Wednesday, December 21, 2022

It is a great moment in the USA with President Zelensky visiting.

December 21, 2022

By John Wagner, Amy B. Wang, Mariana Alfaro, Azi Paybarah, Eugene Scott, Annabelle Timsit and Adela Suliman


Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (click here) arrived Wednesday at the White House for a meeting with President Biden that is part of his first trip outside Ukraine since Russia’s invasion of his country in February. Biden put his arm around Zelensky as he walked him into the White House. After the two moved to the Oval Office, Biden said he was “delighted” that Zelensky had made the trip. Zelensky offered “all my appreciations from my heart and from the heart of all Ukrainians.”


Later, Zelensky is scheduled to address a joint meeting of Congress....


Number of civilian casualties in Ukraine during Russia's invasion verified by OHCHR as of December 18, 2022 (click here)


6,826 confirmed killed of which 428 were children.


10,769 confirmed injured, some disabled of which 790 are children.


Just yesterday a verdict in the last Nazi tried for the deaths of World War II at the hand of Hilter came down and she was found guilty. It brought a stunning reality to the Ukraine invasion by Russia. It is still a bit unreal in the year 2022 that we are still facing autocratic leaders with no respect for life.


December 20, 2022
By Paul Kirby and Robert Greenall

Not all (click here) of the Stutthof camp remains and the site is now a memorial

A former secretary (click here) who worked for the commander of a Nazi concentration camp has been convicted of complicity in the murders of more than 10,500 people.

Irmgard Furchner, 97, was taken on as a teenaged shorthand typist at Stutthof and worked there from 1943 to 1945.

Furchner, the first woman to be tried for Nazi crimes in decades, was given a two-year suspended jail term.

Although she was a civilian worker, the judge agreed she was fully aware of what was going on at the camp.

Some 65,000 people are thought to have died in horrendous conditions at Stutthof, including Jewish prisoners, non-Jewish Poles and captured Soviet soldiers.
Furchner was found guilty of aiding and abetting the murder of 10,505 people and complicity in the attempted murder of five others. As she was only 18 or 19 at the time, she was tried in a special juvenile court....


At Stutthof, located near the modern-day Polish city of Gdansk, a variety of methods was used to murder detainees and thousands died in gas chambers there from June 1944.

The court at Itzehoe in northern Germany heard from survivors of the camp, some of whom have died during the trial....


President Zelensky is in the USA because he believes in democracy and the human and civil rights that accompany such governance. He is leading a war to defend the very principle of democracy, the right of a free people to govern themselves and pursue happiness. All the Ukrainian people wanted was the same the American people have defended for over two centuries now, the right to live a life that is productive and allows comfort.


Their requests cannot be denied. If Ukraine fails, there is no stopping the autocratic leaders that hate free people.


Ukraine was a declared and constitutional neutral country. The people wanted to have an economy that was open to Europe as well as Russia. That wasn't good enough for Putin, he had a date on his five year calendar and invaded a peace loving people with death and destruction and absolutely no regard for their lives. Basically, the Ukrainians were IN THE WAY of Putin's ideological plans.