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To lighten the mood, here's a bizarre response to the EU moving to sanction Poland that doesn't come from wacky Polish Nationalists:quote:Their democratically elected parliament was altering the system they use to interpret their laws. By definition not only is that sovereignty at a base level but also by definition that's the rule of law itself. I'm not sure how it's possible to be this blind. Mind you, the person that said this also said that the only reason the EU was breaking off negotiations with Turkey was because of Islamophobia. And the proof of this was that many EU member states didn't meet their own definition of "democratic nations" that they were trying to hold Turkey to.
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Does Russian military procurement differ significantly from how the Soviets did things, or are they still coasting along on old ideas? I've spent so much time researching Cold War era stuff I've never really considered how things changed after 1991.
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alex314 posted:I guess it's a result of rapid growth of their intel forces coupled with old guard moving to organized crime, private sector or retirement. Or the Petersburg mafia gets the pick of best dudes finishing academy. Their boss is the president, after all.. Could also be arrogance based on a propaganda -tinged view of past "successes."
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Watching Have I Got News For You and hearing about Brown Moses and Bellingcat is the weirdest thing.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Freelance blogger for Russia Today, one of the two main Russian propaganda mouthpieces aboard. Has boner for war crimes, the state of Russia, Brown Moses and his mother, and underage mail brides. Was this the guy who forced his Russian "girlfriend" to get an abortion or am I thinking of another Kremlin shill.
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They thought they needed special forces for this?
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Nov 26, 2018 15:55
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Karmalis posted:One of the main things in Russian regional provinces is the mindset of the people that the local government is terrible and can only be solved by an "authority" which in turn is usually simply "Putin" or the central Moscow government. So everyone hates the government but q lot of people love Putin. "The Czar wants justice but the boyars resist."
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Mar 6, 2019 16:54
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So here's an interesting problem:Scramble posted:An-124s 'arrested'! I wonder if this could actually be enforced. If anyone actually tried to there could be some impact, as Volga-Dnepr's An-124s regularly transport engines for Boeing, and have been contracted by the US military for heavylift on occasion.
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Telsa Cola posted:The US during the cold war though our model had widespread nuclear fallout from the exhaust as a feature not a bug. The fact that it was shelved by the US at the height of the cold war, ye time of the AIR-2 Genie and the Davy Crockett, would suggest the US even then realized that it was a bugfuck insane idea. Which makes you wonder what primo poo poo the Russians have been smoking.
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Budzilla posted:This is very pathetic. Pretty funny when a foreigner comes in to Russia to rule them with an iron fist they can't stop themselves from worshiping them. Except for the part where Stalin embraced Great Russian chauvinism in a way that few actual Russians managed to do, sure.
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May 20, 2021 19:35
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cinci zoo sniper posted:https://lenta.ru/news/2021/06/17/nespasateli/ Surely they don't expect anyone to actually believe that, right?
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steinrokkan posted:It's a morally failed state. Dude, this is a thread about Eastern Europe. I don't think Belgium can compete.
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Jul 16, 2021 23:12
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Mokotow posted:Went to the beach today in Gdansk as part of my company Friday outings. Our foreign looking friends got shouted on for not speaking the proper language, and I got punched in the head by a drunk lady. The quintessential Polish summer expedience. What is "foreign looking" in this context? I'm really curious.
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Cugel the Clever posted:What the gently caress is it with dictators and ludicrously long, rambling press conferences? Have any leaders from liberal democracies been known to do such a thing? No one's going to tell them they look like a crazy person.
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Antigravitas posted:By the way, Poland is gearing up to make LGBT illegal. Like, all of it. How would they go about doing this?
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For a brief moment I once had the thought "why did more than one collective farm leader become a post Soviet petty tyrant" until the obvious part hit me.
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Nov 23, 2021 17:22
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VitalSigns posted:I don't think the Jack Ryan fantasies that chickenhawk nerds are posting about poisoning Putin have much to do with NATO's reasoning. "The evil imperialists bloated militaries are incapable of fighting a war against another military" is.... certainly a take. Right up there in the rafters with "the perfidious CIA is everywhere...and also incompetent"
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:China's Xi reportedly backs Putin in Russia's bid for security guarantees from the West Is there a reason you aren't using the quite function for this, because it makes it seem like word salad this way.
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Dec 15, 2021 20:11
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Al-Saqr posted:It still makes me laugh how the Russians went to war with the ottomans in the Crimean war by saying “your Christian citizens are under our protection now, we represent them, they’re ours now” How is that surprising? Defending the orthodox faith was a big thing for Imperial Russia.
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Dec 21, 2021 00:16
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FishBulbia posted:Both Ukraine and Russia in their current shapes were products of Soviet nationalities policies and became national identities via korenizatsiya Ukrainian national identity predates the Soviet union by several decades.
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Dec 23, 2021 20:55
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FishBulbia posted:Smith is just an attempt to rehabilitate debunked primordialism by adding an extra step. "Nations haven't existed forever, by ethnie has!" Do you have anything from anyone with a background in history for this, or is it just tedious sociologists? Because I'd suggest Serhii Plokhyy's works.
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Dec 23, 2021 23:31
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Red and Black posted:There are a ton of reasons to disregard Applebaum. She's a right wing crank, who associates with far right nationalists in both in the US and Poland. Do you have actual evidence of this? Because from what I've seen she is more than critical of the deteriorating state of Polish governance.
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Jan 9, 2022 20:32
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Red and Black posted:The Nation's profile on her shows some of this: Which ignores that this was 20 years ago, and I also love throwing Boris in there as though he's some kind of supervillain.
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lollontee posted:i would like to hear how the hell russia couldnt see Imperial behaviour towards russia, and quite literally in russia during the yeltsin occupation, as hostile. because i keep reading posts where i feel like the implication is that the west hasnt made any hostile military or economic moves towards russia since the soviet union fell Russia is preparing to invade a neighboring country because they want a sphere of influence like it's 1945 again, and the west are the imperialist ones how?
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QuoProQuid posted:
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Jan 21, 2022 17:38
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lollontee posted:your paranoid delusions of russian invasion of ukraine do not argument good make So the massing of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine, and the deployment of 6 landing ships from the Black Sea fleet is for...?
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Jan 21, 2022 17:53
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lollontee posted:those partisans popped out of these graves What part of "armed militants attempt to seize control of local governments" constitutes "peaceful protest?"
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Jan 21, 2022 17:56
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lollontee posted:what goal posts, you just posted a series of wikipedia links and something about.... what biden said during the early conflict? but yeah, when you got ethnic massacres going on, a separatist rebellion is kinda the inevitable result And your evidence for said ethnic massacres is?
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Jan 21, 2022 18:02
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CommieGIR posted:I'll let another mod deal with it: Answer the question. Where is the claim of Ethnic cleansing come from? On what basis? Mysteriously, the claims of Ethnic Cleansing didn't occur until AFTER Yunokovich fled and Russia was already caught on tape openly planning the annexation of Crimea. Huh. I didn't know the Black Hundreds had cropped up again. Wikipedia only has an entry for the Tsarist-era ones.
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Jan 21, 2022 18:13
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Wikipedia posted:In 1942, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin became aware of Chizhevsky's research work, including Physical Factors Of The Historical Process, and Chizhevsky was asked to retract his writings on solar cycles, which contradicted Soviet theories of the reasons for the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Alright, this makes me curious...what the gently caress did the Soviets think solar cycles had to do in any way with the revolutions of 1905 and 1917?
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a podcast for cats posted:What are the thread recommendations for accessible and not too dated documentaries about the collapse of the USSR or the aftermath of that? Serhii Plokhyy's The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union is good, though it's been a while since I read it.
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Cpt_Obvious posted:I don't think you can really separate the very long and very brutal history of antisemitism in the Ukraine from it's current predicament. The centuries of pogroms and paramilitary groups that the Ukraine has been responsible for are not anomalous but rather a very clear pattern that continues to this day. The cossacks, for example, were notorious in their cruelty to the Jewish people. And this history is unique to Ukraine, and not the entire Russian Empire....how?
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