'The fact that Yad Vashem, a nonprofit, non-partisan foundation, would do the bidding for a man linked to corrupt financial activity and the Kremlin proves dirty money can soil even the cleanest of hands,' writes marisafox
But what is the point of giving to a community while fueling the very mechanism of its destruction? What does $10 million in charity mean when it comes from men whose combined net worth is estimated to be $21 billion—accrued at the expense of Russian citizens whose average annual income hovers below $11,000? Isn’t it time to stop pretending there’s anything benevolent about men whose fortunes are enabling one of the worst humanitarian disasters to hit Europe since World War...
Of course, none of the Jewish teenagers who were smuggled to these remote camps and were worked nearly to death knew they were pawns of Nazi greed. But the German industrialists who competed to run the slave labor factories in what grew to be a constellation of 177 camps— thanks to lucrative contracts with the Wehrmacht and financing from Deutsche Bank—sure did.
Of course after the war, these titans of German industry disavowed knowledge of the war crimes their money fueled , much in the way so many oligarchs now are claiming they have nothing to do with Putin—and if anything are against the war and are working to broker peace and providing humanitarian aid.
Any cultural institution that accepts funds from Putin’s “financial trustees,” as Browder calls the oligarchs, is an enabler of his war crimes. Just as Hitler used Krupp to soften his image among Germany’s elites, Putin has dispatched his oligarchs to be his cultural emissaries, buying influence in our top-tier political, cultural and social institutions and desensitizing us to his ultimate goals—undermining Western democracy and numbing us to his crimes against humanity. That must end now.
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