When the Russians came nearer, Azov laid waste to the city. Over and over the locals say that the Azov Battalion ruled with an iron fist. Azov were placed there because the population was pro-Russian, so Azov were sent for the purpose of repression.
Families were not allowed to leave using the humanitarian corridors set up by Russia and were used as human shields, as testified by Natalia Usmanova who worked at Azovstal. "Ukraine has died for me as a state," she said. But what can we expect from the Azov Battalion? (And the 36th Marine Brigade.)
This isn't in the film. Okay, but there's a lot else that could be in there. Let's see.
Dozens of residents said that Azov would occupy one floor of a building and put the people on the next floor. They would establish fire points from there--mortars, machine guns, and in the courtyards, artillery and mortars. No one was allowed to go. Textbook definition of human shields.
Not in the film!
Over and over it's heard from Mariupol residents that Kyiv is the occupier and Moscow is the liberator.
Ukraine cleared out a maternity hospital and put gun emplacements there. So, more of the same from Azov.
I didn't see anything like this in the film.
A theatre full of people in Mariupol was "bombed". Except there was no crater that there would have been from an aerial attack. Simply more propaganda for Western audiences to lap up.
None of this is on the film. It can't be in the film because we are watching propaganda.
Did we get to see the Azov Battalion and the symbols they wear on their fatigues? No. Was there a history of the thousands killed by the government in the east and then 60,000 troops on the Donbas border before Russia finally intervened? No, we didn't.
Or a history from the Maidan Nuland audio regime change after NATO right up to Russia before this, only Russia not allowed to join. Simple history lesson. No.
Italy hosted an exhibition "Revival of Mariupol" in January. It's instructive as a good juxtaposition to the movie.
"Symbol city of the popular revolt of Donbass against the Kiev junta, martyr city of Bander's occupation which lasted 8 years, now faces a rapid reconstruction process under the aegis of the institutions of the Russian Federation of which it has become an integral part...the results of the new city administration after the definitive liberation in the spring of 2022, with the surrender of the Azov battalion barricaded in the "Azovstal" steelworks."
Families were not allowed to leave using the humanitarian corridors set up by Russia and were used as human shields, as testified by Natalia Usmanova who worked at Azovstal. "Ukraine has died for me as a state," she said. But what can we expect from the Azov Battalion? (And the 36th Marine Brigade.)
This isn't in the film. Okay, but there's a lot else that could be in there. Let's see.
Dozens of residents said that Azov would occupy one floor of a building and put the people on the next floor. They would establish fire points from there--mortars, machine guns, and in the courtyards, artillery and mortars. No one was allowed to go. Textbook definition of human shields.
Not in the film!
Over and over it's heard from Mariupol residents that Kyiv is the occupier and Moscow is the liberator.
Ukraine cleared out a maternity hospital and put gun emplacements there. So, more of the same from Azov.
I didn't see anything like this in the film.
A theatre full of people in Mariupol was "bombed". Except there was no crater that there would have been from an aerial attack. Simply more propaganda for Western audiences to lap up.
None of this is on the film. It can't be in the film because we are watching propaganda.
Did we get to see the Azov Battalion and the symbols they wear on their fatigues? No. Was there a history of the thousands killed by the government in the east and then 60,000 troops on the Donbas border before Russia finally intervened? No, we didn't.
Or a history from the Maidan Nuland audio regime change after NATO right up to Russia before this, only Russia not allowed to join. Simple history lesson. No.
Italy hosted an exhibition "Revival of Mariupol" in January. It's instructive as a good juxtaposition to the movie.
"Symbol city of the popular revolt of Donbass against the Kiev junta, martyr city of Bander's occupation which lasted 8 years, now faces a rapid reconstruction process under the aegis of the institutions of the Russian Federation of which it has become an integral part...the results of the new city administration after the definitive liberation in the spring of 2022, with the surrender of the Azov battalion barricaded in the "Azovstal" steelworks."
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