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The Bucha massacre was the mass murder of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war by the Russian Armed Forces during the fight for and occupation of the city of Bucha, compounded by the complete denial of the Russian government. I remember seeing the videos and footage of Bucha as it was happening real time. You should take the time to read the article on Wikipedia and listen to the account of the fourteen year old from Bucha who was raped by Russian soliders. Bucha is one of the primary reasons Zelenskyy wants the territories Russia has taken back because Bucha is happening to them right now and why he is fighting so hard to stop the entire country from becoming Bucha.
I am particularly moved by the Bucha massacre because the Russian propaganda line that that Ukraine faked footage of the event or staged the killings itself as a false flag operation and that the footage and photographs of dead bodies were a "staged performance” is being peddled by my own country, and worse, my own country’s citizens and politicians. After the Katyn massacre, whose biggest problem was Russia’s systematic denial of it until recent times, I struggle with seeing the same thing being repeated and then propagated by the very people against it. I feel like I’m watching the Katyn massacre all over again.
I see disinformation as a bad thing. If people don’t care about the Bucha massacre, that’s one thing, but to deny it happened at all is an appalling level of intellectual dishonesty to me.
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