What’s the point of articles like this? We know soldiers rape and commit war crimes. Do they think we are unaware? Or are they trying to stoke our emotional fires?
Never forget that the media Manufactures Consent.
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2024
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"Traditional russian values"
My Grand-Grand-Grandmother offered herself to soviet soldiers so they didn't rape her daughter (around 30 back then) and grandchildren (2-10). The Soviet War Memorial in Berlin is nicknamed "Memorial of the Unknown Rapist".
My Grand-Grand-Grandmother sacrifice didn't help and therefore one of my ancestor is a raping soviet soldier. And if you learn that your Grand-Aunt just can't remember being raped because she was too young...
Unfortunate username for the situation
UN likes to state what already has been said like 2 years ago and then proceed to do nothing like always. Dumb useless corrupt org.
So nothing has changed since the world war. As I gathered you only had a chance if you were over 80 or under 10, and to make things worse you weren't allowed to talk about what happened in the following 50 years if your country was liberated by them because the Soviet soldier doesn't do things like that so you'd get in trouble
you only had a chance if you were over 80 or under 10
Even that doesn't save you. In the Article they say that they have identified victims with the age ranging from 8-82.
So they just got worse
“There are examples of cases where relatives were forced to witness the crimes," he added. "In the cases we have investigated, the age of victims of sexual and gendered-based violence ranged from 4 to 82 years."
Children also have been killed and wounded in “indiscriminate attacks” by Russian forces using explosive weapons, he said.
It's frightening how easily people can lose their moral compass, and behave so disgustingly.
It’s frightening how easily people can lose their moral compass, and behave so disgustingly.
The Russians didn't lose their moral compass. They never had one.
I don't know much about this but I think it's a psychological thing encouraged by commanders.
When soldiers behave this way it reinforces a belief that the enemy will show no mercy if they surrender. Something like that.
That's not completely true. Putin just sent the ones without a compass to the front lines.
We live in a shitty simulation right guys? This isn’t real….right?
Hey, when it gets dark, just remember:
Humanity, on the whole, has been on its best behavior ever in the last fifty years, even with this!
We're literally the peak of civility so far!
Ehh I guess. We are just killing the planet and other humans so the rich can get richer and the poor get poorer as well as the food is being worse.
We are becoming more aware of our flaws and evils. Which is a good step forwards.
We are having this conversation is proof of this.
We have known of our flaws yet this stuff still happens. Humans are an imperfect species with more flaws than good. I always considered ourselves parasites of the earth.
A sentiment i know all to well and cant honestly disagree with. I do however consider one addition and that is that over time we have improved in many ways and many people like myself keep searching for ways to improve ourselves and those around us even further.
“Changing the world” (or human society) is a task so immense one can not reasonably experience that is need while also expecting to still be alive to see the fruits of that intention.
I dont believe i will ever live in a world Free of human evil, but i also dont believe humanity will disappear without some mass extinction event. Now there is a good chance a mass extinction will happen but it may also not while humanity carries on and that will last quite alot longer.
As i am a parent this leaves me with 3 choices
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accept the evils and teach my kids this is normal and the world they will live in.
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not accepting the evils and try to improve things any way i can, teach my kids to pass it forward till eventually we have humans that truly are more good then bad.
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family activity introductions to the church of euthanasia. (Nope, been close there myself, wont go back, wont decide that for my kids either)
Lovely. Thanks for that Russia. I really needed reminding on how abhorrent humans can be, to get me through my day
Fuck Russia
In the cases we have investigated, the age of victims of sexual and gendered-based violence ranged from 4 to 82 years.
Absolutely disgusting. I hope these bastards die the most painful death imaginable.
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