From Euromaiden Press BYKAZYS KLEIZA
Editor’s note: This report summarizes several lectures during the past year byTimothy Snyder, Yale University Richard C. Levin Professor of History and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, in which he provides definitive facts about why Russia’s war is a Ukrainian genocide. Snyder is the author of many books, including “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin,” published in 2010.
“We will kill 1 million. We will kill 5 million.”
“We will obliterate them all.”
“We will drive the children into the raging river. We will throw the children into burning huts.”
“They should not exist at all.”
“We should execute them by firing squad.”
You might be thinking reading the above that these are statements from a distant past. However, these are just a few quotes from Russian state television channels from October 2022.
The subject of genocide is an uncomfortable subject because it lays bare the disturbing reality of the human capacity for cruelty and collective indifference. Yet it must be confronted.
Russia’s war against Ukraine has been genocidal from the beginning.
While objections exist to this classification, Snyder refutes each of them as follows…
Voice of Ukraine 