I’m allergic to YouTube videos, so I’ll rely on your text, instead.

I do believe it goes back to the Mongols where the Russian “ingenuity” was to embrace being slaves. They realised that at any moment the “guard” can come and take everything away.

Which means that stealing is not wrong.

And it also means that the best way of protecting yourself is by making the guard look at somebody else. Thus insatiable need for expansion.

Which is ironic since the guards left more than a millennium ago, but the system kept going.

It’s fairly simple, actually. Both US and USSR were doing all they can to expand their sphere of influence. This, rather symmetrically, involved invasions, providing military “consultancy” and weapons, coups, etc. Both sides couldn’t attack each other directly because of the atomic bombs, so they fought via proxies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the_Soviet_Union

I’m sure there’s a similar page about the states. The point is that neither side in the cold war was a good one. It was too bullies fighting for control.

The full channel’s name is “huyevuy dnepr” (fucking dnipro, some sort of self deprecating trend of naming channels like that). While Slavic X is read as Latin H.

You noticed and we love you for that.

Don’t forget crazy number of people and artillery. That was one hell of a day!

Very true. Money was and will remain essential with a difference that producing one’s own ammunition is cheaper than buying it, plus one can sell the surplus and the expertise.

I’m just hoping the swamp puppet nazis will not win fast enough and Ukraine will manage to reach selfsustainable production. I mean I hope they will not win at all, but it’s a thin one.

Definitely, with a nuance. Last year Ukraine claimed to have produced 30% of it’s weapon needs, this year it’s at 50%. The tables are turning.

Шановні. Глибокий вдих і видих. До перемоги ще далеко і багато роботи. Дуже багато. Але шанс є і він вимагає працювати гуртом.

Soviet Union was never a communist or even a socialist state. Tyrannical oligarchy with slaves, casts, kings, you name it. Disregard for human life is cultural for them. Traditional values.

From what I understand, this is the next best thing. If the refineries cannot accept the raw because of the damage, the pumps cannot just keep pumping, they have to be stopped and reactivating them is expensive both in time and money.

The title is factually incorrect. Instead of

Zelensky denounces the UNSC for not launching a military operation against Iran

It should have been something like

Zelensky denounces the UNSC for failing to pass a resolution about Hormuz and for having no means to enforce international safety.

Please change the title to reflect what he actually said. Otherwise this post will be deleted.

It really depends what the propaganda machine needs at that particular moment. See, she’s not critical of the war (and likely she isn’t, not just phrasing smart), she’s just worried that the guys are uncomfortable at the front.

TIL

Beltalowda, baratna!

I think it’s the literal of “crosses” as Ukraine is using those on equipment.

Straightforward. Nazis and soviets had a military pact, jointly invaded and divided Poland, thus starting the ww2.

Lol, so the soviets did not have a pact with Nazis and didn’t invade Poland just two weeks after the Nazis?

My friend, I understand your desire to see Soviet Union as some sort of dualistic opponent of the imperialist US (which the latter is), and use that to declare as the good side, but I’m afraid the USSR was just as imperialist and as terrible, just differently.

It was way more like two mafia gangs fighting each other. And the one that won is now finally showing its true colours.

The fundamental approach to equality in the early Soviet Union was via killing all those “not equal”. Lenin was very adamant about using extreme violence to “convince” the population. So was Stalin. The following ones were a little less blood thirsty, but simply because their predecessors did a great job killing millions.

Sorry, Soviet Union was a tyrannical oligarchy, as far from socialism as its great opponent the US of A.

By the way, your argument that you don’t know but I also cannot know because I was late to the party (pun intended) is… a very naive one. But I agree with you - you don’t know and fight rather hard to retain your faith.

As someone who lived in USSR, slow me to adjust your statement.

Everyone was declared to have equal rights, not dissimilar to the constitutions of other countries.

Contrary to those declarations the soviet passports had “nationality” in them.

On top of that, while it was reasonable for everyone to have a common language, it was a common understanding that if one is too progress in life and career, they should adopt russian and, better, become one. Which was actively supported. While I grew up in Ukraine, in school we had Ukrainian language and literature as a foreign language, maybe 10% of what we spent learning russian ones.

So yeah, everyone was equal, as long as they are russian. Every other nationality was at best mocked. Ukrainians are greedy, Georgians are brainless machos, Chukchas are stupid, Jews are sneaky thieves etc.

On top of that, there was systemic discrimination of women which culminated in the joke-proverb “woman, keep your mouth shut, your day is 8th of march”.

And of course the equality was topped by the oligarchy. See in a one-party system, people are either party members or not. The country was obviously ruled exclusively by the party members, which not only meant that the non-members had zero representation, it also meant that most members had equally zero representation.

Ironically, in that sense, there was equality since nobody had any rights.

So a small elite has formed, it was mostly replenished via nepotism and those were the “more equal” ones.

The patriotic movements you’re mentioning, while they naturally picked the flag after the collapse, had little to do with the said collapse. It crashed because it was resistant to change.

And the soviets were well aware of the “nationalist danger”, that why after causing holodomor they settled millions of ethnic russians into the emptied homes in Ukraine. That’s why after the second world war (which the soviets don’t call that because they actually started it together with the Nazis) they sent hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tatars to Siberia and replaced them with… more ethnically and loyal russians.

So yeah, everyone was declared equal, but only male, russian and well-connected were.

Pretty much. The soviets have systematically cultivated political apathy and pootler has brought it to the next level. Imagine having access to millions of bodies and nobody cares when you expend a million or two. That’s dictator’s wet dream.

There will be no civil war in russia after their defeat. They were all conditioned into complete apathy (that’s why all other dictators and wannabes are paying attention). That’s why most of those who join today, do that simply for money.

So all that might happen is mafia clashes as they will establish new spheres of control and then it will come back to the rise of the next “great” leader.