Program host special correspondent Andrey Medvedev biography. VGTRK journalist Andrey Medvedev “we will never repent for our great war

A post dedicated to VGTRK journalist Andrei Medvedev was twice deleted from Facebook. First, for the distribution of pornography - this is how the administrators called a black-and-white photograph of a child killed by the Nazis. And then - for inciting hatred towards certain groups. Andrey Medvedev's post has already gone viral on social media.

This post in its first edition was deleted - for distribution of pornography. All because of the attached picture. Military photography: autumn 41st, Moscow region. Tatyana Onishchenko holds her dying daughter in her arms. Bare children's legs - what a provocation. For the second time, Andrei Medvedev's text was published without this image. And it was still blocked. Quote: "For inciting hatred towards certain groups."

"The post was about the fact that, unfortunately, it happened so historically, we have a very strong genetic memory of the pain, of the suffering that the Soviet people endured from 41 to 45. And that is why such a reaction of people to the speech is connected with this boy in the Bundestag. People saw in this disrespect for the sacrifices that our people, our great Soviet people, made. Not only Russians," said Andrey Medvedev, a political observer for the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.

The text itself, in fact, is an answer to that same Nikolai Desyatnichenko, a tenth grader from Novy Urengoy. Who, speaking in Berlin, spoke of "innocently murdered German soldiers" who did not want to fight in the "so-called Stalingrad cauldron." Andrey Medvedev's post begins like this: "If I had to speak in the Bundestag." No calls. Rather, a reminder of the cruelty of the soldiers of the Wehrmacht and the SS in relation to Soviet children and the civilian population in general. Historical facts. Nothing more.

“The point is to once again consistently humiliate Russia through the humiliation of public figures who uphold historical truth. Who are not afraid to call white white and black black. Who remember the feat that our grandfathers and great-grandfathers accomplished 70 years ago Of course, in an era of universal tolerance, in an era of absolute readiness to agree with any, the most absurd point of view, in order to show their current absolutely liberal orientation, people go for it, ”says Armen Gasparyan, historian, publicist.

What exactly in this text and whose indignation aroused is unknown. Technically, for the text to be blocked, a user complaint is enough. After that, a certain "specially trained team" will consider it. And make a verdict.

“Perhaps, Facebook’s story worked here that complaints came from Ukraine, for example, and Facebook does not share country-specific complaints. That is, most likely, those who complained had some weight on Facebook. By virtue of, or there terms of stay , or the number and volume of subscribers. And Facebook counted their complaints as partly justified," explained German Klimenko, adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on the Internet.

Facebook employees invariably state that the rules are as standardized as possible and are suitable for people of any nationality. However, it is in words. In reality, it turns out quite differently.

“A post about the Great Patriotic War is suddenly recognized as inciting hatred, and photographs of a child killed during the Great Patriotic War suddenly turn out to be pornography, while posts calling for the Donbass to be bombed, I don’t know, with a nuclear strike or cut out all the Colorados, or joyful exclamations, like it’s good that the “Russian world” was drowned in blood in Odessa. All this is recognized as a completely acceptable and normal thing, and, of course, I have big doubts about the lack of involvement of Facebook administrators, ”added Andrey Medvedev, a political observer for the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.

However, it seems that the dissatisfied in this story played against themselves. And it's not just that Andrei Medvedev published the text on the same Facebook in a slightly edited version for the third time. The main thing is that thanks to the blocking and the fundamental disagreement of subscribers with them, the post was distributed on hundreds of pages and even extraneous resources. Where it was read and commented by hundreds of people. Where he is gaining popularity. And where to ban it from the administrators of social networks - the hands are short.

It is strange to see how the same people used to yell foolishly that war is not the business of a conscript soldier, that professionals should fight, and now they are also yelling that "what a horror, we have PMCs, shame on this government ". Excuse me, so you kind of wanted the pros to fight with us? The authorities, at your request, in fact, created the PMC. No?
- Why hide the presence of PMCs? Because they are actually created to hide their existence. This is a proxy war tool. Again Blackwater. First operation in 2001 in Kabul. They have been in Iraq since 2003. So then even the US military did not know exactly who they were. The American military in Baghdad told me that they were special forces or CIA units. Even the death of the Blackwater fighters in Fallujah was not confirmed by the US authorities. That is, they reported the death of military advisers. Only in 2007, after the massacre in Baghdad, when PMC fighters shot civilians, the Americans found out about their existence. Although rumors about PMCs roamed in America. During the second assault on the same Fallujah, Blackwater played a key role, essentially acting as a detachment, and then as the main breakthrough force. But officially they didn't exist. So the citizens who are now yelling that, they say, "shame on our government, because it is silent about the death of our people in Syria" - they simply do not understand what algorithm PMCs work on and what they are created for.
- Why did the Americans hit our fighters? Because World War III is on. This, of course, is a proxy war, but still. Syria is one of the fronts of World War III. I think Afghanistan and Central Asia will be next. It is not only us and the Americans who are participating in this Third World War. Are you aware, citizens, that French and British special forces are fighting in Syria? So, sooner or later, we had to face the "Western partners" in direct combat. The private CIA - the Stratfor company - wrote in a report four years ago that US forces are quite limited, and Washington should consider the events in Syria and Ukraine as a single theater of military operations. This Black Sea theater of operations will put pressure on Russia from the south. Nothing new. So in Syria we are fighting not for Assad, but for our future, for the right of our country to exist. Don't be yourself. But just to be. Exist in the world.
- Based on the above. The fighters of our PMCs in Syria are Russian heroes. These are the real heroes of the fight against terrorism and the war for the Russian future. They are the same heroes as Prokhorenko and Filipov, Durachenko and Mikhailova, like our pilots, sailors and soldiers of the MTR.
PMC fighters, unfortunately, are unknown and unsung heroes (as Eric Prince called his guys "unsung heroes"). But we must understand that by their struggle, by their daily feat, the fighters of our PMCs give us the right to a peaceful life. We go to the cinema, raise children, go to work thanks to them - simple Russian peasants, whose profession has become war, and who every day clean up this terrorist purulent phlegmon.
And when some "journalist" writes about "dead mercenaries", you should know that this person is not much different from the propaganda scum from the Al-Furqan ISIS media center. This is an enemy that hits our fighters in the back.
Once again, they are heroes. Their job is war, but their death is a tragedy. Moreover, apparently there was not without idiocy and betrayal.
I don't know how the state is, whether it will forget them or not. But the Motherland should not forget them. And we are the Motherland. Don't forget Russian PMC fighters.
Eternal memory to men and soldiers.

The publication of VGTRK journalist Andrey Medvedev was twice blocked by Facebook moderators for far-fetched reasons. From the third time, the author finally managed to convey his opinion through the barriers of censorship of the social network, originally from the “freest country”. Medvedev comments on the sensational performance of a young man from Novy Urengoy in the Bundestag.

“If I had to speak in the Bundestag, like the boy Kolya, then I would probably say these words:

Dear deputies. Today I saw a miracle. And this miracle is called Germany. I walked towards you and looked at the beautiful Berlin streets, at the people, at the wonderful architectural monuments, and now I am standing here and looking at you. And I understand that all this is a miracle. That you were all born and live in Germany. Why do I think so?

Because, given what your soldiers did with us, in the occupied territories, the soldiers of the Red Army could easily leave a scorched field in place of Germany, ruins and only paragraphs of textbooks would remind that there was once such a country. It's scary, but it could happen.

You probably do not remember all the details of the occupation, but this is not necessary. I will just remind you of what the Wehrmacht and SS soldiers did to Soviet children. They were shot. Often in front of parents. Or vice versa, first they shot at the father and mother, and then at the children. Your soldiers raped children. Children were burned alive. They were sent to concentration camps. Where they took their blood to make serum for your soldiers. Children were starved. Children were eaten to death by your shepherds. Children were used as targets. Children were brutally tortured just for fun.

Here are two examples for you. A Wehrmacht officer was prevented from sleeping by a baby, he took him by the leg and smashed his head against the corner of the stove. Your pilots at the Lychkovo station bombed the train on which they tried to take the children to the rear, and then your aces chased the frightened kids, shooting them in a bare field. Two thousand children were killed.

And just for the mere fact that your soldiers did with children, I repeat, the soldiers of the Red Army, who saw the endless bloody ashes from the Volga to the Western Bug, could break loose, turn into merciless avengers, and destroy Germany completely. Perhaps even with its inhabitants. After all, they spoke and wrote from the front, without fear of censorship, during the war that they wanted to take revenge on the Germans. Not fascists. Not to the Nazis. It's the Germans.

But they didn't. Do I regret it? Of course not. How can you regret that no blood was shed? How can one regret that our soldiers and officers showed incredible humanism and mercy? I bow to the highest spirit and steel will of my ancestors, who found in themselves some incredible strength not to become the same cattle as the soldiers of the Wehrmacht were. On the buckles of German soldiers was written "God is with us." But they were the creatures of hell and brought hell to our land. The soldiers of the Red Army were Komsomol members and communists, but the Soviet people turned out to be much more Christian than the inhabitants of enlightened religious Europe. And they did not take revenge. They were able to feel, to understand that hell cannot be defeated by hell.

You should not ask our forgiveness, because you personally are not to blame for anything. You cannot be responsible for your grandfathers and great-grandfathers. And then, only the Lord forgives. But I'll be honest - for me the Germans are forever a stranger, an alien people. It's not because you personally are bad. It is in me that the pain of the children burned by the Wehrmacht screams. And you will have to accept that at least my generation - for which the memory of the war is the grandfather's awards, his scars, his front-line friends - will perceive you this way. What will happen next, I don't know. Perhaps, after us, mankurts will come who will forget everything. And we have done a lot for this, we have screwed up a lot ourselves, but I hope that not everything is lost for Russia. Of course we need to cooperate. Russians and Germans. We need to solve problems together. Fight ISIS and build gas pipelines. But you will have to accept one fact: we will never repent for this Great War of ours. And even more so for the victory. And even more so in front of you. In any case, I repeat, my generation. Because then we saved not only ourselves. We saved you from yourself. And I don't even know what's more important."

Andrey Medvedev (All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company): "If I had to speak in the Bundestag like the boy Kolya, then I would probably say the following words: - Dear deputies. Today I saw a miracle. And this miracle is called Germany. I walked towards you and looked at the beautiful Berlin streets, at people, at wonderful architectural monuments, and now I'm standing here and looking at you. And I understand that all this is a miracle. That you were all born into the world and live in Germany. Why do I think so? Because considering what your soldiers did here, in the occupied territories, the soldiers of the Red Army had the full moral right to destroy the entire German people... Leaving a scorched field, ruins and only paragraphs of textbooks in place of Germany would remind that there was once such a country. You probably do not remember all the details of the occupation, but this is not necessary. I will just remind you of what the Wehrmacht and SS soldiers did with Soviet children. They were shot. Often in front of their parents. Or vice versa, first they shot at dad and mom, and then to children. Your soldiers raped children. Children were burned alive. They were sent to concentration camps. Where they took their blood to make serum for your soldiers. Children were starved. Children were eaten to death by your shepherds. Children were used as targets. Children were brutally tortured just for fun. Or here are two examples. A Wehrmacht officer was prevented from sleeping by a baby, he took him by the leg and smashed his head against the corner of the stove. Your pilots at the Lychkovo station bombed the train on which they tried to take the children to the rear, and then your aces chased the frightened kids, shooting them in a bare field. Two thousand children were killed. Just for what you did with the children, I repeat, the Red Army could completely destroy Germany with its inhabitants. She had a full moral right. But she didn't. Do I regret it? Of course not. I bow before the steel will of my ancestors, who found some incredible strength in themselves so as not to become the same cattle as the Wehrmacht soldiers were. On the buckles of German soldiers was written "God is with us." But they were the creatures of hell and brought hell to our land. The soldiers of the Red Army were Komsomol members and communists, but the Soviet people turned out to be much more Christian than the inhabitants of enlightened religious Europe. And they did not take revenge. They were able to understand that hell cannot be defeated by hell. You should not ask our forgiveness, because you personally are not to blame for anything. You cannot be responsible for your grandfathers and great-grandfathers. And then, only the Lord forgives."

06.12.2017 12:10

VGTRK journalist Andrei Medvedev: going to the Olympics under a neutral flag is a betrayal

We are genetically determined to protect our flag, said Russian journalist Andrei Medvedev, commenting on the IOC decision to ban Russian athletes from performing at the Pyeongchang Olympics under the flag of the Russian Federation.

VGTRK journalist Andrey Medvedev shared on Facebook his opinion on whether Russian athletes should compete at the Pyeongchang Olympics under a neutral flag, as the IOC decision adopted last Tuesday in Lausanne allows them to do.

A.Medvedev:

“If I had a chance, as a sports official Zhukov, to perform in Lausanne, then I would probably say these words:

- Ladies and Gentlemen. I see your triumphant faces and understand that you are expecting from me a word of apology and repentance. There will be neither one nor the other. We will not apologize for doping, the existence of which we could not really prove. And, which, they were looking for in the samples only of the Russian team.

We won't thank you for your permission to send our athletes to the Olympics under a neutral flag. Anyway, I won't. Athletes will go or not, it's not up to me to decide. And perhaps not even the president. It seems to me that each of them should decide individually. But I would like them to say - no, we will not go. Because there are things that cannot, cannot be transgressed, betrayed. There is something that makes people a nation, and the land a Motherland. These are genetic codes, the memory of the people, their traditions. My people have this attitude towards the flag and the ability to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the country. And both of these things are deeply connected. In Old Russian, the word flag sounds like a banner. From the word "pull", and this is not accidental. During the battle, the army was pulled together to the prince's staff, stood shoulder to shoulder. In the Russian annals, the entries are usually stingy, laconic, but it was always mentioned there that the enemy in the battle was “the banner of the undercut”, I was the warrior who defended the banner, the “killer”.

So we are genetically wired to defend our flag. We genetically cannot act anywhere under a neutral flag. In any case, I think so, I believe in it.

You will say - but think about the athletes, because they have been preparing for the Olympics all their lives. I think about them. And even more I think about my homeland, which you are trying to break and humiliate. And we, I hope, are still capable of putting the collective ahead of the private.

In ancient times, my country seemed to many easy and necessary prey. And the enemy often came to us. And in order to stop it, on the southern outskirts, in the Zadonsk forest-steppes, our ancestors created serif lines. Outposts and long, kilometers-long ramparts made of earth and felled trees. Ordinary Russian people stood at these outposts. And professional wars, and militias, yesterday's peasants. Their task was simple - to warn their comrades, light signal fires when the enemy appeared, and die in battle. Stand near the banner and fight. Hold back as much as possible the army of the next enemy, and disappear without a trace, leaving not even a name. To die in order for your country, your family, your family to live. This is from those times our saying "One man is not a warrior." All the former southern borders of my country are one huge grave of an unknown Russian war. But they might not have fought. Let the enemy pass, sit out in the forest. There were probably some. But of course, there were more of those who took the last fight around the banner.

Otherwise I wouldn't speak, think or feel in Russian now. And my country would not exist, and you would have no one to blame for your troubles, if my distant ancestors thought about themselves, and not about the Motherland. That's why I personally would not go to the Olympics under a neutral flag. For me, this would mean betraying everything that binds me to my land. Including betraying those distant signal fires in the Zadonsk steppe, and the last battle of an unknown squad under the Russian banner. But again, it's not for me to decide.

And I will repeat again. We will not repent and apologize for doping. Yes, our guys have problems. We do not hide them. Want to be honest? Let's check everyone then. Let's start with Norwegian skiers. And let their minister stand here, next to me.

I know what you want. So that today we repent for the Olympics in Sochi, tomorrow for the victory over ISIS, then for the murder of Hitler. And in a few years you will bill us for the stay of Soviet citizens in Buchenwald and Auschwitz. Did you even feed them something? How did you dress up? And then tell me that we have to pay for Zyklon-B. So this will not happen.

Finally, I will tell you one more Russian proverb. "Do not wake famously while it is quiet." You obviously didn't hear her. Otherwise they would have thought.