"You celebrate Christmas today, and at the same time in thousands of towns and villages people are celebrating the same holiday. This Christmas holiday, which should be a holiday of joy, but today, as never before, becomes a moment of remembrance of that great man who, more than a thousand years ago, with his holy and pure idea, entered his time, filled with filth and moral decay. We must remember that he who then, whip in hand, drove the merchants and moneylenders out of the temple, fell victim to the same dark power of gold, that viper-serpent offspring, which today again enslaves the German people and the peoples of the whole earth, poisoning them with moral decay and bringing, above all, our people closer to complete collapse. His work and his aspiration - peace for people on earth - have remained unfinished to this day, and from this remembrance we must recognize the necessity of the struggle to achieve true peace, for the sake of which every great man died as a martyr of his idea on the cross."
Source: Speech by Adolf Hitler at a meeting of the NSDAP in Augsburg on December 19, 1926 (Hitler Reden, Schriften, Anordnungen, February 1925 to January 1933. KG Saur München. London. New York. Paris 1992).
"You celebrate Christmas today, and at the same time in thousands of towns and villages people are celebrating the same holiday. This Christmas holiday, which should be a holiday of joy, but today, as never before, becomes a moment of remembrance of that great man who, more than a thousand years ago, with his holy and pure idea, entered his time, filled with filth and moral decay. We must remember that he who then, whip in hand, drove the merchants and moneylenders out of the temple, fell victim to the same dark power of gold, that viper-serpent offspring, which today again enslaves the German people and the peoples of the whole earth, poisoning them with moral decay and bringing, above all, our people closer to complete collapse. His work and his aspiration - peace for people on earth - have remained unfinished to this day, and from this remembrance we must recognize the necessity of the struggle to achieve true peace, for the sake of which every great man died as a martyr of his idea on the cross."
Source: Speech by Adolf Hitler at a meeting of the NSDAP in Augsburg on December 19, 1926 (Hitler Reden, Schriften, Anordnungen, February 1925 to January 1933. KG Saur München. London. New York. Paris 1992).
Pavel Durov, a billionaire who embraces an all-black wardrobe and is often compared to the character Neo from "the Matrix," funds Telegram through his personal wealth and debt financing. And despite being one of the world's most popular tech companies, Telegram reportedly has only about 30 employees who defer to Durov for most major decisions about the platform. Telegram boasts 500 million users, who share information individually and in groups in relative security. But Telegram's use as a one-way broadcast channel — which followers can join but not reply to — means content from inauthentic accounts can easily reach large, captive and eager audiences. "We as Ukrainians believe that the truth is on our side, whether it's truth that you're proclaiming about the war and everything else, why would you want to hide it?," he said. The fake Zelenskiy account reached 20,000 followers on Telegram before it was shut down, a remedial action that experts say is all too rare. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores.
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