Gantolandon posted:

Now we have three anarchists in Warsaw trying to blow up some unoccupied police cars...

slavatuvs posted:

slavatuvs posted:

pigdog posted:

By the way, those are actually Estonian troops from 20th Waffen-SS division, which eventually included all Estonians fighting the Soviets. Not just SS volunteers, but also conscripts, and even volunteers who had earlier joined the Finnish army to fight the Soviets explicitly not under German command. (They were later sent back as a term of the Finnish peace treaty). The backmost two men don't have SS insignias, and are probably conscripts.

slavatuvs posted:

Is your point that balts were collaborators or that the Wehrmacht did nothing wrong?

Flavahbeast posted:

I'm withholding judgment until someone produces the kitten alive and unarmed

steinrokkan posted:

That kitten was Hitler's familiar, and his soul jumped into it when he committed suicide. Currently it's wondering the earth, like Cain, sentenced to experience the infinity of human folly.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday warned Romania and Poland they could find themselves in the sights of Russian rockets because they are hosting elements of a U.S. missile shield that Moscow considers a threat to its security.

Putin issued his starkest warning yet over the missile shield, saying that Moscow had stated repeatedly that it would have to take retaliatory steps but that Washington and its allies had ignored the warnings.

Earlier this month the U.S. military -- which says the shield is needed to protect from Iran, not threaten Russia -- switched on the Romanian part of the shield. Work is going ahead on another part of the shield, in Poland.

"If yesterday in those areas of Romania people simply did not know what it means to be in the cross-hairs, then today we will be forced to carry out certain measures to ensure our security," Putin told a joint news conference in Athens with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

"It will be the same case with Poland,"he said.

Putin did not specify what actions Russia would take, but he insisted that it was not making the first step, only responding to moves by Washington. "We won't take any action until we see rockets in areas that neighbor us."

He said the argument that the project was needed to defend against Iran made no sense because an international deal had been reached to curb Tehran's nuclear program. The missiles that will form the shield can easily reach Russian cities, he said.

CRIMEA ISSUE CLOSED

Putin sounded a defiant note over Crimea, the Ukrainian region which Russia annexed in 2014. Moscow said it was acting on the will of the Crimean people, who voted to join Russia, but Western governments say it was an illegal land grab.

"As far as Crimea is concerned, we consider this question is closed forever," Putin said. "Russia will not conduct any discussions with anyone on this subject."

The Russian leader also touched on relations with Turkey, which have been toxic since the Turkish military shot down a Russian fighter jet near the Syrian-Turkish border last November. Ankara said the plane strayed into Turkish airspace, an allegation Moscow denies.

Putin said he was ready to consider restoring relations with Ankara, but that would require a first step from Turkey, and so far there was no sign of that.

Putin was asked about the South Stream project, a planned gas pipeline from Russia that would have gone under the Black Sea to Bulgaria and onwards to southern Europe. Russia shelved the project after Bulgaria backed out.

He blamed the U.S. government and the European Commission, saying they had pressured Sofia to withdraw. But he said Russia was going ahead with an extension of its Nordstream pipeline in the Baltic, and he hoped no one would try to hinder that project.

Flavahbeast posted:

I'm withholding judgment until someone produces the kitten alive and unarmed

HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

Kittens are cute, but Putin wants to remind everyone he doesn't want American missiles in Romania or Poland, and he may just have to do something about it.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-europe-shield-idUSKCN0YI2ER


Everything is the western homonazis fault. Why do you make me hurt you?

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New call in Poland to extradite Roman Polanski to US

Poland's justice minister says he will appeal against a decision not to extradite film director Roman Polanski to the US for statutory rape.

Zbigniew Ziobro, who is also Poland's prosecutor general, said he would make the appeal in the Supreme Court.

A judge rejected Polanski's extradition in October as "inadmissible".

The director, who lives in France, fled the US ahead of sentencing in 1978 after admitting having sex with a girl aged 13.

Polanski's victim, Samantha Geimer, described the ordeal of giving testimony against Polanski in an interview for the BBC's HARDTalk programme in 2013.

Polanski has French and Polish citizenship. France does not extradite its own citizens but the director occasionally visits Poland, attending a press event in Katowice just last week.

Swiss authorities turned down a US extradition warrant in 2010, after placing Polanski under house arrest for nine months.

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

Something something stopped clock.

Young Freud posted:

If they were serious, they would have waited until Polanski was in Poland for a visit and do a surprise round-up. All you're doing is just keeping him in France.

Gantolandon posted:

They can't just round him up, the court decided not to extradite him and they have to appeal the case if they want to try again. Given the speed of Polish courts, waiting for Polanski to appear in Poland would be counterproductive.

They very much want to gently caress him over - he''s the darling of the liberal media and therefore one of Kaczyński's mortal enemies.

Young Freud posted:

If they were serious, they would have waited until Polanski was in Poland for a visit and do a surprise round-up. All you're doing is just keeping him in France.

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A vegan cafe in Tbilisi has appealed for public solidarity after being invaded by alleged ultra-nationalists wielding grilled meat and sausages.

More than a dozen men stormed into the Kiwi cafe in the Georgian capital on Sunday evening, the cafe said, shouting and throwing meat at patrons.

A brawl erupted but the attackers fled before police arrived.

The cafe has appealed for public support, saying it was no prank but a case of intimidation by neo-Nazis.

It said it was already the target of some local hostility due to its patrons' alternative lifestyles - "the way we look, music that we listen to, ideas we support, and the fact that we don't eat meat" and backing of causes such as rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.

AceRimmer posted:

Grant Morrison's newest comic sounds amazing.

Nenonen posted:

Stay strange, Eastern Europe


I wish we had vegan gangs attacking normal bars with delicious grilled vegetables.

A Pale Horse posted:

Its all part of the homofascist agenda. They get you used to eating gourd vegetables like cucumbers and eggplants instead of bloody red meat and BAM before you know it, you're bicycling down to the gay club to man your shift at the glory hole.

Nenonen posted:

Stay strange, Eastern Europe


I wish we had vegan gangs attacking normal bars with delicious grilled vegetables.

A Pale Horse posted:

Its all part of the homofascist agenda. They get you used to eating gourd vegetables like cucumbers and eggplants instead of bloody red meat and BAM before you know it, you're bicycling down to the gay club to man your shift at the glory hole.

Nenonen posted:

Stay strange, Eastern Europe


I wish we had vegan gangs attacking normal bars with delicious grilled vegetables.

woodenchicken posted:

Well, there was this
http://englishrussia.com/2007/05/08/once-in-mcdonalds-2/


Although that was more in protest against capitalism than meat, but whatever. A bunch of them were probably vegan.

woodenchicken posted:

A bunch of them were probably vegan.

mobby_6kl posted:

"They are artists from an underground movement and have done it as the pure act of art."

steinrokkan posted:

Somebody should go America all over their rear end!

A Pale Horse posted:

Hey now, I'm not fan of modern or performance art either but shooting them to death with weapons clearly designed for military use seems a bit harsh, even for cat throwers.

Crowsbeak posted:

On one hand I really think that is rude and lovely. On the other hand, this happens in America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKGG-B-M1bY

A Pale Horse posted:

Hey now, I'm not fan of modern or performance art either but shooting them to death with weapons clearly designed for military use seems a bit harsh, even for cat throwers.

woodenchicken posted:

Well, there was this
http://englishrussia.com/2007/05/08/once-in-mcdonalds-2/


Although that was more in protest against capitalism than meat, but whatever. A bunch of them were probably vegan.

ringu0 posted:

A dangerous escalation on the Ukraine-Belarus border. Belarusian militia intervenes at about 1:10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q_eOvScy_k

ringu0 posted:

A dangerous escalation on the Ukraine-Belarus border. Belarusian militia intervenes at about 1:10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q_eOvScy_k