let me remind you in common: yevgenia harkov in tetyana zhurkova's studio, and let's continue with such a historical topic . on this day, 85 years ago, one of the most massive in the history of the soviet occupation of the actor began, a great purge of soviet society from undesirable elements, but how many ukrainians suffered as a result of the great terror of 1937-38 years, kateryna danylovych will tell kurkula into criminal elements, spies, churchmen, pests. and , of course, bourgeois nationalists, this is a far from exhaustive list of those who physically destroyed or sent into exile by the soviet authorities, the soviet union, the establishment persecuted those who, i quote, were not trustworthy, the list mentioned above included, first of all, representatives of the conscious ukrainian intelligentsia and

residents of villages after the genocide, the holodomor, and the killing of millions of ukrainian peasants. it was the intelligentsia who remained the vanguard of ukrainian national resistance to the bolshevik invaders in 1937, the nkvd formed the so-called troika, essentially a body that could make a decision on execution or deportation of unwanted elements of the union to every republic, region, district, limits on repression were lowered, more than one message had to be three executions in the 15 months of the campaign on political charges in the ussr, more than one out of seven million people was arrested. during the great terror, nearly 700,000 people were condemned to be shot for political reasons

. three hundred thousand ukrainians were affected by the great terror of the 1930s. such according to the institute of national remembrance, 24,000 were shot , only in a few days, the vorochi police officers shot more than 2,700 scientists, writers , artists. - the only news on the social media is only the victims of repression, deportation , famine in ukraine during the soviet regime, it cannot be counted and, unfortunately, during the great terror, the best part was physically destroyed of the ukrainian people, let's remember this most massive act of terror and compare it with today

. i know you all in principle. it is necessary to note, first of all, that today we are talking about the beginning of the destruction order in the professional year that concerned well, how can we not imagine the 21st century today? the fact is that the 37th year is the 20th anniversary of zhovtneva of the bolshevik revolution, what did we imagine these people in a riot, the flower of the ukrainian nation was shot to the 20th anniversary of the october revolution, this is how the bolsheviks, the communists celebrated their anniversary, e-e we need to understand that, in principle, the totalitarian system of the soviet union is not exclusively 37-38 years, because on the fifth of august they put into effect the law on

executions, but at the same time we need to understand that in fact the totalitarian system of the soviet union began to operate with the execution system from its beginning to the end of the soviet union, that is, in these within the borders of the rural union, we can define this period as terror, but in 37-38 it was a great terror, when more than 150,000 ukrainians were simply shot, when tens of thousands of children found themselves in the state of children of enemies of the people, accordingly, they were imprisoned in orphanages, they were raped, where they were actually tried to forcefully hide the children who, for example, were sent to nurseries, the children of the people, the teachers and educators did not touch them. these children, for example, 5-6 years old could not speak, if we are talking about this system, children at 5-6 years old did not know how to speak because no one with them

talked and just as a rule in the rooms they fed , they plowed, they sat, then this system was not at all human to you, and therefore today, august 5, we have to remember that in general it was not the peak - it was the peak of the communist government, it was the peak of repressions that europe did not know well, for the entire time of its existence, tell me, if we continue the topic of parallels, yes , these are the so-called troikas, who were engaged in the murders and destruction of people, in fact, do you see parallels with the current occupiers who came to our land and that's it killing and raping people is definitely right here. we need to understand with you. what about the russians , who entered the territory of our country en masse in the 22nd year, which has been at war with them for 8 years. they absolutely remind us of the russians of the 18-20s and 30s. x years to the

repressive machine. these are really not such creatures. well, we haven't seen them, let's say, for the last 100 years, but they existed, and these people were actually really the same cards, because executions are one thing, but it's the understanding of human values ​​that we here we can focus on what as well as how in irpen was there something like that in other territories of ukraine, this russian army lacks human values , although i note here that you and i are of an older generation and from my generation we were brought up on the same cartoons about the cat leopold about the need to make money at the same time vovka yes, but their value system with turned out to be completely different, the same as they were historians, in that their value systems are based on violence, and this is based on the european value system, so when we

talk about the great tour, we must understand that great terror is theirs, it is a natural situation when the government terrorizes the population so that the population obeys them, this is the imperial ambitions that entered ukraine and were perceived here. they destroyed and actually the great famine and the great terror - this is lower than the destruction of this opposition, which saw there several years of the existence of the ukrainian people's republic, the ukrainian state according to skoropadskyi, but all these positions of the famine and terror is the consequence of the fact that the slavic communist government wanted to eliminate absolutely completely any memories of the existence of an independent ukraine. well, is this really the problem with this opposition that you are talking about, which it tried to eliminate?

destroyed other nationalities, other identities, other peoples, and if i am not mistaken, in the same place, then they were settled by russian nationalities. by which this sean overcoats of the european empires and bayonets moved, that is, any empire seeks one thing, it is to overcome the internal opposition, and that is why the internal opposition must be leveled at the expense of the fact that they send their soldiers who can become the foundation of the foundation of some national of cars, they are sent to fight in other territories, what we see with you today is that when putin announces the denazification of ukraine, yes, he announces it in what sense that it is necessary to destroy the ukrainian nation and in one thing in the struggle with the

ukrainian nation to destroy the small ones born and living on the territory of the russian federation, which sacred buryats, ingush, dagestanis, he actually destroys on this new peoples who can raise a rebellion or create autonomy or, conversely , talk about leaving the russian federation, respectively in this paradigm, all the empires operated in the same way as the soviet union, it destroyed at the expense of small nations, destroyed everything that existed here , and i noticed even more that in principle if well for us, the history of ukraine, for example, the community of the 20th year, it is covered with huge layers. but if we open them up and perceive historical facts that people do not perceive, then we will see that, for example , kharkiv was conquered by the bolsheviks at the expense of the chinese; in kyiv, the chinese were the most severe repressions of the 20s . the chinese, that is, they are mercenary troops, hired

troops that were absolutely useful only for the destruction of people, if we look at the second world war with you, for example, at the fronts, there are incredible numbers of kazakhs there who did not understand in russian, they understood the russian officers who ordered them to advance or retreat, that is, the whole empire was built on the fact that he destroyed to destroy the native peoples, owing to you that the metropolises exist and continue to rule these countries, that is why what we see today in ukraine when dagestan is a beetroot, well this is, roughly speaking, a list of people who entered ukraine and are committing these atrocities, this is actually nothing else , the policy of the empire is the same. the policy was during the second world war or the period in which it attacked ukraine to ukraine, oleksandr ah, tell me , did you really just raise the topic of the peoples who now live on the territory of russia and in

these regions? did it really happen then, and what peoples suffered in general? uh, in the 1937s, uh, is it really, or only ukrainians? 16 i don't know, but let's just put the accents in the 37th by the 37th for the 38th year, 1,580,000 of them were registered in the soviet union, of which 681,000 were shot, of these 681,000 were shot, more than 150,000 plant ukrainians, and i will repeat the figure of 1.5 million, 680,000

shot of these one and a half million in addition to the shot 500,000 died of diseases in the camps, in general, in 37-38, 22,500 children were taken from these people. the educational system of the stalinist camps took away. that is, it is these 22,000 children who will say thank you, comrade stalin, for our bright future. that is what this system speaks to us. in fact, in ukraine every 30th was shot, to imagine the scale of this tragedy is unbelievable when you know people and every 30th is shot and of these every 30th shot, every 15th 10th he got into obligations and each of them from

them children who remained orphans and how often ukrainians took from these children, in fact, from the street, er, well, classmates of their children, and impersonated them so that these children would not be sent to orphanages, where they would be raped by er criminals, er minors, yes, or these educators which will make you talk about let's say stalin, i want to remind you that for those who still somehow think of the ussr as a country that educates a new generation, that in reality the children who were sent to these children's camps were not only raped by criminals and vermin, but they are children, for example, could be sentenced from the age of 12 to the colonies of adults because the soviet union in the 35th year adopted legislation that if a child, that is, a citizen of the ussr who is over 12 years old and he

says some words that are not subject to to the general program of the party there, yes, that is, to talk about bad things about the soviet union or bad behavior or bad things about your leadership. i understand that, oleksandr, it was good to get into the column, thank you very much. well, in fact, i still had a lot of questions on this topic, but time constraints, but i thank you very much for this analysis. and what do you know? well, i was personally interested in these parallels and the consequences that we got now based on this story. why is it important to know the story? the historian was in touch with us, and let's move on. austrian analyst tom cooper hopes that ukraine will be able to return kherson in the next

month or two. in his opinion, it is realistic if the ukrainian defenders continue to destroy russian warehouses with ammunition and cut supply lines by destroying bridges. in an interview with the public, cooper expressed whether, in his opinion, a new offensive by the russians in the south is possible, where they are accumulating their forces and what they have problems with . the offensive of the russians in the kherson region and whether ukraine will be able to seize the initiative in the war in the near future in order to break its course, we are talking about all this with the austrian analyst tom cooper mr. there and it is big pleasure to speech news ukrainian special services declare that the russians themselves shelled the colonies in olenivka where ukrainian prisoners of war were held according to those videos that are on the network, in your opinion, what is the nature of the damage, is this a pyrotechnic explosion, what is the nation of the endangered, really,

i do not have the qualifications of an expert explosive technician to give an assessment of the damage but nevertheless the situation is completely clear. this is just a massacre of prisoners of war provoked by putin, probably with a propaganda purpose, to accuse ukrainians in the eyes of the west of allegedly using western weapons to kill prisoners of war, or it can be even more banal and let's say the so-called local authorities embezzled money for food and for the maintenance of prisoners and how is it better to hide and kill them and then no one will ask about this money, it is necessary to understand that each individual use of khimars every single missile launched by the system is tracked with gps trackers, so the americans can always check for sure whether the chimera was used for crimes, let's talk about the donetsk branch of the institute for the study of war, they claim that the russians will not be able to capture

the donetsk region, at least in the coming months, they can probably conduct only two significant offensive operations to siversk and bakhmut, in your opinion, what are the main goals of the russians in the donetsk direction now and to what extent are they able to achieve them." i don't see the russians spending large-scale offensive operations now their forces are mostly controlled in the south, especially in the area south of zaporizhzhia, they withdrew 5-6 battalions of airborne tactical groups there, they are restoring the 76th guards airborne assault division , they brought the 106th airborne division, that is, they transferred at least two divisions there and they are also expanding the division of heavy artillery, the question is how they want to use them, the airborne forces are not very suitable for defense, they are better trained and organized for offensive operations, but i do not i see that they are now starting some major

offensive operations they are going to do a lot of local test counterattacks a lot of reconnaissance operations to keep the ukrainians tense and hurt the ukrainian counteroffensive but so far i really don't see the russians planning to do any major attacks or offensive operations in the next one or two months they need time to paint new fighters in the process they have problems and it also takes time but i could be wrong i don't know what what is happening now in the headquarters in moscow or rostov-on- don what will putin order his generals so far he is pushing them to do crazy things he doesn't care about losses attrition so we can't rule out that he is going to start another offensive the only question is where now i don't have an answer the question

in the nbu are the russians pulling additional forces there, is the offensive really unlikely yet, i am not sure that you are not going to attack or try to reach zaporizhzhia from the south, they simply do not have enough forces for this, even if they deploy 10 ptg and they there will be more or less targets, for example at 80-90% of their usual number, it is still too little to break through the ukrainian positions and reach zaporozhye , in general, not enough to attack such large cities, then what is the point of doing it, but this does not mean that they will not attack we are dealing with someone completely irrational. putin considers himself a great strategist and military commander, therefore he pushes his generals to do ridiculous actions, and they push their subordinates, so it is possible that he is going to issue such an order, but from a military point of view in there is no offensive we see a lot of news about the

destruction of russian warehouses it your view should be the primary targets of the armed forces in the occupied territories this is a perfect combination you destroy the ammunition warehouses and then the supply lines they cannot renew the stock and accordingly fight on and the question arises how long the russians can continue the struggle on the western side of the dnieper, if ukraine destroys the bridges and the warehouse gives them 2-3 days to repair and re-introduce them, then the russians will simply run out of supplies, this may continue for weeks, but then without being able to attack, then it will be easier to reach kherson from the west or from the north or from anywhere, many people think that it would be good to hit the bridges south of zaporozhye that lead to the crimea, the russians strengthened

the 58th combined army there, but probably such an operation in ukraine it would be difficult to carry out successfully, but that does not make the best and very promising solution now, if the ukrainians continue to keep the russians in the kherson region under pressure and interrupt the supply lines, then this may force them flee or surrender or make a similar other decision, western analysts believe that the weapons provided to ukraine help ukrainian forces regain the initiative to turn the tide of the war in their favor. in your opinion, will ukraine now be able to seize the initiative of hest? from my point of view, you all have too few western weapons. ukraine received about a quarter of what she says she needs to win the war. i believe that about the same amount is needed, as much as you have already received to finally stop the russians, one more

the problem is that a large number of western weapons have never before been deployed in such a large-scale and intensive war, some samples have what we call childhood diseases, you get a new system, bring it to the battlefield, everything is fine, then you test it in combat, suddenly there are problems and, for example, a howitzer tank the reloading system overheats or fails after you fire more than 100 rounds per day and a hundred rounds per day gun mount for the villages of ukraine it's just too little of course the ukrainians are prioritizing directions where to use weapons, let's say in certain areas in the kherson region , now i hope that thanks to this you will be able to return kherson in the next month or two, but the weapons are still not enough and they are arriving too slowly , this is actually an absurd situation, half of the west is complaining about the supply of russian gas or

lack of supply or insufficient supply but no one thinks to think that in order to win, it is us and the situation will resolve itself if we help the ukrainians to withdraw russian troops from ukraine to return to the line from 2014-2015 and tell putin you are now at the starting line and now we can talk about the lifting of sanctions in exchange for gas supplies under last year's contracts in continuation of the question of time promises about the supply of weapons germany promised 16 viber motorized transport tanks and 100 self-propelled artillery panzer howitzers since 2000 north macedonia promised t-72 tanks britain promised rszv m-270 that can hit targets at a distance of up to 80 km is this enough only in order to achieve parity of forces, what kind of weapons and in what quantity would help to

achieve this parity. if you want to launch an offensive against the russians, you need to neutralize the russian artillery. to do this, you need better artillery and in more quantities than they have, it is obvious that ukraine does not have it now further, in order to protect our own artillery from the russian artillery of unmanned aerial vehicles, we need an air defense system. air defense systems that can move behind the artillery and protect the troops during their advance in ukraine, there is nothing like that, for example, you get 200 polish tanks or any of their others, but this is not enough, because during the titanka offensive, they will be hit by russian artillery, their own artillery in ukraine is not enough to to neutralize the russian

therefore, this is a permanent closed circle in nato there is no systematic supply of weapons to ukraine, these are some random deliveries portugal promised m-114 howitzers spain wants to send 10 german tanks leopard is all good but it only creates additional difficulties from the point of view of maintenance because all these weapons need different spare parts or if we are talking about the same pontoon bridges that germany promises to provide it is very good-natured but ridiculous pontoon bridges are needed when you push mail to cross a river and bridges defeated, but there is no point in doing this if you do not have artillery to support these troops, russian artillery can simply defeat ukrainian forces at the stage of installing a pontoon bridge, so this equipment will probably be hidden somewhere in the forest, who knows how many months before it will be needed, so all these promises are an opportunity for politicians to say oh, we have

done so much for ukraine. we sent them pontoon bridges , armored personnel carriers, old t-72 tanks, so there is nothing to complain about, but ukraine needs systemic help starting from artillery tools to support this artillery such as uavs artillery radars after that you need enough air defense systems to cover all major cities at least the main strategic infrastructure storage of oil, oils and lubricants at the railway station, similar to this, also to protect the troops on the front line, and after that you need armored personnel carrier pontoon bridges and other things that you are currently receiving, of course, ukrainians are grateful for any help and that is great, but so far this help is insufficient and chaotic and ukraine, british

intelligence claims that the russians are actively recruiting mercenaries of the private military company wagner, but the wagner forces are not enough to significantly change the course of the war. do you agree with this opinion if you look for example, russian private security companies and in russia 20,000 private security companies, they have 600,000 employees, they have 300,000 military personnel in the russian guard, they have 40,000 military personnel in amon, they have 50,000 military personnel and paramilitary private companies such as pagner redoubt, etc., in fact they already have enough mobilized troops, the problem is not in this, but in maintaining these forces. therefore, they need additional volunteers to send them forward as cannon fodder. these are the kind of people they are trying now to recruit men from parts very far from moscow or from the so-called luhansk and donetsk people's republics, they throw these poorly

trained troops into the attack, which ukrainians, of course , cannot ignore the fact that a huge mass of troops is coming at them, so they open fire. this is how the russians learn here are ukrainian positions and then they cover them with artillery and only then they send their trained troops. in this way, they try to preserve their forces because they lost many officers, especially the separatists of ukraine from becant yours, the ministry of defense of ukraine said that the russians began to use soviet stocks because modern weapons are running out if we generally assess the russians' weapons stocks, how much of it is currently lying around and what are the problems, there are no words if we take t-72 tanks, they have approximately 10,000 tanks in stock, most of they are rusty, the same with the mass

of t-80 tanks, but it is not a problem to take them out of hiding and clean them of rust and replace the engine if you need to replace some parts and bring them to a combat condition. so they really have a lot of soviet weapons production is the same with artillery, for example, there are reserves of 122 mm artillery, but especially among the separatists, most of this artillery has not been firing for the last month, and the longer they do, they bring instead old 152 mm guns, that is, they replace the old weapons with heavier ones, but there are modern weapons especially high-precision ammunition that they cannot replace with something else, why, for example, cruise missiles are launched from russian strategic bombers or the russian fleet uses microcircuits western-made electronics almost entirely consist of western components, now they have a huge problem with the import of such electronics,

they can make, for example, the fuselage, wings and engines of caliber rockets and the like, but they cannot make avionics for them, and without avionics. this is just a rocket, not a guided missile and finally there is a uav complex orland 10 what is so special about this small uav, in fact the device itself, the fuselage, the wings are made in russia, but the camera , abionics, electronics, signal system, systems for signal intelligence, guidance system, it's all brought from abroad to control the eagle, they literally use consoles from xbox and similar equipment for games, if you don't believe me, i 'll convince you. a young guy maybe 18-19 years old and his commander on the right, these two guys