kraze
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3 hours ago, billbindc said:
Well, there goes pretty much every book in 18th and 19th century literature in every tradition folks...
Nah, euro books from 18th and 19th centuries are nowhere near as spiteful as russian literature.
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5 hours ago, keas66 said:
Guys - look you probably have plenty of examples of bad things in past literature - Its the nature of things . I enjoy Literature and Non fiction from times when people of color were clearly being treated as less than human in literature of the times . Do I think such Books need to be purged from our Libraries ? Well - personally no . And I'll happily keep what Russian Literature I have as well - safe on my bookshelves . When you start targeting the Literature /Books of a Culture for reasons of the moment - you are heading down a troublesome path that I have no interest in going down .
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.
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29 minutes ago, keas66 said:
I don't personally see a need to target all Russian Arts/Science/People as Villains incarnate .
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.
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7 minutes ago, keas66 said:
Well ... I'd kind of disagree that that is an overriding theme in any Russian Novels I have personally read ... but I can imagine you are not really interested in conflicting opinions on this subject so I'll leave you to your own (de)illusions .
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.
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9 minutes ago, keas66 said:
Pretty frequently in fact . My section of Russian Literature in my library is larger than the French section I would think ...and I do re-read them fairly frequently . Gogol being a favorite . You need to tone it back a little .
Good. So you have no problem with all the dehumanization of non-russians (or even just human beings) in their books?
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3 hours ago, Fernando said:
And do not forget Dovstoyevski, Pushkin, Turgeniev, Chekhov, Mussorgski, Rimsky-Korsakov etc., etc.
19th century literature and music cannot be understood without the Russian contribution. The American contribution during that century in these two fields is practically negligible compared to the Russian one. I absolutely LOVE Tchaikovsky and Tolstoi myself.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.
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3 hours ago, chrisl said:
Don't leave out Bulgakov.
Nobody leaves that human filth out, trust me.
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1 hour ago, mosuri said:
Mendeleev? Pavlov? Sakharov? Tolstoy? Tarkovsky? Tchaikovsky? Whether Russia has pulled its full weight or not is another thing but there's certainly a bit more than zero cultural achievement stemming from there.
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.
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11 hours ago, Haiduk said:
Russian PsyOps has started in Russian social media as if large-scale offensive will be launched on 21st of Feb and Russian army received an order to destroy Ukrianian military potential in three days up to 24th Feb.
I wanted to post some witty comment here, but I'm out of words.
Це ж було вже.
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1 hour ago, Seminole said:
I do wish the US had taken Putin's bait for some kind of UN registered treaty on Ukrainian neutrality (akin to post-WW2 Austria). That would have also provided the impetus for countries like Mexico to join the Russian embargo, and could have put others like China [edit: and India] on the hook.
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?
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3 hours ago, Haiduk said:
Already in December I have seen the info that our losses around Bakhmut approached to the level of combat losses during 8 years of ATO. This is at least 3500 men.
The town still holding because of continous rotations of troops. Else we would be already lost several brigades there...
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.
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7 minutes ago, Maciej Zwolinski said:
That is very interesting! Any explanation why the Russians have gotten better? Have they managed to obtain artillery advantage once more? Or are VDV/ Wagner tactics working?
"Some volunteers" doesn't equal reliable.
If we suffered 1:1 losses - the town would've been lost by now.
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57 minutes ago, Ales Dvorak said:
I do believe you have strong and reliable info source on " Russia did it ".
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.
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2 hours ago, Ales Dvorak said:
This is normal. Just look at the narrative in EU. Remember North Stream 2? Putin did it, Russia did it...
p.s. Don't turn off the light with a switch, just blow up the house. ( and light will maybe turn off )
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.
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13 hours ago, dan/california said:
That is THE question of this war. Why don't they look around declare it a disaster/I mean total victory, and go the bleep home?
You don't see an answer because you are trying to understand people from 14th century by thinking they are people from 21st century.
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1 hour ago, LongLeftFlank said:
While moms of the immortal fallen are getting... whatever fell off the truck.
Admittedly they don't deserve even that.
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2 hours ago, Artkin said:
Two btgs = 14 tanks and 30 ifvs? Lol
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.
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3 hours ago, Kraft said:
This is objectively true.
All the new PD games are 'streamlined' DLC filled garbage bags.
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.
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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.
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6 hours ago, The_Capt said:
I think the speculation on “what Putin was thinking” is a little deliberately obtuse and more often a defensive reflex to re-write some sort of early bad assessments.
Russia invaded along 6 major operational axis. Tried a deep snap around Kyiv which looked a lot like a decapitation attempt. And then tried for some pretty obvious deep operational objectives - some of this axis pushed 200kms into Ukraine. All the while firing cruise missiles all over the countryside in some sort of “shock and awe” thing. I mean is if walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it is probably a hard snap invasion to setup a proxy power situation.
I mean what else was the plan? A brief tour of the countryside followed by a barn dance? Of course we cannot know exactly what the plan was but there isn’t that much doubt based on the execution.
One thing we have not talked a lot about, largely because it is kind of insensitive to our Ukrainian members, is what would have happened if Russia pulled it off?
Millions dead in concentration camps, as always.
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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".
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11 hours ago, Seedorf81 said:
Just in:
"Former high-ranking Wagner commander crossed the Russian-Norwegian border on foot and asked for asylum. Didn't want to renew his contract in July 2022 after witnessing executions of comrades.
Says he wants to testify against Prigozjin."Don't know what they mean by high-ranking, but even his name is mentioned.
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?
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21 minutes ago, Vet 0369 said:
Switzerland is “officially” neutral, and Ukraine is at war with Russia, so selling or giving any military systems to Ukraine would be violating their neutrality, unless they made the same offers to Russia. Qatar isn’t at war with anyone that I know of.
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.
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11 hours ago, Kraft said:
Now they start warming up the public for a 2nd wave of tampon & SSh68 carrying sturmobiks that will soon make me question again if im watching all quiet on the western front but from a drone.
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.
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
in Combat Mission Black Sea
Posted · Edited by kraze
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.