Corona 2022–24
This analytical report examines the chronological progression of socio-political measures and geopolitical shifts documented between 2022 and 2024. The analysis focuses on the mechanisms of state-mandated health policies, the transformation of international relations through the lens of the Ukraine conflict, and the resulting societal fragmentation.
Phase I: Institutional Pressure and Bio-Political Control (January — March 2022)
The beginning of 2022 was characterized by a transition from voluntary public health recommendations to mandatory compliance. The documentation identifies this period as an era of “institutional coercion.” In Austria, the finalized draft of the COVID-19 Vaccination Act (January 16, 2022) established a legal framework for penalizing non-vaccinated citizens. This represented a significant intervention into individual bodily autonomy, backed by a multi-phase enforcement strategy including fines up to €3,600 and police-led traffic controls.
From a sociological perspective, the records describe the emergence of a “two-tier society.” The implementation of the 2G rule (access only for the vaccinated or recovered) resulted in the systematic exclusion of a minority from the labor market and essential social infrastructure, such as libraries and retail. The case of Peter Krug illustrates the psychological impact of this exclusion, where “social death” precedes physical decline. The documentation notes that this isolation was not merely institutional but became lateral, as private social circles began enforcing state mandates, leading to a profound erosion of social capital.
Phase II: The Geopolitical Pivot and Crisis Displacement (February — May 2022)
The invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, acted as a catalyst for a global shift in administrative and media focus. The documentation captures the immediate implementation of hybrid warfare strategies, including unprecedented censorship and the weaponization of economic ties.
The analysis highlights a crisis of information. Russia’s “special operation” narrative was met with the suspension of international broadcasting (BBC, ARD, ZDF) and the criminalization of dissent within the Russian Federation. Conversely, the Western response was characterized by “aggressive polarization.” The documentation specifically tracks the “cultural decoupling” of Russia from Europe. This is evidenced by the exclusion of Russian individuals from non-political spheres, such as the chess community. The decision by the British Chess Problem Society to stop publishing Russian authors is analyzed as a symptom of “collective punishment,” which effectively severed long-standing intellectual and artistic bridges.
Phase III: The Aftermath and Permanent Crisis (June 2022–2024)
As the immediate threat of the pandemic subsided — marked by the repeal of the Austrian vaccination mandate in mid-2022 — the documentation observes that the “societal trenches” did not close. Instead, the focus shifted toward the economic and psychological consequences of the preceding years.
The period between late 2022 and 2024 is defined by “crisis accumulation.” The biological trauma caused by isolation and the threat of professional ruin (as seen in the ORF internal mandates) transitioned into a period of economic instability fueled by energy sanctions. The records suggest that the “state of emergency” became a permanent governing tool. The psychological data documented — specifically regarding chronic inflammation, insomnia, and trauma in marginalized individuals — indicates that the long-term impact of the 2022 measures remained a latent factor in public health throughout 2024.
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Update 7 January 2022
Pure blackmail
Blackmailing the unvaccinated into vaccination is taking on ever more bizarre forms. And this although it has long been proven that herd immunity cannot be achieved with mRNA vaccination. — And this although it is known that young people have fallen ill with myocarditis after vaccination. And this although it is known that pregnant women lost their babies after vaccination. And this, although it is known that the dark figure of vaccination victims is much higher than the passively collected data in the Paul Ehrlich Institute. Peter Krug lost his secure job because he did not allow himself to be blackmailed. He saw no reason to be vaccinated because of Corona. His partner was also recently threatened with losing her job, although she is completely alone at work and can hardly infect anyone in her job. Peter Krug is very afraid that this Corona madness, which has now been extended to vaccination madness, will be taken so far that unvaccinated people will not only lose their jobs and be denounced, but will even be locked away in prison in the future if the fines are not paid.
Update 8 January 2022
New dimension of isolation
Peter Krug experiences increasing isolation from society. First, he lost his job because he did not get vaccinated. Now even appointments are canceled by friends who have concerns about the Corona — situation. Friends think that it is no longer possible to meet because of the incidence. In his environment, there are now many families who only allow vaccinated ones into the house.
Corona politics as seen by Peter Krug
Emmanuel Macron said “We are at war with the virus.” This is as true for Austria as it is for the other European states. Whoever cheers on this “Corona Crisis”, whether as a top politician, or local politician, or virologist, is currently receiving the highest honors. The winners of this crisis are the pharmaceutical industry and the vaccination doctors. Politicians at the top of government currently have an extreme amount of power over everyone’s most intimate, personal areas. Censorship on the Internet has never been so great. Youtube deleted millions of videos and countless comments that did not fit into the image of the ruling Corona policy. This state of emergency seems to have no end. The losers of the corona crisis are people who resist genetic therapy or refuse to test. Many vaccination refusers already lost their jobs. Because of the corona policy in Europe, millions more people in the third world have to suffer from hunger. Critical doctors and journalists are being suspended or kicked out. Now in Italy, too, there is talk of imprisonment for refusing vaccinations and booster shots. Governments continue to use escalation, suppression, violence, coercion and blackmail against those unwilling to vaccinate. The division caused by the government has never been as great as it was before and, in Peter Krug’s view, can only be compared to National Socialism.
Comparison of the Jews and the unvaccinated
Blaming the unvaccinated, who are often called “right-wing extremists” and “Nazis” and even murderers, gives Peter Krug an idea of what the Jews had to suffer psychologically under National Socialism at the time. Even then, it was the minorities, the Jews, who were blamed for everything. The Jews were also blamed for infectious diseases. They lost work and the right to go shopping.
Jews were totally isolated from the population and were not allowed to go to the cinema or other public events.
12 January 2022
The situation of the unvaccinated, who are now isolated and not even allowed to work or visit a department store, is getting worse and worse every week. Peter Krug fears that the unvaccinated will be driven further into isolation and hopelessness step by step.
Update January 16, 2022
Compulsory vaccination in Austria to apply to everyone aged 18 and over from February, controls to come from mid-March:
Three-phase approach to penalty, convalescents exempt for six months.
The federal government in Vienna presented Sunday the finalized draft law of the planned general Corona vaccination obligation. Chancellor Karl Nehammer, Constitutional Minister Karoline Edtstadler (both ÖVP) and Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens) appeared before the press to present the details of the plan.
- The fine is up to 600 euros, and can be up to 3,600 euros in due process.
- A fine can be issued a maximum of four times per year, two of which will be “information-based”, i.e. through an automated letter.
- Anyone who is vaccinated within two weeks of the issuance of the vaccination penalty order will go unpunished.
From 18 years, no substitute custodial sentence
Until the very end, this was still being negotiated. Even before the press conference, it had been rumored that compulsory vaccination would not apply from the age of 14, as originally planned, but only from the age of 18. The law should also stipulate that if the fines are not paid, there will in any case be no substitute custodial sentence.
From March 15, checks are to be carried out by police officers — for example, as part of a traffic control. Only in the final phase will citizens be written to and penalized. This phase would be dispensed with if enough people in Austria have been vaccinated by then anyway.
Update 19.01.2022
Minister of Health Dr. Wolfgang Mückstein makes announcement on ORF about 4th stitch in summer 2022.
The vaccination duty comes. On Thursday it will be decided as of February 1.
Because about 1.5 million people in Austria have not yet been stung, the vaccination obligation now follows. According to Mückstein, the vaccination interval should be determined by experts, he will then decree that by appropriate regulation.
Update 24.01.2022
Austria continues to torture gastronomy and trade with 2G and turns saleswomen into sheriffs; it tortures schoolchildren with masks; it destroys the cultural life.
Now a compulsory vaccination law has been passed that divides Austria like hardly any law before; that turns 1.5 million unvaccinated Austrians into outsiders; that forces the police to take action against citizens who have done nothing wrong;
No other Western European country is currently considering a similar legislative terror. On the contrary, the Czechs and the Italians, as well as the Germans, are currently withdrawing their plans.
More other EU countries — just now Great Britain, France, Ireland and our neighbor Switzerland — are relaxing their measures, abolishing mandatory masks and the 2-G rule.
The reason for this is the scientific analysis of the omicron wave. According to all forecasts, it is much less dangerous than earlier Corona waves.
Update 3.02.2022
Peter Krug tried since 2020 not to go along with the rule of the vaccination politicians. In the evening demonstrations especially against compulsory vaccination now take place once a week also in Hallein. They are loud with drums and whistles. The atmosphere is one of war. Only little is spoken. Phrases like “peace, freedom, sovereignty” and “resistance” echo through the alleys of the city center and end where they started at the Pernerinsel. The whole demonstration will be accompanied by the police. In conclusion, the organizer thanks participants and peaceful police.
Peter Krug is no longer allowed to go to the cinema and is not allowed to visit any bookstores, public libraries or other than a supermarket. As unvaccinated he lost the right to work. His schedule has never been so empty. It’s hard to still have a sense of time under such conditions. Politicians want to make these restrictions on the unvaccinated permanent. Because even after the lockdown ends, the 2 G rule applies. This is justified by the government measures.That’s why he now regularly takes to the streets.
Update 9.02.2022 ORF blackmail against its own staff
Not a day goes by, where surely ORF does not perform new incredibilities in connection with the Corona — crisis. This time it is again directed against its own staff. In December, a downright blackmail letter in the direction of the 2 G rule was sent to ORF employees, and it was made very clear that their employment with ORF could soon be over if they did not allow themselves to be vaccinated. — This plan is now obviously going into phase 2: The new General Director Mag. Roland Weißmann is graciously giving ORF employees until February 14 to prove that they have been vaccinated, after which ORF employees are threatened not only with loss of pay, but also with the loss of their jobs. That is, until February 14, the employees of ORF may still be vaccinated, then there will be a conversation with the respective supervisor and then in further consequence threatens then also a loss of salary.
Supplement: Very good news
Top virologist Norbert Nowotny anticipates Freedom Day in March.
Even the new chancellor said:
“All the data and numbers we’ve seen in the last few weeks,” Chancellor Karl Nehammer said, “show that Omikron is not an acute threat to our health care system at this time.”
End of all measures
Top virologist Norbert Nowotny expects further easing and even an end to all Corona measures soon. “If everything goes well and sub-variant BA.2 doesn’t throw a spanner in the works for us, then I expect a Freedom Day in Austria in March,” the expert told.
We are currently in the transition from a pandemic to a seasonal virus, Nowotny continued. One must therefore also revise the testing strategy and only test more vulnerable groups and people with symptoms, he said.
Nowotny also stresses in the interview that mandatory vaccination is no longer necessary because of Omikron. One should therefore start “digging trenches” and “put the penalties on hold.”
Upadate 29 February 2022
Peter Krug’s health is deteriorating by the hour. Because of the corona measures he was not allowed to work anymore. He can’t eat anymore, he can’t sleep. For some time he has only been lying in bed. The pain in the area of the digestive organs is increasing. Swellings are increasing terribly.
They are inflammations. On Sunday, 20. 02. he absolutely has to go to the hospital and be examined.
Thursday 24.02.2022 War in Europe
In times of world political tension
Russian attack on Ukraine has begun.
Russia launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine overnight via several flanks and with ground forces. According to the Ukrainian border guards, Russian ground forces with tanks and other heavy equipment entered Ukraine from several directions, including from Belarus. Earlier, Ukraine reported massive aerial shelling. The government in Kiev declared martial law.
Coordinated attacks were mainly in the east of Ukraine. In the south, Ukrainian positions were attacked with missile systems and helicopters, the border guard said. Ukraine reported that more than 40 soldiers were killed.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin had ordered a “military operation” in Ukraine in a televised speech on Thursday night. A short time later, explosions were heard in several Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kiev and the port cities of Mariupol and Odessa.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that the target of the attacks in Ukraine was “the military infrastructure. However, according to Russia’s UN Ambassador Vasily Nebensia, action will also be taken against the government in Kiev, which he called a “junta.”
A few hours after the offensive began, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said the Russian army had knocked out air defenses as well as air bases in Ukraine. Kiev reported the downing of five Russian fighter jets and a helicopter.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy imposed martial law across Ukraine and called on his countrymen to defend the country. The Ukrainian president called for a global “anti-Putin coalition.” “The world must force Russia to make peace,” he declared after crisis phone calls with his Western partners. Ukraine broke off diplomatic relations with neighboring Russia.
The full extent of Russia’s attack was not initially clear. Putin said, however, that the goal was not to occupy Ukrainian territory. The goal, he said, was to protect people. The Ukrainian military should lay down its arms, he said.
Vladimir Putin called the members of the Ukrainian government “a gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis” and “terrorists.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin also has called on the Ukrainian army to take power in Kiev and overthrow President Volodymyr Selensky and his entourage.
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Putin’s breach of trust with Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz
Putin has made peace negotiations with statesmen before the invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine and during this time he has already prepared the invasion. This deception shows how uncalculated Putin has proceeded.
Corona Policy
Novavax will be vaccinated in Salzburg from March 5.
The protein vaccine will be administered in three vaccination lines. 1,700 people have registered for the vaccine in Salzburg so far.
Update 26.02.2022
“Make war expensive for Putin”
“The only way to get Russia to turn back is to make this war so expensive that political, business and military decision makers turn on Putin. To do this, Russia’s trade and financial transactions must be brought to a virtual standstill,” the National Security Council resolution document states.
Update 27.02. 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin is putting the country’s nuclear forces on alert. He ordered the Russian military leadership to do so because of NATO’s aggressive behavior and economic sanctions, Putin said on television Sunday. “As you can see, Western countries are taking unfriendly measures against our country not only in economic terms,” Putin said on state TV.
His critical opinion
For Peter Krug, Putin’s war against Ukraine is incomprehensible. Every war brings death and suffering.
So many innocent people are being killed. In just a few days, large apartment blocks, television tower, hospitals and symbolic squares were destroyed with missile attacks. The infrastructure in Ukraine is collapsing. Food is becoming scarce and people are staying in punkers with their children. The horror of Putin’s war is becoming more and more unbearable every day and at shorter intervals.
Putin’s war is despicable, cruel and inhumane and senseless. His sympathy goes to the brave
people in Ukraine, who actually want peace, but are defending their country against a superior Russian force.
On the other hand, he sees the extremely harsh sanctions of the West as a danger for further escalations of the Russians with NATO.
Russia will be isolated as never before in history, and this West-East divide will deepen the fear of a nuclear threat on both sides.
Instead of disarming worldwide, the states will rearm. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has already announced that he will invest 100 billion euros in the German military. The “Standard” in Austria is already discussing Austria’s membership in NATO.
Peter Krug fears further that the sanctions will lead to general discrimination against foreign Russians. The elimination of Russian media (Youtube) from Europe is another danger, because Europeans are not given the opportunity to offer opposing views.
The delivery of weapons by the Germans and the Dutch will only worsen the situation in Ukraine, because it will lead to more deaths on the Ukrainian side and on the Russian side. The delivery of weapons to Ukraine is therefore senseless additional bloodshed in view of the fact that the Russian army is superior to the Ukrainian army.
Update 2.02.2022
The Russian leadership leaves no doubt that its aim in Ukraine is to overthrow the political leadership, which it brands a “junta” controlled by the West. Russian President Vladimir Putin himself said that the goal of the military operation in Ukraine was “demilitarization and denazification” of the country, the latter apparently referring to state leaders.
According to reports, there are already Russian “death lists” with 24 names of Ukrainian citizens. The list includes the names of Volodymyr Selensky, the Ukrainian president and his entire government, as well as former world boxing champions Vitali and Vladimir Klitschko.
Update 3.03.2022
Chess genius Kasparov: Putin “the greatest threat to humanity”
Putin’s dictatorship is “by far the greatest existential threat to humanity,” warned the 58-year-old, who has lived in exile for many years and is active in the Russian opposition. He has not set foot in his homeland since 2013.
“The surprising thing is that within a week there is nothing left of it,” added the chess icon Kasparov, who resigned in 2005, referring to the international reactions. “It’s the first time since the end of the Cold War that almost the whole world has stuck together. In my wildest dreams I would not have expected such solidarity within four or five days,” Kasparov said.
He says of Putin: “After 22 years with such a wealth of power and no one to criticize you, it’s hard to stay sane. He sees everything from his bubble. We know he trusts very few and doesn’t go in Internet. How is someone like that supposed to stay realistic?”
Other chess greats were also outraged because of the war:
“I fear the price of the madness of the last days will be unimaginable and huge,” wrote Ian Nepomniachtchi
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Dr. Wolfgang Mückstein resigns as health minister
Burden too high
He had fought the pandemic “with all his might” every day, “even if not everyone was satisfied with my decisions,” the minister said, drawing a personal conclusion. Although he had known what he was getting into when he took up his post, the personal burden had now gained the upper hand. Like his predecessor Rudi Anschober, he has now reached a point where he can no longer give 100 percent.
The permanent hostility and threats in particular have taken their toll on him: “It gnaws at you when your own apartment has to be guarded around the clock and you can only leave the house with police protection. You can’t stand that for long. So today is the day for me to resign from my post as Minister of Health and Social Affairs.”
Update March 4, 2022
Nearly 7,000 Russian scientists turn against Putin’s war
In Russia, nearly 7,000 scientists and academics had turned against the war in Ukraine by Thursday, signing an open letter to President Vladimir Putin. “We, Russian scientists and science journalists, protest in the strongest terms against the military invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces,” the letter, published on the news website trv-science.ru, reads.
“Humanistic values are the foundation on which science is built,” the signatories write. They said they had spent many years trying to strengthen Russia’s reputation as a leading center of mathematics, among other things. The efforts have been “completely undone,” the letter continued.
The letter also called Russia a “military aggressor and, accordingly, a rogue state.” Becoming a great scientific nation “cannot be achieved under the present conditions.” No geopolitical interest can “justify this death and bloodshed,” it said. War, he said, would only “lead to the total decline of our country.”
The more than 6,900 signatories face fines or jail time for criticizing the government. In addition to the already harsh laws against Kremlin critics, the Russian parliament is debating another bill this week that would impose even harsher penalties for criticism of the war in Ukraine.
No “attack,” no “invasion”
Russian media had been instructed after the invasion of Ukraine to use only official information from the Russian authorities for their reporting. Terms such as “attack” or “invasion” in connection with the invasion of Ukraine are prohibited. The authorities portray the war of aggression on Ukraine only as a “special operation” by the military or even a peacekeeping mission to protect Russian-speaking Ukrainians.
In view of the Ukraine war, Russia wants to impose drastic penalties for spreading alleged false information about the Russian armed forces. On Friday, the parliament in Moscow voted in favor of a corresponding amendment to the law. According to the amendment, there is a threat of heavy fines and up to 15 years’ imprisonment.
1.25 million refugees from Ukraine.
According to the UN Organization for Migration (IOM), the number of refugees from Ukraine now amounts to 1.25 million. Of these, about 672,000 have fled to Poland alone, about 194,000 to Moldova and about 133,000 to Hungary.
Update 6.03 2022
Restrictions on freedom of expression in Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed several laws Friday night (5.03. 2022) further restricting free speech in Russia, further curtailing independent media reporting. Those spreading alleged “false information” about the Russian armed forces face up to 15 years in prison. There are also penalties for those who publicly “denigrate” the armed forces. The parliament in Moscow had previously approved a corresponding amendment to the law.
The amendment to the law appears to be aimed at making every independent journalist a criminal.
“This leaves us with no option but to stop the work of all BBC News journalists and their staff in the Russian Federation,” said BBC Director General Tim Davie.
Under the new Russian law, even private statements on social media could be associated with incalculable personal risks. Extreme restraint or, alternatively, departure from the country is advised. The possible arbitrary imposition of heavy prison sentences for public statements further restricts the work of foreign journalists and media professionals in Russia, it added.
In response to the law, several other international broadcasters and agencies have stopped all or part of their work in Russia, including the U.S. broadcaster CNN, the British BBC, the Canadian broadcaster CBC, the news agency Bloomberg, Italy’s public TV broadcaster RAI or the Spanish state news agency EFE, as well as the renowned newspaper “El País” from Spain. German broadcasters ARD and ZDF also said Saturday they would suspend coverage from their Moscow studios for the time being. They will continue to provide comprehensive information about the events from other locations.
P. Krug’s criticism of the brutal sanctions against Russia
Putin’s war against Ukraine is irresponsible, cruel and must be stopped as soon as possible. Nevertheless, the extreme sanctions are not primarily directed against Putin, but against Russia as a whole.
They hit Russians who are against Putin’s war.
These extreme sanctions are an economic and cultural destruction against Russia.
Krug is particularly critical of Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg, who made the cynical comment that the sanctions “have bite.”
In truth, the extremely harsh sanctions are a declaration of war against Russia.
Ursula van der Leyen, Alexander Schallenberg, Annalena Baerbock, Olaf Scholz with their sanctions activism have done everything in recent days to increase tensions between Russia and Europe.
Update March 8, 2022
Kremlin now threatens to cut off gas to all of Europe.
Update 9.03.2022
Completely stopped publishing original chess compositions (chess studies and chess problems) by Russian authors in magazine “Sahova Skladba”, “The Problemist”.
“Strategems” is ready to publish compositions of Russian authors, but without indication of country….
Austrian government postpones mandatory vaccination. Reassessment to take place in summer
The vaccination obligation against the coronavirus is currently suspended. This was decided by the government in the Council of Ministers on Wednesday. As Constitutional Minister Karoline Edtstadler (ÖVP) said, the duty was “not proportionate” with the prevailing Omikron variant. A new decision is to be made in three months, said the new health minister Johannes Rauch (Greens). Actually, violations of the duty should have been punished from mid-March. The basis for the decision is the report of an expert commission, which warns of a new wave in the fall.
The government’s phased plan would have called for unvaccinated people to be punished from March 15. In phase two, police were to check proof of vaccination as part of their inspections and report a violation to district administrative authorities. In phase three (without a specific date), there could then be an automation-supported data comparison to basically find out who is unvaccinated.
The four-member commission, based in the Federal Chancellery, is to evaluate on an ongoing basis whether the implementation of compulsory vaccination is purposeful and justified from a legal as well as a medical perspective. The panel includes epidemiologist Eva Schernhammer, infectiologist Herwig Kollaritsch, constitutional and medical lawyer Karl Stöger and legal scholar Christiane Wendehorst. With the further evaluation “today” one begins, so smoke.Changes can take place at any time
Suspending mandatory vaccination altogether, rather than just penalties, is a deliberate move, Rauch and Edtstadler stressed. “It hits exactly what I said as a former judge: A law without sanctions is toothless and pointless. We are therefore suspending compulsory vaccination per se. That entails that there are also no controls.” The “flexible” law also allows for this: All that is needed is a decree by the Minister of Health and a decision in the main committee, but no change in the law, Edtstadler emphasized.
Should the situation make it necessary to reinstate compulsory vaccination, the two government members assured that they would be able to react quickly. In the preparations, one will not wait for the three months, but will “react and be prepared” for the situation, Rauch said. Should it be necessary, then one will react “very quickly”, Edtstadler also said.
BRITISH CHESS PROBLEM SOCIETY said:
Statement by the Commitee on the Ukraine Crisis
After the bulk of the March issue had been prepared for publication, U.K. problemists watched the Russian invasion of Ukraine with the same shock, horror and revulsion as countless others in the chess problem community. In consequence, the British Chess Problem Society, and the editorial team of The Problemist, will henceforth not publish problems or other contributions submitted by Russians. This policy will continue for the foreseeable future. These actions do not imply any criticism of individual Russian problemists.”
Update 10. 03. 2022
Putin’s DISINFORMATION CAMPAIN
By using false narratives of Ukraine as a “Nazi state”, or of alleged genocide against Russians, Russian President Vladimir Putin justifies his “military operations” in Ukraine. Disinformation campaigns are part of a hybrid war strategy against Europe. Disinformation and censorship campaigns are also being expanded in Russia.
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03.2022
The disinformation on the Internet regarding the Ukraine-Russia conflict is becoming more grotesque by the day.
It started with Putin calling his troops in the war against Ukraine “peacekeepers”. Another dangerous Russian propaganda is to claim that Ukraine is releasing biological weapons in coordination with NATO.
Update 11. 03.2022
Russia wants UN Security Council meeting over biological weapons
The background is Russia’s accusation that the U.S. and Ukraine are developing biological weapons. As recently as Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that there was a network of bio-labs in Ukraine working on behalf of the U.S. Defense Department.
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Selenskyj: Many cities without electricity and water
According to President Volodymyr Selenskyj, a water main in Chernihiv in northeastern Ukraine had been damaged by shelling, leaving the major city of nearly 280,000 people without water. Parts of the Sumy, Kyiv and Donetsk regions also had no electricity, heating problems, gas and water as a result of the fighting.
Update 13,03,2022
Criticism of the West in dealing against the invasion of Russia
Instead of focusing on non-violence and discussion, Germany and the Dutch, as well as other countries, have delivered more weapons to Ukraine.
According to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, this is to increase Ukraine’s defensibility against the aggressor (Putin). Given Russia’s superiority against Ukraine, such actionism makes the situation much worse. For there is now a threat of a cruel battle with high casualties.
Krug also believes that the aggressive sanctions will — except the weakening of the economy not achieve their goals, but will further fuel political division and the tension and fear of nuclear war.
Krug observes an increasing, aggressive polarization and political agitation against all of Russia in the Western media.
In Krug’s opinion, the EU countries practice enemy image politics, scaremongering and justification of military armament.
If this enemy image propaganda and the interference in the Ukraine conflict continue to intensify, this could become a serious threat to peace in the world.
Update 15.03.2022
Marina Ovsyannikova, a Russian journalist, called for resistance on the state broadcaster
Marina Ovsyannikova was on air live for only a few seconds, but this short period of time was enough to attract worldwide attention — and admiration. Admiration, namely, for the courage born of shame and desperation with which the 44-year-old television editor burst into the main news program “Vremya” of the first channel of Russian state television. Standing behind newscaster Ekaterina Andreyeva, she held up a poster to the camera with handwritten slogans such as “No war,” “End the war,” “Don’t believe the propaganda,” “Here you are being lied to,” and, in English, “Russians against the war.”
Update 16.03. 2022
The poison of sanctions
In response to U.S. sanctions, Moscow has now in turn imposed entry bans on U.S. President Joe Biden and other U.S. government officials.
But without communication and friendly treatments, further escalations are to be expected worldwide!
Peter Krug was against the sanctions of the West in reaction to Putin’s war from the beginning.
Because these sanctions not only weaken Russia’s economy, but destroy friendships worldwide. The sanctions destroy the international art trade in relation to Russia. The sanctions are destroying sports internationally in and out of Russia. Russia, for its part, imposes harsh measures. This is a spiral, which will be felt negatively in Europe in the fall at the latest. Sanctions are not a solution to political problems. The sanctions will not solve anything politically, but they will destroy international relations with Russia. The sanctions will lead to divisions in economic and cultural life. It is foreseeable that economies worldwide will suffer as a result.
Update 16.03.2022
Russia resigns from the Council of Europe
Since the beginning of the Corona measures against the coronavirus in 2020, there is terrible news every day, which makes a deep world crisis more and more likely.
“Russia is voluntarily withdrawing from the Council of Europe, this is a balanced and well-considered decision,” Tolstoy said. The Council of Europe watches over respect for human rights in its 47 member states and is not part of the EU. The body had reacted to Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine just over two weeks ago by suspending Russia’s membership. This decision was considered historic.
For its part, Moscow announced last Thursday that it would no longer participate in the body’s work in response. “Russia will not participate in the transformation of Europe’s oldest organization by NATO and the EU, which obediently follows it, into another platform for Western domination and narcissism,” the Foreign Ministry said.
A circular Email from study -composer and international champion Vladislav Tarasiuk
P. Krug received a terrible circular letter addressed to all study composers.
It is from IM Vladislav Tarasiuk, who is currently working in a hospital near Kharkov. It describes the war damage in Ukraine.
“Tuesday, Mar 15, 2022 20:05
Today is March 15, 2022. I am alive. My family, thank God, is also
alive…
I continue to work in the hospital near Kharkov. I help the wounded…
Yesterday morning, a woman was admitted to us with shrapnel wounds to
the head. She was dead by morning… By evening, a man was brought in
with torn fingers and a broken hand. They amputated his hand… They
were civilians from my town. So was the girl, Jana, 5 years old, who
was admitted on Sunday with a concussion. The house she lived in was
hit by an air bomb — her mother and grandmother were killed. Jana was
left alive but an orphan…
I have no emotions left at all. I’m scared for my two children, for my
mother, who has lost her memory. All of them are looked after now by
my wife Alla… They are near in a multi-storey building, 300 meters
from my hospital, where I work. During shelling or air strikes they
can’t go down to the basement. My mother does not walk well and my
younger daughter Zhenya cries a lot…
This is a great misfortune not only for my family, but for all
Ukrainians.
We lived on our land, we did not take someone else’s. Why should we be
killed now and have our homes destroyed? It’s a pity that there is
still not a single chess composer from Russia here on this forum who
would condemn the criminal actions of Putin and the subhumans from the
Russian army, the genocide against the Ukrainian people… Why are you
silent, do you approve of this war?
Do you all think that your army is “liberating” Ukraine from Nazism,
that there are no civilian casualties, no destruction…? In Kharkov
alone about 600 residential buildings have been destroyed. This is
true, although not everyone can believe it. And how much more such
misfortune there is in other cities of Ukraine… In the surviving
houses there is no light, no gas, no heating. My friend and etudist
Vladimir Samilo from Kharkov lives in such conditions. It is very hard
for him…
Our Igor Yarmonov from Mariupol has not been in touch for a week. I
really hope he is alive…
My post is addressed to my chess art colleagues, so I beg the
Administrator not to delete it.
Regards, Vladislav.”
- May Putin be held accountable for his war of aggression!
Further arms deliveries from the USA
Biden also promised Ukraine more arms deliveries. The U.S. would provide thousands of anti-tank weapons, some 800 anti-aircraft missiles, 7,000 firearms such as submachine guns, numerous grenade launchers, 20 million rounds of ammunition and even drones, Biden said at the White House on Wednesday.
Update 17.03.2022
No insight of Putin concerning the irresponsible war against Ukraine!
Putin threatens Russian critics: ‘spit them out like a fly’
“The Russian people will simply spit out these traitors like a fly that has accidentally flown into their mouths. Such a natural and necessary self-purification of society will only strengthen our country,” he said, referring to russian people speaking out against the attack in Ukraine.
Putin compared the West’s sanctions against Russia to the Nazi persecution of Jews. “The West has dropped the mask of decency and is beginning to behave abominably,” the Kremlin leader said. “There are obvious parallels with anti-Semitic pogroms.” He added that the West is pursuing “only one goal,” namely the “destruction of Russia.”
“The West doesn’t even bother to hide the fact that its goal is to harm the entire Russian economy and every single Russian.” If the West believes that Russia would collapse or give in, “they don’t know our history or our people.”
Russia does not want to comply with the order of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to stop the war in Ukraine.
This was announced by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Thursday. However, in case of an agreement with Kiev, there could be “very quick end” to the military operation. “Our conditions for a peace deal are absolutely clear,” stressed Spokesman, who at the same time sharply criticized U.S. President Joe Biden. Biden had called Vladimir Putin a war criminal.
The ICJ, in a historic ruling on Wednesday, had ordered an immediate halt to Russia’s military aggression in Ukraine. Only the judges of Russia and China voted against the decision. Moscow demonstratively stayed away from the reading of the decision. The order had been sought by Ukraine. The world court has no means of power to force a state to implement the ruling. It could, however, appeal to the UN Security Council. However, the aggressor state Russia has a veto right in the Security Council.
Sharp criticism of Joe Biden
Peskov stressed that the Russian side was putting “an incredible amount of energy” into talks with Kiev, but the same was expected of the Ukrainian side. “We know the way the Ukrainians stall for time.” The previous day, Russia had floated a possible neutral status for Ukraine as a “compromise.” Kiev, however, rejected this and insisted on security guarantees.
The Kremlin spokesman sharply criticized U.S. President Joe Biden’s statement that Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is a war criminal. Biden’s statements were “unacceptable” and “unforgivable.” After all, PUTIN is a “VERY WISE AND CULTURED INTERNATIONAL FIGURE ,” he said. Referring to the accusations against Russia in the Russian war, he said that the U.S. had bombed civilians for a very long time “and also used nuclear bombs in Japan.” Therefore, he said, the U.S. president had “no right to give lessons to Russia.”
Earlier, the Moscow Foreign Ministry said that talks with Kiev were continuing. Military, political and humanitarian issues would be discussed in a video conference, a ministry spokeswoman said Thursday. Most recently, there had been cautious signals of rapprochement during talks between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators, while fighting in Ukraine continued unabated, however.
Meanwhile, the deputy head of the Russian Security Council and former President Dmitry Medvedev leveled serious accusations against the West. Similar to President Vladimir Putin’s comments the previous day, Medvedev said the West was plotting to bring the country to its knees in order to tear it apart. The driving force behind this conspiracy, he said, is Russophobia fomented by the United States. “This will not work — Russia has the power to put all our brazen enemies in their place,” Medvedev said. He is one of President Vladimir Putin’s closest confidants. Medvedev was president from 2008 to 2012.
Update 18.03.2022
Putin praises Russian army
Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin has praised the “special military operation” in Ukraine as a “heroic” effort by the Russian army. All plans are being implemented, Putin told tens of thousands of cheering Russians at Moscow’s Lushniki Stadium on Friday, referring to the war in the neighboring country.
Inside the stadium, people waved Russian state flags and flags with the letter Z, which is a symbol of the “special military operation.” People chanted, “For Russia. For victory.” Above the stage where Putin performed was written, “For a world without Nazism.” The occasion of the appearance was the eighth anniversary of the annexation of the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea on March 18, 2014.
Peter Krug has great admiration for the courageous Russians who continue to demonstrate against the war in Ukraine in public places in Russia and for this accept arrest and a possible high prison sentence!
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Instagram and Facebook are now blocked in Russia.
In addition to Western media, Russia also recently blocked Internet platforms. As of last Monday, Instagram was no longer accessible in Russia, affecting around 80 million users.
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Putin misuses verses from the Bible to
Mobilization
“We want to free people from this suffering and it is the most important reason and goal of the military operation…. Exactly this goal … and here I think of the words of the holy scriptures: there is no more love than when someone gives his soul for his friends. — And we see how heroically our guys are fighting in the course of this operation …”
(Lushniki Stadium on Friday)
Sanctions against Russia is pure poison
For Krug, the sanctions against Russia are not only senseless, because sanctions do not lead to peace. but also poison.
Because it is to be feared that the Putin — followers just because of the sanctions will weld more together and will lead the war against Ukraine — all the more — to the bitter end.
If the NATO countries and EU countries like the Germans interfere even more in the Russia-Ukraine war, a new world war is possible in the future.
Update 19.03. 2022
Peter Krug and the Corona — Measures against the coronavirus
For more than two years, mask obligation, vaccination obligation, distance obligation, disinfection obligation are prescribed as obligatory for all. Those who do not comply risk fines.
Peter Krug, however, has not been vaccinated against the corona virus to this day and has never had Covid19. He only got tested once against Corona so he could go to the restaurant.
Krug had never tested positive for Corona in over 2 years. Most of the time, Krug has not worn an FFP2 mask and has never complied with the distance rules. Krug also does not disinfect his hands when he enters a church. Krug views the entire Corona effort as pointless and destructive.
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Vladimir Putin: “ Necessary purges”.
With a kind of rage speech on Wednesday (19.03.2022) the Russian president Vladimir Putin has let listen. On the one hand, the president compares the West with Nazis, on the other hand, he thinks that Russia must be cleansed of traitors. Vladimir Putin’s statements are frightening. He said: “They will be swatted out like flies, and this necessary and natural purge will strengthen our society. This distinction paints a picture of a man who is probably ready for anything. What escapes him in his countless comparisons with Nazis is that his statements are much closer to Nazi rhetoric than anyone else.
20.03.2022
Criticism of NATO presence in Eastern Europe
Deputy Foreign Minister Le said that the Western military alliance should not expand further eastward, thereby cornering a nuclear power like Russia.
- The West argues on the other hand that there is no ban on certain countries joining.
Update 20.03.2022 Krug’s criticism of Germany’s aggressive foreign policy.
Sanctions are poison. Sanctions are destruction of culture, economy and friendship. Sanctions are war. The aggressive and ignorant German foreign policy under Olaf Scholz and Annalena Baerbock with its sanctions has worsened the situation of the Russia — Ukraine war. The arms deliveries to Ukraine will result in more deaths on the Russian and Ukrainian side. Moreover, the war will be much more cruel and Ukraine much more destroyed. Germany with his actionism has aggravated the situation in Ukraine and the tension against the East. Moreover, it has exacerbated the power conflict between the West and the East. There is a threat of a new world war if Germany and other NATO countries interfere even further.
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Selenski was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
Krug can not understand why Selensky was proposed to a Nobel Peace Prize.
Selensky is very brave and a strong personality. Sympathy goes to the Ukrainian brave people but in the opinion of Krug Selensky does not contribute anything to peace worldwide, because the arms deliveries and the demanded sanctions of Selensky turn the world into a theater of war.
Update 21.03.2022
Terrible words of revenge from Selensky:
“The Russian military can’t find the way home, and that’s why our military is helping them on the way to God’s court, before which they will all receive only the one punishment — the eternal cellar, eternally in the hail of bombs, eternally without food, water and heating.” This is the punishment “for everything they did to our people,” Selenskyj added.
Even as the situation in Ukraine grows more desperate, Selensky’s image paints more and more of a war hero with increasingly terrible thoughts of revenge.
For Peter Krug it is clear that Selensky is not a messenger of peace and that the worldwide admiration for Selensky could even become dangerous, because Selensky keeps repeating the message that the sanctions should be tightened even more, and calls on NATO — states to control the airspace in Ukraine, or to procure fighter jets for defense from abroad.
These are all demands that, far from contributing to world peace, could drag the world into a third world war.
Udate 23.03.2022
Russia is sealing itself off more and more
Destruction, despair, grief.
Images of the war in Ukraine are in the media every day. In Russia, however, hardly anyone gets to see this. Instead of information, the Russian population only gets to see propaganda.
On Russian television, one receives the narrative given by the government.
In addition to positive coverage, you see spots like this one, for example:
A young man is caught spraying graffiti, and when it becomes clear what he is spraying, the police shake his hands with glee. It’s a Z.
The letter has become a symbol of support for Putin’s war.
You can see it on tanks, on tricots and even among the youngest among the population.
To keep the mood up, the Kremlin keeps cutting off communication with the outside world.
Putin’s government classifies the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram as extremist.
Accessing these blocked sites using technical tricks is thus now punishable.
Russian citizens are not allowed to inform themselves or protest outside the propaganda bubble.
Anyone who nevertheless criticizes must reckon with severe penalties. Alexei Navalny is a case in point. The former opposition politician will be sentenced on Tuesday to 9 more years under particularly harsh prison conditions in a penal camp. -
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Use of advanced weapons in Ukraine
The more and more effective weapons Nato — states like Germany sends to Ukraine for defense,
the harder, the more brutal and the greater the danger that Russia will resort to weapons of mass destruction because of the increased human losses and because of the duration of the war.
Interference in a war where both sides, i.e. Ukraine and the Russians, see military conflict as the only solution is very problematic.
Because with it is connected also the responsibility opposite the collateral damage in the Ukraine. (Opinion of Peter Krug)
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US government officially accuses Russia of war crimes
The U.S. government for the first time officially accuses Russian forces in Ukraine of war crimes. “Today I can announce that based on currently available information, the U.S. government has concluded that members of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine have committed war crimes,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Wednesday.
Update 25. März 2022
Sergei Lavrov: “West has declared “total HYPRID WAR” on Moscow”.
Referring to Western sanctions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has spoken of a “hybrid war” directed against Moscow. “Today they have declared a real hybrid war on us, total war,” Lavrov said Friday.
Lavrov went on to say that Europe’s politicians want to “destroy, break, annihilate, strangle” Russia. “When we see this lawlessness of sanctions, of course, it’s clear that all these values that our Western colleagues have constantly preached to us — namely freedom of expression, market economy and inviolability of private property, presumption of innocence — are worthless.”
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Because of Russia’s war on Ukraine, the seven leading democratic economic powers (G7) and the EU had agreed on Thursday to new sanctions that would make transactions involving gold much more difficult for Russia. The U.S. also imposed new punitive measures on hundreds of members of the Russian parliament and other members of the Russian elite.
The U.S. also announced Friday that it will supply an additional 15 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the EU this year, together with international partners. In the long term, the volume is expected to rise to 50 billion cubic meters per year. This could replace about a third of current gas imports from Russia.
Update 26 März 2022
German missiles and machine guns arrived
More weapons from Germany have arrived in Ukraine for the fight against Russian aggressors. As the Deutsche Presse-Agentur learned from Ukrainian government circles, these are 1500 air defense missiles of the type “Strela” and 100 machine guns MG3. In addition, there are 8 million rounds of ammunition for small arms. According to the report, other aid supplies from Germany for the Ukrainian armed forces have also arrived in the war zone.
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was the beginning of intensive Western and Russian War rearmament propaganda. Ukraine seems to have been only the military fuel for the outbreak of the preliminary stage of world war, or the imminent danger of a world war between NATO and Russia.
There is no criticism in the mass media about arms deliveries by the Germans.
The Russian point of view, on the other hand, hardly, or only sporadically, appears in the Western media.
NATO, as well as the Russian government, sees the military danger in foreign territory, which has now led to further armament on the NATO — Russia border.
Lavrov already spoke of a “hybrid war, or total war” with regard to western sanctions.
Update März 2022
PUTIN`s claims against the West
“Russophobia.”
Putin declared that the West is trying to destroy the thousand-year-old Russian Empire — and claims that there is widespread Russophobia in the West.
UPDATE 28 March 2022
Olaf Scholz wants “IRON DOME” against Putin
During a meeting between Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Inspector General Eberhard Zorn this week on the use of the 100 billion euro special fund for the Bundeswehr, an “Iron Dome” was also a topic, the newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported. Specifically, it was about a possible acquisition of the Israeli “Arrow 3” system.
April 2022
Compulsory vaccination failed in the German Bundestag !!!
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock had been called back from the NATO ministerial meeting in Brussels especially for the vote. But the traffic light coalition did not bring the vaccination duty starting from 60 nevertheless by the parliament.
In Germany, the introduction of compulsory corona vaccination failed. In the Bundestag the bill for a vaccination obligation starting from 60 years did not receive the necessary majority on Thursday. The proposal for a duty initially from 60 years rejected 378 MPs, voted for 296 MPs and nine abstained. This meant that Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s traffic light coalition suffered its first important defeat in the vote.
Scholz had had Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock recalled from the NATO ministerial meeting in Brussels specifically for the vote. Before the vote, the governing parties had suspended factional discipline because of their massive internal differences on the issue. While the right-wing populist AfD and the left clearly opposed compulsory vaccination, the conservative CDU/CSU parties introduced their own proposal.
9.04.2022
Compulsory vaccination within Austria against Corona?
The state wants to force millions of people to be injected with a drug that can have severe side effects in individual cases and that is still in a medical study phase until 2023, 2024. There is no full knowledge of short- and medium-term side effects, and no knowledge of long-term side effects. Otherwise, the development of a safe vaccine will take more than 10 years.
With the MRNA vaccines, we even have a completely new mode of action. One thing is certain: Vaccination even causes deaths. The numbers are alarming: The Paul Ehrlich Institute recorded in its current safety report so far 2255 suspected cases of fatal outcome of the vaccination. Due to the large number of people affected, it is certain that there would be deaths among them simply because of government coercion. Legally to the point: With the enactment of this vaccination obligation, the state is intentionally killing people.
The fundamental question whether killings of innocent humans could be justified, in order to protect other legal interests the Federal Constitutional Court with view of the RIGHT to LIFE clearly negated:
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Such treatment disregards the persons concerned as subjects with dignity and inalienable rights.
They are — by the fact that their killing is used as a means to save others — CONDEMNED and at the same time deprived of their rights. By disposing of their lives unilaterally by the state. Nothing else is valid for a vaccination duty with threatening death consequences.
- The people concerned are treated as an object. In them only a danger for others is seen, which is to be eliminated or reduced. Compulsory vaccination with the currently approved COVID 19 vaccines is therefore incompatible with the right to life in conjunction with human dignity. The threat of death also leads to the European Convention on Human Rights.
In addition, there is a fundamental lack of proportionality in compulsory vaccination. Among others, the right to physical integrity, the freedom of occupation and the right to informational self-determination would therefore also be violated. COVID 19 is now more in the range of influenza in case mortality.
Vaccination does not confer herd immunity and reduces infectivity only marginally, if at all, so it does not provide legally relevant foreign protection.
It neither protects against infection nor reliably against severe courses. There was no systematic overloading of the health care system at any time during the “pandemic”. The past two years have been characterized by rock-bottom violations of our constitution.
Update 10 April 2022
Existential survival goes beyond chess composition
Peter Krug apparently lost all sources of income during the two years of Corona — lockdowns and refusal to vaccinate.
The everyday bills can not be paid. The health of Peter Krug has reached a low point.
Under such an existential situation, chess composition is no longer possible or affordable for Peter Krug.
The main problem in chess composition is, on the one hand, the high expenditure of time, on the other hand, the low recognition and also the fact that you can’t earn money.
Udpate April 2022
The state of health of Peter Krug is not pleasing. Over 39 degrees Celsius. Body weak. Face expressionless. Painful swellings on the body. Doctor is not affordable, especially in the Corona — madness — time.
Freezing on the body. He has only the need to lie down, nothing else. Headaches and severe cold sensations make restful sleep impossible.
Udate 25.05.22
Mask obligation in trade and in the public traffic (“Öffis”) in Austria falls starting from 1.June.
Vienna but goes stricter way
“The pandemic is not over. But it “gives us a breathing space,” Health Minister Johannes Rauch said at a press conference with Constitutional Minister Karoline Edstadler. For particularly vulnerable settings, i.e. in hospitals and nursing homes, the mask requirement continues to apply. It also remains in place in doctors’ offices.
Vienna, however, continues to adhere to the mask requirement in public transport, buses and trains. This was announced by Mayor Michael Ludwig at a press conference.
June 1, 2022
Mask torture is suspended for a few months.
It applies nationwide in Austria with immediate effect only in the health and care sector. This affects doctors’ offices, hospitals, retirement and nursing homes, health spas and mobile care services.
3-G proof: Almost forgotten, but the green passport is still checked — for visitors of patients in hospitals or visitors in retirement or nursing homes. Only those who have been vaccinated, recovered or tested are allowed in as guests.
Update 22.06.2022
Unemployed in Hallein — because Peter Krug did not get vaccinated and refused to be tested with the PCR test
Peter Krug is still fighting for his economic existence. His courses, which went on for many years, no longer take place because Peter Krug remains true to himself and does not allow himself to be bent. Now he has to start all over again with distributing flyers and hoping that he will be lucky in the future.
Update 23.06.2022
Mandatory vaccination against the coronavirus is abolished
The compulsory vaccination is now officially no more. It was never really effective anyway, now the government has decided to abolish it. A corresponding motion was introduced on Thursday in a special session of the National Council, it will be decided in July. There was no criticism of the abolition of the previously only suspended obligation.
The government argued that the move was due to a lack of acceptance on the one hand, and on the other to the fact that the general conditions had changed with the less lethal Omikron variant: “Compulsory vaccination does not make anyone vaccinate,” said Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens), who inherited the project from his predecessor and the provincial governors who had once pushed for it.
Compulsory vaccination was introduced under different conditions, Johannes Rauch said. At that time, he said, delta was the dominant variant, which had caused high hospitalization rates: “Intensive care units were at the limit of their capacity.” He himself also supported mandatory vaccination at the time, the minister stressed. “But Omikron changed the rules.”
With the new variant, he said, the vaccine’s effectiveness against infection has been reduced. Even people who are basically willing to be vaccinated are now more difficult to convince of the need for a booster, Rauch said. August Wöginger, head of the VP club, also referred to the milder course of the Omikron variant. In addition, one must look at the reaction of the people, he said: If you order something with duty from the state, the switch is flipped in some. “With compulsory vaccination, we have not brought additional people to vaccinate.”
The vaccination obligation came into force at the beginning of February, and the punishment was supposed to start in mid-March. However, this did not happen because an expert commission set up to evaluate the mandatory vaccination did not consider it to be proportionate.
Assuming that the currently circulating Omikron subvariants remain dominant and no “wild mutant” emerges, the pressure on intensive care units is not expected to increase significantly again, said clinical pharmacologist Markus Zeitlinger. “From this point of view, I understand that the not very popular vaccination requirement is now being abolished,” said the head of the University Department of Clinical Pharmacology at MedUni/AKH Vienna.
FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl spoke of an important and correct step. But now, he said, the Covid Measures Act must also be passed to prevent a comeback of the G-rules.
Udate 26 July 2022
Inflation in Austria
Almost every month the cost of renting the apartment increased.
Reminder letters and high operating costs on the one hand, and Peter’s unemployment on the other hand, make life financially very expensive. It is questionable whether Peter will be able to heat this winter.
Update July 28, 2022
According to a study, one in five Austrians profess to have lost friends because they have different opinions about Corona measures or vaccinations. 63 percent missed their friends very much. 37 percent even missed them so much that they disregarded applicable contact restrictions.
The study’s findings are based on a survey conducted by the market research institute Integral. 500 people between the ages of 16 and 75 were surveyed online in June.
3rd August 2022
One-sided reporting of victims in the Corona era
The tragic suicide of Dr. Lisa — Maria Kellermayr (1985–29th July 2022) from Seewalchen at lake Attersee
She became known to a broad public via the leading media for the fact that she was massively threatened by vaccination opponents and critics of the Corona — protection measures during the Corona — measure period 2020–2022. She then decided to quit her practice and committed suicide a month later.
This is a very sad climax of the agitation of radical and violent people. A funeral service was held in Vienna and other cities as a result, and the wave of outrage continues to generate more and more waves. The media are now reporting, as if on a conveyor belt, further cases of doctors and virologists (Virologist Dorothea van Laer) who have been attacked by critics of the measures.
At times, Van Laer went out on the street wearing only a wig because of the massive attacks. Most of the threats came via e-mails.
Calls for stricter sentencing and monitoring of critics of the measures against Corona are growing louder and louder.
- So far, according to Peter, there is nothing wrong, if also — and this is the terrible thing — the opposite side (the critics of measures) would have their say. In Germany, for example, Dr. Bodo Schiffmann received death threats for months and fled with his family to Arusha in Tanzania (Africa) out of fear for his family. — A German urologist named Dr. Jens Bengen chose suicide because he criticized the mask requirement and the Corona — vaccination coercion. Countless people lost jobs simply because they were unwilling to be vaccinated or tested. The list is endless. The critics of the measures were usually called corona-deniers, conspiracy theorists, swindlers, covidiots and right-wing radicals. Since the beginning of the Corona measures 2020, critics have been consistently excluded from public discussion.
Peter Krug is afraid that this one-sided reporting of victims of the Corona measures proponents and the simultaneous concealment of the victims of the measures critics will lead to a deeper division in society.
Update August 8, 2022
Blackout in Hallein
Late at night in the area of Oberhofgasse to Bayerhammerplatz (center Hallein) the electric power failed 4 times in a row. Whole blocks of houses were suddenly in darkness.
Report on side effects in Austria after COVID — vaccine
Seven people have received compensation
August 12, 2022
“Nearly 19 million doses of the Covid vaccine have been given in Austria so far. The majority of these have passed without complications. However, the different Covid vaccines can also cause vaccination reactions and side effects, just like any other drug.”
In Austria, these adverse reaction reports are collected by the Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG).
Around 1400 people have made such a request during the past two years, Ö1-Morgenjournal reported Friday. This corresponds to rounded 0.1 percent of the 19 million doses administered in Austria. Compensation has now been paid out for the first time in seven cases. According to information from the Health Ministry, five people received a one-time payment in an average amount of 1600 euros. Two affected persons were awarded a temporary monthly pension in the amount of about 900 euros.
A total of about 50,000 suspected vaccine reactions and adverse events were reported during the past two years. The majority were mild to moderate and had also disappeared after a few days. The most common reports include: Headache, fever, pain at the injection site, fatigue, joint pain, muscle pain, chills, nausea, dizziness, and pain in an extremity.
Specifically, the evidence showed that those affected suffered significant health problems following a Covid vaccination. This includes, for example, inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditis) or severe thromboses, as observed in rare cases after administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine. A causal relationship between vaccination and thrombosis is suspected in 15 cases.
With regard to myocarditis, 400 suspected cases have been reported, including five deaths.
Corona 2022
24.08.2022
Many have already suspected it, but now it is certain: The German government is starting to tighten the Corona measures again. Health Minister Lauterbach’s “winter tire” corona plan had previously been ridiculed — now it is being implemented.
The Corona roadmap of Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) is becoming reality. According to it, FFP2 masks are to be worn in all indoor spaces — i.e. public transport, workplaces and also schools — from October 1 until Easter in April 2023. For now, the federal cabinet announced it would reintroduce mandatory FFP2 masks on long-distance trains and airplanes — providing no evidence or justification. So, once again, nothing will come of the “old normal” before Corona in Germany.
Update 27.08.2022
Florian Thalhammer said: “All unvaccinated end up in intensive care”
More scaremongering and psychological blackmail (vaccination alone saves):
Peter Krug’s partner’s employer, said, “If you don’t get vaccinated, you will die.”
Reza Tavakoli, a former employer of Nadia Cipriani, said to Nadia Cipriani, who had not been vaccinated against corona: “I will visit you at the cemetery.”
Update 31. 08. 2022
Vaccination panel recommends 4th prick for Corona vaccination
In the colder months, when people are spending more time indoors, more Corona infections can be expected again. The National Immunization Panel (NIG) has now made a new recommendation: Everyone age 12 and older should also get a fourth sting no earlier than four to six months after their third dose.
under twelve years of age should be vaccinated three times by the time school starts
The NIG agrees and changed the vaccination recommendation a few days before school started. The fourth vaccination is now recommended for all persons over twelve years of age, with an appropriate interval from the last vaccination, depending on age, from four to six months after completion of basic immunization (third vaccination), explained vaccination expert Herwig Kollaritsch.
The time interval of up to six months between the third and fourth vaccination is advisable, he said, because it means a stronger immune response can be expected. “If they are too close together, it doesn’t do as much good,” Kollaritsch explained. He also clarified that it is “unreasonable to wait for variant vaccines.” The currently available vaccines would provide broad-spectrum vaccine protection even against the currently circulating variants.
Mandatory masks also likely to return
But other measures are likely to be introduced in the near future: “It is likely that in the fall, mandatory masks will again be useful and necessary in certain areas, such as public transport or supermarkets,” the health minister said.
Update September 11, 2022
The inflation and cost-of-living crisis in Austria continues to worsen, with many people no longer able to afford electricity, gas, fuel or even food.
Update September 21, 2022
Putin escalation: From now on “war with NATO and the West”.
Putin decrees partial mobilization: 300,000 soldiers were not enough, soon half a million Russians will be on combat duty on the Ukraine front.
Vladimir Putin actually wanted to make an appeal to the Russian people via TV on Tuesday evening. After the surprising cancellation, this turned into an announcement on Wednesday that hit like a bomb internationally: Putin called for the immediate partial mobilization of his armed forces, wants to call up 300,000 reservists and send them into the Ukraine war before winter.
Because of a threatening counteroffensive by the Ukrainian army, this “preventive step” was necessary, Putin said in his barely one-minute announcement. In his propaganda presentation, Russia itself is being attacked by Ukraine and the West and is only defending itself — albeit rather offensively…
“We will use all our resources to defend our people. If our territorial integrity comes under threat, we will use all the means at our disposal to defend Russia and its citizens. This is not a bluff.”
“Those who blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the wind can also turn in their direction,” the Russian president raged on camera of the very station that loves to spread nuclear strike fantasies against Western powers and backs them up with impressive graphics and visuals.
Finally, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu himself was allowed to deliver powerful verbal roundhouse blows on state TV “Rossiya 24”: “The time has come when we are at war with NATO and the collective West,” said the close Putin confidant, according to the Russian news portal “Mash”.
October second 2022
Chess composition is for Peter Krug no longer affordable!
Peter Krug has lost yoga classes since 2021 because of the Corona measures. A particularly painful loss was the courses at the Freilassing Sports Park in 2021. in Germany.
He refused to undergo regular PCR testing. Because of vaccination refusal, he also lost his remaining courses. In 2022 he then permanently had no more purchase. In addition, there were very high additional payments because of the rent. The price increases make it impossible for Peter to afford anything except eating and sleeping. Peter currently lives a life below the subsistence level. He no longer has the money for buses or trains. Chess composition is no longer affordable. Sometimes, however, Peter Krug publishes some lighter chess studies.
Period of rent increases and price increases in general
On 28 November 2023, i.e. directly following the Corona measures, Peter Krug received an amendment to the standing order for the residential rent.
These rent increases subsequently took place almost every other month. The rent costs have come to a level that has become inhumane for Peter Krug and his partner. Even groceries can no longer be bought without worry. Every loaf of bread, every drink has to be considered three times.
The cost of living is so high that a luxury activity such as chess composition is no longer possible or affordable. In addition, Peter Krug has lost all yoga enthusiasts because of the Corona measures and the protest against them. Incomes are so low and the cost of living so inhumanly high that no new clothes are affordable, no train or bus is affordable and no holiday is affordable.
November 29 2022
Zero Covid Protests in China:
Now Xi Jinping sends Tanks into the Streets Demonstrators in China are currently risking everything to regain their freedom. However, Xi Jinping’s response was not long in coming: the president is now sending tanks into the streets.
Massive police as well as military presence has prevented a possible resurgence of protests against the government’s harsh zero-covide policy in several Chinese cities. Increased security forces can be seen on the streets in the capital Beijing and in cities such as Shanghai, Guangzhou and Xuzhou. Videos on social media even show the deployment of several tanks in the process.
Cell phones are being monitored
Security services are also increasingly stopping passers-by. They have to show identification and their cell phones. The cell phones were checked for suspicious content or programs such as tunnel services (VPN) to circumvent Chinese censorship.
“Lift the lockdown”
Thousands of people had taken to the streets in several cities over the weekend in protest against the rigorous zero-covid measures such as curfews, forced quarantine, mass testing and constant control over Corona apps. In Beijing, they chanted “Lift the lockdown” and “We don’t want PCR testing, we want freedom.” These were the largest protests in China since the democracy movement, which the military bloodily put down in 1989.
27.12.2022
Christian Drosten. On the situation of the corona pandemic
“We are experiencing the first endemic wave with SARS-CoV-2 this winter, in my estimation this means the pandemic is over,” the head of virology at Berlin’s Charité University Hospital told the Tagesspiegel newspaper. The immunity in the population will be so broad and resilient after this winter that the virus can hardly get through in the summer.” Drosten cited another mutation jump as the only limitation. “But I don’t expect that anymore at the moment either.”
December 30, 2022
Compulsory wearing of masks in Bavaria’s local public transport (bus and trains) ended
More than two and a half years after its introduction, the obligation to wear a mask on local buses and trains in Bavaria has come to an end.
Year 2023 Financial losses and high housing rent
January 7, 2023
Chess composition and lack of freedom
Peter K. has currently only a few minutes a day to use the Internet. Moreover, he has hardly any time to make analyses with the computer. Chess composition is impossible under such conditions. Ideas in chess composition cannot be worked out. In addition, Peter Krug had been permanently frustrated by the fact that he received no recognition in Germany and especially in Austria for his achievements as a composer. After decades of hoping for recognition in the German-speaking world, the frustration was too much for him.
Since it is completely hopeless for Peter Krug to continue with study composition he has given up this time wasting activity as a whole.
January 15, 2023
Johannes Rauch wants to abolish all corona regulations
Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) announces to the “Kronen Zeitung” to abolish all Corona laws and regulations this year. Corona is thus no longer to be a notifiable disease. In the Ö1 “Mittagsjournal” Rauch assumed that the regulations will fall in the first half of the year.
An end is coming to symptomless free testing. From the middle of the year, only those who have symptoms will be tested for free, the minister explained: “Those who are sick will be tested.”
January 25, 2023 Germany supplies 14 Leopard tanks to Ukraine
“The decision follows our well-known line of supporting Ukraine to the best of our ability. We are acting in a closely coordinated and concerted manner internationally,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz is quoted as saying in the statement.
The decision had been made in the Chancellery on Tuesday evening, according to information from Reuters and “Spiegel”.
The decisive building block for this was that, according to insider information, it was said from Washington that the U.S. will also send 30 Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine.
Russia warned that the delivery of Western battle tanks would escalate the war. The supply of battle tanks by the United States would be “another blatant provocation,” Russia’s U.S. Ambassador Anatoly Antonov said Wednesday.
The beginning of 2023 marks drastic changes for Peter Krug
The abandonment of the chess composition is decided.
Professionally, Peter Krug has now lost several jobs as a yoga teacher because of his critical stance on the Corona measures. This has now also become a firm certainty.
This year is very challenging for Peter Krug because a reorientation will be necessary.
February 1, 2023
As of April 30, the wearing of an FFP2 mask in vulnerable areas is to be phased out, as is the risk group exemption. The reason given for phasing out these measures is the current situation.
“The high immunity in the population and the availability of COVID-19 drugs allow this step,” Health Minister Johannes Rauch stressed Wednesday. As of June 30, Austria should thus return to “normal operation.”
Already at the end of December last year, the 3G rule fell in hospitals, retirement homes, nursing homes and other healthcare facilities. Only Vienna always drove a stricter course in this respect. In any case, an FFP2 mask still had to be worn in these areas.
For Peter Krug, the 3 years of mandatory mask use were unbearable.
The mental damage and the resulting social division into “Corona believers” and “non-believers” will continue even after the end of the Corona measures. But now an end of the tunnel is in sight, about which all Austrians, whether measures — critics, or not can rejoice.
The task of Peter Krug in 2023 is the reorientation regarding the location and the people in his yoga practice. Various health problems arose precisely because of the Corona — measures. One of them is the “Corona — belly”, which arose due to the unaccustomed physical inactivity. Also, Peter Krug has become physically stiffer and his muscles have regressed during these three years. The excessive sitting during the lockdown period resulted in painful hemorrhoids.
Germany
Masks no longer compulsory in German public transport
After almost three years of Corona, masks are no longer compulsory on buses and trains throughout Germany.
“Overdue” called the health policy spokesman of the Union parliamentary group, Tino Sorge (CDU), the end of the mask obligation in buses and trains.
“The horror forecasts of Minister Karl Lauterbach have all proven to be wrong.”
Looking back at the 3 years of COVID measures
Peter Krug never fell ill with COVID during these three years, nor did his partner Lucia Nadia Cipriani. Peter Krug never saw any effects from the coronavirus. Instead, the effects of the measures against COVID were strongly felt.
He lost several jobs at once that were normally secure. The lockdown for the unvaccinated and the threat of months of mandatory vaccination felt like a dictatorship to Peter Krug. Criticism against the Corona measures was not allowed during these three years. Countless critical comments were deleted from the Internet. Youtube deleted millions of videos and destroyed countless channels. Many contemporary reports were thus lost forever.
Critics of the corona measures were etticized as “corona -harmonizers, as corona deniers, COVIDIOT, conspiracy theorists or Schwurbler. Experts, no matter what direction, whether medical or not, who expressed themselves critically risked their reputation and their work. Close friendships were destroyed by the Corona measures. Only because people had different opinions in the Corona — time. Some who were afraid of Corona, others who consider this fear unfounded. For a long time, the main topic in the media was the corona measures and the discourse about the infection figures. It was obeyed to experts who made an unfavorable prognosis regarding corona. The corona measures were absolutely crazy in 2020. Even the kindergartens were closed off. Children were not allowed in playgrounds. And the borders from Bavaria to Germany were closed and guarded. Even in the the area around the Barmstein, where only a few people stay, barriers were erected (2020) by the Bavarian police. It was even forbidden for some time to hike on the small Barmstein.
February 2, 2023
Vorarlberg’s Governor Markus Wallner (ÖVP) is in favor of an immediate end to the mask requirement. Wallner told ORF Radio Vorarlberg and Vorarlberger Nachrichten that this had also been reported back to Vienna in the statement on the ordinance — according to which the mask requirement generally ends as of April 30. It is not understandable why hospitals and nursing homes should insist on the mask obligation for another three months.
Wallner also justified his position with the encroachment on fundamental rights caused by the mask requirement. The state has to take back encroachments on fundamental rights if there is even the slightest chance of this happening, said the governor.
Compulsory wearing of masks in Vienna, March 2, 2023
After 1,051 days, the obligation to wear a mask on public transport has ended.
Since March 1, the mask obligation has also fallen here, as well as in pharmacies. Vienna’s mayor Michael Ludwig, who was part of Team Vorsicht from the beginning of the pandemic for the 2-million-metropolis Vienna long relied on tougher Corona measures — the so-called “Viennese way” — but continues to advise caution.
April 17, 2023
On 17 April 2023, Wladimir Kara-Mursa was sentenced to 25 years in a penal colony for his public criticism of the Ukraine war, the maximum possible sentence and despite his polyneuropathy condition. A court in Moscow, presided over by Judge Sergei Podoprigorov, ruled he was guilty of high treason as well as other offences such as spreading “false information about the army” and working for an “undesirable” organisation.
April 29, 2023
On April 30, the time has finally come! After three years, the last compulsory masking in Austria ends on Sunday.
On April 6, 2020, the mandatory wearing of masks in supermarkets started in Austria, and from May 1, 2020, it applied in all publicly accessible, enclosed spaces. Exactly three years later, the last remaining obligation to wear masks will end on Sunday, April 30. It most recently applied to hospitals, retirement and nursing homes, doctors’ offices and other places where health and care services are provided.
All other measures will also end at the end of June. “The high immunity of the population allows us to end the protective measures in an orderly manner,” emphasizes Health Minister Johannes Rauch.
July 2023
Once again, the residential rent has been raised. The cost of living is no longer affordable.
August 23, 2023
After a carefree summer, the new Corona variant “Eris” is also causing numbers to rise again in Austria.
“Eris” aka EG.5.1 is a so-called escape variant, which due to another mutation in the spike protein is better able to bypass immune protection — be it through vaccination or a passed infection with a previous variant. “Since EG.5.1, like the other Omikron variants, tends to affect the upper respiratory tract, the virus is more easily transmissible and thus again somewhat more contagious, but as a result also leads to less severe courses of disease,” explains virologist Norbert Nowotny.
For this reason, the virologist recommends vulnerable groups, as with all other respiratory infections, to get a Corona booster vaccination in the fall. For everyone else, he said, the immune system is basically in good shape. In addition, he said, the FFP2 mask remains a safe protection and is urged to vulnerable groups starting in the fall. “Not now, when it’s so hot. Now we are still enjoying the summer,” Nowotny said.
Update
1. September 2023
Peter Krug permanently lost all yoga practitioners as a result of the Corona measures, such as compulsory vaccination and compulsory testing (PCR test) in fitness centres (Sportpark Freilassing) and privately.
The financial loss is permanent and has a very negative effect on his health and creativity. Worried about further financial problems, Peter Krug became more obese for the first time. The landlord of the flat increases the rent at intervals of a few months. The reason is said to be the index adjustment. But Peter Krug has never before received such a rent increase in such a short period of time. Peter Krug is currently only rarely able to compose a good chess study. The financial worries simply seem too overwhelming. Out of desperation, Peter Krug took a job as a cleaner. He currently works privately for Siegried Maria Größing (author) and Stefan Größing (Professor and author). Siegried Maria Größing is a well-known writer. Peter Krug travels to this job as a “window cleaner” and other household chores by bicycle to Golling.
Unfortunately, this cleaning work is very poorly paid and Peter Krug is lucky if he can pay for the very basics in life.
- As of today, there is more talk about the corona virus. It is said:
Virologists and experts agree that the next wave will definitely come. The only question is when and with what intensity. The variants EG.5.1 (“Eris”) and BA.2.86 (“Pirola”), which are currently spreading worldwide, could have the potential for this. But before that happens, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has now given the green light for Biontech/Pfizer’s adapted Covid-19 vaccine Comirnaty.
The vaccination recommendations are the same again. People over 60 should get vaccinated again…;
Peter Krug fears that the Corona hysteria could flare up again….
5 December 2023
Heel spurs restrict Peter Krug’s movement to such an extent that he limps even when doing his daily shopping. Adventures in the mountains have become impossible for this reason.
The pain in his left foot now also occurs when he is not on foot.
19 December 2023
Due to the constant pain in his left foot, Peter Krug could hardly leave the house and when he did, it was only to go shopping for the bare essentials on his bike. The pain forces him to have a permanent physical restriction, which Peter Krug now tries to compensate for more than before with daily yoga exercises.
19.02.2024
For the most part, it is no longer possible for Peter Krug to compose chess studies with the intensity he used to. He lacks the appropriate space, the inspiring Harold van der Heijden database and, above all, a secure financial background. Since Corona 2020, the already weak financial foundations have collapsed. Constant everyday worries make it impossible to engage intensively in chess study composition. This is why Peter Krug has only been able to send in a few and only light chess studies in recent years. He has not sent anything to the FIDE album for many years.
16.03.2024
Intensive use of the internet to find relatives as an orphan
Peter Krug´s hope of finding his relatives or distant relatives (father, grandfather, grandmother and so on) through intensive use and publication on the Internet has unfortunately not yet been fulfilled.
21.03.2024
Rents continue to rise. There are only a few people in the building who have stayed. Most people have had to move out because the rent has become so high. Especially the electricity and heating costs.
The Wimmer property, located at Kranzlmarkt 4 in the centre of Salzburg, now writes almost every month demanding increases and additional payments. Tenants can no longer afford this. It is obvious that the landlords at Oberhofgasse 4 don’t care if the flats are mostly empty.
1.April 2024
Description of a typical chess composer by Peter Krug:
1. fixed on 64 squares in white and black
2. outside the board there are only people and things that are only relevant if they are used to win prizes, honourable mentions and FIDE album points
3. complete indifference to the lives of other chess composers
4. as a judge he is put in a position to categorise chess study compositions as valuable and less valuable objects
5. the longer someone works as a chess composer, the colder, more indifferent and more prejudiced he becomes
6. after more than 10 years of chess composition, the chess composer believes to be in complete possession of the truth and to be able to evaluate and judge everything that has to do with chess composition.
7. a chess composer is basically a lonely person who spends many hours and nights in front of the computer in order to succeed at least on the 64 squares, even though most chess composers have achieved little outside the chessboard and are usually also weak party chess players.
8. to become a chess composer in order to forget one’s own sufferings in life and the feeling of failure
9. a successful chess composer is someone who can adapt perfectly to the demands of the adjudicators and fulfil them. Chess composers are hardly successful if they do not respect the quality guidelines of the adjudicators and want to go their own way.
10. a typical chess composer leads a boring life with few changes and risks. This is perhaps one of the reasons why there is hardly anything interesting to report about the life of a chess composer.
Update 15.07 Peter Siegfried Krug learned 3 months later that his birth mother Herta Bertel died at the age of 80 on 12 April 2024.
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Written by Peter Siegfried Krug
Austrian FIDE Master (FM) & Chess Composer. My raw, autobiographical prose explores survival, poverty, and the power of the mind and the 64 squares in Salzburg.
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