SCOTT RITTER: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

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In college, I studied Russian history; indeed, my honors thesis discussed the historical links between the Tsarist and Soviet militaries. I was intimately familiar with the campaigns and battles fought between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, and the horrific toll paid by the Soviet nation, whose casualties numbered in the tens of millions.

But it wasn’t until I had the opportunity to live and work in the Soviet Union, as part of a US inspection team stationed outside a Soviet missile factory in Votkinsk, tasked with implementing the provisions of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty, that I realized the extent to which this sacrifice marked the daily reality of the Soviet people. In downtown Votkinsk, there was a monument to the citizens who lost their lives during the war, as well as those who had been awarded the title “Hero of the Soviet Union” for their wartime service. Everywhere one traveled in the Soviet Union there were similar monuments constructed in communities that had made it an essential reality of their being never to forget the sacrifices made by their version of the “Greatest Generation” in saving not only their fellow citizens, but much of Europe as well, from the scourge of Nazi Germany.

This remembrance continued even after the Soviet Union collapsed; the heritage of the Soviet Union was passed to the new Russian Federation, which sustained the duty of honoring those who had served. Russia celebrates this service on May 9 – “Victory Day” – marking the defeat of Nazi Germany. One of the great traditions of this celebration was the image of those aged veterans of that conflict, bedecked in their campaign medals, parading before a grateful nation. Even as time and old age removed the Russian “Greatest Generation” from the society and nation they had served, the Russian people continued to honor them, with the children and grandchildren of the departed veterans marching in their stead, holding aloft a photograph of the veteran, part of what is called “The Immortal Regiment.”

Unlike the Germans, the Russian people don’t forget.

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NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .

13 Comments

  1. BZ May 14, 2022 at 09:38

    I have been to the same two graveyards. I have also studied Nazi Germany and how they managed to takeover what was once seen as one of the most tolerant European countries. The Mass Psychosis Phenomenon, the Stanley-Milgram Experiments, and others all point to how it was done. We in the US face the same danger of being manipulated in this way by the our new Nazi’s who push the woke ideology and try to cram their absurdities down our throats with their antifa/blm brownshirts and intimidation of everyone who dares stand up against them. The biggest supporting factor of their evil plans are the disconnected masses who still follow the MSM and are so busy trying to survive they don’t have any time to pay attention to what is going on in our society. The Germans who so eagerly fell for the Nazi propaganda did so both in hopes of recovering their nostalgic romanticized past, and their perceived status that had been taken from them after WW1. I have been to Dachau, a concentration camp, and the impression it made on me was “Never Again”, and that I would never ever support such evil in my life. The issue is that the vast majority of people have never been able to walk the ground of a place so steeped in evil from the past, that they could never forget the dangers posed to your conscience and soul by going along with the crowd. The definition of courage in my book, is being able to stand alone against the many in defiance of evil. I pray and hope that the rugged American patriotic spirit is still alive in sufficient numbers for us to stand in the same way against all who would shove tyranny down our throats.

  2. EasyCo. May 14, 2022 at 10:02

    “as one of the most tolerant European countries.”

    What you really mean is one of the immoral and perverted nations, okay then.

    Germany was the heart of the international homosexual movement at that time.

    The books the Nazi’s burn? Homosexual books.

  3. DAW May 14, 2022 at 10:27

    Sorry Scott, but you’ve got it wrong. It was Nazi Germany that saved Europe from the scourge of Communism by their sacrifice. The Red Army was staged for the invasion of Europe, and had it not been for Germany’s bold preemptive strike on June 22 1941, it is highly likely that all of Europe would have fallen under the boots of the Red Army.
    Saved much of Europe from the scourge of Nazi Germany? So just how great was life under the communist regime in East Berlin as well as the rest of the conquered eastern european countries? Bottom line, the allies fought for communism. They gave their ok to the slaughter of millions of Christians under the brutal marxist communist regimes of Lenin through to Stalin. Hitler saw this coming for Germany and all of Europe. I highly recommend the book by Viktor Suvorov (retired Soviet intelligence officer) entitled :”The Chief Culprit” for anybody who wants to take a good look at the other side of the story.

    “You must understand, the leading bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred, they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated, bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.” …..Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    The mainstream narrative was no less crooked back then than it is now.

  4. American Yeoman May 14, 2022 at 15:06

    Scott Ritter did 2 years for attempted kid diddling. Fuck that guy. Yes, I know it was a LE sting, …(Twice!) but the guy was convicted and did two years……

    • NC Scout May 14, 2022 at 15:19

      Got a link to this?

    • RP May 14, 2022 at 17:57

      Yep read about the one a while back, because I saw him talking and thought damn I know that name. If you read what he plead to, he’s got a problem.

  5. Scipio May 14, 2022 at 22:13

    I think Ritter’s message has gotten lost in shooting the messenger here. In case you missed it, the point is America has forgotten.

    • boss21 May 14, 2022 at 22:31

      Yep, in the coming craziness we will by necessity be making bedfellows with some real pieces of work. The ankle biting perfectionists won’t last long. Who is not unclean?

  6. spaceman May 14, 2022 at 23:21

    Fluff, don’t get distracted. Our culture, history and future is almost snuffed. Hard times a’coming. Hold the line… when the time comes, you will know it, act accordingly. Enjoy the last few evenings of normalcy. We can replace the statues of our past after god leads us to his victory

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