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“Russian ambassador on
nerve agent claims: UK has 'record of misleading international community'”
Yes, the Russian Ambassador is right.
Really, what else can you say about the invasion of Iraq or
the terrible covert efforts in Syria?
And as for the Hitler comparison, it is offensive, deeply
offensive.
Russia (then the USSR) suffered 27 million deaths owing to
Hitler's massive, all-out invasion. It was total war, something few have ever
experienced.
The number makes the losses from that war of any other country
seem almost trivial by comparison. The US, for example, lost less than 300
thousand (about one-percent of Russian losses) in the entire war (although
someone with no history could be forgiven for thinking from Hollywood films
that America suffered terribly and that it almost single-handedly won the war).
It was Russia who actually defeated Hitler with events like
the greatest, bloodiest battle in all of human history at Stalingrad, the greatest
tank battle in all of history at Kursk, and the heroism of withstanding the
long and terrible siege of Leningrad.
I can't believe Boris Johnson has said something so idiotic,
so prejudiced, and so offensive - the words of an ugly bully schoolboy, not a
foreign minister, not even a complete human being.
This newspaper often goes on periodically about presumed
anti-Semitism here or there, generally without a scrap of evidence.
But it is okay to so openly malign the people who actually
defeated Hitler by uncritically publishing such outrageous stuff?
Boris Johnson should resign. Full stop.
And Britain's press needs to get a grip on itself. Some of
the stuff you publish is no better than the ravings from a lunatic asylum or,
indeed, common gutter literature.
