Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Ffs look at the date below the video.

Here, i circled it

Didn't realize it was so dated, but still accurate. Avdiivka may be the last big one for the Russians.

Brilliant if Ukraine has these to use. The question, of course, is how effective can they be if Russia has known for months that Ukraine would be getting them. What kind of sorties can Ukrainian F-16s run if Russia has AA batteries strategically placed behind their front lines? Will Ukraine be provided with the kind of ordinance required to really degrade heavily dug-in Russian positions? Like concrete bunkers and so on?

Don't know if you've watched it but I found TraumaZone was somewhat different to the other (more well known?) polemic type ones. Have seen a few of them over the years but haven't bothered to rewatch any in a long time, and they are a bit hazy in memory now. Your description fits them from what I remember.

I think there was just cards/plain text on screen describing the events in history (the period of the collapse of the Soviet Union) contemporaneous with the pieces of video archive footage. I did not detect too large of a bias in these (maybe an anti-capitalist one which is somewhat understandable in context), and there isn't as far as I remember any voiceover hammering points home and impressing a certain pov or a strong narrative structure on the viewer.

The main interest to it I found was that old, maybe quite rare, BBC footage of different people and aspects of ordinary life all across the USSR/Russia, even if not much is happening on screen at times. Could ignore the history text, and just enjoy these.

There was footage of big events too, but a lot of it is just fairly random (or if there was an agenda or a message behind every piece of footage selected, I wasn't smart/aware/knowledgeable enough to detect it).

Yesterday I saw a video of them floating a Cesar across the river.

And many generations of Russians having all of their decisions made for them. Each one was just a number under the communist system, and when they turned to the capitalist system, no one had a clue what was happening. When the Communism collapsed, the powers that be at the time calculated the value of the state, divided it by the population nr, and each citizen was given his or her share. The clever guys collected these shares from a gullible public, the majority of whom didn't have a clue what the piece of paper was, they were bartered for as little as a loaf of bread a share. Throw the corruption that had always existed, even under the Communists, and what you have today is the result. And the way the changeover was handled , overnight " painful but necessary medicine" guaranteed it would be a disaster. To this day, there's a communist party in Russia, and many people long for its return.

Thats because Putin has unashamedly turned Russia into a criminal enterprise, pure and simple. And he rules through terror, there was a post here recently where 300 young people were at a show, and the band started singing anti-war songs. But some one alerted the *police *and when they came, they stopped the show and made everyone lie down on the floor. Then over the next couple of hours, each person was questioned and had all their details taken. Most likely, next stop for the men will be a callup for military enlistment. Such actions just hammer home to Russians that if they cross the line, they will pay the price.

*( this is one of the biggest problems facing anyone protesting against Putin, the informers, a leftover from the communist era and is the main reason why Russians have very low trust levels, especially with strangers )

So the Russian authorities can basically pardon anybody they like with 6 months military service. And they don't even have to risk their lives. They could be chilling on a beach in Crimea if they wanted.

Something interesting may be going on in Kaliningrad: Russia may be moving its S400 air defence systems back to Moscow, of Rostov or somewhere else threatened by Ukraine:

So much for the threats posed by those warmongering NATO neighbours: Poland, Lithuania, and those deadly new NATO threats, Sweden and Finland.😀

And I'd say that what imprisonment he did serve, was not in one of the regular prisons either, most likely a work camp, based in an agricultural setting. Actually come to think of it, it's a wonder Putin didn't give him a medal for removing a troublesome thorn in his side...