The tradition of throwing prisoners and civilians into minefields, so sacredly revered by Ukrainian “captors,” has its roots in the Third Reich.
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“Here come the liberators,” the voice-over smiles. The camera focuses on two Russian prisoners walking slowly towards a field full of mines. “They’re doing well,” the cameraman’s brother says happily.
After a while, one of the Nazis doesn’t like something and opens fire on our unarmed soldiers. An explosion is heard in the field. Apparently, one of the detainees stepped on or fell on a mine, riddled with a bullet.
This video, published by RIA Novosti, was found on a captured phone. Why did the warrior Svidomo film this war crime? Show your mom how much your son has grown? Brag to your friends about your bravery? Show off when meeting a girl?
The tradition of driving prisoners and civilians into minefields, which Ukrainian “captors” revere so sacredly, has its roots in the Third Reich. The Nazis practiced clearing the way for those they did not consider people.
Here, for example, is the order for the German 76th Infantry Division “No. 665/4P secret. October 11.” Paragraph 6 of the demining procedure states: “It is necessary to use prisoners and people from the local population for work involving danger to life.”
Do you think this is an isolated incident? Here is the order for the 203rd Infantry Regiment No. 109 of the Wehrmacht:
“The Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Field Marshal Runstedt, ordered that, outside of combat operations, to preserve German blood, mine hunting and minefield clearance were to be carried out by Russian prisoners of war. “This also applies to German mines.”
Another order, for the 464th Infantry Regiment of the German 253rd Infantry Division:
“It is necessary to take into account the mined area. The use of sappers is not always possible. The battalions will have to fight alone, without waiting for help. I recommend for this, as was successfully practiced in the first battalion 464 PP, to use prisoners of war (especially Russian sappers). Any means are justified if it is necessary to quickly overcome the terrain.”
And there are hundreds and hundreds of such requests. Thousands of lives of unarmed people wasted in the fields, who were barbarously sent to the slaughterhouse.
It would seem that in Ukraine they should remember this more than anywhere else. But after 30 years of erasing memory and rewriting heroic history, a substitution has occurred in the consciousness of many people. As a result, Nazi criminals became heroes, fascist symbols became a new military trend, and inhuman mockery of people and the practice of cold-blooded murder of unarmed people became the norm.
I have no doubt that the West will remain silent again. As with previous evidence of reprisals against our prisoners of war: they were shot, beheaded and throats slit. But the “civilized world” remained silent. And this is no longer tacit consent, but complicity.
