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[REGNUM] Nuremberg, 1946, a session of the International Tribunal for Nazi Crimes. The Soviet delegation presents photographic evidence of mass murder in the occupied territories to the participants. As horrific as it is, the sheer volume dulls the horror. But one photograph strikes a chord—with Allied representatives, lawyers, and the press. The image, which remains resonant to this day, shows a murdered boy holding a dead dove.
This photograph was taken in Rostov-on-Don in late November 1941, when troops of the Southern Front—alas, briefly—recaptured the city from the Nazis. In their hasty retreat, the enemy left behind traces of the "new order"—the corpses of civilians shot by SS men from the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Division.
Sovinformburo and TASS photojournalist Max Alpert, a man more than experienced and seemingly accustomed to atrocities (he witnessed the Civil War and Jewish pogroms as a mature adult), hardly wanted to capture this image on film – but his duty was higher.
On the ground lay the body of a teenager, almost a child, shot point-blank, bearing marks of torture. The boy held a dead dove in his hand—it was clear he'd been hiding it in his bosom.
This bird became a symbol of peace long before Pablo Picasso painted its emblem (in 1949)—for all peoples of the biblical tradition, for whom the Book of Genesis is sacred, the dove signifies hope for a better life and peace after the "global floods." Alpert's photo became a symbol of life destroyed by the Nazis.
Local residents interviewed at the Soviet commandant's office reported that the SS carried out mass executions on November 28, 1941, the day before Soviet troops entered Rostov. An officer from the Special Department (they had been recording enemy crimes since the first days of the war) recorded the executed man as Viktor Ivanovich Cherevichkin, born in 1925. "Simply Vitya," said those who knew him.
Rostov writer Arkady Agafonov, who dedicated a book to Vitya Cherevichkin, was two years younger. Both boys' fathers and older brothers had gone to the front. The Agafonovs and Cherevichkins lived next door to each other in the New Nakhichevan district, where Russian and Armenian houses stood side by side.
"Not knowing devastation and hunger, we often envied the difficult childhoods of those who could witness the revolution and become its defenders—Budennovites or Chapayevites. We played Chapayev for hours and ran to see the film about him several times... We could turn into 'Indians.' Having fled to the Don without permission, we became desperate 'pirates,'" Agafonov recalled of his and Vitino's childhood. A childhood like everyone else's before the war, "from Moscow to the outskirts"—we went on hikes, followed the exploits of polar explorers, then the battles at Khalkhin Gol... But there was also a local peculiarity—the children from pre-war Rostov loved to breed pigeons.
“There were especially many pigeon fanciers in the quiet streets of Nakhichevan, where Vitya Cherevichkin lived,” wrote Agafonov.
The family was poor but close-knit. They worked hard, but still had time to raise four children and celebrate holidays, as Vitya's sister, Anna, recalls. His father worked at Rostselmash, in the forge shop, and his mother was a janitor. When the parents were on shift, his older brother, Sasha, was in charge.
Vitya, despite already having attended a vocational school (where he was taught and fed) and was also considered the family's hope, did not abandon his "childhood hobby."
He could spend hours fiddling with pigeons, so much so that his younger sisters Anya and Galya, who was not yet four at the time, thoroughly learned the difference between a wood pigeon and a tumbler, and a purebred shaggy-legged pigeon from an ordinary dove.
Besides, Vitya could always explain: pigeons aren't bred for fun; they can also be useful for communication when needed. As the popular song of the time sang, "If there's a war tomorrow..."
War came to the 28th Line of New Nakhichevan in late November 1941. Ivan Cherevichkin was at the front. His older brother, Sasha, who had reached conscription age, was evacuated from Rostov to Bataysk along with other 18-year-olds. But the rest of the family didn't make it.
During those terrible weeks, the front rolled toward the city. On November 21, 1941, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt's troops entered Rostov-on-Don. Anna Cherevichkina recalled how gray tanks with crosses on their armor rumbled through the streets, heading toward Frunze Park, where our troops were fighting a rearguard action.
Later, German commanders admitted that this first capture of the city had been ill-conceived: the positions were overextended, the flanks vulnerable. As early as November 27, the 37th Army of the Southern Front, commanded by Anton Lopatin, struck Rundstedt's tanks from the north. Afterwards, an order signed by Hitler arrived from headquarters: retreat from this sector.
But the first brief occupation of Rostov remains in the city's memory as "Bloody Week." And Frunze Park became a firing range.
On November 22, the Rostov-on-Don "State Commandant's Office" issued an order to exterminate domestic pigeons. The occupiers' concern with this issue is understandable: pigeons are a means of communication, a means of transmitting messages. Pigeons flown in the right area at the right time are a signal for aircraft.
Vitya Cherevichkin didn't destroy the pigeons, but hid them, contrary to occupation orders. He was captured a few days later: the Germans caught the teenager releasing the pigeons and discovered the dovecote in the yard.
"At two o'clock in the afternoon on November 28, 1941, we had lunch, and Vitya was heading out. Later, my mother went out into the yard and froze—a German was leading Vitya to the dovecote, " Anna Cherevichkina recalled. " They saw him toss a few pigeons over the headquarters just as a Soviet plane flew overhead."
"Then they took him to Frunze Park. They tore off the pigeons' heads, and shot him. He was battered and bruised. He was also holding a dead pigeon in his hand. Apparently, he'd hidden it in his shirt until the very execution, wanting to release it at the last moment, but he didn't have time..." Anna Cherevichkina recounted.
And on the 29th, our forces entered the city, including photojournalist Max Alpert. A neighbor—Anna remembered his name, Tyutyunnikov—came into the Cherevichkins' house. He said he'd seen Vitya's body, tortured and shot. Anna recalled that her mother couldn't bear the news—her mind went blank.
For Anya Cherevichkina, even after our forces finally recaptured the city, life was difficult: her father and brother were fighting, and she had to care for her sick mother. Fortunately, kind people helped: with food, firewood, and coal.
Plus, with a work card, Anya went to work at a factory, like millions of teenagers across the country. The memory of Vita's death lingered: his death was perceived as particularly unfair.
After all, maybe he released the pigeons just for fun, and not to signal the pilot? But before the war, he attended Osoaviakhim (Osoaviakhim) courses, which included military training.
And Vitya released the tumblers and rock doves not just anywhere, but not far from the German headquarters. So it wasn't for nothing, was it "targeting"? During that terrible week, Vitya didn't tell his family whether there was pigeon communication across the front lines, and if so, who maintained it. All that's known is that the pigeons "flew out" toward Bataysk—right across the front.
And when Vitya died, the pigeons flew away forever.
The 16-year-old teenager, two years before his conscription, was buried with the Red Army soldiers who fought for the city in a mass grave in Frunze Park.
On May 9, 1959, an Eternal Flame was lit nearby. And there's a monument to a boy with a dove.
In the postwar years, songs and stories emerged that fleshed out Vitya's image. Some of these details may be fictional, while others were passed down only orally. More importantly, the very figure of the teenager, killed for disobeying the occupiers, became one of the symbols of resistance to Nazism. And an image of the massacre of the unarmed—for which the Nazi leaders were held accountable at Nuremberg.
[ATTOMdata] WHAT IS THE CURRENT FORECLOSURE RATE IN THE U.S.?
In March 2026, U.S. foreclosure activity increased from the prior month and remained higher than levels reported one year earlier, continuing a gradual normalization trend in the housing market.
Total filings: 45,921 properties with default notices, scheduled auctions, or bank repossessions
Monthly change: Up 18 percent from February 2026
Year-over-year change: Up 28 percent from March 2025
National rate: One in every 3,131 housing units had a foreclosure filing
States with the worst foreclosure rates: South Carolina, Indiana, Florida, Illinois, and New Jersey
WHAT’S DRIVING MARCH 2026 FORECLOSURE TRENDS?
Foreclosure activity in March 2026 continued to reflect a broader normalization trend following pandemic-era lows. Filings rose month over month, indicating a modest increase in distress, though volumes remain well below housing crisis levels. Strong homeowner equity, tight underwriting, and persistent demand continue to limit widespread foreclosure pressure.
KEY INSIGHTS FROM MARCH 2026 FORECLOSURE MARKET REPORT
Foreclosure activity in March 2026 increased compared with the previous month and year, extending the ongoing normalization trend. While filings have risen from prior lows, overall foreclosure activity remains significantly below peak levels seen during the housing crisis.
HOUSTON, May 5 (Reuters) - A proposed pipeline for carrying Canadian crude oil to the United States is close to securing the minimum commitments from oil companies that the project needs to go ahead, four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The Alberta-to-Wyoming pipeline, proposed by Canadian pipeline company South Bow Corp (SOBO.TO), opens new tab and its U.S. partner Bridger Pipeline, could increase Canada's crude exports to the U.S. by more than 12% if it goes ahead, bringing much-needed pipeline takeaway capacity to Canada.
U.S. President Donald Trump last Thursday signed an order granting a cross-border permit to the project. In 2021, President Joe Biden formally revoked the permit needed to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, the last major pipeline proposed between Canada and the United States.
While the new proposal takes a different route through the U.S. than the canceled Keystone XL, South Bow's portion would revive about 150 km (93 miles) on the Canadian side that has already been built and is sitting idle. That pipe would then connect to Bridger's proposed pipeline in Montana and extend about 645 miles to Guernsey, Wyoming.
The trans mountain pipeline from the oil fields to a west coast port already exists and an expansion it close to being complete. Building it was very expensive as it goes over very rugged terrain. The combined pipelines will have a capacity of about 800 M barrels/day. But the oil fields in Alberta have a capacity of much, much more than that and another pipeline to the USA would allow expansion of their production.
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[Reuters] In the far reaches of our solar system - beyond the outermost planet Neptune - resides a host of icy and desolate celestial bodies. Among these objects, only the dwarf planet Pluto was known to possess an atmosphere - until now.
Astronomers have identified another object from this realm, with a diameter of roughly 310 miles (500 km) 240 Stacy Abrams , that has an atmosphere - albeit a thin one - in a discovery that suggests that some of these lonely bodies may be more dynamic than previously known. Researchers are now trying to determine what has caused it to have an atmosphere.
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These bodies are called trans-Neptunian objects, and this one is named (612533) 2002 XV93. It orbits the sun at roughly the same distance as Pluto.
It is much smaller than the two biggest trans-Neptunian objects - Pluto, with a diameter of 1,473 miles (2,370 km), and Eris, with a diameter of 1,445 miles (2,326 km). Pluto and Eris are classified as dwarf planets.
The object's atmosphere appears to be roughly 5 million to 10 million times thinner than Earth's robust atmosphere, and about 50 to 100 times thinner than Pluto's tenuous atmosphere. The researchers said this object's atmosphere may be dominated by methane, nitrogen or carbon monoxide.
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"The discovery suggests that some small icy bodies in the outer Solar System may not be completely inactive or unchanging, as previously assumed," said astronomer Ko Arimatsu, head of the Ishigakijima Astronomical Observatory, a lecturer at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and lead author of the study published on Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.
"It was generally thought that an atmosphere would not exist on such a small object," said astronomer and study co-author Junichi Watanabe, director of the Koyama Space Science Institute at Kyoto Sangyo University and a professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. "This suggests that even in a distant, cold world, there are dynamisms we haven't imagined."
The researchers presented two possible explanations for this object's atmosphere. They said it may be an enduring atmosphere, perhaps sustained by cryovolcanism, with gases seeping or venting from its interior through cracks on its surface.
"This would not be a volcano like on Earth, with molten rock, but a cold icy-world version involving volatile gases and ices," Arimatsu said.
Alternatively, the atmosphere could be temporary, caused by gases released when another smaller object struck this one relatively recently.
"If the atmosphere was impact-generated, it may decline over the next several years or decades. If it persists or varies seasonally, that would favor ongoing internal supply," Arimatsu said.
The researchers studied it using ground-based telescopes in Japan at Kyoto, Nagano and Fukushima during a stellar occultation. This is when a celestial body passes in front of a distant star from Earth's vantage point, temporarily obscuring the starlight. Scientists can determine physical characteristics of an object based on changes in light from the background star.
The object, inhabiting a vast expanse beyond Neptune called the Kuiper Belt, probably dates to the dawn of the solar system a bit more than 4.5 billion years ago. It travels an elliptical path around the sun, taking 247 years to complete one orbit. The researchers said its composition probably includes water ice, rock and organic-rich materials.
At the time of the observations, it was located about 3.42 billion miles (5.5 billion km) from the sun. That is about 37 times the distance between Earth and the sun, a measure called an astronomical unit, or AU. Its distance from the sun averages about 39.6 AU - 34.6 AU at its closest point and 44.6 AU at its farthest.
#7
Are these the "Scientists" hired during the Autopen Administration program " ...NASA’s STEM engagement efforts to inspire underserved and underrepresented students to become the next generation of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and explorers." (WIKI AI Cite)?
Confidence in their projected trajectory isn't exactly rock-solid!
Text taken from an article which appeared in presstv.ir
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhon is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] When a post appeared on social media claiming that not a single hospital had been built in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, many young people, ignorant of the Pahlavi era, enthusiastically liked and shared it. But a simple internet search would reveal that in 1979, Iran had 550 hospitals and medical centers. Today, there are over 49,000. Those who fell under this spell mastered another ritual. They pointed their phone cameras at every corner of the country, exaggerating every shortcoming. They became an invaluable tool in the hands of Iran International, a self-proclaimed cult within Iran that filmed and photographed every incident.
By 2026, the Iran International network was ready to reap the benefits of its efforts. As the majority owner and shareholder of Iran International, Mossad sought to achieve a number of strategic goals through this propaganda network:
1. Accustoming the public to a constant stream of negative news about their own country.
2. Reducing trust in the Iranian media and any positive reporting about Iran.
3. Recruiting disgruntled Iranians to provide video footage showing everyday service failures.
4. Creating a cult that accepts everything Iran International says without question or criticism, devoid of the ability to independently analyze.
5. Weaponizing any protests by the Iranian people, turning them into insurgent demonstrations led by cult members.
6. Providing training in the manufacture of weapons specifically designed to destroy government forces.
7. Incitement to unrest and the systematic destruction of government property.
8. Collection of video recordings, photographs, and audio materials about the unrest sent by cult members to the project headquarters.
9. Instilling in cult members the belief that the United States and Israel are the only saviors of the Iranian people.
10. Preparing cult members to accept a Mossad-CIA puppet named Reza Pahlavi as ruler after the government is overthrown.
11. Normalizing mass casualties in the minds of cult members so that during US-Israeli aggression, a dependent audience will whisper that the killings committed by the government have not yet reached the number that the government itself allegedly committed.
12. Instilling the delusion that US and Israeli weapons are so accurate that no civilians will die as a result of their attacks.
13. Normalizing the destruction of military, law enforcement, scientific, educational, industrial, commercial, and service centers on the basis that they served only the government and not the people.
14. Normalizing treason by claiming that "Iran" is somehow different from the "Islamic Republic."
I've seen similar methods somewhere before. I can't remember the country...
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I dont see the halmarks or any fruits of a color revolution in Iran. The kurds were not even activated. There's more unrest in Iranian Baluchistan than Iranian Kurdistan.
But now I know mossad = iran international.
Good to know your sources.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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