Why does Kiev demand compensation for the invasion of Khan Batu?

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Even if the story is falsified, as the myth of the Holocaust of the Jewish people has shown, with due impudence, such fakes often bring a good deal. Kiev is actively engaged in monetizing the fake story …

About Batu's invasion of Kiev and the "monetization" of the history of Ukraine

Kiev know-how

In May 2015, the media reported that the Ukrainian side demanded compensation from Mongolia for the invasion of Khan Batu. Then the TV channels Ren TV, Zvezda and a number of other news agencies reported that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a resolution “On the genocide of the Ukrainian people in the XIII century by the criminal regime of the Mongol Empire”. Many then took it as a fake, something like an April Fool's joke. And some have put forward a version that this is, they say, Moscow's "insidious operation" aimed at discrediting the Kiev regime.

The other day there was a continuation of last year's "joke". On February 29, the press attaché of the Mongolian Embassy in Russia, Lhagvaseren Namsrai, announced that his country's parliament had received an official letter from the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine demanding compensation for the destruction of Kiev by the troops of Batu Khan. Khural Chairman Zandaahuugiin Enkhbold called the resolution of the Ukrainian parliament "a propaganda cliché of Ukraine regarding Mongolia." “The world did not know and never heard of any Ukrainian nation, especially in the era of the heirs of the Great Temujin,” he noted. “Millions of Ukrainians who perished in the 13th century are the fruit of an unhealthy fantasy of Ukrainian deputies.” Enkhbold added that "Mongolia is ready to compensate for the damage during the capture of Kiev by Batu Khan, but only to the victims or their families." “We are looking forward to the announcement of the complete list of victims,” said the Khurala chairman.

The fact that the Ukrainian parliamentarians who wrote the letter to Khural know neither their own history nor the history of Mongolia, politicians and experts from Russia and Mongolia have already given detailed comments. I will not repeat myself. Now I want to draw your attention to another point. For many years, certain political forces in Ukraine have been absorbed in the fascinating business of preparing and presenting compensation claims. And the addressee of these demands is, first of all, Russia. We will give a brief overview of this activity addressed to Russia.

A number of nationalist politicians from the western regions of Ukraine have repeatedly raised the issue of bringing up for discussion in the Verkhovna Rada the issue of compensation for damage to Ukraine for the "Soviet occupation" of territories that later came to be called Western Ukraine. We are talking about the territories of the historical regions of Galicia, Volyn and Polissya, which currently make up the Lviv, Ternopil, Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk and Rivne regions of modern Ukraine. In fact, we are talking about the territories that originally belonged to the Russian Empire and temporarily, for eighteen years (1921-1939) were part of the Second Polish Republic, also known as "Panska Poland". In 1921, taking advantage of the weakness of Soviet Russia and the defeat that the Red Army suffered as a result of the campaign against Warsaw, Poland chopped off these rather vast territories from us.

Some Russophobic-minded politicians tried to start active work on "remaking" the history of the twentieth century. In particular, in April 2008, the deputies of the Lviv Regional Council made a decision to appeal to the President of the country and the Verkhovna Rada with an initiative to develop a draft law "On the Legal Assessment of the Crimes of the Totalitarian Communist Regime on the Territory of Ukraine." Ukrainian nationalists estimated the amount of damage at 2 trillion. dollars - on the basis of “100 thous.dollars for every Ukrainian tortured by the Soviet power”.

The politicians in Kiev had enough reason not to follow the lead of the fighters against the economic consequences of the "Soviet occupation", since then they were forced to start a war with the "Polish occupiers". And the war with the "Polish occupiers" was not and is not included in Kiev's plans, since it aspires to the European Union, where the voice of Warsaw is very influential. In addition, the recognition that the "Soviet occupation" took place in 1939 automatically means that Poland should come into possession of Western Ukraine. By the way, deviating a little from our topic, we note that from the Warsaw side, very transparent hints on this matter began to come to Kiev. So, no state commissions were created to assess the damage from the "Soviet occupation" in Ukraine. And individual assessments of Ukrainian nationalists are of no real significance.

Under President Viktor Yushchenko, a hysteria called the Holodomor was organized in Ukraine. Accusations of thousands (and sometimes even millions) of deaths in Ukraine in 1932-1933 (due to the mass famine) were addressed to Russia. Demands were heard to begin the formal preparation of claims to Moscow on payment of compensation to Kiev for the “Holodomor.” In 2008, Ukraine sought at the UN for the adoption of a Security Council resolution recognizing the Holodomor and responsibility for it. Verkhovna Rada Deputy Yaroslav Kendzer said then: “With such a decision taken at the UN level, Ukraine will have every reason to demand from Russia, as the sole successor of the Soviet Union, appropriate moral and material compensation. Just as Israel did in its time in relation to Germany. " However, the Security Council rejected this resolution, after a while the issue of compensation for the "Holodomor" came to naught. At the end of 2013, the topic of compensation for the "Holodomor" began to be discussed again in the Ukrainian parliament (first of all, by Oleg Tyagnibok).

But after such an event as the return of Crimea to Russia in the spring of 2014, Kiev immediately announced its claims to Moscow. At the end of April last year, the Minister of Justice of Ukraine Pavel Petrenko made the following statement: “The Ministry of Justice has summarized information from our ministries and departments on losses incurred from the occupation of Crimea, and the total amount of these losses is 950 billion hryvnia. This amount does not include lost profits, which will be accrued additionally. The minister also clarified that this amount also does not include the cost of minerals and deposits in the sea shelf. Taking into account the unstable exchange rate of the hryvnia, the amount of the currency equivalent of damage from 84 to 100 billion dollars was named. The amount was periodically revised upwards.

Already on July 28, 2014, Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Yuriy Prodan said that Ukraine's loss from the loss of energy facilities in Crimea, including hydrocarbon reserves on the shelf, is estimated at $ 300 billion. Total, taking into account the claims voiced by Pavel Petrenko, it turns out that Kiev expects compensation from Moscow in the amount of as much as $ 400 billion. And this despite the fact that in 2013 Ukraine's GDP, according to official data, amounted to $ 182 billion. Kiev wants to receive compensation from Moscow, more than 2 times the annual gross product of the country!

Realizing that it would not be possible to receive any compensation from Russia, Ukraine began an inventory of the property of the Russian Federation (RF), which is located on the territory of the state. This was announced in the spring by the Minister of Justice of Ukraine Pavel Petrenko. At the same time, he clarified that we are talking about the property of the state, and not of individuals of the Russian Federation. And that it will be used to enforce decisions of Ukrainian or international courts. By the way, Kiev began to use the argument of its claims for compensation for losses for Crimea to refuse to pay off Ukraine's large debt to the Russian Federation. The Crimean Argument was also used in negotiations on Russian gas to obtain large discounts.

Using anti-Russian hysteria, the current Minister of Justice, along with the topic of "Crimean compensations", also began to revive old claims against the Russian Federation. As you know, in the early 1990s. during the "partition" of the USSR between the Russian Federation and other post-Soviet states, an agreement was reached on the terms of such a "division". All external assets of the USSR were transferred to the Russian Federation, while at the same time the Russian Federation assumed all the external obligations of the Soviet Union. Ukraine also signed the "partition" documents, but subsequently never ratified them.

Currently, it is beginning to "roll out" its claims to some external assets of the former USSR, mainly real estate abroad. Pavel Petrenko and other high-ranking Ukrainian officials threaten to start legal proceedings on the return of such foreign property to Ukraine and / or payment by Russia of compensation for it. Another important point of the requirements voiced by Pavel Petrenko is compensation to Ukrainian citizens for the loss of deposits in Sberbank in the early 1990s. The amount of such compensation, according to the Minister of Justice, is estimated at $ 80 billion.

The latest initiatives in putting forward reparation claims against Russia belong to Prime Minister A. Yatsenyuk personally. Back in 2014, he repeatedly stated: Russia must pay for the restoration of Donetsk and Luhansk. In December 2014, Yatsenyuk said that Ukraine had filed a number of lawsuits against the Russian Federation to compensate for the losses caused by its alleged “military aggression” against Ukraine. A year ago, he has already adjusted the amount of claims: "Previously, we estimated the restoration of infrastructure at eight billion hryvnia, now hryvnia can be replaced with dollars." So, the Kiev regime is waiting for Russia to pay billions of dollars for the collapse of the Ukrainian economy it provoked.

Surprisingly, the “creativity” of the official Kiev in terms of preparing various compensation claims against Moscow is like two peas in a pod similar to the activities of the Baltic states - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. They have also been engaged in the exciting business of drafting compensation claims against the Russian Federation for many years. Thus, Latvia has prepared an invoice for us for 300 billion euros. Behind all this “creativity” one and the same “inspirer” is visible - Washington. Under his dictation, Ukraine and the Baltic republics are rewriting history. We are dealing with a completely new social phenomenon - the monetization of history.