Dresden
 Dresden(City)    | |
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| Subpage(s) | •Dresden/1945 Fire-bombing |
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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| Vladimir Putin | “Western countries have been saying for centuries that they bring freedom and democracy to other nations. Nothing could be further from the truth. Instead of bringing democracy they suppressed and exploited, and instead of giving freedom they enslaved and oppressed. The unipolar world is inherently anti-democratic and unfree; it is false and hypocritical through and through.
The United States is the only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons twice, destroying the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. And they created a precedent. Recall that during WWII the United States and Britain reduced Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne and many other German cities to rubble, without the least military necessity. It was done ostentatiously and, to repeat, without any military necessity. They had only one goal, as with the nuclear bombing of Japanese cities: to intimidate our country and the rest of the world. The United States left a deep scar in the memory of the people of Korea and Vietnam with their carpet bombings and use of napalm and chemical weapons. It actually continues to occupy Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea and other countries, which they cynically refer to as equals and allies. Look now, what kind of alliance is that? The whole world knows that the top officials in these countries are being spied on and that their offices and homes are bugged. It is a disgrace, a disgrace for those who do this and for those who, like slaves, silently and meekly swallow this arrogant behaviour. They call the orders and threats they make to their vassals Euro-Atlantic solidarity, and the creation of biological weapons and the use of human test subjects, including in Ukraine, noble medical research. It is their destructive policies, wars and plunder that have unleashed today’s massive wave of migrants. Millions of people endure hardships and humiliation or die by the thousands trying to reach Europe.” | Vladimir Putin | 2022 |
Events
| Event | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2016 | The 2016 Bilderberg meeting took place in Dresden, Germany. |
| Dresden/1945 Fire-bombing |
Group
| Group | Start | Description |
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| Dresden University of Technology | 1828 | Strong technical tradition |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:The Blood of Dresden | book extract | 2008 | Kurt Vonnegut | The story of a US prisoner of war who was in Dresden during the infamous allied firebombing raids of February 1945 |
| Document:The People Who Were Burned to Ashes on Ash Wednesday | article | 13 February 2018 | Michael Hoffman | Written to mark the 73rd anniversary of the destruction of Dresden. It juxtaposes one of the many real Allied holocausts (destruction and slaughter by fire) of WWII with alleged German atrocities. It also illustrates the moral cowardice of Churchill in seeking to deflect blame for what, by any reasonable standards of behavior in warfare, was a totally unnecessary and unconscionable attack when the war was already all but over. |
