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- Nairn0
Not sure what this is, but people are abuzz that it's a Russian plane in the vein of 'Air Force One', or at least 'three and a half', going to Venezuela via Casablanca
- It's happening
https://www.dailysta…drgs - wowshapesalad
- landed.shapesalad
- maybe Putin just wants to watch the Morocco vs France World Cup semi-final in Marocco!
LOLKrassy - Señor Vladimiros Putinosthumb_screws
- It's happening
- drgs0
https://languagehat.com/sorokins…
"Part 1, the longest in the book, consists of thirty-plus short narratives ranging from several pages to less than a page long. The first opens with a guy named Sveklushin who gets off a packed bus and is immediately accosted by his old friend Trofimenko, who he hasn’t seen in ages; he asks after various mutual acquaintances and invites him to dinner, and shortly after responding to a remark about his wrinkles he says “Wait, though. I’ll gobble my norm now, so I don’t have to drag it home. Good thing I remembered".
Trofimenko is impressed by the cellophane wrapping (in the provinces where he’s been living they just wrap the norm in paper, “and coarse paper at that”) and by its freshness (“ours is all dried up”).
In the second, a kid is trying to get his father’s attention while his father is making dinner for himself, including some “norm.”
The rest are similar scenes of daily life, involving just about every area of Soviet society short of the highest — the novel has been called “an encyclopedia of Soviet life” — and each one includes the consumption of “norm”.
Eventually it is made explicit that it consists of human feces, and all adult citizens are obliged to consume their daily dose."
- I grew up reading his books. They are crazy, but nevertheless brilliantzaq
- sted4
- What is she the minister of? hahahahahaMondoMorphic
- Banner made on MS Powerpoint?OBBTKN
- Nairn2
- An Apple guydrgs
- Oh oh... wearing the t-shirt of a black american artist - Basquiat. Surly that's enough to get you a one way ticket to siberia in putins world?shapesalad
- Not really queer, though they've been trying appropriate him.
But certainly anti-colonial and black. Which fits in perfectly with the Russia narrrative,Khurram - He was also pretty stupid when it came to politics, doubt he'd have an opinion either way on the war.. fuck you talking about dummy.Khurram
- ^ lol. Yes he was certainly black, I don't think there's any argument there.yuekit
- The idea that Russia stands for anti-colonialism at the same time they seize land from smaller nearby countries is pretty dubious.yuekit
- Moreso their historic alignment with the liberation movements of Africa.Khurram
- They deserve credit for that but the USSR was also a form of colonialism, where ethnic Russians get privileged over central Asians, Ukrainians, etc.yuekit
- Basquiat was so queer, he even fucked Madonna.Sandder
- Nairn1
“Gentlemen, we interfered, we are interfering and we will interfere,”
- This _should_ be a bombshell. But a cursory look at the front page of the WaPo site shows me ... nothing. Ditto the NYT.Continuity
- unfortunately the same can't be said in the other the direction because there is not free elections in Russia.pr2
- NBQ00-1
- sted1
- Nairn8
Russia?
'Damaged cable leaves Shetland cut off from mainland'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-sc…
"We expect it will be fishing vessels that damaged the cable but it is very rare that we have two problems at the same time."
- "Damaged" I love the BBC's choice of words.Chimp
- Frontpage!palimpsest
- Nooo... stoppitNairn
- Wot? Wot? Another Nairn post!Continuity
- grafician1
"Putin’s old washing machine sitting atop of his car whilst fleeing from Dresden. I just found the story in Daniel Yergin’s (not Bill Browder) book The New Map, p 75, chapter Putin’s Great Project. The BBC mentions Putin had £200 in savings at the time."
https://twitter.com/WillemKadijk…
and lots more stuff about Putin's life here: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazin…
""Their German friends give them a 20-year-old washing machine and with this they drive back to Leningrad," says Putin biographer and critic Masha Gessen. "There's a strong sense that he was serving his country and had nothing to show for it.""
- flolNairn
- It was always about the washing machines!
Can't we sort some sort of tech handover, ultra low % lend-lease where we just furnish Russians with washing machines?Nairn - It's not right that a first world country has to clean her clothes on the banks of the Volga!Nairn
- With the world's eyes on Russia, everything they thought nobody knew comes out these days...grafician
- Here on the East block, we always heard a lot of (awful) stories about Russians and Russia for decades...grafician
- ...so we're not afraid of them 'cuz we already know their real faces and they are deeply traumatized clowns mostlygrafician
- But these days the entire World also seen their real faces so yeah...expect a lot more shit to come outgrafician
- @Nairn Russia is NOT a 1st world country, their economy is smaller than Italy's and they lack washing machinesgrafician
- Do they know you can get washer/dryers now?Ianbolton
- PhanLo0
My father in-law was stationed in Berlin during the 70's, he talked about how poor the Russian soldiers were and how bad their uniforms were, badly patched boots etc.
They'd often be around them at border points, just bored with nothing for entertainment, other soldiers in his regiment would throw cigarettes at the Russians and they would fight each other to get them. He said they'd really hit each other, like it wasn't fun, more desperation.
Seems not much has changed.
- The Ruskies also had a reputation for raping local women in (East) Berlin with absolute abandon.Continuity
- The concentration camp stories about them getting liberated by the Germans to then have the Russians come in and start raping the women is the darkest timeline.PhanLo
- NBQ001
Russian TV propagandist Solovyov gets drafted and goes crazy.
So funny: https://twitter.com/R82938886/st…
- Now ... I don't know if these subs are in any way accurate translations (and I certainly do not speak Ruskie), but the thing that stands out for me here is thatContinuity
- ... every single one of these 'people' speaking seems to know that Mother russia is losing, and losing hard in Ukraine. Sausage grinder? Die in the Donbas?Continuity
- All of that speaks for itself.Continuity
- I rather suspect all of these orcs — if they really said what the subs said — will be getting some pretty uncomfortable FSB visits soon.Continuity
- It's a parody but still funny and they often sound like that.NBQ00
- Aha, I see.Continuity
- yeeeeeaaaaaaah i'm not really sure the subtitles are accuratehans_glib
- viz hitler in the biunker scene subtitleshans_glib
- Understood.Continuity
- have fun in Ukraine bitchutopian
- grafician-1
"reuters: ~17,000 russians crossed into finland over the weekend (up 80% from previous week)"
- And as sure as I'm sitting here, a not-insignificant number of those 17 000 are FSB/SVR agents.Continuity
- grafician-2
- ...and sending him to war?!grafician
- ^ haha. Imagine thatIanbolton
- ^
flolNairn - He's been very quiet about the war. Or criticizing Putin in general.NBQ00
- Fuck! Edward Snowden is a real hero and should be treated like that but no...poor guy, really.oey_oey
- "Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told news agencies that Edward Snowden had received Russian citizenship as a result of his own request, made in 2020 to make itgrafician
- ...to make it easier for his American wife Lindsay Mills to travel back and forth."grafician
- grafician10
- LOLProjectile
- Hahaha!OBBTKN
- Just missing a guy on fire in the background.Chimp
- he's already been conscriptedkaiyohtee
- Continuity3
'Russia school shooting: seven children among 13 dead'
https://www.theguardian.com/worl…
'Russia’s Investigative Committee, which handles major crimes, said the gunman was wearing a balaclava and a black T-shirt with Nazi symbols.'
Whoopsie! But hey, let's go 'de-nazify' Ukraine, amirite?
- Someone shot up an army recruitment centre too over the weekend.PhanLo
- ukranian stooges, clearlyhans_glib
- 'Whoopsie'
Seven kids dead. Go fuck yourself.face_melter