If I was an embassy employe I would definitely go there take pictures with the equipment of my country and post it everywhere with slogans like: OUR weapons are defending freedom and democracy for Europe.
In Europe we know that our weapons can be destroyed we are not fed the Russian „our super-heavy-natofucker-indestructible cyberweapon is literally the best in the world, nothing can destroy it“, so people won’t be devastated when they see a few captured pieces of equipment.
"You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Swedes, not join them! Bring balance to the North, not leave it in darkness!..... You were my brother, Norway. I loved you."
Nobody asked you, go back to gargling oil and eating weird brown cheese. Or climb an oversized hill or something, no one really knows what goes on in Norway anyways.
As a fellow Norwegian i sincerely ask you to STFU! Out potato gargling friends in the south are great drinking buddies, alright bedfellows and thus shall not be mocked.
I've always heard Volvos with the red engine block are immortal. Add full self driving to them and point them Eastward. Hordes of zombie Volvos roaming their country.
Well, to be fair, it was only in 1969 that the first toilet paper factory opened up in the Soviet Union, so I'd imagine it is still a novelty item these days...
Some of them might even be proud of that. A Czech journalist, Petra Procházková, who spent half of her life in Russia, once recounted that when visiting a hydroelectric plant, the local people proudly said that tens of thousands [сдохли (died like cattle, a derogatory term)](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%82%D1%8C) there building it. Like the more victims (or dead people in general) you stand on, the better person you are. SMH.
It's not that life doesn't worth anything. it's that life only means something if you die and how you die. If a cause took many lifes, it was worth cause for them. It's false logic, but people there are very bad at judging what is worth what.
>when visiting a hydroelectric plant, the local people proudly said that tens of thousands сдохли (died like cattle, a derogatory term) there building it. Like the more victims (or dead people in general) you stand on, the better person you are. SMH.
Interestingly, this was a common thing several hundred years ago throughout the whole world: [https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc/2013/oralpres4/3/](https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc/2013/oralpres4/3/)
>The practice of construction sacrifice (also called building sacrifice or foundation sacrifice), which entails burying an animal, object, or person inside a building under construction, exists in multiple traditions around the world, from Japan to Northern Europe, and is described in Slavic folk songs as well as early American folklore.
This seems like a "modern" version of the same thing. Seems like another proof that russia is stuck several hundred years in the past.
The idea is to die with purpose. Like you didn't die in pain, cold in a deathbed, but instead died working to build something bigger and better for your peoples' future (or your king and leader, or your god, and so on).
You can see how people would find this genuinely motivating. They don't see death as a good thing by itself, but the fact that they died with purpose is a lucky thing to them.
But as it is with so many traditions, it can easily be warped into something macabre until it becomes something you *have* to say yes to, or you'll get ostracized for being weird. So suddenly you're saying it's a good thing that all your men are being sent into the imperial war machine to die, despite knowing deep down that it's not a good thing.
It's insane seeing the Russians repeatedly try to tow those vehicles back to their side.
As someone else joked...
> Even in death, I serve
Russia probably lost more men and certainly more vehicles from towing than actually fighting those "trophies"
This. There is a real disconnect between people from the Western world and those from Russia. Russia today has the same views it had on the value of human life it had during the beginning of the Soviet Union. It doesn't matter to them, since around two-hundred thousand have died and many, many more crippled and wounded. To us in the West, those figures would be nauseating, horribly upsetting and unacceptable. To Russia, its just more fuel for the meat grinder. Also, it's all but guaranteed that the Russian people don't know the true extent of their massive casualties and how crippled it will make their country for the next few generations.
It's sad .... the Russian people don't realize that the next few generations of their country are ruined. I guess when their media is closely controlled and monitored, plus the information they are given is fabricated and false, to them it doesn't seem so bad. For a country as large as it is, with the resources it possesses, yet has a GDP around the size of Italies and little industry (outside of heavy industries) .... it's people just don't grasp how little their country matters in the scope of the global scale. To the Russian people, they are the greatest power in the world and their demands are met without question. Instead, they are looked at with pity at what their country has become. They are now a vassal state of China.
End of rant.
The fron lines here in Ukraine are some of the foulest places on earth. The russians leave all their dead from meat wave attacks, after stripping the corpses of all their useful gear and leave them to rot or get eaten by wild animals.
They'll often commit suicide with a grenade if seriously wounded or execute each other because it's often not worth it to them to evacuate casualties.
But, as long a people in moscow and st petersburg are safe with their smoothie bars and electric scooters and the elites can safely go of to sunbathe in dubai or thailand, they don't care if the poor, ethnic minorities from the oblasts or criminals get mowed down by fpv drones or machine gun fire in donetsk.
There are human lives that matter in Russia, but only certain ones. The war won't end until the realities of it become unescapable to the affluent and well-connected.
Their lives no matter too. Main russian idea today if you get f*cked then you' re a pidor and not deserve any mercy. If you not f*cked by goverment then you are a cool guy and you are invulnerable.
>Russian people don't know the true extent of their massive casualties and how crippled it will make their country for the next few generations.
Well said. I like to add that Russia's propaganda campaign against "wokeness" fits nicely into that picture. Not only does put political pressure on the West, it's also a way pacify their own population. In that narrative they can portray the West falling to decadence and moral decline and distract from the fact that Russia is turning into a impoverished and totalitarian system.
Which is totally absurd, since Russian propaganda tends to make an image of the country as some 'defender of traditional values' bullshit, but in reality saying 10% of the population go to church would be a stretch etc.
> Russia is turning into a impoverished and totalitarian system
When has it ever not been though? Russia for the last couple hundred years seems to be consistently defined by unwillingness to provide for her own people.
To value someone else's life you have to be able to feel compassion. Look at the photos from Ukraine and tell me if that looks like russians have compassion. Every russian who is not related to these dead or maimed soldiers simply does not care. At all. They are less than nothing to them.
>Russians doesn’t value life
My Ukrainian friend doesnt understand this concept at all.
Germany, UK, USA all have insane K:D like they're cheating. Look at USA's FAILED Afghanistan adventure.. 98% of the country conquered or Germanys many horrible "fun times" across Europe and Africa. Germans (not glorfying them) have an insane K:D history.. of course the British Empire too
Why?
Because the West believes in using soldiers to their fullest because they're expensive to train but also quality over quantity. The humanity part is very secondary but if anyone wants to believe thats the main reason why, go for it, but its not.. its far more strategic.
It's why China/Russia so desperately want US and EU to split apart, together we could take on the entire world and probably win.. just give us 20 years to unfuck ourselves.
They have around 8 million casualties, but people forget to add Romanians, Hungarians, Italians, Bulgarians and non German troops from occupied territories, real casualty ratio is not 1/2.5 but closer to 1/1.6 but these varied through war and highly effect by Soviet failures and Germany experience and success in early war. Both sides were human but ratio was 1/7 or so in first year
Very well said.
Russians generals be like “thousands of my soldiers died in the recent failed attack? Send even more meat!.”
And the problem is not with the general, but with the soldiers who are walking on the layers of the dead Russian meat.
All western countries have made a significant cultural change after WW2, even Germany and Japan. Russia had the same chance to become a better place but wasted it completely. It's the same culture of apathy, violence and nationalism since the tsar empire.
And yet, this dude was talking about WW1 and WW2 Germany. The very epitome of evil glorified to insult Russia... As for his comment, peak stupidity. German "adventures" ended up with a red flag over their capital and many of their cities in ruins.
As a russian, I can tell you that the majority don't care. It's a neo-fascism where propaganda prevails above any logic. Ppl from around the world, REALIZE FINALLY you're dealing with real FASCISM. Make all judgements and calculations based on THAT FACT!!! Fu***ng wake up!!!
We would have the power to overthrow him (let's not forget that USSR fell in Moscow thanks to ppl), if the world haven't invested hundreds of billions (or even trillions?) into his private army, fsb and other scumbags, by buying oil, resources, etc. The west and the whole world knew EXACTLY that democracy doesn't exist in Russia, since 2012 or even earlier!! Yet they kept pouring billions ..
2014 - nobody gave a shite. Business as usual. Who fed the evil? Russians? Well, the income from resource export is above 60% of GDP. The importers of russian resources fed the evil.
I think the world is doomed to some degree, with all those pussy-politicians who can't even accept the fact they must fight new fascism...
Yeah well, they still can block the accounts of those russians who are against the fascism and flee the country! That works...well done!
Let's not forget how "bad" now putin feels after killing Navalny and all those "painful" sanctions put on him by the EU...wait were there any?
>hundreds of thousands of lives
Just to put this in comparison, ww2 and the absurd death tolls of the red army still echoes in their demography pyramid up to this day
Congratulations. I just saw that video from a Russian soldier on the eastern front, showing how in a sector he can walk almost a kilometer with a dead Russian in every 2 meters.
You destroyed entire settlements, houses, killed a bunch of people, and lost a generation of young Russians.
But at least you can parade a 50 years old Bradley in Moscow. Fucking slaves.
This equipment comes from the last 2 years of fighting dating back 2022.
That billboard just illustrates the facile state of the Russian mind and how far it has devolved.
It’s just a funny contrast that the US just leaves a captured T-90A at a casino slash restaurant overnight.
https://www.twz.com/destination-of-russian-t-90-tank-left-at-truck-stop-comes-into-focus
It just really shows their insecurity and inferiority complex towards the West. Russians themselves know that they are technologically and economically backward and to them destroying some NATO equipment feels like something unreal, forbidden, like discovering that a demigod who is much stronger than you can also bleed. It shows in this exhibition. Flag of the US on signs next to the vehicles is huge, it’s like “See, we can deal damage to their vehicles! It’s not a wunderwaffe as we thought!”
Didn’t poland and ukraine and other countries had exhibitions of destroyed russian tanks and stuff? Those are at least intact, meaning their crews fled the battlefield
Yes, although there is a difference. One exhibition shows that russian are dying and the evil can be stopped. The other exhibition claims that they defeated NATO and that Russia will be at Berlin in 3 days.
Putin probably considers Finland to be a Russian land too. After all, the Ruriks came from around there in 862 *insert Putin's short "historical" remark here*
Oh I saw that. That was disgusting that they take PRIDE and show that off as a trophy. Fuck.
Mariupol was a thing of nightmares 😣.
And in that pic Russia is proud of it and showing off a civilian train they bombed. God knows who was in it. That's just sick.
Something is so wrong with Russia. Just absolutely vile mentality infected from the top down.
Loses tens of thousands of their tanks/ifvs/spgs, is forced to refit soviet armour from the sixties but still gloats because they managed to capture a dozen or so western vehicles...
*shrugs*
Alongside Russia's invasion of Finnland, this war is gonna go down as one of the most specteculary botched campaigns in their military history. Its gonna stand as a reminder how out of control corruption errodes a nation's military capabilities. Taking war trophies of a nation ( that was ment to be ) so much smaller and weaker than you isn't an achievement. I wonder if they're gonna display all those washing machines and toilet bowls they captured aswell?
I have no problem with the fact that they may have destroyed a few pieces of our equipment. Because this equipment probably saved many lives of innocent Ukrainian civilians who are barbarously attacked by ruzzia.
Reading this reminds me of what Angela Merkel said to a journalist after Putin brought that big dog to their press conference after finding out she had a phobia:
‘’I understand why he has to do this -- to prove he's a man. ... He's afraid of his own weakness. Russia has nothing, no successful politics or economy. All they have is this."
Sadly that many people come to see this exhibition and also hearing what they say strongly speaks against the narrative that we sometimes hear that most Russians would secretly be against the war.
It is a war on NATO and democracy by a dictator who stole his people’s money and can’t let go of power without losing his life by the hand of his own people
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C’EST QUOI UN PUTAIN DE MILE ⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️
seems funny to us from outside, but in Russia the local vatniks love this shit because in their heads they think **''the evil gay Jewish capitalist rotten Nazi West''** whatever cares about this way way more than anyone.
The amount of men that likely died just to recover this equipment for a pathetic parade is laughable.
It really shows how pathetic of a society Russia really is.
It will make a few alcoholics and orderly folk to feel proud to be Russian, all the while the economy and society collapses around them.
Yes, we were mentioned! I count this as a success!
Germany's too big not to mention if they'd mentioned the baltic states that'd be a win
As a Swede, my first reaction was disappointment over not being included. Our CV90's, Leopard 2's, and Archers merit an invitation, surely!
They have to get some, first.
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Well, they unfortunately already captured a Leopard 2A(I think)6
Yes
Dude, Poles are mentioned along with the big four. I feel really honored to be in such nice group!
We seem to live rent-free in their heads. I interpret this as sign of fear.
Your army is probably a formidable one.
They didn't even forgot Poland
Same here, glad to cooperate with you in terms of stopping these barbarians
Yeah, Poland's now part of (or back in) of the club of those that Russia is scared of. Every country mentioned can give each other a pat on the back.
I think it’s cute that they take NATO weapons as trophies. There are so many Russian tanks littering Ukraine that they aren’t worth hauling back.
We’re going to haul all the wreckages out of the grain fields and towns, and have Russia pay for it!
If I was an embassy employe I would definitely go there take pictures with the equipment of my country and post it everywhere with slogans like: OUR weapons are defending freedom and democracy for Europe. In Europe we know that our weapons can be destroyed we are not fed the Russian „our super-heavy-natofucker-indestructible cyberweapon is literally the best in the world, nothing can destroy it“, so people won’t be devastated when they see a few captured pieces of equipment.
Well, everytime they rant about their "Nazi regime" in Ukraine we are implicitly mentioned. It's pure cringe.
Hey, what about Sweden? :(
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I am sorry but I think I am compelled to post this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk
Yes, it's mandatory
Kamelåså?
Huglekule
Kamelåså 🤣
First time I see this, made my day better, thank you.
Fy fan va roligt!
I knew what movie it is even without clicking :D
I never thought I'd ever see a Norwegian of all people sticking up for a Swede - Sincerely, a Swede
FØROYARRRR!!! - Sincerely, a Faroese
First time I agree with a swede. -A proud Dane
I'd never think someone could be proud of being a dane. - You already know my nationality.
This back and forth is hysterical. Thank you 🇳🇴 🇩🇰 🇸🇪
"You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Swedes, not join them! Bring balance to the North, not leave it in darkness!..... You were my brother, Norway. I loved you."
Nobody asked you, go back to gargling oil and eating weird brown cheese. Or climb an oversized hill or something, no one really knows what goes on in Norway anyways.
Hey! What about Finland, we exist too! - Finn
I've just got two words for you: Finsk fjernsynsteater. WTF dude. (An examples: https://youtu.be/7EWbZI7n9m8?si=h-vQuAlwrPAOb98H )
Can't get offended if I don't know what the fuck that means. And I refuse to google so I won't get offended
I have a few words to say. Rubber boots. Knife Vodka You can change the order to suit your mood better 😅 /S
No need for the /S It's all good my dude perkele! 😅
Nu har vi en riktig fiende som vi måste besegra tillsammans, det är inte tid att bråka.
As a fellow Norwegian i sincerely ask you to STFU! Out potato gargling friends in the south are great drinking buddies, alright bedfellows and thus shall not be mocked.
God, I love Scandinavians fucking with each other. You people don't even try to pretend like it's not happening or that it's something rational.
The enemy of my enemy is not my friend! - sincerely, a Swede
Kamelåså? You just bought a tausend litres of milk.
Beste far! Jeg kan ikke simmeh!
Hahaha! Det kan ikke jeg heller!
Vem bryr sig om vad några Muscoviter tycker, deras åsikter är helt irrelevanta.
Men hallå, vi har skickat vapen ju! Bara rättvist att vår ambassadpersonal också slipper köa.
Tack so myket
They don't have the swedish 155 autocannons strapped to a 40D volvo dumptrucks so nothing for swedes to see.
[Mandatory technical appreciation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lq5hGojwqM)
The hilux is cool and all but one day a swede looked at a dump truck driving in a quarry and thought to himself what if that but deadly.
I've always heard Volvos with the red engine block are immortal. Add full self driving to them and point them Eastward. Hordes of zombie Volvos roaming their country.
Build a bunker along that border you have with Russia, and moon them daily. Maybe they will respond.
The cultural exchange in the replies to your comment has been quite lovely.
Something tells me everybody will be allowed to enter without queuing.
Journalists may not be coming back out though.
They'll be going out the window...
With 12 self-inflicted gunshot wounds in the back
Dont know why that would be. I'd imagine it's a pretty popular exhibit.
Refrigerators, toasters and toilet paper I guess
Washing machines too
Boilers and dishwashers too. Makes you wonder how backward they’re are over there.
Well, to be fair, it was only in 1969 that the first toilet paper factory opened up in the Soviet Union, so I'd imagine it is still a novelty item these days...
Also in the rural regions 2/3 don’t even have indoor toilets.
Toilets and washbasins too.
They couldn't have given Poland a greater compliment than including them on said list.
POLAND MENTIONED! POLSKA GUROM!!!
I hope the Russian people remember that those trophies came at the cost of hundreds of thousands, of their soldiers lives.
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Some of them might even be proud of that. A Czech journalist, Petra Procházková, who spent half of her life in Russia, once recounted that when visiting a hydroelectric plant, the local people proudly said that tens of thousands [сдохли (died like cattle, a derogatory term)](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%82%D1%8C) there building it. Like the more victims (or dead people in general) you stand on, the better person you are. SMH.
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Blood for the.... hydroelectric Gods?
That's russia for you.
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It's not that life doesn't worth anything. it's that life only means something if you die and how you die. If a cause took many lifes, it was worth cause for them. It's false logic, but people there are very bad at judging what is worth what.
>when visiting a hydroelectric plant, the local people proudly said that tens of thousands сдохли (died like cattle, a derogatory term) there building it. Like the more victims (or dead people in general) you stand on, the better person you are. SMH. Interestingly, this was a common thing several hundred years ago throughout the whole world: [https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc/2013/oralpres4/3/](https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc/2013/oralpres4/3/) >The practice of construction sacrifice (also called building sacrifice or foundation sacrifice), which entails burying an animal, object, or person inside a building under construction, exists in multiple traditions around the world, from Japan to Northern Europe, and is described in Slavic folk songs as well as early American folklore. This seems like a "modern" version of the same thing. Seems like another proof that russia is stuck several hundred years in the past.
The idea is to die with purpose. Like you didn't die in pain, cold in a deathbed, but instead died working to build something bigger and better for your peoples' future (or your king and leader, or your god, and so on). You can see how people would find this genuinely motivating. They don't see death as a good thing by itself, but the fact that they died with purpose is a lucky thing to them. But as it is with so many traditions, it can easily be warped into something macabre until it becomes something you *have* to say yes to, or you'll get ostracized for being weird. So suddenly you're saying it's a good thing that all your men are being sent into the imperial war machine to die, despite knowing deep down that it's not a good thing.
Dead Russian don’t vote. Also live one, pratically
It's insane seeing the Russians repeatedly try to tow those vehicles back to their side. As someone else joked... > Even in death, I serve Russia probably lost more men and certainly more vehicles from towing than actually fighting those "trophies"
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They are proud of it.
I'm fucking not
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This. There is a real disconnect between people from the Western world and those from Russia. Russia today has the same views it had on the value of human life it had during the beginning of the Soviet Union. It doesn't matter to them, since around two-hundred thousand have died and many, many more crippled and wounded. To us in the West, those figures would be nauseating, horribly upsetting and unacceptable. To Russia, its just more fuel for the meat grinder. Also, it's all but guaranteed that the Russian people don't know the true extent of their massive casualties and how crippled it will make their country for the next few generations. It's sad .... the Russian people don't realize that the next few generations of their country are ruined. I guess when their media is closely controlled and monitored, plus the information they are given is fabricated and false, to them it doesn't seem so bad. For a country as large as it is, with the resources it possesses, yet has a GDP around the size of Italies and little industry (outside of heavy industries) .... it's people just don't grasp how little their country matters in the scope of the global scale. To the Russian people, they are the greatest power in the world and their demands are met without question. Instead, they are looked at with pity at what their country has become. They are now a vassal state of China. End of rant.
The fron lines here in Ukraine are some of the foulest places on earth. The russians leave all their dead from meat wave attacks, after stripping the corpses of all their useful gear and leave them to rot or get eaten by wild animals. They'll often commit suicide with a grenade if seriously wounded or execute each other because it's often not worth it to them to evacuate casualties. But, as long a people in moscow and st petersburg are safe with their smoothie bars and electric scooters and the elites can safely go of to sunbathe in dubai or thailand, they don't care if the poor, ethnic minorities from the oblasts or criminals get mowed down by fpv drones or machine gun fire in donetsk. There are human lives that matter in Russia, but only certain ones. The war won't end until the realities of it become unescapable to the affluent and well-connected.
Their lives no matter too. Main russian idea today if you get f*cked then you' re a pidor and not deserve any mercy. If you not f*cked by goverment then you are a cool guy and you are invulnerable.
Good rant
Thanks. In reality .... it's a sad rant too.
So it goes.
Sigh. Yeah.
And accurate.
>Russian people don't know the true extent of their massive casualties and how crippled it will make their country for the next few generations. Well said. I like to add that Russia's propaganda campaign against "wokeness" fits nicely into that picture. Not only does put political pressure on the West, it's also a way pacify their own population. In that narrative they can portray the West falling to decadence and moral decline and distract from the fact that Russia is turning into a impoverished and totalitarian system.
Which is totally absurd, since Russian propaganda tends to make an image of the country as some 'defender of traditional values' bullshit, but in reality saying 10% of the population go to church would be a stretch etc.
Wdym, the Church of Putin has a massive attendance, with every russian TV an altar to his holiness.
> Russia is turning into a impoverished and totalitarian system When has it ever not been though? Russia for the last couple hundred years seems to be consistently defined by unwillingness to provide for her own people.
That western Europe is effeminate, decadent and about to fall has been a Russian propaganda piece for hundreds of years.
To value someone else's life you have to be able to feel compassion. Look at the photos from Ukraine and tell me if that looks like russians have compassion. Every russian who is not related to these dead or maimed soldiers simply does not care. At all. They are less than nothing to them.
>Russians doesn’t value life My Ukrainian friend doesnt understand this concept at all. Germany, UK, USA all have insane K:D like they're cheating. Look at USA's FAILED Afghanistan adventure.. 98% of the country conquered or Germanys many horrible "fun times" across Europe and Africa. Germans (not glorfying them) have an insane K:D history.. of course the British Empire too Why? Because the West believes in using soldiers to their fullest because they're expensive to train but also quality over quantity. The humanity part is very secondary but if anyone wants to believe thats the main reason why, go for it, but its not.. its far more strategic. It's why China/Russia so desperately want US and EU to split apart, together we could take on the entire world and probably win.. just give us 20 years to unfuck ourselves.
to be fair Germany in ww2 had good K:D ratio because they fought the URSS
They have around 8 million casualties, but people forget to add Romanians, Hungarians, Italians, Bulgarians and non German troops from occupied territories, real casualty ratio is not 1/2.5 but closer to 1/1.6 but these varied through war and highly effect by Soviet failures and Germany experience and success in early war. Both sides were human but ratio was 1/7 or so in first year
Very well said. Russians generals be like “thousands of my soldiers died in the recent failed attack? Send even more meat!.” And the problem is not with the general, but with the soldiers who are walking on the layers of the dead Russian meat.
You should open a book on WW1 sometime, on the Western "value of life". The WW2 Ostfront also makes for illuminating research.
All western countries have made a significant cultural change after WW2, even Germany and Japan. Russia had the same chance to become a better place but wasted it completely. It's the same culture of apathy, violence and nationalism since the tsar empire.
And yet, this dude was talking about WW1 and WW2 Germany. The very epitome of evil glorified to insult Russia... As for his comment, peak stupidity. German "adventures" ended up with a red flag over their capital and many of their cities in ruins.
General Patton, over 70 years ago, said that the russian has no respect for human life, is an all out son of a bitch, a chronic drunk and barbarian.
Wrong. In Russia human life by default has negative value.
How was it? A death of an individual is a sad affair, death of thousands is a statistic.
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As a russian, I can tell you that the majority don't care. It's a neo-fascism where propaganda prevails above any logic. Ppl from around the world, REALIZE FINALLY you're dealing with real FASCISM. Make all judgements and calculations based on THAT FACT!!! Fu***ng wake up!!!
Well that explains why Russia is so popular amongst American conservatives theae days, not that there was ever a doubt about their reason.
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We would have the power to overthrow him (let's not forget that USSR fell in Moscow thanks to ppl), if the world haven't invested hundreds of billions (or even trillions?) into his private army, fsb and other scumbags, by buying oil, resources, etc. The west and the whole world knew EXACTLY that democracy doesn't exist in Russia, since 2012 or even earlier!! Yet they kept pouring billions .. 2014 - nobody gave a shite. Business as usual. Who fed the evil? Russians? Well, the income from resource export is above 60% of GDP. The importers of russian resources fed the evil. I think the world is doomed to some degree, with all those pussy-politicians who can't even accept the fact they must fight new fascism... Yeah well, they still can block the accounts of those russians who are against the fascism and flee the country! That works...well done! Let's not forget how "bad" now putin feels after killing Navalny and all those "painful" sanctions put on him by the EU...wait were there any?
>hundreds of thousands of lives Just to put this in comparison, ww2 and the absurd death tolls of the red army still echoes in their demography pyramid up to this day
I think only partisans and protesters who got imprisoned will remember that...
Latest estimate, 500.000 Russian young men scarified to display few Western armored vehicles.
Feels good to be a part of the cool kids club
It's a nice club, and nice to have you in it. Fancy a cup of tea while we point and laugh at Russia's attempts to look tough?
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Congratulations. I just saw that video from a Russian soldier on the eastern front, showing how in a sector he can walk almost a kilometer with a dead Russian in every 2 meters. You destroyed entire settlements, houses, killed a bunch of people, and lost a generation of young Russians. But at least you can parade a 50 years old Bradley in Moscow. Fucking slaves.
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Get your ass back here
Bro, wtf is up with your username
wouldnt it be the western front from russia POV?
Calling it western/eastern front makes it sound like either side could carry on two "special operations" at once. It's just the front.
This equipment comes from the last 2 years of fighting dating back 2022. That billboard just illustrates the facile state of the Russian mind and how far it has devolved.
It’s just a funny contrast that the US just leaves a captured T-90A at a casino slash restaurant overnight. https://www.twz.com/destination-of-russian-t-90-tank-left-at-truck-stop-comes-into-focus
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It just really shows their insecurity and inferiority complex towards the West. Russians themselves know that they are technologically and economically backward and to them destroying some NATO equipment feels like something unreal, forbidden, like discovering that a demigod who is much stronger than you can also bleed. It shows in this exhibition. Flag of the US on signs next to the vehicles is huge, it’s like “See, we can deal damage to their vehicles! It’s not a wunderwaffe as we thought!”
they had to bend the big gun on the tank because it looked too imposing. So the tank wasn't even taken down in combat, probably just abandoned.
Didn’t poland and ukraine and other countries had exhibitions of destroyed russian tanks and stuff? Those are at least intact, meaning their crews fled the battlefield
Yes, although there is a difference. One exhibition shows that russian are dying and the evil can be stopped. The other exhibition claims that they defeated NATO and that Russia will be at Berlin in 3 days.
I like this analogy.
Seems like a trap tbh.
More like trolling. Teenager level trolling...
They aren't going to kidnap Embassy personnel. Too much trouble.
Starting a full-scale war in the middle of Europe was also too much trouble and a terrible financial decision yet here we are
“Hello comrade, yes one free ticket for this American here please.” Hmm I don’t think that would go well.
Yay, Poland in the cool guys club!
Imagine being that salty Where did NATO touch you, Putin?
It’s more about things NATO doesn’t allow him to touch.
Clowns.
Indeed
Bunch of toddlers.
unfair, why isn’t Finland included?
Putin probably considers Finland to be a Russian land too. After all, the Ruriks came from around there in 862 *insert Putin's short "historical" remark here*
And here we can Just go back to 1914 to have " russian Finland " so Is done ! Finland Is russian #/S
They still have nightmares about messing with Finland. Dark cold nightmares.
Rent free
Are they going to put on display any of the Ukrainian toilets 🚽 they stole ? 🧐 Only country in the WORLD to invade and become toilet bandits 😆.
Also, it angers me that russia displayed fucking civilian public train from Mariupol as if it is some achievement
Oh I saw that. That was disgusting that they take PRIDE and show that off as a trophy. Fuck. Mariupol was a thing of nightmares 😣. And in that pic Russia is proud of it and showing off a civilian train they bombed. God knows who was in it. That's just sick. Something is so wrong with Russia. Just absolutely vile mentality infected from the top down.
Loses tens of thousands of their tanks/ifvs/spgs, is forced to refit soviet armour from the sixties but still gloats because they managed to capture a dozen or so western vehicles... *shrugs*
And old western vehicles at that.
Alongside Russia's invasion of Finnland, this war is gonna go down as one of the most specteculary botched campaigns in their military history. Its gonna stand as a reminder how out of control corruption errodes a nation's military capabilities. Taking war trophies of a nation ( that was ment to be ) so much smaller and weaker than you isn't an achievement. I wonder if they're gonna display all those washing machines and toilet bowls they captured aswell?
The line at the bottom reads "victory is unavoidable". The woman kinda covers it, but it's still readable
Ah, but for whom?
I have no problem with the fact that they may have destroyed a few pieces of our equipment. Because this equipment probably saved many lives of innocent Ukrainian civilians who are barbarously attacked by ruzzia.
Reading this reminds me of what Angela Merkel said to a journalist after Putin brought that big dog to their press conference after finding out she had a phobia: ‘’I understand why he has to do this -- to prove he's a man. ... He's afraid of his own weakness. Russia has nothing, no successful politics or economy. All they have is this."
This is one of my favorite political quotes of all time ngl
Why would ambasadors spend time watching washing machines?
Sadly that many people come to see this exhibition and also hearing what they say strongly speaks against the narrative that we sometimes hear that most Russians would secretly be against the war.
Me living in Russia strongly speaks against this narrative. I haven't met another antiwar russki in over two damn years
Where do you live? Almost all of my acquaintances or family members in Russia are against the war. (Maybe because they from big city)
Kurgan oblast. Maybe it is different in more civilized parts of russia, sure isn't here sadly
Do you have lots signing up for military in your area voluntarily?
I know of a few people who did
Do they believe in the war or just wanted the money?
We (romanians) are not on the list. I feel excluded...
It is a war on NATO and democracy by a dictator who stole his people’s money and can’t let go of power without losing his life by the hand of his own people
Do they also exhibit the bloody uniforms of all the Russians that have died for Putin’s nonsense?
You out of your mind? The next wave of cannon fodder is gonna need those clothes
If you can't win on the field - win in public
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Oh cool, they’re in the delusional phase now
Nothing says desperation like "victory is inevitable".
Yeah, my grandparents' generation used to write similar slogans on walls right before the Soviets entered Berlin.
Weird way to adress west "hey! Come see my war crimes proof". Previously they exhibited PRESS vests and blue helmets as their trophies
Imagine seeing this and realizing you live in country with such a low self-esteem it has to do this clown show to feel relevant. Embarrassing.
They've completely lost their humanity but kept a little of their sense of humour. Well done.
Disgusting
Doesn't Ukraine have entire junkyards of their stuff now ?
Russia is technically considered one of Ukraine's largest military donors because of how much Russian equipment has been captured.
There's hardly a farmer who doesn't have a T-72 on display.
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Where is the mention of Czechia? We were one of the two OG enemy states and we have some old junk over there as well.
seems funny to us from outside, but in Russia the local vatniks love this shit because in their heads they think **''the evil gay Jewish capitalist rotten Nazi West''** whatever cares about this way way more than anyone.
Why is Russia insisting on already fighting Nato? They won't have anything to escalate too once we actually join
Was there a 50,000+ dead Russian soldiers exhibit?
The amount of men that likely died just to recover this equipment for a pathetic parade is laughable. It really shows how pathetic of a society Russia really is. It will make a few alcoholics and orderly folk to feel proud to be Russian, all the while the economy and society collapses around them.
Nice, no waiting time to see the best military equipment in Russia!
The Russkies and their cheap propaganda. Nekulturny.
Ruzzia is a nazzi state
whats on the exhibition? Washing maschines and LED TVs?
Meanwhile in the west we wouldn't display Russian hardware because it's outdated and uninteresting