Elmar Bijlsma

Since I am not above shamelessly stealing a joke from Reddit:
 
Are we sure that is an oil depot on fire and not Admiral Kuznetsov pulling into Sevastopol harbour?

Since I am not above shamelessly stealing a joke from Reddit:
 
Are we sure that is an oil depot on fire and not Admiral Kuznetsov pulling into Sevastopol harbour?

Since I am not above shamelessly stealing a joke from Reddit:
 
Are we sure that is an oil depot on fire and not Admiral Kuznetsov pulling into Sevastopol harbour?

Since I am not above shamelessly stealing a joke from Reddit:
 
Are we sure that is an oil depot on fire and not Admiral Kuznetsov pulling into Sevastopol harbour?

Since I am not above shamelessly stealing a joke from Reddit:
 
Are we sure that is an oil depot on fire and not Admiral Kuznetsov pulling into Sevastopol harbour?

Since I am not above shamelessly stealing a joke from Reddit:
 
Are we sure that is an oil depot on fire and not Admiral Kuznetsov pulling into Sevastopol harbour?

Since I am not above shamelessly stealing a joke from Reddit:
 
Are we sure that is an oil depot on fire and not Admiral Kuznetsov pulling into Sevastopol harbour?

Since I am not above shamelessly stealing a joke from Reddit:
 
Are we sure that is an oil depot on fire and not Admiral Kuznetsov pulling into Sevastopol harbour?

Just to add finnishing touch to this discussions- I really don't get where people have this idea that Stalin was not a commie. He was penultimate communist, writing a dozen or so works on the topic*, by all evidence till the end of his life considering himself a theoretical and practical embodiment of communist world. That is simpy what this inhumane ideology leads to, if unhinged- it takes away all normal ethics, means and barriers of social cooperation in order to achieve its (unachieveable) goals of building New Men. It is religion in fact, and Stalin was Highest Priest of it, ruling from a palace with windows on a pyramid erected around mummy of its Prophet (literally- he wrote several times how much inspired confidence body of Lenin gave him in "difficult" times) . By far the worst element was this disguisting, artificial and hectic new-speech they forced on people, turning them into zombies mumbling for hours. And lies, constant, never ending formalistic lies that ravaged soul of every society communism was enforced upon- one never knew what was true, because truth itself was just ad hoc line of the Party/First Secretary/Juche/whatever. If one never lived in such system, it is even difficult to comprehend the level of hypocritical self-denial it could bring; we still tackle this mentallity of living in half-realistic, improvised society 30 years after communism fall.
 
*My old mother still have shivers when recounting how they forced her to memorize, like on milions of people here, fragments from the works of Stalin (Dialectical and Historical Materialism it was...), during her student exams. And it wasn't worst in this regard in Communist Poland when compared to other places.
 
If we comapre it to Putin's ideology, the latter seems almost bare. To be frank, it looks like machiavellic Putin never liked his own ideological yadda yadda and generally distanced himself from fanatics. It is circumstances (his own war) that force him pretend he mean something except from pure power politics.  This is chief reason why this entire Z generation movement looks so artificially dumb, at least for now- they are going there fast, though.

This fight took place on 9th of April. Probably this is fight for the road near Khromove, "Honor" company of 1st mech.battalion "Da Vicnci" of 67th mech.brigade. 
Dead soldier "Norman" at first minutes of video is Oleh Kornay

Also in the same day "Honor" lost other soldier "Tyomych" - Artem Berezniuk

And in the Holy Fudge category of combat footage, we have a new king:
POV guy shows great personal courage, head is on a swivel. Top notch NCO-ing going on.

And in the Holy Fudge category of combat footage, we have a new king:
POV guy shows great personal courage, head is on a swivel. Top notch NCO-ing going on.

And in the Holy Fudge category of combat footage, we have a new king:
POV guy shows great personal courage, head is on a swivel. Top notch NCO-ing going on.

And in the Holy Fudge category of combat footage, we have a new king:
POV guy shows great personal courage, head is on a swivel. Top notch NCO-ing going on.

And in the Holy Fudge category of combat footage, we have a new king:
POV guy shows great personal courage, head is on a swivel. Top notch NCO-ing going on.

And in the Holy Fudge category of combat footage, we have a new king:
POV guy shows great personal courage, head is on a swivel. Top notch NCO-ing going on.

And in the Holy Fudge category of combat footage, we have a new king:
POV guy shows great personal courage, head is on a swivel. Top notch NCO-ing going on.

And in the Holy Fudge category of combat footage, we have a new king:
POV guy shows great personal courage, head is on a swivel. Top notch NCO-ing going on.

And in the Holy Fudge category of combat footage, we have a new king:
POV guy shows great personal courage, head is on a swivel. Top notch NCO-ing going on.

And in the Holy Fudge category of combat footage, we have a new king:
POV guy shows great personal courage, head is on a swivel. Top notch NCO-ing going on.

And in the Holy Fudge category of combat footage, we have a new king:
POV guy shows great personal courage, head is on a swivel. Top notch NCO-ing going on.

In that era of 10 Pence War comics you also has German generals writing themselves glowing reviews in their memoirs and history books. If anything, peeling the paint off the mythical German über army and exposing its deep flaws is only gaining traction relatively recently.

And in the Holy Fudge category of combat footage, we have a new king:
POV guy shows great personal courage, head is on a swivel. Top notch NCO-ing going on.

And strategy. And intelligence. And jointness. And unified command. And ...
The Eastern Front rather puts the lie to that old canard about history being written by the victors.

In that era of 10 Pence War comics you also has German generals writing themselves glowing reviews in their memoirs and history books. If anything, peeling the paint off the mythical German über army and exposing its deep flaws is only gaining traction relatively recently.