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Horns of Hattin
Dec 21, 2011


Caesar Augustus Crimaecus Maximus

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Kavak
Aug 23, 2009


eigenstate posted:



Caesar Augustus CrimaecusTauricus Maximus

:goonsay:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Crimea#Antiquity. It'll be Sarmaticus Maximus soon enough, anyway.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
All you guys should read The Dead Hand by David E. Hoffman. Illicit anthrax weapons factories? Incompetent bureaucrats? Cover ups galore? It's some prime Russia.txt.

Wall Balls
Jun 3, 2007

Spanish Castle Magic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jFnkwecl0I

A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012


Potato Man sings national anthem at Red Square Crimea celebration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw2voJ-m2PU

:ussr::ussr::ussr:

Puukko naamassa
Mar 25, 2010

Oh No! Bruno!
Lipstick Apathy

spud posted:

Not in Dzerzhinsk!

quote:

First mentioned in 1606 as Rastyapino (Растя́пино), it is named after Felix Dzerzhinsky, a Bolshevik leader who was the first head of the Soviet Cheka (secret police), since 1929

"He was Polish but otherwise good guy, I see no reason to rename the city"

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

really should be orthanc :spergin:

sat on my keys!
Oct 2, 2014

syscall girl posted:

really should be orthanc :spergin:

Considering how far north it is it should really be Angmar but that wasn't in the movie :spergin:

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009



Jose posted:

The russians are onto something here I'd watch this



pages and pages ago but can you imagine how much animaly cruelty it took to make this happen?

Accretionist
Nov 7, 2012
I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES


























Space Robot
Sep 3, 2011

There are children living in that hell hole? :gonk:

Nebelwerfer
Jul 25, 2008

He carried our avenging steel over the Rhine,
He drank the emperor's toast from the Danube.
extra chemical make babby stronk as oxen

Jack2142
Jul 17, 2014

Shitposting in Seattle

Wiki posted:

Norilsk was closed in November 2001 to all non-Russians, except for Belarusians

most redundant restriction ever.

Triple A
Jul 14, 2010

Your sword, sahib.

shadowvine118 posted:

There are children living in that hell hole? :gonk:

IF YOU CAN'T TOLERATE GLORIOUS RUSSIAN CHEMICAL WORKS YOU ARE WEAK WORKER OF THE FUTURE

Lil Bit O Vitriol
Jan 10, 2010
gently caress me, no wonder the suicide rate is so high. I'd throw myself off a roof too if I was born in a shithole like that.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

katlington posted:

pages and pages ago but can you imagine how much animaly cruelty it took to make this happen?

Less than the average russian citizen experiences doing their military service.

alex314
Nov 22, 2007


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu0rUpEX7k4 Duchovny got corrupted by western squatless decadence, but at least he knows what could have been...


Puukko naamassa posted:

"He was Polish but otherwise good guy, I see no reason to rename the city"

I don't think there ever was another Pole responsible for so many dead Russians, and who laid foundation for crippling Red Army, he has a couple of monuments in Russia and Belarus, even the street that Polish Embassy in Belarus is on is named for him. Poor Batka thinks he trolled Poles but it's the other way around

alex314 fucked around with this message at 09:20 on Mar 19, 2015

fuck off Batman
Oct 14, 2013

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah!



townse.cx

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Can't remember if this was linked in this thread or I saw it somewhere else but its worth a watch for anyone whos not seen it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwCyM84HCcA

Prokhor Zakharov
Dec 31, 2008


This is me as I make another great post


Good luck with your depression!

ah yiss

The Time Dissolver
Nov 7, 2012

Are you a good person?
Those colorful buildings in the Arctic towns are :3:

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

wanna pancake?



:negative:

Carbon dioxide
Oct 9, 2012

The Time Dissolver posted:

Those colorful buildings in the Arctic towns are :3:

I know, right?

If I hadn't known these pictures are of a crapheap town with the worst pollution ever, I'd think it's generally quite pretty (there's some dilapidated buildings but you can find those in any town), and I'd say it's an interesting place to visit.

Knowing the truth, I think I'll find somewhere else to go.

Computer viking
May 30, 2011
Now with less breakage.

One thing you only rarely see traces of -the USSR did try to make things tolerable for the workers in places like that. All the buildings are painted to try and make it less dreary, IIRC workers in the far north got extra long, free, vacations in warmer places (like, uhm, Crimea), and there was probably an attempt at culture and entertainment.

Of course, that doesn't really help when it's so polluted you could probably make money extracting minerals from dead workers.

e: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_North

Computer viking fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Mar 19, 2015

Rough Lobster
May 27, 2009

Don't be such a squid, bro

Lil Bit O Vitriol posted:

gently caress me, no wonder the suicide rate is so high. I'd throw myself off a roof too if I was born in a shithole like that.

This place seriously looks like a bunch of scatter shipping containers.

Smiling Mandrill
Jan 19, 2015

The Time Dissolver posted:

Those colorful buildings in the Arctic towns are :3:

Its the Brazil effect. Lets make our slums look like a rainbow. Now no body will notice the roving gangs of feral children, and crushing hopelessness.

Fushigi Yuugi fansub
Jan 20, 2007

BUTT STUFF

JaucheCharly posted:

Less than the average russian citizen experiences doing their military service.

speaking of that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYfreaxSDZw

Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001


i'd see a wes anderson movie set here

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Exactly what I meant. You see, at least the bears get to ride horses in the end. All the recruits get is tuberculosis.

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)

EmperorFritoBandito
Aug 7, 2010

by exmarx

beato
Nov 26, 2004

CHILLL OUT, DICK WAD.

2/10. No wedding store.

fuck off Batman
Oct 14, 2013

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah!


beato posted:

2/10. No wedding store.

But there's a lot of drilling.

Son of Rodney
Feb 22, 2006

ohmygodohmygodohmygod



Yo thanks! I found that video everyday Im drinking from them and it reminded me of the gif but I didnt think to check the other videos.

Skellybones
May 31, 2011




Fun Shoe

STALKER is real life. Russian man sneak across the border to Ukraine, fight Ukrainian soldier, loot old Soviet relic, squat around campfire while wolf howl. Blyat Exclusion Zone.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Shadeoses posted:

STALKER is real life. Russian man sneak across the border to Ukraine, fight Ukrainian soldier, loot old Soviet relic, squat around campfire while wolf howl. Blyat Exclusion Zone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBhh23-paLU

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




How many is take to skrew in lightbulb? You shut your mouth! Is no talk of lightbulb! You want politburo to know you are having lightbulb? They will take all to gulag for wastings of electricity! What you need lightbulb for anyway? I do not need lightbulb to see is no potato!

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



Puukko naamassa posted:

"He was Polish but otherwise good guy, I see no reason to rename the city"

this is the most dystopian city in existence

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



whenever you're feeling down, consider that at least you're not in dzerzhinsk

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A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012


Notable people

Irina Voronina, Playboy playmate


Dzerzhinsk isn't all bad.

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