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slavatuvs posted:Nothing reminds me why we defeated fascism more than goose-stepping soldiers and massive displays of military hardware. But it really was unstoppable military might that defeated fascism? Of course the victors were militarists themselves.
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Maybe Hitler & co., after having defeated their enemies, would have mellowed out and cancelled their genocide plans?  Otherwise Soviet control of half of Europe, while not good, was the lesser evil. Stalin of course was guilty of all kinds of crimes on humanity, but Nazis winning wouldn't have made things easier for Ukrainians et al. Maybe for some nationalities who would have benefitted from divide and conquer policies like Slovaks did at the expense of Czechs (or so they hoped at the time).
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alex314 posted:Polish nationalists: Maybe he thought this was the Manneken Pis.
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Russian Eurovision contestant is revealed to have modelled nude in some really weird erotic shots http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...social-facebookWhat's even weirder is Kremlin's explanation: quote:While the photos look as if they could have been taken from a domination fetish site, a government source in Moscow told the Sun that they were taken to highlight the issue of domestic violence. Why yes, I'm sure that campaign worked as planned...
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Young Freud posted:WHAT?! I heard about the rehearsal breakdowns but one broke down during a public demonstration?! How does Shevchenko still have a job? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgS9GA3nBco
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Somaen posted:Why the gently caress does the Kremlin spokeperson comment on something like that? Seems bizarre if they micromanage things related to commercial popculture like Eurovision The Daily Hail article of course doesn't say more than that it's a government official. Eurovision is a public broadcasting alliance so it might just be the Russian public broadcasting company's representative commenting when asked. OTOH Russian media is tightly controlled by the government and they also try to control international perception of the country (see the troll factories) so it'd fit the government's interests.
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Ukraine won Eurovision with a song about the 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars. It seems like the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 will be held in Kiev for the second time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1yzjoNTokk
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Regarde Aduck posted:Have you explained that Putin and Russia are not leftist? And that as a hard leftist he would be sent to a prison ran by an oligarch? Try mentioning that most powerful Russians are currently making GBS threads up London in their giant 2nd, 3rd and 4th homes plus yacht. Claimed political alignment has nothing to do with believing in conspiracy theories and more to do with being a stubborn contrarian.
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This just confirms that all cat people are gigantic assholes.  just kidding don't murder me Ramzan Ahmatovich
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Darth Walrus posted:Why are they putting a grenade next to that kitten? Have you ever heard of Soviet anti-tank dogs? Well, this is the infamous anti-infantry cat.
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Stay strange, Eastern Europequote:A vegan cafe in Tbilisi has appealed for public solidarity after being invaded by alleged ultra-nationalists wielding grilled meat and sausages. I wish we had vegan gangs attacking normal bars with delicious grilled vegetables.
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woodenchicken posted:Well, there was this They were only trying to help with the restaurant's rat infestation 
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Russia's top three enemies according to this article are the US, Ukraine and Turkey. Russia's bff is Belarus. I shall take pride in EU representing 6/10 of Russia's worst enemies before Brexit happens! Interesting though that 5 of the 'worst enemies' (plus one Warsaw Pact country) and 6 of the 'best buddies' are former Soviet republics. Keeps friends close, enemies even closer?
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Arglebargle III posted:That does sound like a major industry being shipped to Russia Stalin style. Or it could be Ukrainian government securing (nationalizing) a strategic asset owned by a Russian company.
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A few thousand professional soldiers maybe able to hold a port or an airfield from a sudden takeover, but for defending an entire country you might just as well not have an army. It's just not feasible without conscription. Professional armies are okay if you don't have actual borders to defend and only need your army for overseas deployments, though.
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Xerxes17 posted:Also, I would have thought a no-brainer name for the app would have been "Potemkin-Go!". It'd need to come with a warning about staircases, especially if you're pushing a pram with you.
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I can't imagine the forces in Transnistria to amount to much, despite the big scary red patch. They're deployed against Moldova, not Ukraine. ...or are they?!? Would be a baller move to secretly assemble a mechanized army group there.
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Grouchio posted:Absolutely not; what I want to know is - is it almost ready for the Russian bank to truly break and for Putin to finally begin to decline in power? Putin got his training from Brezhnev era KGB, he should know how to deal with Russian people during some slight stagnation. He still has plenty of ways to vent pressure by placing blame on unpopular underlings, Medvedev might be the next one to go.
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waitwhatno posted:They also make tractors. Huge, beautiful tractors. They're also a major oyster exporter!
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Jesus loving Christ, Russian orthodox church is terrible even when it tries to appear tolerant of other religions http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37115746 quote:Regional Muslim leader Ismail Berdiyev suggested all women should undergo female genital mutilation but later withdrew the remark. Now please excuse my howling and hysterics, I'm just too deep in 20th century lies to have the same level of understanding of women that a celibate man has.
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kalstrams posted:She seems to fetishise Romanovs. Maybe if somewhere in Tsarskoje Selo's gardens you could find a 100 year old mosquito with the Tsar's blood, embedded in some resin...
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I wouldn't offend the people who murdered over six million Jews in their Polish death camps if I were you.
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quote:Uzbekistan's president, Islam Karimov, has died after suffering a stroke at the age of 78, three diplomatic sources told Reuters on Friday. good night sweet prince
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In Finland no envelope (wouldn't that make it harder to make sure there's only one ballot?) but the ballot is folded from the middle, then before you slip it in it has to be stamped on the outside by an official.  cinci zoo sniper posted:Russian finance ministry is looking into implementing higher, and more uniforms my first reading of this "Vova, I know what would improve tax payer's morale - flashier uniforms for tax officials!"
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Swedish armed forces have been at full  mode since last week. Swedish military has been having some training operations on the island of Gotland and while the full picture is still very hush hush, reportedly they have met mysterious Russians there first pretending to be tourists casually asking for directions, but then continuing to ask more specific questions like what unit they belonged to. What's interesting in this report is that they mention that the Russians moved around in car/cars with Russian license plates, so these are not exactly top secret super spies. Likewise there have allegedly been Russians snooping around in northern Sweden. During one international exercise last year one officer was approached in a pub, shown a photo of his family and presented a barrage of questions. As a result of all this Sweden has now decided to make the unit of 150 soldiers on Gotland permanent immediately instead of 2018, and Swedish commander has been openly saying that Russians are threatening Sweden's security (without telling how) while Russia ofc disapproves such false insinuations.The last time Swedish military was panicking because of Russia was in 2014 when they were looking for a minisub in front of Stockholm, but no conclusive evidence was ever presented to the public of a foreign (Russian) presence. These current reports are much easier to take at face value. Is Russia updating her gameplan for a war in the Baltic? In the case of a Russia-NATO conflict Gotland would be vital for Swedish neutrality as well as for both Russian reinforcements to Kaliningrad and NATO reinforcements to the Baltic states. But intel tactics this brazen seem so out of touch, it's as if Russians were trying to intimidate Sweden rather than just gathering intel.
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Russia is unlikely to invade Sweden unless there is a general war in the region. But think of this: you have this neighbour that you have no actual quarrels with, but you know he's an rear end in a top hat anyway. Then one day you surprise him trespassing on your property, looking over the fence between you and another neighbour - one who you know is this shirtless rear end in a top hat's nemesis. When you confront him, he walks away and yells "I never was there!" At the very least you're going to install some cameras to your frontyard after that. Probably barbed wire as well.AceRimmer posted:What's the usual garrison that these 150 troops are being added to? Doesn't seem like much for such a large island if it's just them. There's been no permanent garrison force since 2005 if I'm correct, all there was between then and now was a reservist outfit - which couldn't actively keep an eye out, but back then it wasn't deemed necessary. Note that Sweden probably still isn't expecting a Russian naval infantry brigade to land on the beaches next week, at least for now they just seem to want to have some troops stationed there to secure restricted military areas and send a message because Russians have been all over the place and generally insufferable lately. Or... they are expecting something but they can't allocate more than that because Swedish armed forces is underbudgeted nowadays, so they just left a tripwire. 
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Jygallax posted:Russia's game with MH17 is becoming absurd at this point, they just. can't. let. it. go... Well they let that missile go which is why we are in this situation.
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^^^ will Matt Groeningen be there in person? Uh oh, Finland is now connected to the shooting of the MH17... De Telegraaf has revealed that the Dutch investigators have done multiple missile tests in Finland to determine the type of missile that brought the airliner down. It doesn't specify what these tests involved and Finnish Defence Force won't comment, but we do have Buk missile system in our arsenal so it checks out. edit: the Finnish FBI has confirmed that they have assisted the investigation, but won't comment on what kind of assistance it was Nenonen fucked around with this message at 13:01 on Sep 27, 2016 |
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Good work, BM and B'cat! Have any governments outside Kremlin (and Kiev) given official statements yet? It doesn't seem like the governments who lost citizens in the attack, especially Netherlands and EU, can any longer avoid putting the blame on Russia, but OTOH what can be done? It took a long time to get any kind of closure to Lockerbie, and even that was the result of Gaddafi unexpectedly wanting to approach the west (and finally Gaddafi's fall), something that is unlikely to happen with Putin or at least cannot be relied upon.
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54.4 crowns posted:Eh, If they're from the region they could drink Cruz under the table. Well, Muhammed only forbid wine, and without Muslims there would be no vodka...
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Cat Mattress posted:Sounds interesting, please elaborate. It's a bit of a stretch, but anyway Arab alchemists like Jabir ibn Hayyan were crucial in the development of distillation, which is where word alcohol also comes from (al-kuhl). Eventually Christians figured out the most practical implementation to this technology.
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oh russia http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37533473 quote:"Some grow up to be doctors, others bakers and some soldiers."
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Estonian presidential election is even more convoluted and undecipherable than that poo poo show that is the US presidential election. At least the people don't need to participate in it. In other news, Putin has stopped a surplus plutonium disposal deal made with USA in 2000, claiming that USA hasn't done their part of the deal. Which USA denies. ...whoda thunk that we'd be back to nuclear oneupmanship this soon. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37539616
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Arctic birds have started their fall migration to southern pastures 1. The bombers are spotted north of Norway 2. British jets shadow the planes around the west of Scotland & Ireland 3. French Rafale jets intercept the TU-160s 100km off the coast of Brittany 4. Spanish F-18 fighters pick up the bombers north of Bilbao
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Pizdec posted:Anything new on this? Kadyrov commented "why don't I know of this?  " so presumably it didn't happen or it was an honest accident as he was throwing golden handgrenades for his pet tiger to fetch.
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Rinkles posted:Context aside, just wanted to point out the TU-160 is a pretty thing. Presumably modelled after arctic tern 
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GreyjoyBastard posted:To my horror, Ramzan got the attractive genes in the family. Father Akhmad:  "Feck! Arse! Girls! Drink!"
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Young Freud posted:I love their symbol... Much better design than Bors' 
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