Knights Of the Keyboard To the Defence of Ukraine (Part 1) by Alfred N.Muggins

4/4/22 (edited and added to up to 24/4/22)

    Alfred commented in response to a possible (i.e. very likely) Russian Paid Troll on Facebook on a newspaper article’s comments. “The Suspected Commander (a Colonel) of Russian operations (i.e. massacres, possible tortures and rapes?) in Bucha has been named by Ukrainian sources.”

    A possible Russian Troll (or if she wasn’t she was remarkably putinlike in her arguments, perhaps braindead, or maybe just without a soul?) with an Irish sounding female name, fired a volley of conspiracy theories at the ‘West’. She commented ‘That was another Staged Crime by the West. Just as they did in Syria with the White Helmets (the humanitarian organisation of rescuers who operated in the rebel held areas to save the victims of Syrian Assad Government and Russian bombing. The Syrian Assad Government and the Russians accused them of faking events and pictures, pretending to help the injured, but acting to create propaganda for the rebels. This Syrian Government/Russian narrative was rejected by independent journalists and by some European governments), now it is Azov.’ (Meaning presumably that it was the Azov Brigades, or the Ukrainians who had staged the murders or executions of their own citizens to lay the blame on the presumably, according to the Troll, blameless (and whiter than white) Russian soldiers)

    Another Western guy asked her, “Were the Salisbury poisonings staged as well?”

    Another British seeming man said, “Yeah! Staged like the old Katyn Forest massacres right?” (He was referring to the massacres of the Polish Army, by Stalin’s NKVD (KGB?) in 1940/41 after the division of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union. Virtually all the officers and any soldiers who seemed particularly anti Soviet were executed individually, many of them in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk, Russia. Stalin’s idea was to remove much of the Polish intelligentsia, the officer class, so that no potential Polish Resistance could ever rise up to threaten Soviet Russia. Many of the Polish Army reflected the linguistic/national mix of pre war Poland, which included many Ukrainians and Byelorussians (Belarusians) too. The Soviet Russians had for many years denied that the mass graves were created by them, blaming the German Nazis instead, although the Russian State did admit to the true history of Katyn during Putin’s time, only a few years before.)

     Another concerned fighter for truth asked the Russian Troll “So what’s your alternative news?”

    And another keyboard warrior for truth asked the Troll, “Who helped Assad to bomb his own people in Syria? Answer it yourself?” (It would be interesting to see if the Troll would be able to answer this question, which most observers well knew the answer to.)

    Another keyboard warrior for truth pressed the Troll, presumably about her description of the Bucha massacres as staged by the Ukrainians, “How on earth was that staged?”

   Another person concerned for truth tested the troll, suggesting her as, “a special agent?”

    Alfred angrily stepped into the ‘discussion’ (argument?), keen to do his bit of armchair warrior service (unpaid! – unlike the trolls he presumed). Addressing the Troll, he asked blatantly, “Were you in the KGB Mollie? Did you get to know big brother Putin quite well? Was he a big Brother to you, telling you all you needed to know, so that you no longer had to think for yourself? I hope that one day you manage to escape his clutches and escape his brainwashing, and perhaps one day you will slowly start to think for yourself once again and be able to make your own judgements about what you see and what you hear!”

    Some journalists and the Ukrainians, had revealed a Lieutenant Colonel, probably responsible for much of the war crimes committed upon the civilian population of Bucha. With so many mass graves and bodies being discovered, and witnesses to so many other atrocities revealing their stories, the list of war criminals and atrocities will probably grow, as did those at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II.

    A female commenter said “This guy looks so young! Will his mother be proud of what he has done?!!!”

    Alfred could not help but agree. What kind of Mother could possibly be proud of a son who committed or ordered war crimes?

    Alfred went on to share the newspaper article/meme which had these and other comments attached, to his Facebook friends (or maybe public). He posted an advisory comment on his shared meme advising cryptically (and with an admittedly dark humour!) what his readers should do if they saw this pictured Russian officer. It went something like this :-

      If you see this guy :-

1. Arrest him
2. Run a mile away
3. Shoot him before he shoots you
4. Call for drone support
5. Take him home to his mother and explain what he has been doing in Ukraine, and see what she thinks of him now.

Unfortunately Facebook were not happy with what Alfred had bravely posted, and he was warned that he had breached the rules, and the meme/post was taken down. Alfred thought, perhaps the poor Russian officer had been wrongly accused of war crimes, or should be regarded as innocent until proved guilty. Perhaps his poor mother should be saved the indignity of her son being accused in this way. Perhaps he had gone too far by suggesting the possible demise of such an officer, however much the comment was tongue in cheek, and containing a dark humour. Maybe this particular officer was actually rather well behaved and acted like all well brought up Russian Officers should, with decency and mercy, and concern for civilians, the potential citizens of a new Ukraine to be ruled by Putin on behalf of the Neo Russian Empire. It would however be difficult to explain the piles of dead bodies, found in Bucha and quite a few other places after the Russian soldiers withdrew from these Northern areas in late March 2022, many of them whose hands were tied when they were executed, and some of whom there were suggestions that they may have been tortured and disfigured before death.