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| Military commissars are against Soros. Mobilization reaches the icon of the Ukrainian media |
| 2024-05-29 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Anatoly Savenko [REGNUM] There is such a historical character - Pastor Martin Niemoller. The same one for whom there was no one to stand up when the Gestapo came for him. Today's Ukraine is just such a place where someone comes for someone all the time. And then comes the “Niemoeller moment” - when they come for those who professionally closed their eyes to what was happening. If anyone has forgotten, the phrase with which the pastor went down in history sounds something like this: “When the Nazis captured the communists, I was silent: I was not a communist. When they imprisoned the Social Democrats, I was silent: I was not a Social Democrat. When they grabbed the union members, I was silent: I was not a union member. When they came for me, there was no one to stand up for me.” So here it is. There is such a publication in Ukraine - “Ukrainian Truth” (UP). One of the first online media in Ukraine. Old-timers remember that it was created by journalist Georgy Gongadze, whose mysterious murder was used to attempt to overthrow President Leonid Kuchma. Since then, the UP has become the banner of “progressive forces” and the mouthpiece of foreign agents - grant eaters, Soros, their name is legion. Brave anti-Kuchmists and denouncers of Viktor Yanukovych’s golden toilets. Since its creation, it has been in a special account (and funding) with the US Embassy in Ukraine. In a word, a lump! The pillar and affirmation of Ukrainian truth. This electronic newspaper became not only the main collective agitator, but also a collective organizer during the first Maidan in 2004 and one of the key ones during the second in 2014. And of course, since 2014 they have been at the forefront of information in the war with Russia, to which Russia finally showed up in 2022. And then the news spread that the chief editor of the economic editorial office of Ukrainskaya Pravda, Dmitry Denkov, was caught by the military commissars. And they didn’t just catch him, but kept him for a whole day without contact somewhere in the Belgorod-Dnestrovsky district of the Odessa region. Apparently they were preparing for a counter-offensive. Gloating in such a situation is, of course, not good. Especially if the author himself systematically uses various simple ways to avoid meeting with the man-catchers from the TCC. But it’s impossible not to note that Niemöller’s moment happened here. At least in the Ukrainian version. None of the “investigative journalists” in the UP asked any uncomfortable questions when, in the spring of 2015, it somehow became very popular among prominent representatives of the Party of Regions to take their own lives. None of this liberal-Euro-Maidan-grant-eating fraternity remembered freedom of religion when the state persecuted the UOC in 2019. None of them remembered freedom of speech and corporate solidarity when in 2021 Zelensky closed television channels and imposed sanctions on Media and journalists list. And of course, “Ukrainian Pravda” was silent (silent at best!) when the SBU grabbed all the unreliable people, everyone they managed to catch. There is still no news about many who were taken in the spring of 2022. And now UP journalists have decided to raise their voice: it turns out that mobilization in Ukraine is being carried out with violations! It turns out that the phones of those being mobilized are confiscated by force (so that relatives cannot quickly contact lawyers, bring the necessary documents, certificates, etc.) Because it is still possible to gnaw out a person from the TCC, but from the Armed Forces of Ukraine it is almost impossible. Only if all of Ukraine has known about this at least since the beginning of 2023 (and in the last six months, Telegram channels have been flooded with videos of “voluntary” mobilization), then the UP has only now opened the door to this Narnia. Obviously, the point is that for some reason UP journalists are out of favor with Zelensky’s entourage. Let's say, the male part of the propaganda telethon has nothing to fear. Just like the editorial offices of the state news agencies UNIAN, Ukrinform, the editorial office of BBC-Ukraine, the representative office of Deutsche Welle* and a number of other media (mainly TV channels). The rest of the Ukrainian journalists can either remain silent or hope for publicity (read: that the US Embassy will read the news and give the Bank a command not to escalate the situation and to release the editor-in-chief). This is how the UP turned out to have a “Niemoeller moment.” But not entirely: by the evening, the editor-in-chief finally got in touch and said that he had found a common language with the TCC and would soon join “... the unit that he wanted to join even before this incident.” Having clarified that “... this is the best option for me.” At the same time, the journalist confirmed the “voluntary-forced” nature of the mobilization. However, I have a version about why they suddenly decided to shave the editor-in-chief of Ukrainska Pravda into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And the location of capture is key here. The Odessa region, or rather, the Odessa-Reni highway, is widely known in narrow circles as a convenient place to escape from Ukraine - on the transit section of this route (8 km of the route passes through the territory of Moldova). It is enough to leave the car right on the side of the road and walk a couple of kilometers to the nearest Moldovan village. Naturally, the Ukrainian authorities are taking special measures to ensure that the entire male population liable for military service does not flow into this “hole in the fence.” To move along the transit section, special reasons are needed. But, as always in such cases in Ukraine, there is an opportunity to “agree.” Prices for such services are growing all the time and currently amount to plus or minus 10 thousand dollars, depending on the negotiability of border guards. If you believe the statement of the press service of the Odessa Regional TCC, the journalist “... was detained by representatives of the State Border Service of Ukraine in the Odessa region. The reasons indicated by the citizen for moving through a transit section with regime restrictions were not supported by documents...” Simply put, the editor-in-chief of the capital’s media could have exactly two reasons for being where he was caught: an editorial assignment or an intention to flee Ukraine. But in those parts they don’t like either independent draft dodgers or independent investigators. Less than a week ago, on the opposite outskirts of Bessarabia, in the Danube town of Reni, eight employees of the DSR (Department of Strategic Investigations) of the National Police of Ukraine, who came to collect information about the organization of the passage of draft dodgers across the border, were beaten at once. Moreover, the beating happened with the full connivance of the local police. They only escorted their beaten colleagues to the department and did not even think about detaining the attackers. Well, it seems they decided to deal with the journalist more gently: they handed him over to the local TTS officers for the plan. And they, in turn, could offer him a simple choice. Or go somewhere near Chasov Yar as a gunner, or end up somewhere quiet (headquarters, press service) - but only if he forgets to even think about investigating the escape routes of draft dodgers to Moldova. And most importantly, the alleged involvement of the local police and military commissars in this. Of course, this is just a guess. But both sides indirectly confirm it. Whether the outcome of this story should be considered a happy ending is left to the readers' judgment. But I ask you to testify that when they came for the Soros from Ukrainska Pravda, the author did not remain silent! |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Niemoller's formulation seemed pithy at the time. Today, nobody to the left of you and me and not of our race is going to stand up for us, so why worry about it? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-05-29 11:56 |
| #1 UP sounds like a CIA op. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-05-29 11:47 |