Dear Readers:
Continuing this story told by Russian military correspondent Grigory Kubatian, as he travels through Tajikistan, seeking out the backstory of the Crocus terrorists.
Speaking of which, by the way, I just saw this piece in STRANA, whereby the Russian Investigative Committee has formally charged the Ukrainian oil/gas company Burisma Holdings with financing the terrorist act. That’s the same company that had hired an influence-peddling Hunter Biden to sit on its board.
But back to Kubatian: I travel by taxi to the village of Loiob. My driver is named Bakhtovar. Every single taxi driver I had here, has at one time worked in Russia, and Bakhtovar is no exception. He has his own dramatic story: He got deported by overstaying his registration.
Bakhtovar worked as a welder, both in Moscow and in Yakutia. He arrived in Moscow not knowing any Russian. They didn’t teach Russian in his village school. He had to learn it on the job.
“I like Russia, even though they deported me,” Bakhtovar reminisces. “I told the cop, Brother, I love Russia! I have eaten Russian bread. Everything that I have now: a house, a car, I owe all of this to Russia. I am even willing to defend Russia with a weapon in hand, I am willing to die for Russia. But he didn’t listen to me, and he deported me anyhow. But I was telling the truth. We [Tajiks] are allies of Russia. And if a larger war breaks out, then I will go off to fight for Russia.”
Bakhtovar lives in a village that neighbors Loiob. He didn’t know Faridun himself, but he knows Faridun’s father quite well. The elder Shamsiddin is a well-known and respected horseman in these parts, famous as a buzkashi player. [yalensis: I had to look that one up. It’s sort of like a game of horse polo except, instead of hitting at a ball, the players grab a goat carcass and try to toss it into the goal. Sounds like fun!]
“He was a great athlete,” Bakhtovar praises Shamsiddin Senior. “He would gallop on his horse holding the goat in his hands. You need really strong hands to hold onto the goat, while the other players are trying to take it away from you!”
We drive along the mountain road lined with apricot trees, cherry plums, walnuts. The trees are communal property: Anyone is allowed to collect and eat as much fruit as they need. Bakhtovar himself planted 10 of these trees, he likes to know that he is helping other people.
The taxi driver is shocked to learn that his neighbor, Faridun killed so many people. He asks me what I, a guest from Moscow, think about this? Hearing my answer, he sighs:
“I feel bad for your people. And bad for our people. They’ll deport a lot of us…” He ponders for a minute and then adds: “Russia has always been good to us. [yalensis: except when Yeltsin bailed out of the USSR and left you hanging!] Twenty years ago, Tajikistan was very poor. Then Russia started offering us work as migrant laborers. Now just look around you: Never before did we have such nice roads, houses, cars. All the men from these villages find work in Russia. As soon as my deportation sentence is over, I’ll be going back there too.”
A Family’s Shame
We enter the village of Loiob. It’s cooler here, one can feel the mountainous altitude. Faridun’s house is at the edge of the village. We knock on the gates. From the other side of the thick walled fence we heard a woman’s voice: Nobody is home. Faridun’s parents are in the hospital. They don’t want to open the gates for us.
On the other side of the road, a neighbor explains, in Tajik, that he has not spoken with Faridun and wasn’t aware of anything happening. Only that the latter once went to prison, and later was released.
It won’t be easy finding a single person in this village who wants to talk about the terrorist. But suddenly we notice a cavalcade of automobiles approaching the house. It’s a group of journalists and local officials. They knock loudly at the gate.
Well, what do you know, Faridun’s parents are here in the house, after all. As is his wife and 8-month-old son. But they categorically do not want to talk to the press. And one can understand them: This family has been shamed, and now for the second time. [yalensis: the first time being when 16-year-old Faridun was arrested for paedophilia]. A woman emerges from behind the gates to conduct the negotiations: This is Gulbakhor Jonova, the wife of Faridun’s uncle. She curses the journalists in fluent Tajik. Faridun’s mother has already given an interview. Which somebody in the editorial staff captioned as: “Tajik mom justifies terrorist.” After which she refuses to talk to any reporters.
The disappointed officials and journalists climb back in their cars and drive away. But I hold back and succeed in asking the Aunt a couple of questions before she has time to slam the gates closed again.
According to the Aunt: Faridun left his village 6 months ago and has not been seen since. He was a normal Muslim, in other words, there were no signs of fanaticism. Nor did he ever bring any religious literature home with him. He never urged anyone to live according to Sharia law.
“And his wife walks around without a head-covering,” the Aunt adds.
He had no friends in the village. After he got out of jail he didn’t get close with anyone.
“Was he introverted?” I ask.
“No,” the Aunt waves her hands. “He was actually pretty jolly.”
Hm… jolly… But when I ask about his court sentence, the Aunt gets angry. “Prison, so what? Everybody goes to prison at some point.”
We leave the village.
“I know why nobody wanted to have anything to do with him,” taxi driver Bakhtovar offers gloomily. “Nobody wants to be friend with a paedophile. Nobody will even say hello to such a person. We Tajiks, we are normal people in that regard. But you know what they say, every family has its black sheep.”
[next: We meet the Barber-terrorist]
[to be continued]
Awful Avalanche 
Them Tajik hillbillies have country ways. Faridumbi’s parents seem to have a pretty nice um, shack. Perhaps they kept goats on the front lawn for sporting purposes. Growing up there sounds like a barrel of fun. Bleak.
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Well, at least they own their own property. And look at the mountains in the background, that’s a nice view!
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By golly, yes. I’d quite forgotten. Having your own house is better than life for the millions swilling about the West homeless, bed hopping, six to a room, living in a car, etc. trying to exist on minimum wage.
The hills or mountains around Fariduni’s village no doubt look better in summer Then goats can be released across the moors to mow the huge lawn. I still say the place looks bleak. Too many goats for too long like a lot of Greece might be the cause, but I have no idea whether my guess is correct.
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Well, they have a use for the goats, remember? Goat carcass polo!
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Beluga, perhaps the trees in that part of Tajbleakistan were cut for firewood over the centuries? The ones that weren’t eaten by the food/wool sheep and goats, that is.
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Aside from Hunter Biden, Burisma also hired “retired” CIA counter-terrorism agent Cofer Black. Supposedly he is an expert on money laundering. Probably just a coincidence…move on, nothing to see here.
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I saw the Cofer Black story yesterday and my first thought was; 3LAs, 75 years of lies, pedophilia, thievery and murder all in pursuit of policies that have brought nothing but, war, famine, plague and death.
Interesting that some many of the “power-elite” and their servants in the 3LAs are involved in the BUSINESS of pedophilia. Strange that; the abuse of children and the abuse of power seem to go hand in hand…DC/London/Hollywood seem disproportionately populated by pedophiles and their sycophantic servants as if Satan reigned supreme.
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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse who bring war, famine, plague and death…and the US President’s Daily Brief.
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The guy in the foreground is going “Stop! I don’t have TIME to read the daily brief, just give me the verbal highlights!”
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🙂
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This story makes clear that these men were just pawns. Likely all of them had some form of desperation in their lives and this was exploited by the real villains who cultivated these dupes to do their dirty work for them. I want to see an expose´ on the men who hatched the plan, financed it, gave the orders, and facilitated it’s implementation. Until those people are brought to justice, nothing will change. It is the duty of all honest men to seek this outcome and send a message to the world that such conduct shall not pass without consequence.
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Concur. It staggers the mind that a pedophile as inept as Faridun could be more than a 3rd rate patsy being sleep-walked through the crime by Satan’s darkest disciples. It also boggles the mind that the 3LAs did not know of and approve this staggering crime and…it is their MO so, the 3LAs participation in the crime itself is more likely than not.
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A couple of points, S:
(1) If I don’t say it, then Bukko will: ”pedophile” should be spelled “paedophile“. People get these Greek/Latin roots confused all the time. Greek “paedas” means “child”, Latin “pedis” means “foot”. So technically, a “pedophile” would be a foot-fetisher.
(2) In Faridun’s defense, he was 16 when he was arrested for molesting “an underage child”, which, in other accounts I have read was a young girl. Not necessarily a little boy, which is what everybody just assumes. Now depending on the age of that girl, which we don’t know. If she was also 16 that would still be underage, I think, but might have been his girlfriend. Or it could have been unwilling on her part, he could have raped her or tried to rape her, we don’t know what actually happened. Remember that this is a traditional society. Even in the U.S., a teenager could acquire the tag of a “convicted sex offender” if a teenaged boy had relations with a girl his own age, even if consenting. Again, we don’t know the details…
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And, to further muddle the waters, the Kyrgyz next door still cling to “traditional” (and very illegal) practices of bride-kidnapping. This has slopped over into Tajik society to an extent, in part because the borders are drawn without regard to tribal boundaries.
So things are not as simple. That said, the driver seems to know what is meant, socially, by the stigma the terrorist acquired.
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Good point, JC. But the taxi driver could have also been playing to the prejudices of his customer, knowing that Russians (1) despise paedophiles, and (2) often equate paedophiles with homosexuals.
Having said that, I repeat that I don’t know exactly whom Faridun molested, or whether or not he is a homosexual. We do know that he has a female wife and son back at the goat ranch, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything.
As to the stigma born by Faridun, that is definitely there, I’m sure the taxi driver wasn’t kidding about that. But in a lot of these societies, a stigma could be stamped onto a person just for the fact that they went to prison, and not necessarily for what they did to get there. I dunno, I’m just speculating here because I don’t know anything about this guy.
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P.S. Indo-European etymology of Greek páī̈s (πᾰ́ῑ̈ς) meaning “son” or “child”, it’s a 3rd declension substantive, so the /d/ consonant is lost in the nominative singular, but shows up in the inflected forms –paida, etc. And thence, the English borrowing paed-o-phile.
from the Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wids, from *peh₂w–. Cognates include the Latin puer, Sanskrit पुत्र (putrá, “son”)
I don’t think this root is used in any Germanic languages, that I know of, but English has the word puerile, borrowed from the Latin puer.
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Sorry. I couldn’t resist it.
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That’s funny! That was a funny show too. They made an American version on Netflix with American-speaking actors, it was also pretty funny. And actually captured a lot of the mayhem that goes on in real IT departments! I even knew some people like the main character, people who talked their way into IT jobs they were not actually qualified for. That makes it even funnier!
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I’m glad you said it*, so I don’t have to. Not to defend Faridun unnecessarily, because he’s most likely a mass murderer, but I have my questions about the pedophile business. I’ve read from one source that the girl in question was 13 and he was 16. Who knows, without translating court documents from Tajikistan? Were they boyfriend/girlfriend, and she was just too young? Did he get her drunk so he could do the dirty? Was she from a more socially powerful family and Faridun despoiled her so she’d be less dowry-worthy as a future bride? There could be a lot of reasons why he got busted, not just like he dragged a 5-year-old behind some bushes and molested her.
When I was in high school, us guys would always make jokes about jail-bait. We were not as sophisticated as we thought we were, so we did not grok the heavy legal implications of that. We lusted for girls our own (high school) age — the junior high ones didn’t have tits! My pals were mostly losers with the ladies anyway, which is why we spent so much time and money on our muscle cars.
It was also a different time in American culture, when Hustler magazine had a smutty cartoon each issue about “Chester the Molester.” Ha-ha, let’s laugh at the hillbilly who lures his freckle-faced pre-teen cousin into situations where he can hump her. I wonder if all the back copies of those mags have been shredded, like teh authoritahs did with Tracy Lords porno movies (filmed when she was 15.) The “Taxi Driver” movie with a tarted-up teeny Jodie Foster playing an underaged prostitute? (And inspiring John Hinckley to try to assassinate Ronald Reagan? Hinckley family was friends of George “CIA director” Bush the vice president, making for a good conspiracy theory…)
So anyway, I see a lot of focus on the pedo angle from Kubatian and commenters here. That gets people heated up in their emotional centres. Sexual stuff excites our monkey-brains. But nobody dies from that. What SHOULD rile everyone is that Faridun and his mob KILLED 145 people (isn’t that the current death toll?) That makes me despise him more than him getting some nookie that hadn’t cooked long enough.
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I wasn’t going to opine anything about the “paedo” vs. “pedo” matter because I didn’t know about the Greek root word. (“Root”, as you probably know, has a dirty meaning in Aussie vernacular.) I prefer American spelling to the British way of adding extra letters. “Oesophagus” anyone? When I comment on an America-based blog, I spell things the Merkin way, and when I’m writing locally, I do it the Briticised way. I also pronounce words such as “basil” “banana” and “tomato” like they do. I have wondered why the Aussies spell “pedestrian” the same way as Americans. Now I know.
OTOH, I seem to recall they spell “paedal” pulse with that added “a”. Working so long in psych, though, I didn’t often have to check feet, so it wasn’t something I spelled every day. (When a nurse is doing a head-to-toe physical assessment, they should feel how strong the pulse is on the artery that goes across the arch of the foot, because that tells you something about the strength of the patient’s heart. If the pulse is so weak that it can pump blood downhill to the feet, but it does not have enough oomph to get it back uphill, then the patient will have swollen ankles because the watery part of the blood [plasma] will get squeezed into the tissues. Red blood cells stay in the veins coz they’re too big to be pushed through. Swollen feet are more prone to get skin breakdown such as blisters from friction with shoes, and if the patient is diabetic an infection is likely to set in from that, possibly leading to amputaiton.)
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The two completely different and unrelated roots (ped- and paed-) have confused and scrambled everybody’s brains for generations, so it’s impossible to even fix any more.
The spelling “orthopaedics” is totally wrong, it should be “orthopedic” (correction of the foot, not correction of the child). That spelling came about as a result of what grammarians call “over-correction”, people getting confused and told too many times that they are spelling something wrong. Like spelling “paedophile” as “pedophile”. So, instead of just thinking about it, they decide to spelling everything as -ae- instead of -e-
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BTW Y,
I saw a vid last night that touched on the fact that the situation in Ukrainia has become so desperate that the goosestepan-Galicians are being forced to conscript…wait for it…Galicians living in Galicia. This “radical” step of forcing Nazis to fight for Nazism is leading to another exodus from Ukraine by those who thought themselves above the task of “fighting to the last Ukrainian”. Dark days indeed.
And speaking of that, from MOA/Simplicius:
“This is how it will go down in history – as an inhuman and hateful regime of terrorists and Nazis who betrayed the interest of their people and sacrificed it for Western money and for Zelenski and his closest circle. In these conditions, attempts by the head of the Kiev regime to promote his formula and convene summits in support of the Kiev regime cause only confusion.
Very soon the only topic for any international meetings on Ukraine will be the unconditional capitulation of the Kiev regime. I advise you all to prepare for this in advance.“
Vasily Nebenzya, Representative of Russia – United Nations
And from Military Summary, Russia has begun in earnest to attack “west to east” with missile/aviation assets, cut off the supplies, cut off the head, bring this disgraceful [DC/London-3LA created] war to an end.
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Forcing Galician Nazis to fight for the Nazi regime which they helped to bring to power – that’s a radical idea! As Greta might say: ”How DARE they!”
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Quick! Move to Canada! Freeland is fidgeting in anticipation!
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Are you kidding? Freeland will send them right back to join the army. She might even decide to send that 100-year-old Hunka Nazi back. Ukraine needs soldiers!
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Freeland was hopping around the other day bemoanig the lack of aid to Ukraine. Bought her Mum an apartment on the Maidan back some years ago, and this damn Russian unprovoked full scale invasion by clodhoppers and gas station attendants has kind of ruined the property price of her mother’s flat. Of course, Freeland was declared persona non grata in Russia before she got herself elected n 2015. Badge of honour for her warped mind.
Today, her dulcet schoolmarm tones, always delivered in the style of “now listen, I’m going to explain something complicated to you little morons” was about Canadian housing shortages. Duh, tell us something we don’t know.
The RF Armed Forces, in their current mode of taking apart Ukraine in pieces everywhere, decided to use more ODAB-1500 bombs on Ukie troops in Krasnohorivka, DPR. Charmingly called vacuum-air bombs by Russia, and inhuman by everyone else, there was a description of what they do in the report I read.
Let me see. Ukraine has no electricity worth speaking of, is getting beaten to death on all fronts and every ammo hut behind every shed, and more European gas storage units blown up in Lvov area. You’d think some bright spark might capitulate and save what’s left. But no, Zelensky calls for more undeliverable weapons. Never tried cocaine myself, but Sherlock Holmes had his Seven Per Cent Solution, and after a quick blast, used to flare his nostrils, prod Watson with a brolly to get a move on and sally forth to foil Moriarty. Perhaps that’s how Zelensky, er, sees, things.
Oh yes, and when Ze re-jiggered his cabinet the other week, the Russkies said it was MI6 prodding him. Forget the US 3LA, Crocus was an MI6 op. They’re nasty enough and want to “contribute”. Can’t let the Yanks have all the glory, what?
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Unconditional surrender. (Vasily Nebenzya).
Now we’re talking.
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FINALLY!
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It’s starting to look like the 3LAs-Team-Biden has made what could be a world altering calculation.
With Russia’s efforts in Ukrainia making Team-Biden’s foreign policy look like “it was designed by clowns then managed by monkeys” Team-Biden needs to get the world to turn it’s gaze away from the apocalypse that is Ukrainia.
And by sheer “luck” it looks like Netanyahu/Israel has offered DC’s drowning monkeys a branch to cling to. Yes, with their attack on the Iranian Embassy, Israel hopes to provoke a wider war that requires the USA do all the heavy lifting crushing the Philistines…er..ah..uhm..the Persians. Talk about offering a branch to a bunch of monkeys! Netanyahu/Israel is conning DC into doing something that even King David would never have dreamed of! And yet, as stupid as it is, it offers the monkey’s managing the National Security State [3LAs] a brief respite
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-restricts-diplomats-travel-israel-bracing-iran-attack-expected-weeks-end
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On the clown theme, I just have to mention: A few days ago, the Ukrainian Parliament literally passed a law exempting circus clowns from conscription. Google it if you don’t believe me, you can’t make this stuff up!
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We, the US, must have pretty much the same law here..judging how many draft-dodgers have high positions in the US Government…take Biden for example. Again, not a linguistic expert but, here in the US we have many synonyms for clowns, politicians being, one of the most common.
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From MOA:
Iran has announced to revenge the Israeli attack on its embassy building in Damascus, Syria. But it did not announce when, where or how it will retaliate. By holding back on any hints it increases the anxiety in Israel and Washington DC.
The costs of keeping the watch up and the weapons manned will over time become unbearable for Israel as well as for the US…better for Iran to wait with any bigger retaliation it may plan to carry out.
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Probably close to 0.3-0.5 billion per day for US Taxpayers subsidizing “The Greater Israel Project”. The Persians certainly have learned a thing or two since the days of Xerxes and the Achaemenid Empire. And the longer it’s a non-story, the more problems it creates for the “narrative-creationist” in the lairs of Langley.
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The Greater Israel Project…your US tax dollars at work!
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I trust the Persians. They are not the newbies in this game!
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Thankyou yalensis and Mr Kubatian for this vicarious visit to Tajikistan.
I don’t think we should pass judgment on Tajikistan, which appears to be a rather lovely hilly country with a fascinating history and architecture, on the pathetic mercenaries who happen to hail from there. They are the expendable patsies of a much larger conspiracy, obviously.
The village looks reasonably affluent, and that must be because of the remittances of the village men who choose to migrate for the higher wages of labouring abroad (Russia). This is not uncommon worldwide, and in the state in which I live, Western Australia, many people earn a lot of money flying in and out of the mining centres in the north for work. It is a commonplace lifestyle, 12hours a day, 10days a week, then fly back for a week. But I get the impression these guys don’t return home, which can’t be good, though the women may simply prefer the remittance. Depends….of course.
The faces of the captured terrorists are now unfortunately an indelible memory, so here’s some gorgeous snapshots of Tajikistan as visual compensation:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g1024129-d3165921-Reviews-Hisor_Fortress-Hisor_Karotegin_Province.html
Yalensis, you can’t predict what is going to happen next. Not exactly apropos to this subject, in John Helmer’s latest he is quoting a Russian journalist on the subject of the “green cardinal”, Andrei Yermak. For some reason that I’m yet to define, I find it disturbing.
https://johnhelmer.net/
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Thanks for the Helmer link. I’m glad to see Oleg Tsarev, introduced to us by Yalensis, may become a candidate for prez after Ukraine is liberated from the grasp of the Banderite banditos.
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Ditto thanks for Helmer link, also thanks for trip advisor. Tajikistan does indeed look like a lovely place. I have never been there, but in Russia a few times I have met some individual Tajiks, and they were nice people, intelligent and with a sense of humor. These few “bad apples” are what you say, just some troubled men with a criminal past, the type who are ripe for recruitment by the CIA and its evil minions like ISIS.
ISIS being basically a CIA recruitment tool to enlist men with a criminal past who are willing to do anything for money and don’t care whom they hurt, because they carry a chip on their shoulder, against society.
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Fascinating. This article provides more evidence that the terrorists (or at least one of them) were not religious fanatics or jihadis but were Gastarbeiter for “western” and Ukie “intel” and special ops groups. And that suggests that ISIS itself, at least in this instance, is a Gastarbeiter group working for the same intel agencies and special ops groups. I wonder how much ISIS charged to make their public declaration of responsibility for the Crocus terrorist attack. Russia has the phones of the four terrorists, so the investigation should succeed in uncovering a lot of useful info.
The amount of Russophilia and USSRphilia in Tajikistand is striking. I think there may be a certain amount of Russophilia in Japan, too, despite the anti-Russian stance of the Japanese government. I live in Japan, and today I saw one of my neighbors, a man in his 60s, go by wearing a sweatshirt with the words “CLUB KOMARENKO” as well as several words in Japanese on it. Club Komarenko must refer to the fan club of the Russian singer Ivan Komarenko, which must mean that Komarenko sometimes performs in Japan in spite of the fact that the Japanese government considers itself an ally of Ukraine. In fact, I have never heard a Japanese person say a single bad word about Russia except when the topic concerns several Russian islands just north of Hokkaido, which the government still considers Japanese islands — which they were before 1945. Does anyone know anything about Komarenko’s songs? I’d like to strike up a conversation with my neighbor and understand his way of thinking if I see him wearing that sweatshirt again.
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I did a little research, and Ivan Komarenko is a Russian citizen, but he lives in Poland. He was born in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1971. Does this mean he is one those delusional, self-anointed elites who thinks he is too good for benighted and backward Russia? Would his country of residence explain why he can apparently easily visit and perform in pro-Ukraine countries?
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I can’t help you in regard to Komarenko, because I never heard of him. But, speaking of official Japanese government Russophobia, I saw this piece today in the Russian newspaper VZGLIAD.
Apparently the Japanese Rep to the UN Mitsuko Shino, in a speech at the UN, accused Russia of presenting a “nuclear threat” to Japan, and referred to Hiroshima/Nagasaki as an example of Russian misdeeds. Are these people really that dumb? Or do they just think everyone else is dumb?
If I was Russia’s rep, I don’t think I would be able to bite my tongue and hold to diplomatic language, I’d probably burst out with something like, “You DO know who actually dropped the bombs, you silly cow?”
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Thanks. Do you have a word for word quote of what Shino said as well as the date of her speech? I’d like to try to find a Japanese article about it. It’s incredible. It sounds like a complete reversal of history! Most Japanese scholars believe that the two A-bombs were dropped in order to threaten the USSR in the postwar period, since they were dropped far from Tokyo and had little real impact on the government or the populace as a whole. I.e., August 6 and August 9 marked the beginning of the Cold War in the East. Imperial Government records show that a very serious discussion of surrender by Japanese leaders began only on August 8, as soon as news that the USSR had just declared war on Japan was received. The official surrender took place on August 15 on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Japanese leaders deeply feared being invaded by a Commie Menace, so they rushed to surrender to the free market US.
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Well, I don’t have a word-to-word quote in Japanese, obviously. Since you live in Japan (and assume read Japanese?) maybe you can find something in the newspapers or online.
This is what they write in the Russian piece that I linked, above:
Сино отметила, что Япония придерживается «четкой позиции» по поводу «российской ядерной риторики», и никогда не смирится с «угрозой России», не говоря уже о любом применении ядерного оружия, передает РИА «Новости».
Дипломат напомнила про катастрофу Хиросимы и Нагасаки, которая не должна повториться. Сино не сказала, кто сбросил ядерные бомбы на Японию.
TRANSLATION: Shino remarked, that Japan holds itself to a “well-defined position” on the topic of “Russian nuclear rhetoric”, and that it will never reconcile itself to “Russia’s threat”, not to mention the use of any nuclear weapon, according to RIA Novosti.
The diplomat reminded about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki catastrophe, which must never be repeated. Shino failed to clarify who exactly dropped the atomic bombs on Japan.
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Thanks very much for the kind translation, and sorry for having written vaguely. I know you can’t read Japanese. I just wanted more detail about what Ms. Shino said in order to understand what she was trying to imply, and the short quotes in the translation you made are certainly enough to give that kind of specificity.
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In case you’re interested, here’s the official English translation of the short speech. Ambassador Shino seems to be interpreting one part of the earlier speech by the Russian ambassador to the UN on 4/12/24 as a “nuclear threat” against Japan.. Do you have access to the Russian text of the ambassador’s SC speech on 4/12? I have the feeling that this issue might pop up again and that it requires very careful examination and explication of the relevant part of the Russian ambassador’s speech. I can find plenty of photos of the Russian UN ambassador speaking to the SC on April 12 but no English version of what he actually said! Do you have the text of what he said in Russian? If so, does he mention nuclear attacks of any kind in his remarks? This is a very serious accusation….
https://www.un.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/shino041224.html
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I found this youtube, I think it’s Nebenzya’s speech to the Security Council on April 12, so probably the thing she’s referring to. Haven’t had time to watch it yet, so not sure exactly what he said that juked her up so much.
Personally, whatever he said, I would doubt it’s a “serious accusation”, it’s just the predictable hysterics of a paid American puppet. If I were Nebenzya I would have just told her to eat my shorts. But that’s why I am not an Ambassador.
Выступление Постпреда Небензи на заседании СовБеза ООН по поставкам оружия на Украину (12.04.2024) – YouTube
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