You see those buildings left standing? That was known as the Central Prospect and those are the only remaining buildings from “Old Minsk”. The Germans only left them standing because that’s where the officers lived during the occupation.
They purposefully destroyed everything else.
On the first day of the war, the first target the Luftwaffe designated was the city water supply to prevent firefighters from putting out the fires from ensuing raids.
Everything old is new again. The tactics of terror bombing and inflicting maximum suffering on a civilian population have changed little since WW2. Most of the NATO bombing doctrine was informed or created by the same Nazi monsters who used those methods during the war.
I work with a lib whose eyes literally glaze over when I talk about Libya and how utterly unjust we were with them and he murmurs something about Gaddafi being a dictator who imprisoned/executed opposition, and he actually has no idea if that happened but it’s an African country so he’s taking a ‘safe bet’ that that was at play. He literally knows nothing about our actions over there or the why, but he’s a lib, through and through.
You see those buildings left standing? That was known as the Central Prospect and those are the only remaining buildings from “Old Minsk”. The Germans only left them standing because that’s where the officers lived during the occupation.
They purposefully destroyed everything else.
On the first day of the war, the first target the Luftwaffe designated was the city water supply to prevent firefighters from putting out the fires from ensuing raids.
The blueprint for bombing Libya, then.
Everything old is new again. The tactics of terror bombing and inflicting maximum suffering on a civilian population have changed little since WW2. Most of the NATO bombing doctrine was informed or created by the same Nazi monsters who used those methods during the war.
I work with a lib whose eyes literally glaze over when I talk about Libya and how utterly unjust we were with them and he murmurs something about Gaddafi being a dictator who imprisoned/executed opposition, and he actually has no idea if that happened but it’s an African country so he’s taking a ‘safe bet’ that that was at play. He literally knows nothing about our actions over there or the why, but he’s a lib, through and through.