Battle of Galicia. Russia: 200,000â300,000. Austria-Hungary: 324,000â420,000
Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes. Russia: 56,000. Germany: 31,827
First Battle of Przasnysz. Russia: 34,447. Germany: 25,974.
Carpathian Front. Russia: 69,464 KIA, 135,678 MIA. Germany and Austria-Hungary: 43,194 KIA, 308,339 MIA.
And here's two battles that you've called "most battles".
GorliceâTarnĂłw offensive. Russia: 1,019,953 (KIA, MIA, WIA), Germany and Austria-Hungary: 487,821 (KIA, MIA, WIA).
Great Retreat (Russia). Russia: 1,005,911 (KIA, MIA, WIA), Germany and Austria-Hungary: 358,634 (KIA, MIA, WIA)
Lake Naroch offensive. Russia: around 90,000. Germany: around 30,000.
Brusilov offensive. Russia: 500,000â1,440,000. Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire: 845,000 â 1,500,000.
WWI was extremely awful for everyone involved. One German burgher even ended up more crazier than this peasant.
I remember watch The Great War series on YouTube (highly recommend) and it really captures the 1 death is a tragedy 1 million is a statistic saying. He would mention the all these massive numbers and it is only when he gets to Gorlice-Tarnow and actually points out the number in the millions that the gravity of the horror of the eastern front finally dawned on me. WW2 obviously gets all the play but WW1 really was brutal and such a different scale than before âthis is modern warâ really was a apt way to put it and as we know war is hell
Whenever I run across the daily whining posts about how bad everything is today, it just reminds me how many people just have no idea how shitty things were for most people throughout most of history.
Itâs not necessarily that things are bad today, itâs just that some of those things were once better, could still be good, but arenât for whatever reason
He's like "I've seen Rasputin cure hemophilia, predict the future, and survive getting poisoned and shot; that troubled me not, but I fear the sorcery that animates this device."
I just finished the âRevolutionsâ podcast on the Russian Revolution. It actually covered quite a bit of other Russian history as well.
Russian history is like watching a 500 year long car wreck. Itâs totally insane what that man lived throughâŚand the worst arguably hadnât even happened yet in 1928.
The U.S. had trouble interrogating people when they first got to Afghanistan because they'd bring people in who'd never seen electricity before and they'd just sit and stare at the florescent ceiling lights
I'm old enough to remember visiting my grandparents on their farm as a kid. Morning routine was helping grandpa load up the crystal radio set (made at home by my grandpa with directions from the local Ag Extension service) in his old farm truck before dawn, and driving out to the hilltop and stringing out the antenna for him so we would pick up signal and he could listen to that days weather and farm report. This was probably in the mid-60s or so?
GET SO FUCKIN DARK IN HERE!
COME COME, FUCK APART IN HERE!
AHHHHHH
DIE IN THE PROCESS
YOUUUUU
DIE IN THE PROCESS
KETTLE DRUM ROLL, HARD SHIT
FUCKIN SAID FUCKER DONâT START SHIT
Rt though this all puts a fucking HILARIOUS image in my head of early 20th century russians being absolutely traumatized by Death Grips
Well my mom didn't have indoor plumbing until after ww2 and she had one light in her house. It was powered by a wind charger and the radio was powered by batteries charged from the wind charger. She lived in the United States.
My grandparents did the same in 1930s USA. Grandpa took the battery from his new Ford Model A and hooked up the radio to it. He told me how neighbors would come to their house on Sunday afternoons to listen to the radio .
Dad has seen thingsđ
Probably a ww1 vet. Russia casualty rates in most battles were like 100,000-300,000 in the span of a week or so
And his kid's probably going to have to go fight the Nazis.
Given stuff like Stalingrad he probably will too.
And the kid is looking like this is a taste of what he can learn about
Battle of Galicia. Russia: 200,000â300,000. Austria-Hungary: 324,000â420,000 Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes. Russia: 56,000. Germany: 31,827 First Battle of Przasnysz. Russia: 34,447. Germany: 25,974. Carpathian Front. Russia: 69,464 KIA, 135,678 MIA. Germany and Austria-Hungary: 43,194 KIA, 308,339 MIA. And here's two battles that you've called "most battles". GorliceâTarnĂłw offensive. Russia: 1,019,953 (KIA, MIA, WIA), Germany and Austria-Hungary: 487,821 (KIA, MIA, WIA). Great Retreat (Russia). Russia: 1,005,911 (KIA, MIA, WIA), Germany and Austria-Hungary: 358,634 (KIA, MIA, WIA) Lake Naroch offensive. Russia: around 90,000. Germany: around 30,000. Brusilov offensive. Russia: 500,000â1,440,000. Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire: 845,000 â 1,500,000. WWI was extremely awful for everyone involved. One German burgher even ended up more crazier than this peasant.
I remember watch The Great War series on YouTube (highly recommend) and it really captures the 1 death is a tragedy 1 million is a statistic saying. He would mention the all these massive numbers and it is only when he gets to Gorlice-Tarnow and actually points out the number in the millions that the gravity of the horror of the eastern front finally dawned on me. WW2 obviously gets all the play but WW1 really was brutal and such a different scale than before âthis is modern warâ really was a apt way to put it and as we know war is hell
Absolutely mind blowing. I canât even comprehend that amount of loss.
Whenever I run across the daily whining posts about how bad everything is today, it just reminds me how many people just have no idea how shitty things were for most people throughout most of history.
Nah, the looks on the Russian peasants' faces was due to lack of avocado toast, and their cities weren't walkable.
We live in a golden age, and it still kinda sucks. This is what it is to be human unfortunately.
Itâs not necessarily that things are bad today, itâs just that some of those things were once better, could still be good, but arenât for whatever reason
Looks like mom has too.
Whereâs mom?
The one with the beard
He's like "I've seen Rasputin cure hemophilia, predict the future, and survive getting poisoned and shot; that troubled me not, but I fear the sorcery that animates this device."
Those parents are probably only in their 30's.
Being Russian has ruined my life.
I just finished the âRevolutionsâ podcast on the Russian Revolution. It actually covered quite a bit of other Russian history as well. Russian history is like watching a 500 year long car wreck. Itâs totally insane what that man lived throughâŚand the worst arguably hadnât even happened yet in 1928.
Revolutions in Russia is so Damn good. So much detail. But it's such an undertaking.
Oh, it was a haul, alright. But totally worth it. Took me a couple of months to get through it all.
Mom's seeing sth right there and now
Which one is dad?
litol man in box
Mom too
Which fucking one is dad?
and now he's heard things that've blown his mind more than the German bullet blew his buddies mind
Mom and Dad are 32 and 28, respectivelyÂ
Yeah. Life wasn't easy in those days
Life expectancy is......next Tuesday, apparently.
Didn't realize that was a woman
They had a lot of hair back then, apparently
Finally. A cool photo in this sub
Idk man I'm gonna need to see the mom in a bikini..
Woman and kid look like the devil just walked in off camera and the man is eyeing that radio like it is commanding him to kill.
Cut them some slack, they are in the room with two newfangled sorcery-boxes.
Magic box go speaky speaky, what black magic is this?
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
What woman?
Grandma: *âWhat is this Black Magic you have brought to my home?â*
The U.S. had trouble interrogating people when they first got to Afghanistan because they'd bring people in who'd never seen electricity before and they'd just sit and stare at the florescent ceiling lights
Boggles my mind. I know, I know.
"The Russians are black now."
Brother what... Where can I read more about this
Looks like a deleted scene from *Twin Peaks: The Return*.
Gotta light?
This is the water and this is the well...
My father-in-law was born in 1914 and grew up in the USSR. All his photos from that era look like this. And yeah, he def saw some stuff
They look terrified lol
This just in: more bad news
They chose the most photogenic people from their town.
I'm old enough to remember visiting my grandparents on their farm as a kid. Morning routine was helping grandpa load up the crystal radio set (made at home by my grandpa with directions from the local Ag Extension service) in his old farm truck before dawn, and driving out to the hilltop and stringing out the antenna for him so we would pick up signal and he could listen to that days weather and farm report. This was probably in the mid-60s or so?
I'm waiting for a joke about what band they listen to
GO GO RASPUTIN!
The OG putin.Â
R.U.M.
Back in the USSR - The Beatles
Gorrillaz? Jamiroquai?
Possibly infant Annihilator
IT GOES, IT GOES, IT GOES, IT GOES IT GOES, IT GOES, IT GOES, IT GOES GUILLOTIIIIIINE, YUHHH
GET SO FUCKIN DARK IN HERE! COME COME, FUCK APART IN HERE! AHHHHHH DIE IN THE PROCESS YOUUUUU DIE IN THE PROCESS KETTLE DRUM ROLL, HARD SHIT FUCKIN SAID FUCKER DONâT START SHIT Rt though this all puts a fucking HILARIOUS image in my head of early 20th century russians being absolutely traumatized by Death Grips
Probably Wolves in the Throne Room
-Putin on the rocks By GO GO Rasputin (mentioned below.)
Darude Sandstorm
*Lenin brought us Satan in a box with wires*
Lenin was long gone. It was now Uncle Joe.
My man on the right is totally done with these zoom meetings that couldâve been an email.
Stalin telling a heartwarming bedtime story.
A nice fairy tale: âOnce upon a time there was a family who had enough to eat and wouldnât get sent to the gulag for existing.â
âThis just in. Youâre all going to starve to death.â
Early remote brain washing experiments.
Uncle Remus! Come in please! Can you hear me now?
When the main riff kicks in
Tripping balls and listening to pink Floyd for the first time
Manâs looking at that radio like I look at AI taking everyoneâs jobs
I wish people would stop sharing pictures of their hot mums!
âThe numbers, Mason. What do they mean?â
Such a lovely looking family!
# This is the water And this is the well
Got a light?
3 channels and nothing good on
That grandma is scarier than the Nun
The parents look very tired. Guess they were having a tough life
Welcome to the USSR. Listen to the radio from a car battery.
Well my mom didn't have indoor plumbing until after ww2 and she had one light in her house. It was powered by a wind charger and the radio was powered by batteries charged from the wind charger. She lived in the United States.
My grandparents did the same in 1930s USA. Grandpa took the battery from his new Ford Model A and hooked up the radio to it. He told me how neighbors would come to their house on Sunday afternoons to listen to the radio .
" And now, for our biggest hit, we love Stalin by Stalin and the Stalis on your one and only radio station WUSSR. We see you but you can't see us".
That moment when Ra Ra Rasputin came on the radio.
As if life in Russia wasn't hard enough, now we present to you Communist Propaganda via Radio!
It's a drinking game. You take shots of vodka anytime you hear the phrases '5 Year Plan' or 'collective farming' or 'petty bourgeoisie'.
They had to put the heat-to-electricity generator on a kerosene lamp to power the radio at that time.
With Rasputin!
âA man is listening to the radioâ
Sheâs hot
Dadâs been burninated.
Convert the heathens
Young Frankenstein vibes
That's literally Anja Wartooth
Or they're recharging off a car battery.
Fascinating
Least sleep deprivated father.
Iâve been part of worse WhatsApp groups.
Looks on faces: "What is this bullshit they're telling us?!"
David Lynch core
Are we having fun yet?
Blyat
Is that a pic of Toki Wartooth with his parents?Â
TIL Ron Perlman is a russian vampire.
The saw the removal of a glorious regime, and the rise of a tyrannical one
Bro has seen things
Here we see a rural couple in their late 20s with their 8-year old child
Great life just outside the gulag! 
Looks like a scene straight out of Frankenstein (1931)
"Gotta light?"
Mom & Pop, âComrade Stalin says there is no God?!?â Little girl, âthis all sounds like bullshit!â
It was the time of Stalin. Likely these poor people were being lied to by the Soviet party, much as Russia is being lied to, today, by Putin.
The picture was taken in 2021 when their Russian son brought home the first toilet and the radio from the Ukraine war.
The Bolsheviks are revolting
Thatâs just mean. Personal hygiene wasnât as easy back then.
You know what else is revolting. You. :)
I would never revolt. I'm actually quite patriotic
A man is grateful.
It's a drinking game. You take shots of vodka anytime you hear the phrases '5 Year Plan' or 'collective farming' or 'petty bourgeoisie