Pravda newspaper, November 5, 1944: “…Kyiv’s power plants suffered the most extensive destruction during the occupation. The savage Germans wanted to leave the city and its residents without power, without heat…”

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1. And now it’s savage Russians

2. They managed to do today what the Nazis didn’t succeed back then. A hell of achievement.

3. [The official briefing by NATO Spokesperson Jamie Shea on May 25, 1999.](https://www.nato.int/en/news-and-events/events/transcripts/1999/05/25/press-conference)

   **Question (Norwegian News Agency):** I am sorry Jamie but if you say that the Army has a lot of back-up generators, why are you depriving 70% of the country of not only electricity, but also water supply, if he has so much back-up electricity that he can use because you say you are only targeting military targets?

   **Jamie Shea :** Yes, I’m afraid electricity also drives command and control systems. If President Milosevic really wants all of his population to have water and electricity all he has to do is accept NATO’s five conditions and we will stop this campaign.

4. History doesn’t repeat but it does rhyme. 

   Savages come and go but the cruelty remains. 

5. I’d recommend listening to “Saldaty grupy centr” by Vysockij and checking the translation. It’s really funny to me how the song matches current times, and it’s hilarious how ruskies don’t see the irony in whose shoes they are walking today.