“I russi devono essere insegnati una lezione” – Perché i soldati stranieri continuano a combattere per l’Ucraina in una crescente incertezza

More importantly, the Russians need to learn things the *right* way if they want any chance of gaining the trust and respect of the civilized world.

The Russians have deliberately taken up the *wrong* lesson from Operation Barbarossa and the rest of WW II. Instead of learning that chauvinism, dictatorship, and militarism are dead ends for a civilization, Russians came out of that war [convinced that those concepts and their outcomes](https://vsquare.org/baltic-counterintelligence-officers-russia-cruelty-war-history/) (e.g. genocide) are *virtues* when Russians commit them to claw out without punishment the pro-Russian “benefits” of genocide and subjugating millions more **non**-Russians than previously.

>However, officers of the Baltic security services do not describe Russia’s imperialism and brutality as a military tactic, but a rampant social norm.

>„I believed that their mentality changed over the years and they had a reckoning after the war. That would have been normal,“ Jauniškis says. „But I was mistaken:“

>Indeed, how could Russia have any reckoning when the country has never been held responsible? The Nazis temporarily rose to the top of the cruelty ranking during the Second World War, which has caused people to forget Russia’s atrocities.

>„They’ve never been held accountable,“ Sinisalu says. „And that has made them feel invincible.“

On a related note, it’s no accident that the Russians have consciously let their “Victory Day” parade over the past 15-20 years degenerate into a trashy celebration of jingoism and imperialism punctuated by their sinister slogans or battle-cries of “To Berlin!” (На Берлин!) and “We Can Do It Again!” ([Можем повтворить!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pobedobesie#Propaganda_and_Putin)). That last one of the Russians is a deliberate foil of “Never Again!” that’s prevalent among Europeans and the rest of the Allied nations from WW II.