a primate posted:

looking forward to Ukrainian militias flying a plane into the Sears tower in a few decades

SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:

It pisses me off living in Northern Alabama because everything is XXX VON BRAUN or XXX WERNER VON BRAUN CENTER

frajaq posted:

did Azov even do anything this war?

brugroffil posted:

I know Cyrano has some... questionable past posts but he did his PhD (?) on post war denazification I think and has written up a bunch on it in various threads over the years. The milhist one in a/t has a bunch

quote:

By the time the western Allies abandoned their denazification efforts with the coming of the Cold War, it was clear that these had had a decidedly limited impact. In Bavaria about half the secondary schoolteachers had been fired by 1946, only to be back in their jobs two years later. In 1949 the newly-established Federal Republic ended all investigations of the past behaviour of civil servants and army officers.

In Bavaria in 1951, 94 percent of judges and prosecutors, 77 percent of finance ministry employees and 60 percent of civil servants in the regional Agriculture Ministry were ex-Nazis. By 1952 one in three of Foreign Ministry officials in Bonn was a former member of the Nazi Party. Of the newly-constituted West German Diplomatic Corps, 43 percent were former SS men and another 17 percent had served in the SD or Gestapo. Hans Globke, Chancellor Adenauer’s chief aide throughout the 1950s, was the man who had been responsible for the official commentary on Hitler’s 1935 Nuremberg Laws. The chief of police in the Rhineland-Palatinate, Wilhelm Hauser, was the Obersturmführer responsible for wartime massacres in Byelorussia.

The same pattern held true outside the civil service. Universities and the legal profession were the least affected by denazification, despite their notorious sympathy for Hitler’s regime. Businessmen also got off lightly. Friedrich Flick, convicted as a war criminal in 1947, was released three years later by the Bonn authorities and restored to his former eminence as the leading shareholder in Daimler-Benz. Senior figures in the incriminated industrial combines of I.G. Farben and Krupp were all released early and re-entered public life little the worse for wear. By 1952 Fordwerke, the German branch of Ford Motor Company, had reassembled all its senior management from the Nazi years. Even the Nazi judges and concentration camp doctors convicted under American jurisdiction saw their sentences reduced or commuted (by the American administrator, John J McCloy).

Real Mean Queen posted:

lol for real? Like I’m one south of a whole state called named after a guy with slave teeth for dentures and every other street is named after either a tree or a historical monster, but having places named after paperclip dudes is just alarming.

etalian posted:

It also must be a big relief for Putin and Russian's military knowing exactly how the other sides would react.

Stop a invasion using sanctions and also some angry Ex vibe PR speeches about how upset the world got.

If anything the US already pioneered this type of unilateral interventions back in the 2000s.

etalian posted:

It also must be a big relief for Putin and Russian's military knowing exactly how the other sides would react.

Stop a invasion using sanctions and also some angry Ex vibe PR speeches about how upset the world got.

If anything the US already pioneered this type of unilateral interventions back in the 2000s.

Azathoth posted:

i dunno if it's an official thing but the way that media has taken to reporting on casualties is that they only report what has been "confirmed" for whatever level of confirmation seems appropriate. it is supposed to deal with the problem where media would report "as many as X killed" based on guesses, estimates, missing people, etc. that would then have to be walked back when specific numbers were known. there was a lot of talk about it a while back because a number of conspiracy theories used those initial reports and the subsequent lower numbers to vaguely gesture at something sinister happening. so now we get implausibly low numbers being reported instead and we're supposed to read between the lines that the actual death tolls are going to be much, much worse.

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#Nowar
Resolution
of the roundtable of left forces
Moscow, 24 Feb 2022

We, members of the KPRF [Communist Party of the Russian Federation], Left Front, Revolutionary Workers' Party, Russian Socialist Movement, Left Socialist Action, citizens of Russia holding leftist and democratic views, in response to the initiation of military operations on the territory of Ukraine, declare the following:

- we condemn Russian President V. V. Putin's decision on the invasion of Ukraine, insofar as it will lead to the deaths of thousands of people from both sides. The economic condition of the workers of both sides will worsen. The present invasion is solely the gratification of unhealthy foreign policy ambitions of a tight circle of figures at the head of the country, and also a means of distracting attention from the failure of the Russian government's domestic policy;

- we demand that the Russian leadership immediately cease aggression against our brother Ukrainian people;

- we call for all Russian citizens adhering to leftist and democratic views to publish on their pages and social sites the demand for the Russian leadership to cease all military aggression against our brother Ukrainian people, to conduct antiwar agitation among our neighbours, our relatives, our colleagues, and other Russian citizens!

If the current regime is not able to achieve peace, then the path to peace lies in radical change of that regime and of the whole social-political system.

Signatures

PawParole posted:

https://twitter.com/ASBMilitary/status/1497213415022071808

handing weapons to civilians is a stupid idea. it was dumb when Abiy did it and it is dumb now

Sherbert Hoover posted:

Hearing reports that the Russians reached Kiev and found it completely empty except for Zelensky playing a zither on top of the city gates.

Al-Saqr posted:

three thoughts are coming across my mind:-

1) the liberals are never going to shut the gently caress up about lionizing the ukranians despite the fact that the ukranians were invaded and defeated in the span of less than three days, faster than the ANA fell apart.

2) every socialist who fell in line for this are gonna have putin screamed at their faces whenever they ask for free healthcare for the rest of their lives.

3) putin read the room and his gut instincts were correct that the west would hang zelensky out to dry and he can invade and take urkraine with little real cost. the Europeans are buying even more gas and the Russian stock market rebounded.

just an insane past couple days.

Gresh posted:

i hope the Chechens eat those Nazi fuckers for lunch.

DiscountDildos posted:

Lmao

https://twitter.com/alex_bezak/status/1497075545653268489?s=20&t=vKwcw-iXIvvp0nI6Xf-hGg

genericnick posted:

Was it a gut feeling or did we literally tell him that we wouldn't do poo poo.

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

northern kiev apparently. WARNING: a guy gets shot to death in this video

https://files.catbox.moe/nc4qdt.mp4

Azathoth posted:

i dunno if it's an official thing but the way that media has taken to reporting on casualties is that they only report what has been "confirmed" for whatever level of confirmation seems appropriate. it is supposed to deal with the problem where media would report "as many as X killed" based on guesses, estimates, missing people, etc. that would then have to be walked back when specific numbers were known. there was a lot of talk about it a while back because a number of conspiracy theories used those initial reports and the subsequent lower numbers to vaguely gesture at something sinister happening. so now we get implausibly low numbers being reported instead and we're supposed to read between the lines that the actual death tolls are going to be much, much worse.

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

northern kiev apparently. WARNING: a guy gets shot to death in this video

https://files.catbox.moe/nc4qdt.mp4

OhFunny posted:

President XI has done it!

Al-Saqr posted:

you’re wrong

it’s called the Willis Tower now.

Xeom posted:

I hate this stupid gay loving world. Americans and liberals the dumbest and most servile group of people. Please just launch the loving nukes already.

Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:

is the goon whose parents own it still around

vyelkin posted:

this isn't going to mean anything except maybe some arrests, but it's noteworthy that the actual Russian left is pretty unanimous in opposing the invasion

30.5 Days posted:

I am making an official cspam prediction Russia will not invade Israel. God willing it will work out like the last one did.

Crowsbeak posted:

How is it the actual left?

i say swears online posted:

yooo the pole dancer from ukraine i follow is live, she's in kiev

https://twitch.tv/olesyabulletka

give her those amazon prime subs lmao

Crowsbeak posted:

How is it the actual left?

vyelkin posted:

this isn't going to mean anything except maybe some arrests, but it's noteworthy that the actual Russian left is pretty unanimous in opposing the invasion

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Just watch porn man.

Chad Sexington posted:

That's pretty hosed.

WrasslorMonkey posted: