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Ukrainians slam Germany’s flag restrictions

23Apr

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Germany, Ukraine

Ukrainians slam Germany’s flag restrictions

Kiev’s ambassador has called Berlin’s Victory Day ban “very short-sighted and unfounded” FILE PHOTO: A WWII commemoration ceremony is held at the Treptow Park memorial in Berlin, Germany, on May 9, 2022. © Global Look Press / Volker Hohlfeld The decision of the Berlin police to ban Russian and Ukrainian flags at memorial sites in the city during Victory Day celebrations on May 8 and 9 sparked criticism from local Ukrainian associations, as well as the current and former Ukrainian ambassadors to Germany. Apart from the flags of the two countries, the ribbon of St. George – a popular WWII victory symbol in Russia – as well as mock military uniforms, military and marching songs, and any “exclamations… that are likely to condone or glorify” the...

Condemn the demolition of monuments to the WW2 victory over Nazism!

11Apr

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Germany, Russia, USA, World

Condemn the demolition of monuments to the WW2 victory over Nazism!

History is being rewritten and Soviet sacrifices are being desecrated as hundreds of WW2 memorials are dismantled across the Baltics. Party statement The imperialists have for decades been pushing a rewritten version of history that equates fascism with communism and ascribes any number of imaginary ‘crimes’ to the Soviet victors of WW2, who are presented as somehow having been ‘as bad as’ the vicious Nazi occupiers. The intense russobia that has accompanied the Ukraine war has furnished an excuse for the latest offensive in this propaganda campaign, with hundreds of war memorials all over the Baltics being targeted for demolition. The following joint statement was initiated by the Baltic Platform and has been signed by our party. ***** The ruling political forces in the&nb...

Germany can’t fulfill NATO obligations – Bild

9Apr

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Germany, NATO

Germany can’t fulfill NATO obligations – Bild

Chronic underfunding and the country’s support for Ukraine are among the reasons, the media outlet reports FILE PHOTO. Members of the Bundeswehr's 9th Panzer Training Brigade stand next to new Leopard 2 A7V heavy battle tanks they received during a visit by Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht to the Bundeswehr Army training grounds on February 07, 2022 in Munster, Germany. © Sean Gallup/Getty Images Germany is failing to live up to its NATO commitments both in terms of personnel and equipment it can provide for the military bloc’s defense, Bild has reported. The media outlet, citing an internal appraisal by the nation’s Armed Forces, the Bundeswehr, claimed that a lack of funding, as well as Berlin’s military aid to Kiev, are among the reasons for the curren...

Twitter faces fines for not acting on German censorship demands

7Apr

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Germany

Twitter faces fines for not acting on German censorship demands

By Cindy Harper | Reclaim The Net | April 7, 2023 Twitter is facing fines in Germany for not censoring content deemed illegal under the country’s strict “hate speech” laws. The federal government announced that it was investigating Twitter’s failures to act on censorship requests. According to Chan-jo Jun, founder of specialist IT law firm JunIT Rechtsanwälte, the federal government is only acting on a few, out of the hundreds, of cases that have been reported. Jun will be representing the Antisemitism Commissioner of the state Baden-Württemberg, Michael Blume. Towards the end of last year, Jun’s firm filed a lawsuit against Twitter for refusing to remove hate speech content. The court said that the tweets were “illegal.” On Tuesday th...

2Apr

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Germany, USA

German MP wants US troops expelled

America’s policies create the impression that it does not need allies, only vassals, German lawmaker Sevim Dagdelen has warned FILE PHOTO. © Global Look Press / Spc. Micah Wilson Berlin must break with its “relationship of extreme subservience” to America and its foreign policies “marked by breaches of international law,” Sevim Dagdelen, the deputy head of the Left party’s faction in the Bundestag, said on Friday. Germany must demand that US forces withdraw, along with their nuclear weapons, she added. “After 78 years, it is now time for the US soldiers to go home,” Dagdelen announced at a parliamentary event marking the 75th anniversary of the Marshall Plan. The US military bases act “like extraterrestrial zones wh...

Germany refuses to pledge extra tanks to Ukraine

2Apr

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Germany, Ukraine

Germany refuses to pledge extra tanks to Ukraine

The Bundeswehr’s own stock is “limited,” defense minister Boris Pistorius has explained A Leopard 2 tank in Augustdorf, Germany, February 1, 2023. © Ina Fassbender / AFP Germany cannot afford to give additional main battle tanks to Ukraine, the country’s defense minister, Boris Pistorius, said on Saturday. His remarks came after Kiev warned that it would need more heavy weapons for a counteroffensive against Russia. “I don’t see the delivery of additional Leopard tanks beyond those that were already announced,” Pistorius told German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. To be clear, just like other nations, we only have a limited inventory. As a federal defense minister, I can’t hand over everything we have. The minister stated that “the existin...

31Mar

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Germany

Germany can make do without Russian gas

Consumers are still being urged to conserve energy ahead of next winter © Getty Images / picture alliance / Contributor Germany is planning to fill up its gas storage facilities for next winter without Russian supplies, according to the head of the Federal Network Agency, Klaus Mueller. The official said that the nation’s tanks are not empty ahead of the end of the current heating season, claiming that this will allow Berlin not to turn to Russian piped gas. “We are now coming out of the winter with relatively full storage facilities. This will help fill the storage facilities over the summer without Russian pipeline gas,” Mueller told Germany’s DPA news agency on Thursday. According to data provided by the regulator, Germany’s gas storage facilities were...

Berlin weans itself off Russian gas to become US LNG addict

25Mar

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Germany, Russia

Berlin weans itself off Russian gas to become US LNG addict

The politician pointed at Washington as the beneficiary of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage © Getty Images / fmajor The sabotage of the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines has turned Germany’s dependence on Russian natural gas into an addiction to liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the US, a member of the German Bundestag, Andrej Hunko, has said. Germany has paid heavily for last year’s explosions on the pipelines, which were built to deliver cheap natural gas from Russia, The Left party politician told China’s Global Times newspaper in an interview on Thursday. He noted that the sabotage left Berlin without an option to “choose which gas is better and cheaper and which is ecologically better.” “Before, it was a decision under political pressure, whether to us...

KFC Apologizes for Linking Chicken Promotion to Kristallnacht

3Mar

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Germany, USA

KFC Apologizes for Linking Chicken Promotion to Kristallnacht

An automated push notification sent in error by KFC Germany conflated the notorious 1938 pogrom and “tender cheese with crispy chicken.” A KFC restaurant in Hamburg, Germany, in 2018.Credit...Axel Heimken/picture alliance via Getty Images By Mike Ives and Melissa Eddy KFC’s German branch has apologized for seeming to encourage its customers to mark the anniversary of Kristallnacht — the notorious Nazi pogrom against Jews — by eating chicken, saying that a promotional message was sent in error as a result of an automated push notification. The pogrom that began on Nov. 9, 1938, is known as the night of broken glass, and is widely commemorated as the start of the Holocaust. It was a coordinated assault on German Jews and their homes, businesses and synagogues. Photo by: SHOAH...

German chancellor identifies who can stop Ukraine bloodshed

28Feb

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Germany, Russia, Ukraine

German chancellor identifies who can stop Ukraine bloodshed

Olaf Scholz says Russian President Vladimir Putin must withdraw troops from the neighboring country as a basis for peace talks © CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin holds the key to ending the bloody conflict in Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said. He insisted Moscow must pull its troops out of the neighboring country in order for peace negotiations to take place. “It is necessary that Putin understands that he will not succeed with his invasion and imperialistic aggression. And that he has to withdraw troops. This is the basis for talks,” Scholz argued. Speaking with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday, the German leader said Ukraine was “ready for peace, but there must be something done – and this has to be done by Putin.” He was asked whe...