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- drgs1
Putin's rating
https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings…
- Continuity-1
Let's hope those Rusky cunts didn't booby-trap the whole thing on their way out.
'Russians leaving Chernobyl have taken Ukraine soldiers with them, say officials
Russian troops have largely withdrawn from nuclear site, says head of agency in charge of exclusion zone'
- Yes. But it's service personell, not soldiers.NBQ00
- And if all service personell is abducted how will the site stay safe?NBQ00
- IAEA are said to be coming in, in the next few days.Continuity
- NBQ00-4
Vladimir Putin is dangerously ill. He might have cancer. Which would explain why Mr Putin is being reckless and unpredictable in Ukraine .. he has nothing to lose.
- remember Abu Ghraib? Bush was so terminal cancer at the time.uan
- What aboootNBQ00
- Bush and Blair still should face war crime tribunals. But doesn't justify Putler doingsNBQ00
- my point was leaders don't need to have cancer to be reckless.uan
- He doesn't have cancer, he was born in late June. He IS cancer.ShenanigansTV
- NBQ000
Some Russians think Ukraine should be nuked and some other countries too. Such a nice bunch.
- I’d say some morons in the west would say the same about a lot of countries.Chimp
- Batltefield nukes will be used before long.Brabo_Brabo
- A short swift invasion, quickly ousting the CIA installed Zelensky regime - wouldve been betterBrabo_Brabo
- "CIA installed Zelensky regime"... good lord, you're an absolute dipshit village idiot.NBQ00
- yuekit3
One thing I didn't realize about the USSR was how much it relied on pseudoscience. Up until the 60s it was illegal to believe in genetics in the Soviet Union, all because one scientist came up with some crackpot alternative theories that Stalin and other politicians preferred.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr…
"Lysenko forced farmers to plant seeds very close together since, according to his "law of the life of species", plants from the same "class" never compete with one another. Lysenko played an active role in the famines that killed millions of Soviet people and his practices prolonged and exacerbated the food shortages. The People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong adopted his methods starting in 1958, with calamitous results, culminating in the Great Chinese Famine of 1959 to 1962, in which some 15–55 million people died."
- The causes of the Great Chinese Famine are a wee bit more complex than that.Brabo_Brabo
- The longer back in time you go, the crazier it gets. It applies to all
https://compote.slat…drgs - Some Putin followers are apparently trying to revive Lysenko-ism
https://twitter.com/…yuekit
- grafician-1
Russian Ruble per US Dollar
22nd of February: 78
1st of March: 105
8th of March: 144
15th of March: 99
22nd of March: 98
Now: 78
- Damn, he strategically found a way to stabilize the Ruble amid sanctions and invading Ukraine in 5 weeks. Sorry, but that's a strong finesse.jmckinno
- RU central bank propping it up. Just like it makes no sense that stock markets are at record highs when economy is shit.NBQ00
- While internal exchange rates still over 200 rubblles? :))grafician
- grafician-1
"Moscow shutting down Amnesty, Human Rights Watch in Russia: ministry"
Orcs land now...
- yuekit0
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of Russia's "Liberal Democratic Party" died at age 75 of COVID.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/intern…
- Trump will be writing the eulogy for his comrade Vlad.utopian
- Continuity0
- *aboveNairn
- You sort-shaming me, Nairn?Continuity
- Did you just assume my sorting?!Nairn
- Sorry Nairn. Didn't mean to assume your lived sorting experience.
Guess I was being a bit sort normative, there.Continuity - Oldest or gtfoimbecile
- drgs0
https://www.qbn.com/reply/405400…
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"I called it a raging horde, because they did not believe in God. I saw people who had their values ripped out, people with totally amputated ethics; it was an incredibly hideous spectacle."
Stanislaw LemLet's assume that any mass gathering of people is a sewage pit by definition, but some people are able to restrain their shit-eating instincts mainly thanks to education, religion, national culture etc. These values serve as "control rods" in the "people reactor".
The Bolsheviks basically blew up the Russian Empire into shreds in 1917-1923, removed all these rods and started a completely different project. This was a country which doubled its literacy rates in some 20 years and went from a fully orthodox-Christian to a secularized society, from de facto serfdom to the first country in the world to implement paid maternity leave.
To make this project possible you can say that these people were massively castrated during 1918-1953.
"The problem that I set here is not what shall replace mankind in the order of living creatures (—man is an end—): but what type of man must be bred, must be willed, as being the most valuable, the most worthy of life, the most secure guarantee of the future.
This more valuable type has appeared often enough in the past: but always as a happy accident, as an exception, never as deliberately willed. Very often it has been precisely the most feared; hitherto it has been almost the terror of terrors;—and out of that terror the contrary type has been willed, cultivated and attained: the domestic animal, the herd animal, the sick brute-man—the Christian... Man is something that shall be overcome." NietzscheThe Soviets tried to do exactly that, but this new man did not adhere to its gutted host body, the implant was rejected, the vivisection did not work. And maybe it is even the better option than if the project was to succeed, by the way.
Because Russians are castrated or, better to say, rootless, they are radical people (radix = root). There are no control rods to stop them from going full facist, full orthodox christian, full communist or suddenly turn 180 degrees and become more European than west-Europeans themselves (even if in a caricature way), with massive cleansings of everything and everyone who supported the old regime.
Ukrainians are castrated in the same way as Russians, but with one exception: a Ukrainian is a self-hating Russian in denial, someone who looked at himself in the mirror and was horrified because he saw this:
https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki…
Everything else is a consequence of that primary shock: hatred of all things Russian, an attempt to isolate themselves from Russia with their own language, Ukrainian culture etc:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/artic…
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/471139-…This applies to many east-European countries, even Poland to a lesser degree. If Russia was to disappear from the face of the Earth tomorrow, the Ukrainians and Poles would feel as if they lost a piece of their national identity (hatred for Russia), for Ukrainians maybe the only thing that currently unites them.
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- NBQ002
- PEEEAAACCE. Respect, this guy is clearly torn about how much he wants to say, having family still in Russia, not much he can do.shapesalad