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Sep 25, 2022Liked by Lauren Wolfe

Reading this article about the horrific things people do to each other, is going on right now, and we can’t stop it, enrages me. How does justice ever come for these people?

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I believe it will. I met too many good, smart people working to document these crimes and I believe cases will be brought to trial, one way or another.

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Sep 25, 2022Liked by Lauren Wolfe

I don’t know how you keep doing this valuable work. It’s so traumatizing just reading about it.

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I would be very interested in learning what you’ve seen.

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324059.Anyone_here_been_raped_speaks_English_

Yup: "war is hell."

"The first casualty of war is the truth"

There's nothing new under the sun. If you don't want to taken for propaganda you should try and talk to both sides. (Not that I doubt what you say, though).

Most people you talk to look completely blank if you mention that the shelling of Eastern Ukraine has been going on since 2014 ... by Western Ukraine. Just no idea. It doesn't fit with the story they've swallowed.

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Russian soldiers did this to German women as they were conquering Berlin at the end of WWII. Systematically, from children to old women. They were never held accountable then, so they are doing the same thing now.

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You don't seem to care about all the atrocities committed in eastern Ukraine since 2014. Why don't you investigate and tell us what you find. Hint: Azov Battalion guilty of crimes against humanity.

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The top Ukrainian official Lyudmila Denisova, who was fired for spreading misinformation (Ukrainian parliament passed no-conference vote by margin of 234-to-9), has admitted that she lied about Russians committing mass rape in order to convince western countries to send more weapons to Ukraine. Let that sink in - the damage this may or will do to the real victims.

Lyudmila Denisova stated “When, for example, I spoke in the Italian parliament at the Committee on International Affairs, I heard and saw such fatigue from Ukraine, you know? I talked about terrible things in order to somehow push them to make the decisions that Ukraine and the Ukrainian people need,” she said.

Despite the fact that her claims about mass rape were false, they were repeatedly amplified by legacy media outlets like CNN and the Washington Post.

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In 1985 Edward Behr published his compelling war time story telling of journalism in South East Asia in the 1960's and 70's with the title "Anyone here been raped and speaks English?".

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