Retired US Army Lieutenant General Ben Hodges has been accused of an “outright and primitive lie,” after casting doubt on the consensus that Russia lost millions of lives during World War II, claiming all the killings happened in Ukrainians.
Hodges is the former Commanding General of the US Army in Europe and now serves as a lobbyist at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), a Washington and Warsaw-based pressure group that promotes the agenda of US military contractors in East Europe.
In recent years, the Second World War has been a target for historical revisionism, with figures on both sides of the Atlantic being attacked for supposedly rewriting established truths for modern-day political gain.
While most of the rhetoric has centered around claiming responsibility for the defeat of the Nazi’s, Hodges has shocked many commentators by suggesting that widely agreed figures surrounding the war’s casualties are actually false.
On March 3, during a Zoom call, live-streamed on the Facebook page of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, the retired lieutenant general responded to a quote from German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier that Germany had been responsible for the death of many Russians.
The former officer’s claim directly contradicts the consensus within both Western and Russian academia that Russia lost more than 10 million citizens between 1941 and 1945.
Historian Vadim Erlikhman has estimated the Soviet deaths sustained at around 26.6 million, with Ukraine losing around 16.3% of its residents – more than Russia’s 12.7%.
The Zoom call was part of the 12th annual US-Ukraine Security Dialogue, a conference organized by the Center for US-Ukrainian Relations, a lobby group accused by some of having ties to OUN-B, an offshoot of the far-right Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.
If I were Russian I would certainly feel disgust and more, but as an American it’s hard to describe the feeling. What’s a stronger word for embarrassment, like on an existential level.
Our entire leadership my whole life has been this constant embarrassment, in a way that negatively effects lives all around the world. I just would have never imagine we would go out this way.
We all knew it would happen one day, the US Zionist Empire was always built on sand, but who would have imagined the combination of vicious and pathetic lashing out it is doing. Do all empires go out this way?
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No need to talk to the general. It’ll be more productive to reach out to his caretakers who help him to put on his helmet and tie his shoes. With their help the man has a better chance to recall the facts of WWII. Not to change the subject, he’s probably is being treated at the same facility as the other prominent demented patient.
Did he escape the loony detention, are is this just regular behavior?
I have a very good idea that Russian TV networks can use. Make a documentary questioning the official 9/11 story, and show evidence that it was a false flag. Give lots of examples. Point fingers and name names. That will ruffle a lot of feathers in the USA.
Most of the people that do some research already have an idea about what is going on?
America has never been an Empire, all they have done is cause slaughter and chaos all over like a well armed pirate and even that has been a very short time compared to real Empires. The Roman and British empires at least gave something to the development of the world, extremely brutal at times I admit
Another way to look at it, but true.
In the USA, they have suppressed the number of Russians who died in the war. But anyone who does the proper research knows that that country lost the most people in the war, millions more, tens of millions more. I believe the number was 28 million. Germany is second at 6.9 million; Poland I believe is third. US 405,000
The Zionist infested USA knows this very well, but propaganda most prevail?