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Xerxes17 posted:I think this is the first time I've seen Grouchio post something that isn't an essay question.
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SaltyJesus posted:I don't 100% get why the international community thinks it's totally kosher for Kosovo to unilaterally secede because they are an ethnically consistent area with the right to self-determination but the Krajina Serbs in Croatia weren't allowed to because we gotta respect the administrative borders of a sovereign state. Either one of those arguments could have been applied to either of the situations equally and it's just a touch inconsistent. I am not excusing the behavior of some of the Krajina Serbs but the KLA were hardly angels themselves. I'm not sure how much the international community actually got involved in Krajina. In the BBC documentary The Death of Yugoslavia, former Croatian president Franjo Tuđman recounts how 24 hours before the commencement of the operation in which the Croatian government reoccupied the area he received a diplomatic note from the State department telling him to call it off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLrIaZSGXyA&t=667s Not that the US tried very hard. I think rather than the difference in policy primarily reflects differences in the political pressure American politicians felt they were under to take action of some kind, with criticisms mounting at perceived inaction early in the 1990s and increasing by the time the Kosovo conflict really broke out. It's rather depressing it all ended in ethnic cleansing with anti-serb pograms in the early 2000s anyway.
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 01:31 |
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Squalid posted:I'm not sure how much the international community actually got involved in Krajina. In the BBC documentary The Death of Yugoslavia, former Croatian president Franjo Tuđman recounts how 24 hours before the commencement of the operation in which the Croatian government reoccupied the area he received a diplomatic note from the State department telling him to call it off.
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SaltyJesus posted:I agree, bring back the In Russia, it's not the guillotine, but the Nagant revolver to the back of the head (or sometimes the front). The gulag is only if you need them alive or you want them to suffer before they die.
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Squalid posted:I'm not sure how much the international community actually got involved in Krajina. In the BBC documentary The Death of Yugoslavia, former Croatian president Franjo Tuđman recounts how 24 hours before the commencement of the operation in which the Croatian government reoccupied the area he received a diplomatic note from the State department telling him to call it off. This was a token gesture. When Croatian army progressed into Bosnia and threatened to destroy Serbian forces in Banja Luka, then the US and other actors delivered a much stronger warning and Croatians stopped. Young Freud posted:In Russia, it's not the guillotine, but the Nagant revolver to the back of the head (or sometimes the front). The gulag is only if you need them alive or you want them to suffer before they die. A listener calls Radio Erevan. "Is it true that poet Majakovski shot himself?" "It is, in a way..." responds Radio Erevan, "the neighbors heard him shout 'DON'T SHOOT, COMRADES'"
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 18:09 |
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Doctor Malaver posted:A listener calls Radio Erevan. Heh, I live on the corner of a Majakovski st. and this is probably the first time I've seen his name not-IRL.
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Mayakovsky is great. Too bad he wasn't ready for socrealism and had to be shot https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/literature/mayakovsky/1929/conversation-comrade-lenin.htm
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Looks like this refugee resettlement thing isn't going well in Estonia, more than half of them have left for Germany. I think that if they are on file as having received asylum here then they will not be getting it anywhere else, but will be deported. There was also an article recently: http://www.time.com/4793913/finding-home-estonia-where-the-heart-is/
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jonnypeh posted:Looks like this refugee resettlement thing isn't going well in Estonia, more than half of them have left for Germany. I think that if they are on file as having received asylum here then they will not be getting it anywhere else, but will be deported.
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Speaking of refugees, the Czechs will no longer accept any under the quota system, which so far only placed 12 people out of 2600 planned by September: http://zpravy.idnes.cz/milan-chovanec-kvoty-uprchlici-ceska-republika-evropska-unie-pud-/domaci.aspx?c=A170605_165247_domaci_fer Google translate: https://translate.google.com/transl...t-text=&act=url
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# ? Jun 6, 2017 15:57 |
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CZE is also one of those countries from which even officially settled refugees have been migrating away because there is no follow up for these immigrants, they can only sit and wait at their designated places of residence with no way to interact with the society.
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# ? Jun 6, 2017 16:39 |
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Czechs have the whole "don't talk to or let immigrants interact with society in any way and hope they all just move back" experience with their vietnamese population.
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# ? Jun 6, 2017 19:40 |
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I think vietnamese population in CR is quite closed by itself (based on experiences of one czech researcher I met) and not just because there is a current xenophobic/islamophobic hysteria in CR.
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It's both, really. A lot of Czechs tolerate the Vietnamese because they keep to themselves, don't show up in the media (or try to enter the public life in any way) and generally keep a low profile. Guess they figured out that we're racist fucks before we did.
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Dwesa posted:I think vietnamese population in CR is quite closed by itself (based on experiences of one czech researcher I met) and not just because there is a current xenophobic/islamophobic hysteria in CR. E: Russian President Vladimir Putin is always at his best, he tells director Oliver Stone in a new documentary called "The Putin Interviews" that will air on Showtime June 12-15. The politician attributes his stamina and stability in part to the fact that he's a man. As Bloomberg reports, "'I am not a woman, so I don't have bad days,' he tells Stone while giving a tour of the Kremlin's gilded throne room. 'I am not trying to insult anyone. That's just the nature of things. There are certain natural cycles.'" Later in the interview for the documentary, which Bloomberg describes as friendly bordering on fawning, Putin reminds Stone that he is a "Judo master" in peak physical shape. cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 08:20 on Jun 7, 2017 |
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cinci zoo sniper posted:
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Later in the interview for the documentary, which Bloomberg describes as friendly bordering on fawning, Putin reminds Stone that he is a "Judo master" in peak physical shape. Best part - he said that when asked what he would do if he needed to share a shower with a gay man on a submarine.
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Ah, the manly man's man, with his botox brow and baby-like rosy silicone cheeks
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fatherboxx posted:Best part - he said that when asked what he would do if he needed to share a shower with a gay man on a submarine.
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# ? Jun 7, 2017 12:19 |
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Hard-hitting questions from Oliver Stone: Mr Putin, imagine you are flying with a parachute, to the left of you is a forest of dicks, to the right - a sea of poo poo, where would you land??
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fatherboxx posted:Hard-hitting questions from Oliver Stone: Mr Putin, imagine you are flying with a parachute, to the left of you is a forest of dicks, to the right - a sea of poo poo, where would you land??
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Is this the chair "riddle" translation? It is one of the many!
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cinci zoo sniper posted:In case someone else gets confused like me, CR here stands for Czech Republic, not Croatia. Vladimir Putin is the perfect man, he still has the testosterone levels of a teenager.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Later in the interview for the documentary, which Bloomberg describes as friendly bordering on fawning, Putin reminds Stone that he is a "Judo master" in peak physical shape. I think there was a video where some trainer commented on a video of Putin and Medvedev working out. It turned out that they did almost everything incorrectly.
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Dwesa posted:He is also an excellent ice hockey player https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/hockey/2017/05/10/vladimir-putin-keeps-scoring-goals-nhl/101518442/
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# ? Jun 7, 2017 14:20 |
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Why do conspiracy theorists and washed up celebrities all end up love with and fawning over Putin?
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Baronjutter posted:Why do conspiracy theorists and washed up celebrities all end up love with and fawning over Putin? He's a conservative strongman with a pretty significant and long running international propaganda campaign.
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Warbadger posted:He's a conservative strongman with a pretty significant and long running international propaganda campaign. so you're saying that they're falling in love with him...as a result of an international conspiracy?
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Kurtofan posted:so you're saying that they're falling in love with him...as a result of an international conspiracy? Tankies don't need an international conspiracy to make them love dictators.
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# ? Jun 7, 2017 21:17 |
Interesting article about Poland https://euobserver.com/lgbti/138115 Cool that cabarets are coming back.
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Dwesa posted:He is also an excellent ice hockey player https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/hockey/2017/05/10/vladimir-putin-keeps-scoring-goals-nhl/101518442/
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Trump's coming to Poland.
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# ? Jun 10, 2017 02:01 |
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He also committed to article 5 today. Shook Trump?
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Rinkles posted:Trump's coming to Poland. Just read that this morning. July 6. Hope you don't get too offended by a doddering, fat, orange smoothbrain who can't remember what he said five minutes ago.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Just read that this morning. July 6. Hope you don't get too offended by a doddering, fat, orange smoothbrain who can't remember what he said five minutes ago. Have you seen Polish politicians my dude? Requesting a resident Pole to do a summary of the crazier ones for our friend here. e: start with Janusz Korwin-Mikke http://m.huffpost.com/ca/entry/15356886 SaltyJesus fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Jun 10, 2017 |
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Just at the entire controversies section of the dude's wiki page.quote:Korwin-Mikke is a popular public figure in mass media and in the Internet, mainly due to his unusual or eccentric ways of demonstrating his political stances. For instance, together with the Polish musician Krzysztof Skiba, he protested against the high taxes in Poland by eating his tax return in front of the Polish revenue service office.[17] He is also, iirc, a royalist. forever SaltyJesus fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Jun 10, 2017 |
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The question is whether he's a professional idiot or a talented amateur. Does him blabbing these things coincide with events his party would like to draw attention from?
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# ? Jun 11, 2017 00:24 |
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I'm unreasonably angry at Martin Sonneborn for not telling the guy to say "Fahrschein" instead of "Ticket". It would have harmonized much better with the original slogan!
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anilEhilated posted:The question is whether he's a professional idiot or a talented amateur. Does him blabbing these things coincide with events his party would like to draw attention from? His party would have to ever make a headline for that. Seriously, I try to keep up with domestic politics and I can't even tell what they're called at the moment (they change names on what seems to be quarterly basis). A popular joke is that he lets his mouth run every time his ratings get near 5% - the ratings go down, he doesn't get into Sejm, he gets to be the victim of the socialist system and doesn't have to deliver on any of his promises, and gets to bang his 20 y.o. fans.. Yes, he has a mindblowing number of fans, mostly in the under-20, male demographic, but also actual women.
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