https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/25/world/ukraine-russia… WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department and Yale University researchers said Thursday that they had identified at least 21 sites in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine that the Russian military or Russian-backed Ukrainian separatists are using to detain, interrogate or deport civilians and prisoners of war in ways that violate international humanitarian law. There were signs pointing to possible mass graves in some areas, they said.
Researchers at the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab said the sites were part of a “filtration system” used for processing detainees and prisoners. They reached their conclusions after examining commercial satellite imagery and open-source information. The detainees and prisoners could be forced to live outside the centers in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, imprisoned for long periods, deported to Russia or even killed.
Filtration systems sounds like selection sounds like final solution.
Putin is going full Stalin. “Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.”
Don’t underestimate the value of slave labor. Putin just announced he wants to increase the size of the army by over 100,000. That would leave a lot of civilian toilets to be cleaned, crops to be harvested, and such, without a force of kidnapped and enslaved people to take their place. When I worked at the pump seal company, there were a couple Latvian guys in the engineering department, who had been in Nazi forced labor camps during the war.
The Soviet gulags were forced labor camps. Two of my uncles were sent to infamous Norillag gulag in 1940 - one died in the gulag and the other was released when he agreed to fight in the Soviet army. He came back to Estonia after WW2.