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Anosmoman posted:They don't have to. Yatzy! Russians didn't have to either.
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Mar 8, 2016 16:07
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Lichtenstein posted:I think one mock-worthy development of recent days somehow evaded the thread. This is a counterfeit meme. Polandball famously has red on top.
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Mar 14, 2016 13:10
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Brown Moses posted:There's a live blog here I've got to say, for a march in remembrance of people who fought as a part of the Waffen-SS, the amount of nazi symbols is surprisingly low compared to November Russian Marches. But it's still kind of high for my taste, I don't know.
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Mar 16, 2016 11:52
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A Pale Horse posted:Pretty soon the government will require public wailing and rending of clothes on those days as a display of love and sorrow for dearest leader. I was at the cinema recently and before the main feature started they showed the trailer for the new "Smolensk" movie. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. It's conspiracy theory upon conspiracy theory upon improbability upon impossibility. I'm sure it will rake in money though and a good portion of people will believe that bullshit. Birches can't explode jet engines!
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Mar 18, 2016 15:51
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kalstrams posted:Slightly more than triple the monthly salary of one of my friends. Before tax. Does he work part-time? That's super low even by non-Moscow standards.
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Mar 23, 2016 10:01
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kalstrams posted:Full time, entry level factory job. That's depressing to hear. It's below what janitors make. I've also just checked unemployment benefits in Russia, and the amount hasn't been changed since 2009. They range from around $12 up to $73.
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Mar 23, 2016 10:39
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kalstrams posted:I-I, I just don't get it? Only doctors for some reason. Like, at work banning social networks kind of makes sense, I guess. But restricting browsers and messangers?
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Mar 24, 2016 01:19
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:It's for education, so our posterity never forgets. Russians ban Polish board game that simulates shopping Soviet style. Rospotrebnadozor say they didn't ban anything and couldn't possibly ban the game, because historical commentary is simply not in their area of expertise. Either they decided to backpedal it or there was some misunderstanding. https://meduza.io/feature/2016/03/25/antisovetskaya-monopoliya
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Mar 30, 2016 01:06
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Nitrox posted:Hahahaha Apart from the conspiracy theory part, it's not actually funny at all. 
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Mar 31, 2016 15:17
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Nitrox posted:Assaulting elderly protesters is not cool t all, but notice that attackers were focused on taking the signs away and not much else. Unless I'm missing something. OddObserver posted:Nah, they are mostly just people supplementing their awful pensions with a bit of acting of crowd scenes.
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Mar 31, 2016 16:19
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OddObserver posted:Oh, they probably really love USSR, but people who love USSR are also not likely to go protest w/o "extra encouragement".
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Mar 31, 2016 16:34
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kalstrams posted:I hope this will not come of as a surprise, but both sides can be bad. No one here seems to be whitewashing Azov or cheering up the thugs. However, that alone is not going to be reason to support and uphold the ideas of picketers on their quest to prove that Ukrainian history is a science fiction; that Ukrainian nation is social construct invented by the Soviet Union. Absolutely. But in my opinion their right to express those ideas should be protected all the same. OddObserver posted:And as for people getting paid to protest: there was recently a hilarious story in Russia about a 30-something journalist getting 300 rubles for attending some demonstration as a part of some senior citizens group delegation. (Of course, those sorts of events usually just have people forced to come by their employers). It's definitely happening from time to time, but it's the easiest accusation to throw around. Remember that Maidan protesters or protesters in Belarus and Russia were and are also said to have been paid by someone, and in some cases it's true, but ultimately it's irrelevant to how those protests were/are handled by the government and portrayed in media.
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Mar 31, 2016 17:50
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kalstrams posted:The thread consensus does not seem to contradict your, or mine opinion on this regard, even though I have mixed feelings about respecting public expression of objectively false concepts. The main purpose of this event is to commemorate the referendum where Ukrainian people voted for staying a part of USSR. Despite that, as we all know, USSR dissolved in a year. For these people, this event signifies the most dramatic event in their lives, loss of their country and their identity to some extent. I may not view it that way, but I can see why they feel how they feel, and recent events most surely don't make them feel safer. You brought up several times how you see marches in remembrance of Latvian Legion as a way for people to remember their fallen comrades and appreciate independence of their country, even though some of the people marching might have some objectively reprehensible ideas, and I feel like there is a parallel to be drawn here. They are just old people who want to remember good old days.
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Mar 31, 2016 18:17
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kalstrams posted:Remembering good old days is one thing, feel free to go for it and I'll be glad you have it. The poster says that Ukraine (as in its current territory) is a result of 'sovetisation and communisation', which is technically true. The point of the poster is to highlight what the author thinks is contribution of USSR in creation of independent Ukraine. It says that 'desovetisation' means that Ukrainian territory would still be divided between Russia, Poland, Romania and Hungary. Paladinus fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Mar 31, 2016 |
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Mar 31, 2016 20:30
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kalstrams posted:Yeah, I've read what poster says as well, and I believe that it attributes too much to the USSR and nothing to the Ukrainian people, even if we do not slip into details. I feel that notions that I believe to be expressed may be relevant here since they are in line with some of the propaganda that is being much more aggressively pushed post-revolution. In part, however, where I may as well be more mistaken than on the whole here, since the poster does not convey the idea in a clear way, I also do consider older generation to be rather gullible to such revisionism, even though anyone can be convinced of anything, just have enough effort put into it. Ukrainian people, in their mind, were a part of sovetisation, an internationalist movement. Again, they commemorate a Ukrainian referendum where Ukrainian people voted IN and not OUT. Those protesters themselves are Ukrainian people, after all. Most of them probably have some bad ideas on Stalin or Holodomor, but gladly they decided not to show it.
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Mar 31, 2016 23:03
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Palpek posted:Yeah, it was fun finding out that this is actually pretty bizarre and that only Eastern Block countries do it. Basically every movie and series in Polish is like a nature documentary narrated by David Attenborough. Wait. In cinemas you still get dubbed films, right? Can't they show those on TV? It's cheaper to buy this version from your local distributor than making your own translation, too. And I am pretty sure cartoons on non-Polish channels like Cartoon Network or Disney are dubbed, so why not films? It's really strange considering video games as far as I know have pretty good voice acting in Polish. In Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, by the way, even when shows or films on TV are not properly dubbed (i.e. you still can hear original voices), they have at least two actors for male and female/child characters and more often than not they attempt different voices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bZnRFwHcWo Fantastic.
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Apr 5, 2016 15:04
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grate deceiver posted:I wonder if this is a polish invention, I haven't heard of anything like this in other countries. They're getting weirdly specific as well, my mother religiously watches one about couples catching their nannies doing weird poo poo on hidden camera (again, it's semi-scripted starring complete amateurs doing their worst wooden 'acting' impressions). I think I've seen something like that on Russian TV. There's one that is ostensibly a legal drama, but main characters are played by actual prosecutors and judges, while everyone involved in the case are amateur actors. There is a certain charm to it, I've got to say.
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Apr 5, 2016 15:08
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Lichtenstein posted:Oh, Judge Judy and its knock-offs are a great example, except imagine every possible genre of a tv show done in this style. It wasn't exactly like Judge Judy. Most of the show took place outside the courtroom with flashbacks, cuts to the investigation team, etc. But I suspect it was more scripted than what you describe. Is there a way for me to watch one of these Polish shows somehow?
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Apr 5, 2016 15:41
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Lichtenstein posted:Not sure how to get non-Polish subtitles or whatever, but Miłość na Bogato (Opulent Love) is absolutely amazing. W-11 Wydział Śledczy (CSI: W-11) is the originator of the genre, it's a cop procedural with real cops/civilian amateurs. Trudne Sprawy (Difficult Matters) is like people acting out Jerry Springer stories and it is pretty bonkers. I know enough Polish to understand most of it and so far it's amazing. Thanks!
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Apr 5, 2016 18:33
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A Pale Horse posted:Polish original programming is an absolute wasteland of trash and drivel and Polonized rip offs of shows like Master Chef and Pop Idol. The only Polish show I can remember enjoying at all was Rodzinka.pl and even that got shouty and annoying at times. Its basically just news and sports at my house if anything but since the election I don't even watch much news anymore. Sorry to disappoint you, but even this show is based on a Canadian original series.
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Apr 5, 2016 21:38
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Palpek posted:SS? More like NKVD and Putin can use the same forms lying around in Stalin's old cupboards, just change a few names and dates. KGB is NKVD, though. This new thing is completely different.
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Apr 7, 2016 17:31
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Rrrrrrgh, I'm so mad I'm not Polish, God drat it, loving Poláci!
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Apr 8, 2016 09:05
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I am the abominable communist Jew dragon slain by glorious knight Franco.
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Apr 8, 2016 13:36
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Lichtenstein posted:This is, uh, a "history" spin-off of a right-wing Do Rzeczy magazine, which is sort of a spin-off of a right wing Uważam Rze magazine (formed by rejects from its editorial team), which is a sort of a spin-off of a right-wing Rzeczpospolita magazine (formed by rejects from its editorial team). Right wing lunacy aside, those are some solid pun names for spin-off magazines.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:How broke and desperate is Lukashenko? His foreign minister is willing to concede that the current status of Crimea is the right one. Things are rough with communal payments. At first, the government planned to raise rates gradually to 100% of real costs as opposed 25% people pay now, but, unsurprisingly, Belarusians didn't like it, and Lukashenko had to throw some housing officials in jail, revert their plans, lower payment rates even further, and get some money off Eurasian Development Bank. Paladinus fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Apr 10, 2016 |
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Xerxes17 posted:What are communal payments in this context? It's your utilities + what you pay for just living in a flat/apartment/house, i.e. exploitation costs.
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Xerxes17 posted:It certainly looks like what I am looking for, thanks. It also occurs to me that this is the wrong EE thread for food questions East of Poland the closest thing is probably Okhotnichii (hunter's) sausages.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:I like reading this blog written by a school teacher in Gomel. Usually she writes about her students and Belarusian culture, but this post makes it seem as though the situation in Belarus is looking pretty bleak. That was way back in January, though. BYR has stabilised somewhat since then. Plus, the law mostly affects really small entrepreneurs who sell clothes and shoes they buy cheap in Poland or Ukraine, and even then it looks like many of them managed to get required documents in the end. The situation is dire, as usual, but it's not like there's suddenly no food in shops or something like that.
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Are the majority of people in Poland Smolensk truthers? How popular are those theories?
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slavatuvs posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-XV8Zsd9gg They are Limonov's comrades, i.e. national-bolshevicks. The grenade is a pun on Limonov's name, because in Russian grenades are sometimes called limonka.
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Apr 19, 2016 21:08
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A Pale Horse posted:You got your fascism in my communism! At least the local curia were fast to apologise and distance themselves from this debacle. Wonder if they'll finally do something about the priest, too. E: LMAO, went through his twitter and among other things he believes that the Pope might be a secret Muslim and that the third Fatima secret is just about that. Paladinus fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Apr 20, 2016 |
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Apr 20, 2016 00:23
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Brown Moses posted:So while working on our response to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' email it's become apparent their "evidence" is plagiarised from a Livejournal, going as far as lifting entire paragraphs. Hey, that's not fair. You gather evidence in social networks all the time! 
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Apr 22, 2016 14:21
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Brown Moses posted:I genuinely think that could be their reply.` I suspect the ministry got a hefty amount of money to counter enemy propaganda, but instead it's just one unpaid intern browsing hashtags and copypasting stuff from livejournal.
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Apr 22, 2016 14:26
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Brown Moses posted:We actually know exactly who wrote it because they sent it in a Word document and didn't strip their metadata. We've already found their Facebook pages, confirming they work for the Russian MFA. Here's an example of their plagiarism: It just went through spell checker. There's also one grammatical error they've corrected (боевой техники -> боевая техника).
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Apr 22, 2016 14:50
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kalstrams posted:It's a coin based on folk tale about hedgehog. Long story short, childless family suddenly did get a hedgehog son So that's where the human-hedgehog romance in Sonic 06 is lifted from...
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Apr 22, 2016 16:23
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OddObserver posted:Russia (and probably much of the rest of post-Soviet space) has a serious thing for overuse of dress-military style uniforms --- even the foreign ministry spokeslady has one (in a rather... evocative... black, at that). Their postal services had a rather snazzy uniform, too. 
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Apr 30, 2016 22:08
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Bloodshit posted:Soviet tradition of huge May 1 parades revived in the Donetsk People's Republic: It's not revived, because it never died. But I've heard this year they planned to skip the Labour Day parade because of the Orthodox Easter celebrations, so I'm surprised they actually held it.
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anilEhilated posted:Was it? I thought Stalin alone managed to rack up a higher kill count than the Nazis, not to mention all the suppressions that followed. The most liberal estimates on victims of Stalin's regime are ~25 million people, including people sentenced to deportation for petty crimes. Which is the same number as the number of soldiers, not even including civilians, who died in WWII. So I would say Hitler 'wins' this one. E: Happy V Day, everyone. Here's the Pope wearing the St. George's ribbon presented to him by a Russian communist a couple of days ago.  Obviously, he didn't know that the ribbon is a bit controversial outside of Russia. Paladinus fucked around with this message at 15:39 on May 9, 2016 |
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anilEhilated posted:It's not like Stalin wasn't at least partially responsible for WW2 as well... By that logic, he was also partially responsible for winning it, so it evens out.
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