Russian soldier admits proudly his comrades were killing POWs

This generation in Western Europe is totally against Russia. It is necessary to uproot them in their entirety.
Why do you think this happened? This guy has no idea.
- Love me or I shoot
  
  The shooting will continue until the love improves
- Like grandpa said! RATHER DEAD THAN RED!
  
  Red? What's that got to do with this?

When they admit their war crimes we should believe them.

this is great, posts like these draw out all the tankies who I can then add to my block list
- Good idea.
  Taiwan number one
  
  1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre 15 Apr 1989 – 4 Jun 1989
  
  Mainland Taiwan number 5
- What are tankies?
  
  misguided people who simp for dictators and war criminals just because they oppose the west
  
  People who've gone so far left they've come full circle and gone fascist and admire authoritarian communist regimes like China and the USSR. Like flat earthers I thought they were a made up joke until I started seeing a while bunch of unironic "Stalin did nothing wrong" type commentary.
  
  I think a better question is "where are these tankies?" because I keep seeing people talk about them on these kinds of posts and have yet to actually see a tankie. Who here is defending the killing of POWs? You'd think they exist based on some of the posts here calling out this strawman.
  
  Oh to be innocent again
- Amusingly, I see responses to this that I can't see.
  The block function is beautiful.
- You can block me as well, nazi.

No different then when some SS officers admitted to what they did to the “undesirables” and that they deserved it, and would do it again.

Russia is a diseased country that's trying to spread its rot. Why they aren't dealt with more sternly is curious to me
- because invading another country usually involves mass civilian deaths and should be avoided as a rule
  
  Nobody wants to invade Russia. Whats absurd is that we sit around and let them invade other countries. I understand the desire to avoid escalation but if all other avenues fail there should be a willingness among free nations to boot them out swiftly and efficiently and make it clear that their dreams of empire building are done and it's time to get their house in order instead of distracting themselves with destroying others.
  
  It's also gone hilariously bad for those who tried in the past
- They have nukes
  
  They maybe have nukes
  They literally can't fuel their own tanks so whether or not their nukes are more than just expensive paperweights is very much up for discussion
  
  And foreign policies
  Basically, there's no direct laws to prosecute other countries. There's only sanctions. And since we can't pull them in front of the Hague, we are using sanctions. And with "we" I mean all of the world except for a few rogue nations like Saudi Arabia, North Korea, China, India, and a few more iirc.

- It's sad to witness the animosity towards Russia. The responsibility lies with Putin and those who actively support him - they seized power and manipulated the populace, and commit war crimes. Not all Russians do that. Despite his suppression of independent media and the severe penalties, including up to 15 years of imprisonment, for engaging in not only "anti-war" but even "pro-peace" protests, a significant number of people continue to oppose the war.
  Putin's narrative revolves around the notion that "in the West, they harbor hatred towards us, attempting to dismantle us." By uttering "fuck Russia," unwittingly or not, you're just endorsing Putin and his propaganda. Please don't do that. Instead, say "fuck Putin".
  
  Russian here. Just to clarify, most of us won't get upset if someone says "Fuck Russia", as we understand that you mean "Fuck the Russian state" - lots of us been saying the same for a long time, as, believe it or not, living in an authoritarian state ain't fun.
  The line gets crossed when people say "Fuck Russians", call for oppressive measure against Russian nationals, celebrate their deaths or even outright attack them. That's fucked up.
  
  It would be nice if it was just Putin. And it's true that lots of Russians are opposed to the war. It's even probably true that lots of them are as apolitical as they can be, just doing whatever they have to do to survive day by day.
  But there are lots of Russians who support him. Even outside of Russia. There is, in fact, a large portion of the population that approves of him, despite the invasion into Ukraine. A lot of it is retired people, of course, but also shit-tons of people who listen mainly to Russian news sources, and therefore believe Putin's propaganda.
  Even if Putin were assassinated the next day, his replacement wouldn't be much better. Hopefully they'd pull out of Ukraine, but they would likely be just as chauvinist and nationalist as Putin. Russia's political spectrum is, unfortunately, very close to "50 shades of nationalism", to the point where even Navalny had to curry favor with them to build up sufficient support. And nationalists (and fascists) tend to do stupid shit like invading neighboring countries.
  I would agree that "fuck Russians" is going a step too far. But if Russia's international reputation is shit right now, it's no one's fault but Putin's, and it is unfortunately well-deserved. And, whether we like it or not, when you say "I'm from [country]", that country's reputation will affect how people see you. So if individual Russians around the world are facing stigma, that's really unfortunate, but it's the inevitable outcome of shit like this. It's nothing new — after WWII, Germans had to deal with the exact same shit.
  
  Fuck Off
  
  It's not Putin who's committing torture, rape, and genocide of Ukrainians. It's not Putin who's sailing the warships, driving the tanks, laying the mines, and pushing the buttons to launch missiles. And even if there are a significant number of russians who oppose the war, the majority of them don't. The animosity towards russia will continue to be justified until russia stands firmly against genocide.
  
  If it's not Russia, it's Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, etc. etc. etc.
  The only thing our people love more than war is being told they're right when their preferred nightly news program gives them excuses for why our country is spending all of our money on war.

Huh, Where are all the hexbear tankies?
- For me? Blocked.
  Stalin shipped my relatives to the gulag for being elected representatives in Estonia. Fuck hexbear and fuck tankies.
- Masturbating to the thought of killing innocent civilians and POW's. You know... Regular conservative shit.
  
  Regular communist shit.
  FIFY.
- I think Lemmy.world may have defederated from them. I don't know though.
  
  They did, it is there under blocked instances
  https://lemmy.world/instances
- What happened to lemmygrad?
  
  This instance blocks tankies

- We can talk about the murderers who are doing this without using racist epithets.
  
  It’s an insult, not racism. Just read the dictionary.
- You need to return to reddit and leave with your disgusting xenophobia and racism
  
  lemmy.blahaj.zone
  They would also torture you to death.
  
  You need to return to lemmygrad.
  
  You need to go to russia and leave with your disgusting xenophobia and racism
  
  lol no, get lost tankie
  
  Lol. Lmao, even
  
  Says the one who obviously has a stick up his ass about white people, and uses terms like "White People trash".
  
  all Russians are gonna learn.. you obviously need to accept that.. it's going to be tough for you, because you believe you're exceptional for some reason.. trust me, you will understand something new very soon..
  
  You joined a week ago... We are here longer.
  Gtfo

- Sometimes I do think Patton wasn't an egotistical nutter after all.
- 1917 the US and other Allies tried to intervene in the Russian Civil War on the side of the White Army.
- Churchill argued at length that Russia had to be next after Germany fell. He probably was onto something there.
- And here's the defense of Nazis
  Can we seriously defed from lemmy.world now, because this is seriously disgusting
  
  I do not see any defense of Nazis in GP's post. I don't understand what you are talking about.
  
  Life isn't so binary and simplistic.
  Get used to differing views to your own. You might learn something.
  
  How the fuck is that a defence of Nazis, you redundant muffin?
  
  This comment feels so reactionary and so off the mark based on the op comment that I'm not certain this isn't a bait post... Which I've just been hooked by... I should stop talking now.
  
  read again, the comment dunks on the west, Russia and the nazis....

It seems like something that Putin would want.

Yet people still argue russians aren't barbarian terrorists.
- You should be wary of labelling an entire group by the actions of a few.
  Do the war crimes committed in Abu Ghrabi make all Americans barbarian terrorists?
  
  While it's true that it's not the entirety of the Russian population, there's still the oligarchs, mercenaries, media outlets, the entire government body, and a fuck ton of the military, all more than happy to fuck over their ex-comrades as soon as they get the green light. I'm pretty sure that's who we mean when we generalize "Russians".
  As a Latin American, this applies to Americans as well. Much love to a decent part (if not most) of the people there, but FUCK the US for fucking us all over with banana republics, neoliberalism, and red scare shenanigans, only for them to then have the galls to turn out to be xenophobic, warmongering, orangeman-loving fundamentalist pieces of shit.
  Anyway, Russia, right. Fuck Putin and his greasy ball of oligarchs.
  
  Abu Ghraib perpetrators went to prison, while this asshole went on TV.
  
  russia is a terrorists state. It's up to russians to change this fact. Until they do, all of them are assisting terrorism.

Uff... as much as I think Ukraine is something of a corrupt western puppet, Russia is still, well, Russia. Not a great, humanitarian society.
- In what regard?
  
  Yeah probably. Doesn't make it ok though.

- man, it's always a good reminder, that lemmygrad users are literally just Nazis parading around as leftists.
  
  They never seem to bother parading.

Murdering POWs is an inherent part of communism
- How is that relevant to the article?
  Russia: a capitalist oligarchy, which hasn't been communist for 30 years.
  Wagner Group: A private military/mercenary group/soldiers for hire.
- Nothing about the Russo-Ukraine war has anything to do with communism.
- Is the torture that goes on in the USA's Guantanamo Bay facility "an inherent part of capitalism"?