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It's right there at the very start, suppressing the trench, according to large, two sided flares - probably BMP2. And the guy most likely hits it too - because it stops firing.

Nah, euro books from 18th and 19th centuries are nowhere near as spiteful as russian literature.

The troublesome path of removing "books of a culture" that both (books and culture) call upon killing me and others like me, with that "moment" lasting centuries and resulting in the death of about every 2-3 Ukrainian in 20th century alone? Might as well.

What if they are? If Lermontov makes fun of rape victims of russian troops he was a part of in his poem Ulansha, where he describes the gangraping process in great detail with much appreciation - what that makes him? A Man of Culture? And we had 5 streets bearing his name in Kyiv alone thanks to other "Art People" that came here during occupation. Clearly we need to dial it all back a bit and learn to appreciate russians gang raping our women right now as per Lermontov.

From axing old women to drowning dogs on personal level, from complaining about slavic "traitors" who always betray Mother Russia to depicting people of Caucasus mountains as barbarians on global level - those sure are great, non-overriding examples of humanity that russian culture brings to the world one shell at a time. But I guess stuff like Bulgakov's White Guard or Pushkin's Poltava must be a product of my imagination or delusions.

Good. So you have no problem with all the dehumanization of non-russians (or even just human beings) in their books?

When was the last time you actually read any of those? I mean they do represent russian culture well - barbaric, backwards, inhumane, racist and hateful - but they do not describe those things as something bad, but instead highly promote them. So I'm not exactly sure if this "contribution" should even be considered significant in any other way but to understand why russians are so completely devoid of any kind of empathy in no small part due to various Pushkins and Chekhovs influencing them since the school chair.

Nobody leaves that human filth out, trust me.

It certainly did contribute a fair share of racists and imperialists pretending to be artists - that's true. That's russian culture in a nutshell.

I wanted to post some witty comment here, but I'm out of words. Це ж було вже.

I see you are very new to this thing, so let me give you a history lesson. No, not even THE history lesson, where we go through three centuries of genocide, although that context matters more than anything, but a recent one. When Russia invaded Ukraine - Ukraine was bound by its own Constitution to stay neutral. In fact Ukraine wasn't just 'neutral' - it was absolutely anti-NATO. At the start of 2014 only 18% of Ukrainians wished to join NATO. Ukraine was also under Western sanctions, just a little bonus. So then russians invade, start looting, raping, torturing, killing people and that goes on for whole 5 years before Ukraine finally decides to remove neutrality from Constitution. Hmmm, say - maybe getting killed by russians for 5 years had something to do with that "join the NATO" bright idea, but, nah, that's a preposterous thought. How Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan are doing, not being in NATO, btw? I heard they have their territories occupied by russians, but that can't be, those countries are not in NATO. Or maybe, just maybe russians not wanting anyone to be in purely defensive alliance is because they want to attack that country? So come again?

yeah but then russians losing 3500 wouldn't make sense either, considering their losses in Soledar alone (which are about 13000 in total). If AFU was losing as many men - no rotations would've helped. Unlike russians the "luxury" of throwing thousands of men into the meatgrinder is something Ukraine doesn't have.

"Some volunteers" doesn't equal reliable. If we suffered 1:1 losses - the town would've been lost by now.

No, I just don't use BS sources, who are openly prorussian shills for the past decade. Speaking of which - a prorussian shill blaming US for something is as good of an indication who did it as any.

Yes a guy, who denies russian warcrimes and is using "anonymous sources" as a proof - is definitely a trustworthy source. I got a twitter-load of these.

You don't see an answer because you are trying to understand people from 14th century by thinking they are people from 21st century.

Admittedly they don't deserve even that.

russians stopped using armor in offensives because they don't have a lot of it to waste at this point and it gets wasted quite fast. They do meat waves.

last bit of offtopic: HoI3 was actually the only game I did a full playthrough in in the whole series. Because of its wargame nature, which was too good for what Paradox usually does. Unfortunately during campaign as US, after defeating both Japan and Germany - I broke the reality by invading USSR. The game totally crapped out and started throwing Red Army events at me, like "liberating" Minsk, thinking I was the USSR here - and constantly reverting captured territories back to USSR and then to USA again every other game day.

Duh, it's Hearts of Iron THREE where you command any kind of troops but I guess for russians anything but selecting a whole stack and clicking on an enemy is too American.

Millions dead in concentration camps, as always.

Scholz be like "Ukraine gets Leopards if on February 5th at 1:43 AM at the summit of mount Everest illuminati lizards from Nibiru make their landing in their fusion powered UFOs which are painted in ultramarine and their leader lizard with two dicks sings Jingle Bells in Sinatra voice but in German and... and I didn't mention the exact year".

Not only that but the bastard apparently lives without issues in Norway right now and the sole fact of him not being immediately sent to Ukraine to stand trial for warcrimes he committed (not to mention breaking international criminal law related to mercenaries that Norway is a signee of) pisses me to no end. He was killing Ukrainians for 3 months and now he wants a chill life in a better country that "has microwaves and toilets" (as he himself states in a videocall with some russian blogger). I mean how the hell is he in Norway still? How?

Who was Qatar defending its cup from then? Also "swiss neutrality" has nothing to do with neutrality. It's like how they were "neutral" during WW2 by supporting the Nazi regime finances. Helping genocidal murderers hide their cash is not very neutral methink.

As a side note so called "antiwar" movies and literature are such an utter BS. "War is bad" is just a pretence, but what the thing really does is shifts the blame to some "old people who force naive young guys to fight their war". It's a really comfortable world view to an actual invader, rapist, looter, murderer that it's some other guy's fault 1000 miles away, who most likely never held a gun in his hands ever in his life. Before I knew what russians really are I thought pure evil in movies is just poorly written cliche.