lowenz on 24/10/2022 at 19:22
Quote Posted by Azaran
You have to be a real sick degenerate to go on tv and make those types of comments
It's simply appeasing the power, he's gay and the only way he knows to be gay in Russia is to be more fanatic than real fanatics.
The problem in Russia is the word "real": there's no solid fringe about what is real or not, and now the situation got worse.
Cipheron on 26/10/2022 at 10:42
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https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/10/25/7373464/)
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Russia's Security Council claims there are "hundreds of sects" in Ukraine and demands "desatanisation"
Aleksey Pavlov, assistant secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, has said that Ukraine should be "desatanised".
Source: Kremlin-aligned news outlet RIA Novosti, quoting Pavlov
Details: Pavlov claims that Ukraine has turned into a "totalitarian hypersect" where citizens have abandoned Orthodox values, and therefore "desatanisation" is becoming an urgent issue. Pavlov admits that the exact number of sects in Ukraine is unknown, but "the number is in the hundreds."
Quote: "Using internet-based manipulations and psychotechnology, the new government [formed after 2014 - ed.] has turned Ukraine from a state into a totalitarian hypersect. Moreover, the authorities in Kyiv were the first to turn into militant fanatics whose views are directly opposite to those of normal people.
I believe that with the continuation of the special military operation, it is becoming increasingly urgent to carry out the desatanisation of Ukraine, or, as Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen Republic [part of the Russian Federation] aptly put it, its ‘complete de-shaitanisation'." [Shaitan are evil spirits in Islam.]
Background: Earlier, Kadyrov accused the Armed Forces of Ukraine of attacking Russian oblasts and expressed dissatisfaction with the "weak responses" of the Russian Federation. He called for Ukrainian cities to be wiped off the face of the earth.
lowenz on 26/10/2022 at 12:24
What I've been saying? SATAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
If you want to destroy a people you can always count on "SATAN" argument.
And yes, it's stupid but effective (see USA).
As Bucharin once said about NKVD, "medioeval methods".
denkmal on 26/10/2022 at 14:21
...or maybe Krazy Ivan is preparing to launch a Satan Missile at Ukraine.
lowenz on 26/10/2022 at 18:43
"Satan" (NATO designation, in russian is "Sarmat") is the vector/missile.
That's just for the show, the real problem are the Bulava - (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSM-56_Bulava) - on nuclear submarines. And it's why Putin needs so bad the Crimea and the free Crimea access: he needs the Sevastopol base for the fleet. Pardon "Donbass liberation from nazis"......
heywood on 26/10/2022 at 19:30
I don't think that's the reason. Russia continued operating the naval base after the USSR dissolved. At the time they invaded in 2014, they already had a long term lease until 2042, and Ukraine wasn't charging them much because they were getting a deal on Russian gas.
lowenz on 26/10/2022 at 20:57
They held the naval base, not free access with no control :p
Starker on 28/10/2022 at 01:02
In an amazing feat of open-source reporting (and a completely unsurpising failure of operational security in the Russian military), Bellingcat has uncovered quite a lot of the people responsible for raining down death on Ukrainian cities:
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https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2022/10/24/the-remote-control-killers-behind-russias-cruise-missile-strikes-on-ukraine/)
In the early hours of Monday, 10 October 2022, Russia pummelled Ukraine’s largest cities with missiles killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 100, according to Ukraine’s national emergency service. Russia has boasted about the surgical precision of its cruise missiles and claimed the attacks on 10 October targeted Ukraine’s military, security command centres and the national energy grid. However, open-source evidence shows that multiple missiles struck non-military targets, damaging residential buildings and hitting kindergartens and playgrounds.
The 10 October attacks marked Russia’s largest coordinated missile strikes since the beginning of the war. Yet the destruction didn’t end there. Missile strikes continued the next day with at least 28 launched on 11 October. The strikes left large numbers of civilians in Kyiv, Lviv, Vinnytsia, and Dnipro with no or sporadic access to electricity.
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In one single day in July, cruise missile attacks on the city of Vinnytsia are reported to have killed 27 civilians. These strikes, that hit non-military targets, suggest either that the missiles failed to follow their pre-programmed flight path, that targeting was based on defective intelligence information, or that civilian harm was intentional.
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Following a six-month-long investigation, Bellingcat and its investigative partners The Insider and Der Spiegel were able to discover a hitherto secretive group of dozens of military engineers with an educational and professional background in missile programming. Phone metadata shows contacts between these individuals and their superiors spiked shortly before many of the high-precision Russian cruise missile strikes that have killed hundreds and deprived millions in Ukraine of access to electricity and heating. The group, which works from two locations – one at the Ministry of Defence headquarters in Moscow and another at the Admiralty headquarters in St. Petersburg – is buried deep within the Russian Armed Forces’ vast “Main Computation Centre of the General Staff”, often abbreviated as ГВЦ (GVC).
Most members identified by Bellingcat and partners are young men and women, including one husband-and-wife couple, many with IT and even computer-gaming backgrounds. Some also worked at Russia’s military command centre in Damascus in the period between 2016 and 2021, a timeframe during which Russia deployed cruise missiles in Syria. Others are recipients of various military awards, including from Russian President, Vladimir Putin.
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The military engineers from the missile flight-planning unit of GVC are young people mostly in their late twenties, with the four youngest members only 24 years old. While many of them had prior civilian mathematics or IT education, all of them underwent military engineering training at the Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces or the Military-Naval Engineering Institute.
Unlike their military peers, most of whom are exposed to at least some personal risk near the front-line, these young people work from secure command centres in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and appear to go about their lives with little interference from a war in which they play a crucial role.
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lowenz on 28/10/2022 at 12:04
Well, it's no real "secret" :|
Another thing would be to have the names, no military high-grade personnel = no protection :p
Gaming? Escape from Tarkov team?