lowenz on 4/1/2023 at 19:53
Interesting:
[video=youtube;RcvLEtSBG84]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcvLEtSBG84&ab_channel=ABCNews[/video]
heywood on 4/1/2023 at 21:59
You don't think it's a little mad to envision yourself leading socialist revolutions across Western Europe in the middle of WWI?
Assassination attempts against world leaders happen all the time. Six US Presidents have been shot in office. Four died. It's not an excuse to execute political opponents. In 5 years under Lenin's rule, about 100k were executed.
As many as 10 million more died as a result of the civil war that didn't have to happen the way it did. After Nicholas abdicated, the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks were talking unification. If Lenin hadn't returned from self-exile to take back control of the Bolsheviks, perhaps Russian communism would have developed differently, more democratically. And Russia wouldn't have lost so much territory to Germany so quickly. But he did return to Russia, took back control of the Bolsheviks, killed millions to bring about a single-party authoritarian state, and set the mold for Stalin and Mao to follow.
And he abandoned his Marxist ideals along the way. He instituted war communism, which was not Marxism but an authoritarian system built around the army. His system was more authoritarian and repressive than the tsars, and the workers were still not in control of their production.
lowenz on 4/1/2023 at 22:10
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You don't think it's a little mad to envision yourself leading socialist revolutions across Western Europe in the middle of WWI?
No more than this, directly from Girkin account today :D
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https://i.postimg.cc/1XBMSvgQ/Untitled.jpgSee what this war is about for the "russian spirit"?
Or this (Soloviev is jew)
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https://i.postimg.cc/vZs5QJFw/Untitled.jpgWell, a very self-hating jew and hated by the others (for very good reasons :D )
Alla Gerber, president of the Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Centre, said
"He's crazy and dangerous. Such people are unpredictable, they can say, do, hit, humiliate anything they want. It took a very long time to think, for years, probably, in order to come to such a lofty discovery - to compare the oppositionist, a man who is fighting for democracy, with Hitler. You have to be a madman and a very bad person. To call Hitler a brave man - we must boldly call Solovyov a scoundrel. Once, when Solovyov was more or less like a man, he came up to me and said: "Allochka, but you know, I am a Jew". I told him that he is a disgrace to our nation. Now I repeat this: he is not only a disgrace to my nation, he is a disgrace to all our people, to any decent community. I'm just in a fury."lowenz on 4/1/2023 at 22:13
Quote Posted by heywood
As many as 10 million more died as a result of the civil war that didn't have to happen the way it did. After Nicholas abdicated, the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks were talking unification. If Lenin hadn't returned from self-exile to take back control of the Bolsheviks, perhaps Russian communism would have developed differently, more democratically. And Russia wouldn't have lost so much territory to Germany so quickly. But he did return to Russia, took back control of the Bolsheviks, killed millions to bring about a single-party authoritarian state, and set the mold for Stalin and Mao to follow.
And he abandoned his Marxist ideals along the way. He instituted war communism, which was not Marxism but an authoritarian system built around the army. His system was more authoritarian and repressive than the tsars, and the workers were still not in control of their production.
Yeah, I know the score perfectly, but you underestimate the civil war when you're fighting not against Confedarated slavers :D but against the last bastion of the
ancien régime and an entire "reality" paradigm.
Just take a tour around the biographies of the people I've nominated.....
Communism was never built for Russia and its madness, that's for sure.
Starker on 5/1/2023 at 00:08
After the Ukrainian attack on Russian mobilised troops in Makiivka, the Russian Ministry of Defence has already found out who is to blame for the losses in Makiivka:
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Jan 4 (Reuters) - Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday that 89 servicemen were killed in the Ukrainian attack on Makiivka in the Moscow-controlled parts of the Donetsk region, adding the main reason for the attack was unauthorised use of mobile phones by the troops.
"It is already obvious that the main reason for what happened was the switching on and massive use - contrary to the prohibition - by personnel of mobile phones in a reach zone of enemy weapons," the ministry said in a statement.
"This factor allowed the enemy to track and determine the coordinates of the soldiers' location for a missile strike."
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As for the cause of what Russia claims is only 89 dead soldiers, this time it wasn't just due to bad weather, unlike with the incident that befell the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet...
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The defence ministry said four rockets from the U.S.-made HIMARS launchers hit the building, adding that "from the detonation of the warheads of the HIMARS rockets, the ceilings of the building collapsed."
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For reference, here's what a collapsed roof looks like after getting hit by four rockets:
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https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/8039955351f54fb19d7ad185bdd617aa/1000.webpI mean, if there was a particularly strong wind that day, it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility. Ukrainians must have gotten really lucky that there just happened to be a tornado at that exact time.
In any case, Russia has already claimed to have killed many more times Ukrainian soldiers in retribution as well as destroyed yet more HIMARS launchers, adding to a number that should be well over 120 by now, if Russian sources are to be believed...
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The ministry also suggested that in return, it launched air strikes launched at a "hardware concentration" near Druzhkivka railway station in Donetsk, killing up to 200 Ukrainian personnel, and destroying four HIMARS launchers and more than 800 rockets.
Reuters was not able to independently verify the report.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, an aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said on Tuesday that two people were wounded in the attack on Druzhkivka, which destroyed an ice hockey arena.
Anarchic Fox on 11/1/2023 at 08:50
Quote Posted by PigLick
news.com, au is one of the worst sites to be getting your information from, jesus christ cipheron have some credibility.
Cipheron is the preeminent voice of reason in CommChat, and a reason why I still read this subforum. You're not on his level.
It looks like Monk showed up, shat in the pool, then left. It's a tactic, I suppose.
lowenz on 11/1/2023 at 22:00
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Of course Prigozhin wants his share.
[video=youtube;aQVRhHFYi90]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQVRhHFYi90&ab_channel=VladVexlerChat[/video]
Starker on 13/1/2023 at 07:43
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After the Ukrainian attack on Russian mobilised troops in Makiivka, the Russian Ministry of Defence has already found out who is to blame for the losses in Makiivka:
Meanwhile, one of the soldiers blamed for the attack claimed they were sent there in order to listen to Putin's New Year's Eve speech. After openly criticising the commanding officers, he apparently died of severe injuries:
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https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1611857616447094786)
I didn't think much of the speech myself, but looks like the soldiers were literally dying to hear it.
lowenz on 13/1/2023 at 10:16
Died for the godfather(land)
