Once upon a time, general Franco was attacking Madrid as the point
of the last stand of the Spanish Republic. (It was previously already
weakened by the annihilation of anarchists on behalf of the communists.)
Franco said that he is attacking Madrid in five columns. One from the North, one from the South, one from the East and one from the West.
But then the listeners asked him: "But where is the fifth columns coming
from?" "The fifth column is already in Madrid!", he replied confidently.
And we know that he unfortunately won and executed the opposition
and the defeated forces harshly, remaining in power three decades after
Mr. Hitler's demise.

Why am I telling this? This is not a call to eradicate the remaining Russian minority within Ukraine or Kyiv. The most notable enemies of Ukraine
are currently its own financial corruption in the midst of the bloody
war. Much like in the Croatian "Homeland war" of 1991-95, some people
were getting rich while others (predominantly poor and unemployed)
were bleeding on the frontlines.

The problem is also with the persecution of those who express
"the objection of conscience"; the prisoners of conscience that
refuse to go to this war, even if it seems to be on the defending
side. I would name Jehovah's Witnesses in particular. It is a shame
that Ukraine puts JW to prison just as Mr. Putin (who outlawed this
righteous Christian path completely).

if I could use any remaining influence to free someone in exchange
of prisoners, this would certainly include Jehovah's Witnesses, who
resolutely refuse to enter military service, take any arms or weapons,
and to kill or murder in war.

In this I heard whether is it possible to be Jewish and Nazi at the same
time ... I was always told that little Hitler lies in every single one of
us, waiting for his chance to take over.

There is another fable (American native) about the good wolf and
bad wolf in everyone's heart. Which wolf will win and kill the other?
The one you feed the most.

Ukraine must also be a citizen-state with the inclusion of the language
of the minorities, even the Russian minority. Liberation of the
Donbas region should and must not include ethnic cleansing and
its "liberation" from the indigenous Russian population.

The war appears to be going to last, maybe ten years, and some
internal reorganisation into a more efficient (and just) state and economy might not wait so long.

In Croatia, I faced several war heroes praised and then cowardly sold.
This included noble knights such as Blaž Kraljević, Ante Paradžik and "Krtica" (who was very good and efficient at destroying Serbian tanks,
but they stupidly showed him on State TV, and after he became too
efficient at destroying Serbian tanks, he was sold by the Croatian envy).

Such things should not happen in Ukraine. I believe we could have had
freedom in 1992 or 1993 if there weren't eliminations of those who
endangered genius leader Mr. president Franjo Tuđman and his
Party, and if the privatisation was not done in such way that not decimated Croatian industry, but cut it to 30% of its production (more than Serbian
tanks and occupation together).

So, the internal enemy is the one that can cause defeat. Or a long
wait for freedom with a lot of unneeded casualties, suspiciously
promoted generals who lost entire brigades and vast land areas
as Posavina.

Perhaps thirty years is not a sufficient distance to learn from history,
or even for military secrets to fall into the statute of limitation, nor for the responsible persons to fall out of influence, power or natural
death (which is the only occasion that totalitarian regimes admit
errors).

The advantage of open systems is that they are fixable, and
fixable quickly in case of need. Eventually, the fear of error is
actually the fear of punishment, which is all way too normal
for post-communism and the following NWO.

We are allowed to say more than we could in communism, as
long as it pleases everyone and no one is offended.

This is why I deal only with the errors of the people who died
more than twenty years ago (but this is not automatically making
such writing safe).

Just read in Solzenitzin's book on Gulags, and I've read how
some people got liberated from Nazi concentration camps
happened to also be wrong class not just racially inferior,
so their liberators put them in a Gulag for reeducation.

Probably nothing odd to the victims of Holodomor, but still,
we must learn from errors of the past. Or be doomed to repeat
them.

in the Lord
Amen

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While it can be argued that the 1990's heroes Blaž Kraljević
and Ante Paradžik were nationalists and right-wingers dangerous
for the Croatian, Mr. Franjo Tuđman's regime, power and
for the sovereignty of the Republic and its international recognition,
it is clear that the "Krtica" (Mole) was just way too efficient at
destroying Serbian tanks at Vukovar's defence and thereof sold.

Krtica was a little man with no aspirations of power or readership
just like the above mentioned patriot knights.

This is clearly a murder, assassination, and elimination at the hand
of the State and its notorious SIS, military intelligence. Most of those
people are still alive and still in power, so it may be unwise to disclose these events even 30 years after their death.

For the same reason it is too early to speak about how Tuđman
wrongly relied on UDBA red secret services as he believed he would
not stay alive 4 days without them. But it was evident that some were double-agents and informed Miošević of the exact whereabouts
of the Croatian leadership on the day of the Serbian MIG airplane
attack on Banski Dvori.

But I am still guided by some inner drive to speak out the truth.
Partly, because you might be making an error of relying on same
kind of people with the same effect.

Word for the wise: be as clever as serpents and as cautious as the pigeons.

"Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without:
the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly." (Isaiah 33:7)

in the Lord
Amen

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