davidgillon | Disturbing insight into Russian thinking

On Saturday RIA Novosti (owned by the Russian government) published a lengthy article "What Russia should do with Ukraine", which goes into detail on what 'de-nazification' of Ukraine actually means, and dear god in heaven it's Cambodia: Year Zero level stuff, calling for the elimination of the Ukrainian armed forces and intelligentsia, and it doesn't mean just eliminating the organisations, it explicitly calls for eliminating the people involved, with even those not executed or jailed to be used for forced labour. Everyone else needs to be brought under a Stasi-like level of control. The very idea of Ukraine needs to be eliminated in a programme that should last at least a generation.

So that's the Russian government's own press agency explicitly calling for genocide.

And it makes it clear that by 'denazification' it actually means eliminating Western democracy.

It strikes me that we've been here before with Russia, in the NKVD's massacre of Polish officers and intelligentsia at Katyn in 1940.

English translations (the first is explicitly Ukrainian, I'm not sure if the second isn't Novosti's own English-language version, it's certainly screen-grabs from somewhere):

https://medium.com/@kravchenko_mm/what-should-russia-do-with-ukraine-translation-of-a-propaganda-article-by-a-russian-journalist-a3e92e3cb64

https://imgur.com/a/9vZI9Gj

I was discussing the situation last night with my Polish neighbour, who flew off with his wife and kids today to visit the grandparents in Poland for the first time in a couple of years, and he made a fairly chilling point. His parents live near the Ukrainian border, his wife's parents near the German border. Their initial plan was to fly to his parents, then drive to hers. They're reversing that, because he doesn't want to risk them being any closer to Russian SAM batteries in a plane than he can help. I can't say I'd decide any differently.