In this interview, Olga Petersen, a former AfD member of the Hamburg Parliament, recounts her escape from Germany to Russia. The focus is on how a democratically elected representative was forced by political pressure, media smear campaigns, and the manipulation of state institutions such as the youth welfare office to flee her homeland with her four children and a dog.
The interview with Olga Petersen covers: – The clandestine escape: Why Olga Petersen left Germany under the pretext of a vacation and how she only revealed the truth to her children upon arrival in Russia. – Political pressure in parliament: The consequences of her refusal to give a Ukrainian delegation a standing ovation and how a “damaged image” in the media triggered a wave of reprisals. – Election observation in Moscow: Her experiences during the 2024 presidential election and why her fact-based reporting was considered high treason against the German government’s narrative in Germany. – Collective punishment and indoctrination: How schools and youth welfare offices were instrumentalized to exert pressure on their children – from gender ideology to direct threats against the family. – Transhumanism and control regimes: An analysis of the attempt to erode human identity and the foundation of the family through pseudosciences such as gender theory. – Educational comparison: Germany vs. Russia: Why her children in Russia now have to master a significantly more demanding curriculum and why the German education system is knowingly heading towards a “new illiteracy.”
“As soon as you’re not against Russia, you’re the enemy of democracy.”
Olga Petersen, who has now found new security for her family in Russia, advocates a return to German interests and a sovereign foreign policy. She sees the current developments as a dangerous dead end in which young people are being instrumentalized for foreign interests. A discussion about the anatomy of political persecution in modern Germany, the courage to resist, and the vision of a new, honest partnership between Germany and Russia.
Timestamps
Introduction: The Escape from Germany – 00:00
The First Year in Russia: Arriving and Realizing – 01:40
The Scandal in the Civic Assembly: Refusal to Applaud Ukraine – 06:10
War in Donbas: The Suppressed Prehistory – 09:40
Arms Mania: When Only the Weapons Industry Flourishes – 12:50
Reprisals and Threats: Everyday Life as an Opposition Member – 14:40
Election Observation 2024: Why Facts Became a Danger – 17:00
“Men in Civilian Clothes”: Intelligence Service Pressure Upon Return – 21:20
Gender Madness in Schools: The Indoctrination of Children – 24:00
Collective Punishment: When the Youth Welfare Office Is Politically Instrumentalized – 26:30
The AfD in Conflict: Transatlanticists vs. Realpolitikers – 29:40
The Logic of Capital: Ideologies as Playthings of the Powerful – 33:20
Transsexualism as a Health Insurance Benefit: The Government’s Priorities – 37:10
Dehumanization: The Path to Transhumanism – 41:10
Education Check: Why Russia Is Leaving Germany Behind – 44:50
Values and Homeland: The Significance of Anthem and Tradition – 48:20
Patriotism vs. Nationalism: The Love for Two Countries – 50:40
BlackRock and the Interests of the Globalists – 53:50
The Last World War? The Danger of Nuclear Escalation – 55:40
Outlook: Perspectives for a Sovereign Future – 57:30
Today, our guest is Yulia Latynina—one of Russia’s most famous journalists, the former voice of Ekho Moskvy 2 and Novaya Gazeta 3, a person considered for years a symbol of the liberal opposition 4 and an unconditional supporter of the Western agenda. But in this conversation, you’ll see a very different Latynina 5.
Who, in her opinion, fired shots on the Maidan? Why were Russian-speaking Ukrainians turned into strangers in their own country? How did the West exploit Ukraine in its own grand game? Why did a conflict they promised to prevent ultimately lead to Russians and Ukrainians finding themselves on opposite sides of the front?
After this interview, some will say that Latynina betrayed her own people. Others say she said for the first time what many were afraid to say out loud.
Timecodes: 01. Introduction — 00:00 02. Introduction and why Latynina watches Panchenko’s channel — 00:41 03. Russian language in Ukraine: what Russian liberals 6 overlooked — 02:09 04. How to admit your mistakes and not fear “cancellation” — 03:33 05. Accusations of a “new trough”: grants and USAID 7 , 8 — 05:32 06. Maidan 2014 through Panchenko’s eyes: “black sheep” in their own country — 07:06 07. “Three types of Ukrainians” — 09:59 08. Sternenko, the “Russo-cutter,” and the murder charge — 11:15 09. Who really shot on the Maidan? 9 , 10 — 15:32 10. Korsun, Anti-Maidan Buses, and Right-Wing Activists — 20:47 11. Odessa, May 2: Trade Union House — 22:12 12.The First Night of Maidan: Provocateurs, Inter, Lyovochkin — 24:00 13. A Pre-Planned Scenario and Yanukovych’s Flight — 28:20 14. Maidan Money: Oligarchs, USAID11, Jeffrey Sachs 12, 13 — 34:03 15. Russia and Ukraine as “Western Colonies” — 38:42 16. 1991 and the Rosy Picture of the West — 42:24 17. What is “Victory” for Russian Liberals? 14 — 45:04 18. Soft Power: Activists as a “Second State” — 46:22 19. Zelensky, Paris, and 70 NGOs against Peace — 47:03 20. Do You Trust Putin Today? — 51:24 21. February 24, 2022: Elite Shock and a “Stream of Shit” Addressed to Russians — 52:16 22. The Victim Has the Right to Everything 15 — 55:52 23. Zelensky’s Team Euphoria and London 2020 — 1:04:06 24. Who’s Winning and Whom Latynina Is Rooting for — 1:06:38 25. Istanbul, Trump, and the Game Against China — 1:08:26 26. Who Benefits from War: The US, Europe, and the Thucydides Trap — 1:10:30 27. Balance of Power: Russia vs. Europe — 1:14:33 28. Does Latynina Want to Return to Russia? — 1:19:06 29. Would They Head an RT Analogue? — 1:23:39 30. Panchenko’s Personal Story: Losing Friends and Returning People — 1:25:08 31. The Idea of a Great Debate: Solovyov, Korchinsky, and Others — 1:26:07 32. Can Russians and Ukrainians Fight Together Against the West? — 1:27:31 33. Are Russians Fighting Russians? — 1:31:13 34. Why Was the Russian Press Silent? — 1:35:14 35. Will Russia Become “Fashionable” Again? The Dud Phenomenon — 1:37:02 36. Poland’s U-Turn and Karaganov’s Signals — 1:38:21 37. Sacralization of Death and the Seizure of Churches in Ukraine — 1:42:11 38. “Ukrainians Are the Most Unfree People” — 1:44:00 39. Finale and Acknowledgments — 1:45:29
Footnotes
Панченко LIVE: owner is Diana Panchenko, born 21 May 1988, Nikolayev(Lviv region), Ukrainian SSR, USSR. In August 2025, Panchenko’s YouTube channel, which had 1.8 million subscribers and millions of views as of September 2024, was deleted following a request from Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation. ↩︎
USAID: See also the short video on Panchenko’s YouTube channel about this subject “Bags of money on the Maidan“: “I saw money being handed over on the Maidan myself.” Panchenko and Latynina discuss who financed the Maidan: Western money through USAID, oligarchs’ money, and funding of Ukrainian media. And why no “Maidan” is possible without the support of the media and intelligence agencies. ↩︎
See also the short video: “The “victim” label justifies everything“: Latynina on one simple question about Maidan 2014: if the shooting took place from the Ukraina Hotel (as Ivan Katchanovsky’s investigation shows), then why hasn’t the authorities found the snipers in over 10 years? Because they didn’t want to. ↩︎
USAID: See also the short video on Panchenko’s YouTube channel about this subject “Bags of money on the Maidan“: “I saw money being handed over on the Maidan myself.” Panchenko and Latynina discuss who financed the Maidan: Western money through USAID, oligarchs’ money, and funding of Ukrainian media. And why no “Maidan” is possible without the support of the media and intelligence agencies. ↩︎
See also the short video on Panchenko’s YouTube channel about this subject “Bags of money on the Maidan“: “I saw money being handed over on the Maidan myself.” Panchenko and Latynina discuss who financed the Maidan: Western money through USAID, oligarchs’ money, and funding of Ukrainian media. And why no “Maidan” is possible without the support of the media and intelligence agencies. ↩︎
Liberals: see also footnote 6, and the short video: Latynina: Russian liberals are useful idiots. Yulia Latynina, in an interview with Panchenko, discusses how the independent Russian press, in her opinion, was integrated into the vast USAID machine and failed to notice what she saw with her own eyes on the Maidan. ↩︎
See also the short video: “The “victim” label justifies everything“: Latynina on one simple question about Maidan 2014: if the shooting took place from the Ukraina Hotel (as Ivan Katchanovsky’s investigation shows), then why hasn’t the authorities found the snipers in over 10 years? Because they didn’t want to. ↩︎
The first time I learned to know the name “Ivan Katchanovski”, was in April 2023, when reading the on February 28, 2023 on Jeffrey D. Sachs’ website published article: “The ninth anniversary of the Ukraine war”.
“[….] I also urge all people to read the powerful academic studies by Prof. Ivan Katchanovski of the University of Ottawa (for example, here and here), who has laboriously reviewed all of the evidence of the Maidan and found that most of the violence and killing originated not from Yanukovych’s security detail, as alleged, but from the coup leaders themselves, who fired into the crowds, killing both policemen and demonstrators. “
Who is Ivan Katchanovski?
Ivan Katchanovski teaches at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. He does research in Democratization, Comparative Politics, Political Communication, and Conflicts, in particular, in Ukraine. He was Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics at the State University of New York at Potsdam, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and Kluge Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. His academic publications include four books, 10 book chapters, and 17 articles in refereed journals. He received his Ph.D. from the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University in the US. Source: ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan-Katchanovski
The here following, by “The Dissident” published article, shows how important professor Katchanovski’s work is. “They” want to silence him, because he unveils “their” real face.
Ivan Katchanovski, the Ukrainian-Canadian professor of political science and conflict studies at the University of Ottawa, has done extensive research factually debunking the Western narrative around the proxy war in Ukraine and painting an objective, nuanced picture of the war. Among his most consequential works has been proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the Western-funded and supported coup against Ukraine’s elected president, Viktor Yanukovych in 2014 was based on a lie. Western leaders justified supporting the coup based on claims that Yanukovych’s forces were behind a massacre of protestors in Ukraine’s Maidan Square.
But Katchanovski has collected a significant body of evidence, including witness testimony, Ukranian ballistic examinations, and forensic medical examinations done by the Ukrainian government, which all show that the massacre was carried out by Western-backed militants opposed to Yanukovych, who were occupying a Hotel in the Maidan square.
The book “The Russia-Ukraine War: Its Nature, Origins, and Outcome”
More recently, Katchanovski has written the book “The Russia-Ukraine War: Its Nature, Origins, and Outcome,” which extensively documents the Western policies that provoked the war in Ukraine, including the Maidan coup, NATO expansion, and the Western blocking of the Istanbul peace accords in April of 2022.
For his factual work, Katchanovski now faces what he describes as a “Stalinist-like” smear campaign in the form of an open lettersigned by a number of pro- Ukraine government and pro war academics, including Andreas Umland1 who, Katchanovski notes, “backed a call for total mobilization in Ukraine by a neo-Nazi admirer of Hitler” and “Anton Shekhovtsov2, who headed the Dugin’s organization in Crimea”.
He documented that Shekhovtsov has previously used openly genocidal rhetoric towards Russians, writing, “Anton Shekhovtsov compared the mass killing of people by a fire in the Trade Union building in Odesa to his killing of Colorado potato beetles by collecting them in a box and then burning them”.
The open letter
The open [Ukrainiska Pravda, Admin] letter does not challenge a single fact that Katchanovski has documented in any of his books and instead resorts toMcCarthyite smears [reckless, unsubstantiated accusations and demagogic attacks that question a person’s loyalty, character, or patriotism. Named after U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, this tactic relies on guilt by association, innuendo, and coercion to intimidate opposition, destroy careers, and suppress legitimate debate. Admin] and guilt by association. These include:………….
1. claims that Katchanovski’s book is somehow discredited based on the claim that tech billionaires Elon Musk and David Sacks donated money to the GoFundMe for the book to be published. Katchanovski clarified that
“Elon Musk did not fund my book but helped on Twitter/X to stop an attempt to block my GoFundMe. I publicly thanked Elon Musk and all contributors”.
2. In an even more absurd guilt-by-association attack, the letter tried to connect Katchanovski to Russian state media because two contributors to RT, Tarik Cyril Amar and Lenka White, said positive things about the book.
3. The letter also claims that “Katchanovski’s narrative about the causes and escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War is often congruent to the Kremlin’s propaganda” and that it could “lead to a reduction of Western help for Ukraine”
…….again, without a challenging a single fact in Katchanovski’s work.
As the Ukrainian academic Marta Havryshko3put it, “In other words: certain arguments are not wrong because they are false, but because readers might find them (in)convenient and stop sponsor corrupt regime that sends its people to the kill zone against their will.”
Katchanovski’s response
Katchanovski in a response to the smear campaign, noted that its intention was “not only to censor my book but also to go after my university job and subject me to criminal persecution and sanctions by the Zelensky regime because they are incapable of challenging my evidence-based analysis”.
The Zelensky regime has previously sanctioned a long list of its domestic critics for criticizing the Ukraine proxy war, from the well-known Ukrainian political scientist Konstantin Bondarenko4 to the former advisor to the Zelensky government, Oleksiy Arestovych5.
He added that,
“Umland, Shekhovtsov, and their ilk try to force scholars to parrot the Zelensky government propaganda and propagate fake narratives that they propagate themselves, such as false flag Nord Stream bombing by Russia, genocide in Ukraine, Ukraine as democracy, and no neo-Nazis in Ukraine. They falsely claim that the blocking of the nearly finalized Istanbul peace deal by the Western governments is Russian propaganda and denounce my book for this even though this was stated or de facto admitted by the head and members of the Ukrainian delegation, ex-prime minister of Israel, president and foreign minister of Turkey, Victoria Nuland and several other such top officials … They falsely equate the Zelensky regime with Ukraine and Ukrainians and their support for the violent overthrow of the Ukrainian government, mutual killings of Ukrainians in civil war in Donbas, and the proxy war to the last Ukrainian with supporting Ukraine and Ukrainians. They choose to attack and defame one of a few Ukrainian political scientists in the Western academy specializing primarily in conflicts in Ukraine.”
Katchanovski, who had previously had his property seized by the Ukrainian regime, noted that the smear campaign was an attempt to get him to face further repression from the regime, writing:
“The denunciation of me and my scholarly book by Umland, Shekhovtsov, and their ilk is not only an open attack on academic freedom but also an attempt to censor my book and subject me to criminal prosecution or sanctions by the undemocratic Zelensky regime for my academic research. They falsely link my book to Russian propaganda, Russian media, and “apologetics” of the Russian invasion, which are all criminal offensives in Ukraine. There were many such cases of political persecution in Ukraine.”
“My house, land, and all other property in my native Western Ukraine were illegally seized in retaliation of my scholarly studies of the Maidan massacre in Ukraine. I was blacklisted on the Ukrainian government-linked Myrotvorets hit list for “crimes” of showing involvement of radical nationalists and neo-Nazis in this massacre of the Maidan protesters and the police and for exposing the SS Galicia division veteran, who was given standing ovations in the Canadian parliament by the Canadian government, parliament, Zelensky, and his delegation. The Ukrainian government agency, headed by the leader of the OUN, which collaborated with Nazi Germany and was involved in organizing the SS Galicia Division, threatened me with criminal prosecution for exposing involvement of neo-Nazis in the Maidan massacre.”
Supporters of the Ukraine proxy war have no answer to the facts documented by Katchanovski in his book, so they are now engaging in a smear campaign, in an attempt to get him fired, censored, and repressed as retribution for his inconvenient facts.
Drones Over Helsinki. Finland Dragged Into Conflict https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYeq4EYG0MA Published: May 20, 2026 By: The Duran, Discussion, analysis: Alexander Mercouris and Armando Mema
Ukrainian drones have been crossing into Finnish airspace for the fifth time, forcing 2 million Helsinki residents to seek emergency shelter and raising urgent questions about whether Finland is being quietly dragged into the Ukraine conflict. Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris of The Duran are joined by Finnish analyst Armando Mema to examine why the Finnish government is not shooting down the drones, what Moscow really thinks about NATO member Finland allowing its territory to be used as a transit corridor, and how the country has gone from a model of peaceful neutrality to a front line of European insecurity. Is Finland paying the price for a NATO membership that offers far less protection than its leaders promised?
Mattias Desmet: […] The problem started when modernity got alienated from the act of sincere speech. Meaning that as a human being we constantly are confronted with a choice like will we take the easy way and buy into all these narratives that everyone shares? Will we take the easy way and buy into all these social illusions and shared narratives? Or will we take a difficult road and say like look okay this doesn’t feel good to me and I will try to articulate why I feel this isn’t right.
So the act of sincere speech at all levels from the lowest to the highest level always boils down to this. It means that you decide to articulate words that go against certain ideal images that are projected onto us. Like most people even never realize that they buy into all these social norms and ideal images. They just constantly do. They never think for themselves. They always think as others want them to think. They speak the words that other people want them to speak and they never speak their own words. That’s what happens in a mass formation. Suddenly the mass emerges.
There is this huge pressure to conform, to go into it and then there is like a few percentage of the people who decide to say that they do not agree and Gustave Le Bon3 in the 19th century already mentioned: every time a massformation emerges you have three groups:
First 20 to 30% of the people who buy into the massformation they just are completely hypnotized, literally hypnotized, it’s hypnosis, mass transformation, is mass hypnosis. And then you have a large group, 60% maybe 65%, who knows that there is something wrong but who chooses to remain silent because they feel the tremendous pressure of the massformation. And then there is a few percent of the people, sometimes up to 10% sometimes even 20%, who doesn’t go along with it and who decides to speak out, to try to to say like look there is something wrong with this narrative here of the Ukraine war, of the corona crisis, and so on.
The 3 groups in massformation [summarized by this blog’s admin].
20 to 30% of the people are completely hypnotized, literally hypnotized (mass hypnosis)
60% maybe 65% know that there is something wrong but choose to remain silent because of the tremendous pressure of the massformation
10% sometimes even 20% do not go along with it and decide to speak out
Gustave Le Bon in the 19th century already observed, he said like this small group of dissident people when they speak out, they will almost always be very disappointed because they will feel that the people in the masses refuse to wake up because once someone is in a mass formation is hypnotized and no matter what you say, no matter how clear your arguments are against the narrative, they will have no psychological impact because they refer to a part of reality to which no emotions are attached anymore.
Meaning that at a psychological level all these arguments have not the least, no impact at all. Gustave Le Bon said already: when these dissident people speak out they are very disappointed because they see that the masses refuse to wake up, and that’s crucial. He said like: but that doesn’t mean that their words have no impact. When there are people who continue to speak out in a quiet and sincere way not claiming that they know everything but just saying like: look I do not agree, there is something wrong according to me. When these people continue to speak out, they will not be able to wake up the masses, but usually they will prevent the masses from going to the last stage of the mass formation where they typically will try to destroy everyone who doesn’t go along with the masses.
So, and that’s what we need. When the masses do not go to the last stage, they will destroy themselves before they destroy everyone who doesn’t go along with them.
And to the contrary, when the people who do not fall prey to the massformation choose to be to remain silent, the masses will first destroy the people who do not go along with the masses4 and then they will destroy themselves as happened in the Soviet Union for instance. We could go give a lot of historical examples.
Pascal Lottaz: Yeah, it’s a very good point. So the act of resistance is actually also the the act of helping the mass, is actually of preventing, just through resistance, and and through saying like no, there’s something wrong here, even if you don’t go along with it, I want it to be registered.
Mattias Desmet: Exactly. You know, the only cure, I could analyze this from 20 perspectives and you would see it’s always the same conclusion:
The only cure, the only remedy for a society, sick of lies and manipulation, sick of propaganda, is sincerity. That’s the only cure. We have to rediscover the psychological value of truth for a human being. Truth is fundamental for a human being. It’s fundamental. It’s fundamental for every human being, every individual, and it’s fundamental for humans living together. There can be no society truly humane which is alienated from the act of sincere speech.
Professor Mattias Desmet publishes essays on Substack↩︎
“Mass formation” (psychosis) was theorized by the French sociologist and anthropologist Gustave Le Bon at the end of the 19th century. More: ResearchGate, MDPI, Goodreads↩︎
Playlist: 59 Europeans, who are speaking / writing truth, have been sanctioned. ↩︎
Edited: October 31, 2025 (Instagram info was added)
This blog post concerns a video in which Dr. Tögel1 explains how mainstream media is used for propaganda and cognitive warfare2. He goes into great detail about what is being said, what is being claimed, and what is true or false. The video concerns the German ZDF broadcast, published on October 23rd, titled “Markus Lanz.”3 Markus Lanz4 moderates the interview with guests: Georg Mascolo5, Katja Kloger6, and Andrey Gurkov7.
Dr. Jonas Tögel:
When I watched the “Markus Lanz” program from October 23, 2025, and analyzed it for war propaganda, I was immediately struck by how one-sided the choice of guests was: Both Katja Gloger and her husband, Georg Mascolo, are members of the “Atlantikbrücke” – a transatlantic think tank that receives funding from, among others, banks and the German Foreign Office. Unfortunately, Markus Lanz did not introduce either of them as transatlantic lobbyists. The selection of guests thus plays a significant role: I myself have experienced firsthand that one is not invited to talk shows if one does not represent the desired positions. Source Instagram
The “Markus Lanz” show from October 23rd is a good example of how the same issues can be presented very differently: In the program, it’s perfectly acceptable to discuss state terrorism: terrorist attacks are carried out by one’s own intelligence services, for which an enemy is blamed, against whom war can now be waged under the pretext of “terrorism.” When it comes to the 1999 terrorist attacks in Moscow and the Russian KGB/FSB is the possible perpetrator, such considerations are not only permissible but even probable. However, when it comes to September 11, 2001, and American intelligence services as possible perpetrators, such considerations are not allowed and are dismissed as “conspiracy theories.” I find that astonishing. Source Instagram
Because the mainstreampropaganda system, explained in detail in this video, is not only used in Germany, the video is published here, so that we all can learn how the crowds are mislead, brainwashed. The video is subtitled. Choose your language in the menu bar. The menu bar becomes visible after you have clicked the red YT start button.
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – Georg Mascolo – https://www.icij.org/journalists/georg-mascolo “Georg Mascolo, Germany, is a bestselling author and journalist who worked for nearly 25 years for the Spiegel Group. From 2008 until 2013, he was editor-in-chief of Spiegel magazine. From 2014 until 2022, he was the head of the Joint Investigative Group of Süddeutsche Zeitung and the two German public broadcasters WDR and NDR. Mascolo has been an ICIJ member since 1998. He has been the dean of the Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance since 2017. In 2014, he was named Political Journalist of the Year by the influential professional journal Medium Magazin.”↩︎
Journalismusfest Innsbruck – Katja Gloger – https://www.journalismusfest.org/en/katja-gloger-2 “Katja Gloger studied Eastern European history, Political science and Slavic studies in Hamburg and Moscow. After graduating from the German School of Journalism in Munich, she became a TV-reporter for WDR Radio and Television in Cologne. From 1989 on she was based as correspondent for the weekly Stern in Moscow.. Gloger interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, whom she accompanied for months as the first Western correspondent. She later headed the foreign desk of Stern and was posted as senior political correspondent to Washington, D.C. Honored with the Henri-Nannen-Award and named political “Journalist of the Year” she now works as a freelance journalist and book author focusing on Russia and Security Policy. Her books include Putin’s World: The New Russia, Ukraine and the West; Stranger Friends: Germans and Russians. The Story of a Fateful Relationship and the bestseller Outbreak: Insights into a Pandemic. She is a regular guest on German radio and television, panelist and moderator of discussions on Russia and international affairs. In her honorary capacity, she is Spokesperson and Executive Member of the Board of RSF Reporters without Borders, Germany. She lives in Berlin.”↩︎
The title is an edited quoted part of a by Dr. Ola Tunander spoken sentence [“They brought in the whole Nazifascist structures into the CIA”] from the video:
How The Deep Empire Eliminates Threats To Its Hegemony
– An in-depth discussion, a verbal documentary about political assassinations in the (far) past, world wide, coups, and more. – Participating are: Ola Tunander, Dirk Pohlmann and Pascal Lottaz – Published: October 15, 2025
Ola Tunander (image upper right) (born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1948) is a research professor emeritus at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO, Norway)
Dirk Pohlmann (born August 11, 1959) is a German journalist, author, screenwriter, director and producer of about 25 historical documentaries for German public media Arte, ARD and ZDF
Pascal Lottaz (picture left, discussion leader) is an Assistant Professor for Neutrality Studies at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, in Tokyo. He received his MA and PhD from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (Japan) and specializes on neutral actors in international relations, especially on neutrality during the two World Wars and during the Cold War. He recently published the books Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War (Routledge, 2022), Permanent Neutrality: A Model for Peace, Security, and Justice (Lexington Books, 2020), and Notions of Neutralities (Lexington Books, 2019). He leads the research network neutralitystudies.com.
Pascal Lottaz: “Today I’m talking again to Dr. Ola Tunander and Dirk Pohlmann. I have talked to both of them separately before, but tonight we want to do a panel on the political murders in Europe throughout the Cold War and into the Unipolar Moment when people who worked for Peace and a political rapprochement with the East and the global South just died. Together, we trace the shadowy links between these deaths, uncovering a world of deep state networks, Nazi assassins repurposed by Western intelligence, and the brutal enforcement of an empire’s unwritten rules. We explore why challenging the colonial order or building economic bridges to the East became a death sentence.”
Additional information
Ola Tunander: The killing of PM Olof Palme
Prime Minister of Sweden, Olof Palme, 28 September 1984 (Photo: Source: Ministry of the Presidency. Government of Spain).
LECTURE by DR. JONAS TÖGEL, German psychologist, American studies scholar, propaganda researcher, and bestselling author. He works as a research associate at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Regensburg. His motivation is to help people recognize, understand, and neutralize manipulation in everyday life and propaganda. In doing so, he is committed to strengthening his audience’s resilience so that one can remain peaceful, positive, and able to act even in difficult times. Website: Dr. Jonas Tögel
Part 1: NATO vs. Russia – Understanding Geostrategy (subtitles available) Published: October 5, 2025
Part 2. Going to war with geostrategy? Published: October 8, 2025
French MEP Fabrice Leggeri delivers a blistering speech in the European Parliament, accusing European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen of a €35 billion vaccine deal negotiated via SMS — without public tender or transparency. As MEPs debate a no-confidence motion, the “Pfizergate” scandal reignites questions of abuse of power, democratic accountability, and the future of EU leadership. With a historic vote looming, will von der Leyen survive the storm?
Very courageous of Fabrice Leggeri, to speak the full truth, to the exact person, who sits there, and gets the applause for Leggeri’s words as a deserved punishment for her authoritarian behaviour, warmongering, deciding as the unelected “mother” of the European peoples, and reason why she is compared in the pictures media, with Snow white’s stepmother who tries to kill her. I applaude as well, and I am certain all who watch this video. Applaud, by liking this video, sharing it everywhere. To realise that she is forced to step down. So that we will be liberated from evil.
Edited: July 06, 2025 – Note: In the meantime we passed the year 2022, in which, named like that: the Russian Special Project started. In the post below I write that Russian politics, like all politics world wide, are not reliable. That was in 2020, when I was not up to date about the developments in Kiev, Ukraine, the coup there in 2014, the provoked war, etc. etc. All what is related with that is to be found in my blog Sustainable Politics, that I started in 2023, after my LinkedIn posts/comments had been censored because of EU guidelines and my account had been suspended for a short time: I was even named a Russian Troll there. But there is more, and since the war in Ukraine, all what happened there, and in USA, Europe, my political knowledge about Russia has become real in-depth knowledge, fact checked, after having been informed about Putin, Lavrov, the provoking aggressive role of NATO, USA, EU, in the Ukraine war, etc., by the highest reliable of the west’s political scientists and investigative journalists. You can find a gallery, and a list of them here. My answer on the question, that I asked myself in 2020: into which direction I would run in case needed: I would still, now, 2025, run into the direction of Russia, but taking my Acousticom2 with me to find a green place to live, because also in Russia the radiation from man-made EMF is too high. RNCNIRP is an advisory commission. Not a governmental EMF safety guidelines decision makers commission.Read more about RNCNIRP here.
The new guidelines for schools, and online learning at home, as presented by the ministry of health in Russia, are created by RusCNIRP, a group of independent scientists who have studied EMF and experienced electromagnetic radiation on volunteering humans, in Russia. RusCNIRP has found highly alarming research results concerning the health of all human beings, especially for the foetus, babies, children, and teenagers. Not only for Russians, not only for Russian foetuses, babies, children and teenagers, but for all human beings. Science is not politically interested, not owned by politics and governments.
“Russian propaganda” as it essentially is, is not related at all with what the Ministry of Health in Moscow has decided about schools and online learning at home, but the decision of the Russian Ministry of Health opens indeed a very nice crystal clear view on Russia and the care of Russians for their children.
The “Free West”?
“Russian propaganda” is an expression for those outside Russia who like to influence the opinion of the crowds who live in the so-called “free west”, where all can say what they like to say [but nobody listens]. The “free” west does not exist. In the free west the so-called free people have become the slaves of the industry that rules all the governments, via the votes of these slaves, via a fake democratic system. In the free west people really believe they are free.
Capitalism and Communism
Russia is not different from the “free west”, since also there political systems restrict the people’s freedom: the Tsar was thrown from the throne in 1917 and other types of “Tsars” took over the totalitarian power. The “free west”points to Russia as an unfree state, Russia points to the west for the same. The industry in both East and West has during the era of the industrialisation taken over the reigns of politics[see article]. Capitalism is now also blossoming where communism was and even IS dictated. Communism is essentially an utterly social “ism”, but the world was not ready for it and one cannot force human evolution by violence, as happened in Russia, as happens in China, and why communist countries are factually not communist at all. Capitalism rules also in China, North Korea, everywhere. Also EU is not different from what is happening in Russia, in USA. The industry is the absolute totalitarian power where all world politics are merchandisers for. The crisis we are in is a result of blind capitalism, and the inborn and stimulated by industry greed of human beings.
Painting: Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński, without a title. For me it is the blind monster industry that eats human beings. All walk in his wide opened mouth, something inside urges them to go in it (greed) and they do not see where they walk into. Their mind is sleeping. They are blind also. Not aware of what is happening: that they will be transformed into the faeces of the monster. Humans are the industry’s waste.
“If freedom is here, what does prison look like?”
“If freedom is here, what does prison look like?” Source
The so-called “free west” is scaremongering people for Russia, because the so-called “free west” people could lose their freedom, their free choice, their free will, when Russia is going to become too powerful. Which freedom?
“If freedom is here, what does prison look like?” Source
Well,
when reading the news about 5G, the way it is rolled out and the speed of the rollout
when discovering the total absence of any industrial scientific research of the biological effects of 5G
when learning about the support of the “free” west of corrupted safety guidelines decision makers groups like ICNIRP, FCC, ARPANSA, Safety Code 6 [See also: wikipedia]
when reading about Bill Gates, vaccines, the totally absurd, insane, unnecessary vaccine cocktail of till about 16 different vaccines, where parents of new born babies in USA are obliged to agree with. Read article Children’s Health Defense
…then I wonder in what kind of a freedom we live in. Then I do not wonder which side I should choose if it comes to choices:
I would choose for Russia.
My view on Russia
Choosing for Russia is not a synonym for agreeing with their politics, though I understand the Russian revolution, though I love their hymn, and though I understand the essence of communism. As a child I felt the enormous fear of both my parents, when the news came that Russia invaded Hungary [1956]. I was 8 years old. When there was ever something to be afraid of, later, I translated it automatically into “Russians”. My father hated Stalin, deeply, he hated communism, the communist leaders, and I did not understand it then, but later I did, and I agreed. I learned later that politics is not the same as culture. I learned from my mother the love for the Russian dances and music, but I also felt and feel love for for instance Spanish dances, Hungarian dances, all traditional dances and music. I dislike the music of the American cowboys however, their arrogant view on the American indigenous people, and their “country and western” music. I can not listen to it.
I love nature. As Russians do. Love for nature is deeply rooted in the Russian soul. I feel the same. When it comes to choices, I choose for Russia. If I had to run for my life, I would run to Russia, not to the USA.
My view on the USA
America was a glorious country, for me, Americans were heroes: born some years after WWII out of parents who witnessed the war in the Netherlands, and who experienced Americans as liberators, I only heard positive words, and deep respect. America was glorified. My view on America changed during my life and on a certain moment I really did not understand why people would like to go there, to live there, or to go for a holiday there. The American glory of 1945 must have created an addiction in Americans to glory itself, to play the role of the liberator everywhere in the world, and to interfere finally in politics where they did not have the right to. The greed of their ancestors, who invaded America, was and is obviously in the DNA of the Americans: they never stopped to invade, and their out of the cowboy-guns derived advanced war industry helped them to win insane cruel wars. During the last decades the American glory faded out. Then there was Trump with: “We Make America Great Again!”
His politics have speeded up the rotting process of USA that started when Columbus arrived on that continent. He exposes the enormous numbers of far-right voters, Trump voters, the fake holiness of Christians in USA, who made it happen that Trump won. “It was meant to be, and a sign of God”. Most probably all this could happen because white-supremacy-America has no authentic culture, with roots far back in history, from the beginning of mankind: Americans of the present are the heirs of the fortune hunters from Europe. All what was authentic American has been stolen, killed, removed, ridiculed, humiliated, and this has not stopped yet: the indigenous people of America who are still alive still live in reservations and have no rights. The white supremacy overruled not only the indigenous people, but also the by white supremacists from Africa into America entered black people, the white man’s slaves, and all other human colours that appeared in USA, and are trying to enter right now the USA: “Go back where you came from!“. But the new Americans are awaking already a long time, and times and American society are finally really changing. The white supremacists feel backed into a corner, and act in the same way as those who invaded America, and killed all who were trying to defend their property and were opposing them. There is a revival of the cowboy mentality and it is supported by their self chosen pro-cowboy government. But much more intense: it is now a political movement.
That Americans [together with the British, Canadians, Polish and Russians] liberated Europe from Nazi Germany, stays a fact where we, Europeans, are eternally grateful for. The new fact is that Nazism is now experiencing a new dawn in the USA itself.
It is the world wide governing American, by politics funded and supported industries, and out of this American industry mentality born Russian, Chinese, Iranian, African, South American, Australian, Canadian, and European industries, which rule humanity, life on Earth. The shallow life-style in industrial countries is comparable with the shallow lifestyle as presented in the many Hollywood films, which have polluted the view of humans on sexuality and respect, world wide. The seed of the rottenness of the entire world started to grow in Hollywood, and infected via the Hollywood films all peoples of the world. Telecom industry is derived from America’s film industry, and America’s war industry, that found propaganda for it via the film industry and nowadays via the gaming industry, a side product of the film industry. Telecom uses psychological ways to hide its own propaganda by blaming Russia for what it is doing itself. Wake up, peoples of the world, stop to be sheeples [for those who think I wrote it wrong: sheeples is combination of sheep and peoples].
Conclusion
The claim of the telecommunications industry that the in Russia banned smartphones and Wi-Fi from schools should be considered as Russian propaganda, is a dirty lie, and propaganda itself, merchandising, manipulating the mind of the “free west” peoples, in order to achieve that the sheeples will say no to a sane, ethical decision of Russians. Sanity and ethics are missing in the telecom industry, in all industries, the multi nationals. Everywhere. Governments should disconnect from the industry and their catastrophic economic fetishism. The Russian Ministry of Health did. If there is a future, it must be in Russia. The signs are there that they can think.
Note: the mentioned tweet in the first sentence was published by Susan Foster. Susan Foster lives in Colorado, USA, writes articles for Children’s Health Defense, and is Honorary Firefighter of the San Diego Fire Department; US Adviser EM Radiation Research Trust (UK). See: Twitter. Her timeline on Twitter also shows how the situation in the USA is escalating.
One of Susan Foster’s tweets contains the following video. The YouTube channel shows more of the USA, where pro-American governments are willing to cooperate with, and not with Russia. Russian politics are, as all politics, indeed not reliable, but the Russian culture, art and science is still very strong and of a high quality. Russia is part of geological Europe. So, EU, do not blame me for choosing for Russia. It is born out of your own totalitarian politics, by hiding details about 5G, by mandating 5G, your undemocratic politics about so-called safety guidelines for EMF by choosing for the ICNIRP monopoly, mandating unhealthy, unnecessary vaccines, denying the facts of pesticides, neonicotinoids, that kill life in soils, and by cooperating with a country that is reigned by “Gestapo Trump“. Washing hands in innocence, pretending to be leaders, our truthful leaders, walking like cowardly sheep behind Big “Brother” USA.
KNOWLEDGE OF FREEDOM Chapter 01 – Conscious Human Action Chapter 02 – The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge Chapter 03 – Thinking in the Service of Knowledge Chapter 04 – The World as Percept Chapter 05 – The Act of Knowing the World Chapter 06 – Human Individuality Chapter 07 – Are There Limits to Knowledge? Chapter 08 – The Factors of Life Chapter 09 – The Idea of Freedom Chapter 10 – Freedom — Philosophy and Monism Chapter 11 – World Purpose and Life Purpose Chapter 12 – Moral Imagination Chapter 13 – The Value of Life Chapter 14 – Individuality and Genus
