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  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    2 个月前

    I had an acquaintance in real life tell me Russians were resorting to grabbing old Mosins out of museums to arm their soldiers in 2022 what-the-hell

    • red_stapler [he/him]
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      2 个月前

      It was plucky when Ukraine mounted a maxim gun on a convertible BMW or whatever tho.

    • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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      2 个月前

      I had a......person I knew, tell me in the summer of 2022 how he was now allowed to be racist against all russians and solemnly stating how russians only know how to do mass assaults with all the men and it didnt work for them this time just like it didnt work during the winter war. He was an insufferable redditor so I'm sure he thinks that the ukrainean casualty numbers for russians are accurate

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        2 个月前

        Another person told me everything that happened in Ukraine since 2014 is good because even dying in a war is preferrable to living under a Russian puppet government like in Belarus

      • VILenin [he/him]
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        2 个月前

        This person you knew should probably look up who won the winter war.

        • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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          2 个月前

          Look, buddy. The Winter War and Continuation War are propagandized to hell and back in Finland. It's like 50% of our national character, that we murdered so many soviets that we actually basically won. I remember being really weirded out when I first heard that we lost the war, because none of our teaching or documentaries or anything actually just say how badly we ate shit.

    • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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      2 个月前

      That's a ridiculous claim considering the MASSIVE back stock of AKs Russia has. Seriously I could buy them dusting off older AK from an old Soviet warehouse but, museum Mosins? The fuck?

      • Dolores [love/loves]
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        2 个月前

        there are over twice the number of kalashnikovs out there than all mosin nagants ever made lol

    • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]
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      2 个月前

      I've heard that about Mosins as well, with the sole proof being a single photo of an irregular holding a sniper Mosin, which is of course still a perfectly valid weapon to use even in 202x

      I've also seen this claim made baselessly about T-34s, as if Russia somehow has any functional combat ready T-34s left since 1960

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        2 个月前

        Russia pulling T-34s out of a giant vat of cosmoline like a mammoth sucked into a tar pit but in reverse