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- PhanLo0
My father in-law was stationed in Berlin during the 70's, he talked about how poor the Russian soldiers were and how bad their uniforms were, badly patched boots etc.
They'd often be around them at border points, just bored with nothing for entertainment, other soldiers in his regiment would throw cigarettes at the Russians and they would fight each other to get them. He said they'd really hit each other, like it wasn't fun, more desperation.
Seems not much has changed.
- The Ruskies also had a reputation for raping local women in (East) Berlin with absolute abandon.Continuity
- The concentration camp stories about them getting liberated by the Germans to then have the Russians come in and start raping the women is the darkest timeline.PhanLo
- NBQ00-1
- Nairn8
Russia?
'Damaged cable leaves Shetland cut off from mainland'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-sc…
"We expect it will be fishing vessels that damaged the cable but it is very rare that we have two problems at the same time."
- "Damaged" I love the BBC's choice of words.Chimp
- Frontpage!palimpsest
- Nooo... stoppitNairn
- Wot? Wot? Another Nairn post!Continuity
- sted1
- sted2
- Continuity1
Some pretty big caveman energy, here.
'Man detained as fire kills 15 people at bar in Russian city of Kostroma
Reports suggest blaze could have been started by a drunk man firing a "flare gun" on the dancefloor'
'Tass, citing sources in emergency services, said of the drunk man suspected to have started the fire: “He was spending time in the bar with a woman, ordered her flowers, with a flare gun in his hands. Then he went to the dancefloor and fired it.”'
- Nairn1
“Gentlemen, we interfered, we are interfering and we will interfere,”
- This _should_ be a bombshell. But a cursory look at the front page of the WaPo site shows me ... nothing. Ditto the NYT.Continuity
- unfortunately the same can't be said in the other the direction because there is not free elections in Russia.pr2
- Nairn2
- An Apple guydrgs
- Oh oh... wearing the t-shirt of a black american artist - Basquiat. Surly that's enough to get you a one way ticket to siberia in putins world?shapesalad
- Not really queer, though they've been trying appropriate him.
But certainly anti-colonial and black. Which fits in perfectly with the Russia narrrative,Khurram - He was also pretty stupid when it came to politics, doubt he'd have an opinion either way on the war.. fuck you talking about dummy.Khurram
- ^ lol. Yes he was certainly black, I don't think there's any argument there.yuekit
- The idea that Russia stands for anti-colonialism at the same time they seize land from smaller nearby countries is pretty dubious.yuekit
- Moreso their historic alignment with the liberation movements of Africa.Khurram
- They deserve credit for that but the USSR was also a form of colonialism, where ethnic Russians get privileged over central Asians, Ukrainians, etc.yuekit
- Basquiat was so queer, he even fucked Madonna.Sandder
- sted4
- What is she the minister of? hahahahahaMondoMorphic
- Banner made on MS Powerpoint?OBBTKN
- drgs0
https://languagehat.com/sorokins…
"Part 1, the longest in the book, consists of thirty-plus short narratives ranging from several pages to less than a page long. The first opens with a guy named Sveklushin who gets off a packed bus and is immediately accosted by his old friend Trofimenko, who he hasn’t seen in ages; he asks after various mutual acquaintances and invites him to dinner, and shortly after responding to a remark about his wrinkles he says “Wait, though. I’ll gobble my norm now, so I don’t have to drag it home. Good thing I remembered".
Trofimenko is impressed by the cellophane wrapping (in the provinces where he’s been living they just wrap the norm in paper, “and coarse paper at that”) and by its freshness (“ours is all dried up”).
In the second, a kid is trying to get his father’s attention while his father is making dinner for himself, including some “norm.”
The rest are similar scenes of daily life, involving just about every area of Soviet society short of the highest — the novel has been called “an encyclopedia of Soviet life” — and each one includes the consumption of “norm”.
Eventually it is made explicit that it consists of human feces, and all adult citizens are obliged to consume their daily dose."
- I grew up reading his books. They are crazy, but nevertheless brilliantzaq
- Nairn0
Not sure what this is, but people are abuzz that it's a Russian plane in the vein of 'Air Force One', or at least 'three and a half', going to Venezuela via Casablanca
- It's happening
https://www.dailysta…drgs - wowshapesalad
- landed.shapesalad
- maybe Putin just wants to watch the Morocco vs France World Cup semi-final in Marocco!
LOLKrassy - Señor Vladimiros Putinosthumb_screws
- It's happening
- shapesalad0
It indeed landed in Venezuela.
- utopian2
Another Russian Oligarch, Dmitry Zelenov, Dies Under Mysterious Circumstances.