Yet the same people who say Stalin was not a true Communist, never talk about the red Terror and mass murder campaign that Lenin and Trotsky unleashed on the Ukraine and South West Russia.
Putin has along way to go to equal them.
A little off topic, but "true communism" is not workable.
There is no way of bringing in true communism without brutality and an authoritarian regime. Some people invent technology that change lives, others want to tend organic vegetables and others just want to smoke vegetation. You can’t keep them all equal without cutting down the tallest or most colourful flowers.
I think an unidentified threat should be made against Russia that guerilla sabotage attacks will be conducted within Russian borders.
I'm not suggesting that Ukraine should claim responsibility, it would surely be the work of Nazis.
Such an outcome would drive Putin the rest of the way to insanity.
If I can think of it, others must be thinking it too. Either way, Russia is going to be royally fcuked, sideways.
Yes, there was talks about reducing EU funding some time ago, but this time the cuts are going to be much worse.
Above Video: WW2 Weapons Used in Ukraine War
I found this FASCINATING - one of those videos that you end up having to pause so you can google the equipment being discussed! also demonstrates that older weapons are phenomenally useful in this war -
Thought id share perhaps some of you may enjoy the distraction :~)
For any Pink Floyd fans, video just released in the last hour, certainly not what I expected from the band, with Andriy Khlyvnyuk (of Ukrainian band Boombox).
This war will be a real game changer in terms world politics. And when the dust finally settles, it will be on a completely different landscape. Hard at this point to see what will happen exactly, but I'd say that there will be growing divides and how they work out will definitely be impacted by the voting patterns we are seeing presently.
Just put it on Putins tab, along side the reconstruction costs....
Man of the people.
I shudder what’s going to be voted into power in the next election.
We're into a new Cold War with the Russia regime anyway and a match for anything seen in the early 1960s or early 1980s : it's not far off the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 in terms of intensity and with no hope of a speedy de-escalation.
And even if it does, does anyone think that it's gonna stay in Russian control?
When Putin withdraws, and he will, it will go back to Ukrainian control.
And who says Ukraine won't grab it back?
I adore that melody and the lyrics and the way Khlyvnyuk sang it impromptu, a capella. One of the best Yubito vids for me so far this year (no disrespect to the Pink Floyd grandads).
Meanwhile, Kadyrov’s recruitment PR have been busy, busy bees. (That’s the same Kadyrov whose forces going by accounts like to rape and kill children.)
https://mobile.twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1512147826335232003?t=krq7Pzj69vaH69JL4Tb2sw&s=19
Interesting thread on the topic of nationalism and neo-Nazism in Ukraine:-
There has been a big dump of personal information about all the soldiers who took part in the raping, looting and murder in Bucha and other places. Their names and addresses, military Nr, and unit they were in. Its in an earlier post on here. So I'm guessing that Anonymous might have had=nd on that. You have to understand that the internet is a battle ground too, it has its attackers and defenders. Most firms employ full time IT experts solely for the purpose of protecting their information and systems.
Just the first tweet is enough to make me groan and then it gets worse as you go on
More help from the Baltics - Fair play
Slava Ukraini
100% most likely scenario. Only question is at what point will Ukraine stop? And Vladimir knows this too...so he has to show some kind of victory to keep in power, and he will take Mariupol and Donbass at all costs, but even he knows he cannot hold it permanently.
Does come across fairly patronising alright.
Not sure if the basketball video was posted, here. So just in case..
Has Putin gained anything in his war effort by causing 1 trillion euro worth of damage to parts of Ukraine he has no possibilty of controlling, would his strategy not have been better served to push into the Donbas with all his resources from Crimea and Russia proper only targetting actual military installations elsewhere in the country, he has made a meal of liberating the crimean corridor and whatever tracts of land north of the Donbas he still holds, school boy errors
Another Russian soldier phoning home.
For this and this alone
Russia needs to bombed back to the stone age. There is no both sides. There are no excuses anymore. This is what they have done and what they will continue to do unless they are stopped.
It is very heartening indeed to slowly realise that there must be a lot going on behind the scenes in all areas of the theatre of this war, much that may never be fully acknowledged.
Putin et al are stupid beyond belief. It seems that their abject lack of any decency or humanity, or even recognition of such concepts, has driven many third parties to finally assist in a meaningful way.
We can congratulate ourselves for being so far above those base entities, tethered to a lower level of consciousness.
To those who think any of us could descend to such inhuman acts during war - no, simply no.
One wonders if received "heavenly communications" (of decades ago) about the fall of communism, pertain to events in the near future and not the past?
I often wondered why SHE would describe that system as wholesale evil, it seems obvious now and I'm not even religious.
GM 228, Very interesting article on Nazism, not only in Ukraine, but the wider world too.
Bringing out the big guns....
first Blue Crocodile 255 captured by ukrainian forces
When all this is done with, and the Russians are gone home, I hope it's rebuilt. A big shining metropolis, built with western money. A Big towering **** you, pointed right at the Russians, bristling with western military defences.
Screw Western money - use the billions secreted away by Russia/ns in the Western world (the place they seem to hate but love when it suits)
Just like Germany had to pay
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