Russia - threadbanned users in OP

it seems sanctions started working, if the lack of products on shelves are discussed

All too often separatism is the beginning of trouble. I wonder if the separatists in Donbas are now as keen as they were last year.

Beria was a Super human level communist, like the best Communists he was born in to a very wealthy family, rose quickly in the revolution, became Cheka head of Georgia, where he became noted for his rate of killing, so impressed the Communist leadership that he was brought to Moscow. Over saw the purges, the famine in the Ukraine, the extermination of the Crimean Tatars, Katyn etc.

He also used kidnap and torture women on the streets of Moscow and had a torture chamber in his house.

This communist Demi God has a battalion named after him, that are directly under Putin.

"Crushi(ing) the evil spirits of Nazism in the bud, defeat not only puppets but also their rulers. (...) heirs of a victorious people, and victory is in our genes. The battle for Russia continues! Our enemy will be defeated!:"

These are the people who Putin thinks are his "nazi enemies" - a son who watched his father die after they were attacked whilst attempting to rescue their dogs

Every TV station and screen in Russia needs to be hacked during Putins victory parade and that video and all the others like it played, so the Russians can see who the real "nazis" are

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That was back in the first few days of the invasion.

And in the meantime Siberian disaster continues.

The situation is very difficult also due to weather conditions. Strong winds of up to 40 m/s cause the fire to spread faster and make it difficult to extinguish it

Due to the high temperature, permafrost melts and carbon dioxide and methane are released into the atmosphere. So this is a real environmental catastrophe.

I just find it rather bizarre to hear a country ranting and raving about nazis, while doing pretty much everything the actual 1930s nazis did back in the day and then to see posters and commentators somehow falling into the rabbit hole of regurgitating the same b/s statements defending it.

Russia is also the same country that was funding very far right political groups in Europe and elsewhere. Literally promoting neo nazism, racism, homophobia and all sorts of other stuff that absolutely is part of a nazi agenda. Yet, everyone else is a nazi apparently.

Ukraine is a fledgling, developing democracy and still classified as a developing country. It had problems, most of which very much paralleled Russian problems and most of which were caused by being a post soviet state, trying to rebuild itself.

Most of its politics is centrist and if you look at its voting patterns, far right groups represented a very tiny % of its political system. By all accounts it was moving in a direction that was beginning to look more like a progressive EU candidate. There was a growing focus on rights based freedoms. The biggest issues it faced was getting away from the influence of corruption driven by oligarchs and disastrous Russian style politics and constant threats and interference from Moscow and its proxies, including Trump’s bizarre meddling btw.

It absolutely was not full of nazis and this notion that finding any element of far right political actors in Ukraine as a justification for the absolute barbarism that Russia inflicted on it is just propaganda. If you dig into almost any country’s politics, you’re going to find some elements of far right leaning politics, mostly at the fringes of the fringes. Ukraine was no different in that regard. Russia itself seems to lack any kind of mirrors or ability to see itself. It’s is now a full military fascist state, led by a madman and wallowing in its own propaganda. There’s no question about that anymore.

By the looks of it we are about to be lectured about the dangers of nazisim by a strange guy on a big military stage, surrounded by weird Z symbol flags, national flags, parading soldiers and weapons of mass destruction, who’s conducting Blitzkrieg, running concentration camps and suppressing all opposition while seeing absolutely no irony in any of that.

The whole thing is absolute madness.

I'm hoping the next 24 hours pass by without any dramatic news from Ukraine.

With all civilians having now been removed from the Azovstal steel plant, and Putin's parade on the morrow, I cant help but worry about Putin's course of action for the fate of those brave soldiers and the numerous wounded left inside.

I believe we are now at the pivotal point of this war. What Putin does next is going to be instrumental in telling us his mindset and plans for the longer term.

Its an update. The tweet includes a video of the Son who survived detailing what happened in that brutal, bloody and evil attack on unarmed civilians by Russian "liberators"

Hell couldn't be hot enough or eternity long enough for the evil cnuts who would do that and the countless other brutal murders of Ukrainian people, perpetrated by the Russians

And yet they are the ones fighting to the death for Ukraine , most of the complaints about the AZOZ battalion comes from inside Russian controlled donbas ,the big bad Azoz did this and the big bad Azoz did that , what they really mean is the big bad Azoz have been fighting and holding off against the Russian military not just the last two months but the Last invasion 8 years ago they single handedly held the Russian military despite being out manned ,out gunned and lacking any real armour or heavy weapons.

Some may go around waving flags and carrying torches , but they will go down in history as some of the bravest and toughest men and women to put on a military uniform anywhere in the world right now .

Putin's speech sounds very similar to that rant by a woman on state TV I linked to a couple of days ago. She claimed that the EU and the US were trying to create a new "global Nazi empire" with Ukraine as the starting point of their mission.