The Russia thread.
The Russia thread.
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- grafician1
"Putin’s old washing machine sitting atop of his car whilst fleeing from Dresden. I just found the story in Daniel Yergin’s (not Bill Browder) book The New Map, p 75, chapter Putin’s Great Project. The BBC mentions Putin had £200 in savings at the time."
https://twitter.com/WillemKadijk…
and lots more stuff about Putin's life here: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazin…
""Their German friends give them a 20-year-old washing machine and with this they drive back to Leningrad," says Putin biographer and critic Masha Gessen. "There's a strong sense that he was serving his country and had nothing to show for it.""
- flolNairn
- It was always about the washing machines!
Can't we sort some sort of tech handover, ultra low % lend-lease where we just furnish Russians with washing machines?Nairn - It's not right that a first world country has to clean her clothes on the banks of the Volga!Nairn
- With the world's eyes on Russia, everything they thought nobody knew comes out these days...grafician
- Here on the East block, we always heard a lot of (awful) stories about Russians and Russia for decades...grafician
- ...so we're not afraid of them 'cuz we already know their real faces and they are deeply traumatized clowns mostlygrafician
- But these days the entire World also seen their real faces so yeah...expect a lot more shit to come outgrafician
- @Nairn Russia is NOT a 1st world country, their economy is smaller than Italy's and they lack washing machinesgrafician
- Do they know you can get washer/dryers now?Ianbolton