country - poverty was the primary requirement here.

Reading what Girking’s thugs are doing on the “border” of “Donetsk People’s Republic” I’ve never attempted crossing that route after 2013…

Commenting on media reports about #Narva #Estonia separatist movements claiming they want to go to #Russia, Estonian journalist Toomas Hendrik Ilves produced this comparison[^1]

Average monthly salary in Narva: €1472, across the river in Ivangorod: 200-400 USD, i.e. 180-360€. In Estonia: quality education, healthcare.

Estonian basic pension, 817€/mo. Russia 240€

In Ivangorod, young men get sent to fight in Ukraine. In Estonia young men and women go study in Italy under the EU Erasmus programme

Estonia: #2 in freedom of the press. Russia: #171 out of 180 countries.

All permanent residents of Estonia, i.e. everyone in Narva enjoy free movement within the EU, i.e. you can live and work anywhere in the European Union. In Russia, well, there’s always Kamchatka.

This is all very rational and questions the sanity of any person that would really call for Narva to join Russia. The obvious problem here is in how many people actually think rationally in the area in question?

There’s an excellent book by Vorotyntseva & Kazansky “How Ukraine lost Donbas?” that shows all the complexity of the situation in #Donbas before 2014.[^2]

Technically, Donbas was richer than many Ukrainian and Russian regions in vicinity, at least on macroeconomic scale. But that’s where macro reality starts to diverge from the physical reality on the ground, because Donbas also concentrated all the typical problems of Russia & Ukraine of that time - huge income disparities and mafia controlling most state & private enterprises.

On top of that, add Kyiv practically giving up any attempts to regain political control over the whole Donbas for years, tolerating the local ‘elites’ who they believed aren’t a threat. Yet, Russians clearly found a vector on these elites that somehow bypassed their purely financial motives.

Can’t speak of Narva, so just adding this comment here for possible discussion from people who know more.

[^1]: https://xcancel.com/IlvesToomas/status/2034738061376925895?s=20

[^2]: https://bookwyrm.social/book/1761859/s/how-ukraine-lost-donbas

"I hope there is justice and retribution, not just for those at the top, but those people lower down the food chain as well!"🤮🤮🤮

From https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en

This is what #Russia's "aid to the people of #Donbas" looks like.

So-called "head of the #DPR" #Pushilin and the first deputy chief of the #Russian presidential administration #Kiriyenko visited #Myrnohrad in #Donetsk region, destroyed by #Russia, and posted a video from there.

"The #russian terrorists destroy wherever its infection spreads!"🤮

From https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en

Heartbreaking.

The #Ukrainian city of #Kostiantynivka, #Donetsk region - before and after #Russia’s war.

More than 67,000 people lived here, and nearly 80,000 including the surrounding suburbs. It was one of the major industrial cities in the #Donetsk region.

#Kostiantynivka was known as the glass capital of #Donbas. Dozens of enterprises operated here: glass factories, metallurgy plants,

RaiNews: Sale la tensione tra Ucraina e Ungheria. Trump a Zelensky: "Chiuda l'accordo con Putin"

Kiev e Mosca hanno scambiato altri 300 prigionieri per parte. Il presidente ucraino a Druzhivka, una delle città del Donbas che Putin chiede di cedere

Tensions are rising between Ukraine and Hungary. Trump to Zelensky: "Close the deal with Putin"

Kyiv and Moscow exchanged another 300 prisoners of war on each side. The Ukrainian president held a swap in Druzhivka, one of the Donbas cities that Putin wants to cede.

#Ukraine #Hungary #Zelensky #Moscow #Ukrainian #Druzhivka #Donbas #Putin

https://www.rainews.it/maratona/2026/03/ucraina-guerra-kiev-attacca-nel-mediterraneo-in-fiamme-metaniera-russa-vicino-malta-5fe753ea-517a-418f-9ca9-4242b4f56302.html