Russia is a Country of Marauders and Murderers

The wild looting of Russian soldiers is one of the main motives for Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. This does not cause any complaints from the Russian leadership. To the contrary. All looting has been encouraged in the Russian army from the top down. Any Ukrainian town is automatically considered a target for collective robbery.

Until 1996, in the Russian Federation theft by troops during hostilities or on the battlefield was punishable by law with imprisonment from 3 to 10 years or the death penalty.

But from 1995, amendments were made to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, according to which this offence was decriminalised. In the new edition of Russia’s Criminal Code, there is no reference to looting.

Since this amendment to the Code was introduced, looting has been officially allowed in Russia. The abolition of punishment concerns exclusively looting on the battlefield and the belongings of the dead and wounded. But at the time of this change in the law, Russian troops were engaged in the First Chechen War.

So, according to Russian law, servicemen who steal the property of Ukrainians killed on the battlefield are not criminals.

But the scale of the looting of the Russian army in Ukraine has gone even further than the Russian criminal legislation anticipated. There is confirmed evidence that the Russians take absolutely everything from the homes of Ukrainians – from washing machines, food blenders to underwear, and take away their loot with military vehicles.

Such actions by Russian troops can only take place with the consent of their commanders. 

According to Russian troops taken prisoner in this war, when they enter a Ukrainian town, their commander allocates transport for loading the loot (or this transport is taken from local residents), and higher-level commanders who are not directly involved in attacks on settlements make orders and take tribute from the soldiers taking part in the looting. The Russian troops are then forced to take away from the civilian population not only for themselves, but also for their commanders.

Today, an organised armed force, addicted to looting, increasingly becomes useless and unsuitable for waging war. “Corrupted” by looting and robbery, Russian military units become at first poorly combat-ready due to the fact that their personnel are more interested in imported frying pans and household electrical equipment than in combat operations. These units then cease to perform the tasks required by their command.

What is happening in the occupied Ukrainian territories is not so much a war as a pirate raid. 

The Russian troops who fight like this are not a regular army, but a rabble. Even in the Soviet and Third Reich armies they took steps to try to prevent looting. But in the Russian army, they apparently consider this as a way to additionally motivate personnel and attract new recruits from the Russian Federation.

This is not a traditional army, but a horde of marauders. When it comes to the goals that the Russians set for their army, there are only two. The ultimate goal is clear to everyone – the capture of Ukraine, but if that does not work out, then they must at least kill, rob, rape and destroy as many Ukrainians as possible.

When Putin ultimately departs the scene, Russia will need decades to clear up the criminalisation of society that he has created.

His so-called “special military operation” was the final nail in the coffin of the Russian “armed forces”.

Putin has dragged the Russian Federation into a war of attrition, which is destroying it in the face of more powerful threats. While the false propaganda of the Kremlin is telling lies to ordinary Russians about its armed forces, the truth is that the backbone of the Russian army has been destroyed and we are witnessing the collapse of the entire Russian military mythology.

Putin’s international horde sent to Ukraine does not care about “patriotism”. The only incentive for them to fight is profit. The goal of the occupiers is to steal as many good things, household appliances, and alcohol as possible through robbery and terrorising the civilian population.

The war in Ukraine has dispelled any doubts about who the grandfathers of the “victor’s people” were. If Putin’s bandit formation displays itself as the sole successor and custodian of the traditions of the Soviet army, then it will be clear that it is from the grandfathers of the Red Army that their terrorist grandchildren have inherited the looting gene. This hidden side of the criminal everyday life of the Red Army in Germany is well described in Vladimir Gelfand’s German Diaries for 1945-1946.

Now it is enough to recall only the shame of Marshal Zhukov. The scale of his looting – a trainload of 7 wagons of stolen furniture, works of art and other trophies – outraged even Stalin. Repeating the example of his idol, Putin may try to save his own skin by pinning the blame on his generals. But this will not change the reality of his catastrophic military defeat and the imminent collapse of his hated regime.

War crimes to reflect the essence of Russians

Russia is doing its utmost to prevent the investigation of war crimes committed by its troops and Russian mercenaries.

Information on war crimes committed by Russian troops around the world is constantly updated with new cases.  Horrific crimes committed by the Russians in Ukraine have already been recognized as more terrible than the atrocities by Hitler’s Gestapo in WWII: burning out the eyes, amputation, mass rapes and extrajudicial killings. In besieged Mariupol, amid humanitarian disaster, the Russians have set up mobile crematoriums where evidence of war crimes is burned. Humanitarian workers who were dealing with Mariupol refugees, claim the Russians remove the internal organs of the people in the city for further transplantation. These organs are then sent to Taganrog and Rostov-on-Don.

 

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Russia has already practiced removing the organs during the Chechen war, for example. Questions remain regarding the fate of the people forcibly moved to Russia after it invaded Ukraine.

But cases similar to ‘Bucha massacre’ can be seen in different areas where Russian troops are present.

 

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A gang of Russian mercenaries is involved in the massacre of civilians in Mali. They executed more than 300 people. That is the worst massacre in this country for 10 years of conflict.

However, for more than a week, the UN has been demanding access to the area to investigate under its Security Council mandate, to no avail.

Russia has blocked a request put forward by France at the UN Security Council for “independent investigations” into the alleged massacre of several hundred civilians in Mali by the Malian army and Russian paramilitaries, diplomatic sources said on Saturday. Russia, supported by China, “didn’t see the need” for the text and considered it “premature,” given that an investigation has been opened by the Malian authorities.

Mali’s army announced on 1 April that it had killed 203 “militants” in Moura, in central Mali, during an operation in late March. However, that announcement followed widely shared social media reports of a civilian massacre in the area. Human Rights Watch has alleged that Malian soldiers and foreign fighters executed 300 civilians there between 27 and 31 March.

As with the massacre in Ukraine, Moscow is seeking to present the facts on Russian war crimes as fake, as it pressures friendly regimes to question Russian responsibility.

After the  WWII, some Russian soldiers and officers told that German women had been raped during the occupation of Berlin. The diary by Soviet Army officer Vladimir Gelfand, published in 2015, is just one piece of evidence. The book by journalist Martha Hillers “Woman in Berlin”, telling about the German women raped by Russian soldiers, was listed as extremist one in Russia.

Russian war crimes are a common thing, therefore. Alongside with anti-fascist claims, Russia is borrowing more and more features of the Third Reich repression and war machine. With President Putin primarily responsible for Russia’s war crimes, like Hitler was responsible for the crimes of Nazi Germany, lots of war crimes are committed by ordinary Russian soldiers.

 

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Their families approve of their actions, from looting to rape and extrajudicial killings, SIGINT suggests.

But the number of proven cases in Ukraine, Central African Republic, Libya, and Syria raises the question why the Russians are so cruel. An attempt to exploit the issue of Slavic unity and the center of the Slavic world, cultivated by Putin in Russia, is obviously a fake narrative to legalize the Kremlin’s encroachment on European territories. Modern Russia is not, in fact, the successor to the Slavic (European) ethnic group. It was composed of the Polovtsian and Pecheneg tribes, influenced by the Mongols in the 13th-16th centuries.

That was the Horde state that led to such  Russian features as:

1. Making the governor sacred;

2. The state is more important than people. The people serve the governor and the empire. People serve the state, not vice versa.

3. There can be no rule of law, as the law cannot be stronger than the will of the governor.

4. There are no protected personal rights. Personal privileges are given by the governor and taken away by him.

5. Militarization is the process of turning the country into a militarized association.

6. The secret police enhance the role;

7. There is a super-idea, that should mobilize society.

The Horde basis of Russian society and governance explains why Moscow is so devastating in other countries. War and conquest are necessary for nomadic people to guarantee stable governance and  obedient population.

That is why Russian society  rejects any idea of democracy or humanitarian values. Serf psychology is dominant in Russian society.

They believe liberal reforms indicate the government is weak. That is why the government brutally suppressed any uprising, with slavery regime tightened. As the government deteriorates  material and legal status of the people, that does not trigger the protests, but complaints against the governor, who creates unacceptable living conditions.

A serf slave descendant is outraged and even offended when there is not enough vodka or he cannot afford it. The role of vodka in Russian life is a strategic issue for any level of Russian government. Russian culture alone teaches that a person that doesn’t drink is sick. The need to drink vodka manipulates people into using any substance that contains alcohol, from perfume to shoe polish. There was an instruction, seized among other Russian documents during the fighting in Ukraine,  signed by Russian soldiers, telling it was inadmissible to drink antifreeze instead of alcohol.

Most people believe it is normal to be drunk, as it compensates for the spiritual emptiness of depersonalized slaves. The mysterious Russian soul is in fact the result of endless introspection by Russians with pessimistic conclusions about the inner content and the recommendation to “squeeze a slave out of yourself drop by drop.” That fact does not allow, even in theory, to integrate Russians into Western civilization.

With slaves unable to organize themselves, one Russian is one slave, and many Russians are many slaves. That is why the Soviet Union broke up after internal upheaval by the elites, not a popular uprising. And that is why Russia has not made a single attempt to overthrow the Putin’s government. To function in society, a Russian needs a master (governor) who sends him to work, to war or to camps.

“Who allowed you to live so well?” – one of the inscriptions that Russian soldiers left in one of the houses in Ukraine, – a good example of their attitude.

Russians can organize themselves for a moment to get out the rage of accumulated humiliation. That practically finds outlet in violence.

Any Russian personality trait, that seems attractive at first sight, does not look like that, upon closer examination.

A Russian soldier, for example, is more afraid of the officer who stands behind him than of the enemy.

Emperor Napoleon, during his military campaign, noted the tactics by Russian commanders just to fill up enemy positions with a huge mountain of their own dead soldiers, with a possibility to repeat it. It is a known fact that Napoleon, as he started his invasion, handed out documents to the Russian peasants freeing them from serfdom. He was surprised to find out, however, it did not work, because the Russians did not need freedom.

The Russians cannot face living without a governor (of any level). That destroys their common values. They do not need freedom, and will fight to keep the status quo. That is the ‘mystery’ of Russian soul. That explains why even those Russians who have gone to the West cooperate with Russian intelligence for the Kremlin regime.

That is why we overestimated the effect by sanctions on Russia, as we expected Russians to drive an uprising, as things get worse.

The Russian governors made their people believe they are ‘chosen’, ‘superior’, ‘special’, should accomplish ‘liberation mission’, as they succeeded in manipulating their minds, launched wars of aggression, and reduced the risks for their regimes.

But it was clear even at a glance that reality is different from these products of imagination. Any attempt to criticize or point at that discrepancy, at the same time, just adds to the slavish hubris and boosts Russian chauvinism. False images and beliefs shaped the religion of the Russian serf state, as a crowd of slaves turned into a nation of slaves.

To maintain stability and power, the elites have always advocated for a system where they cultivated chauvinism to distract  people from being dissatisfied with the government, as they gave them a chance to be proud and happy just because they are Russians.

A Russian person, considered disposable by the government, accustomed to everyday and moral dirt, was proud of his country, had a strong ego, envied and disliked  everything non-Russian.

Much of Russian anti-American and anti-Western attitude stems from envy that it is not inherently Russian. It also triggers aggression against everything that is not Russian.

That stance is close to aggressive, ideologically organized nationalism directed against other peoples, that is, to fascism. This nature of the Russian ethnos determines social order for the type of governance the country needs. 

We may conclude the government in Russia reflects the demands by Russian people, as regime change in the Kremlin is unlikely to modify Russia’s political course significantly. Russia might abandon the policy of aggression only if defragmented into ethnic and national entities, with their aspirations to sovereignty currently suppressed by the Kremlin.

 

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