The Ilyushin Il-2 is a ground-attack aircraft produced by the Soviet Union in large numbers during the Second World War. The Il-2 was never given an official name and 'shturmovik' is the generic Russian word meaning ground attack aircraft. The word also appears in Western sources as Stormovik and Sturmovik, neither of which give correct pronunciation in English.
During the war, 36,183 units of the Il-2 were produced, and in combination with its successor, the Ilyushin Il-10, a total of 42,330 were built, making it the single most produced military aircraft design in aviation history, as well as one of the most produced piloted aircraft in history along with the American postwar civilian Cessna 172 and the Soviet Union's own then-contemporary Polikarpov Po-2 Kukuruznik multipurpose biplane.
To Il-2 pilots, the aircraft was simply the diminutive "Ilyusha". To the soldiers on the ground, it was the "Hunchback", the "Flying Tank" or the "Flying Infantryman". Its postwar NATO reporting name was "Bark". The Il-2 aircraft played a crucial role on the Eastern Front. When factories fell behind on deliveries, Joseph Stalin told the factory managers that the Il-2s were "as essential to the Red Army as air and bread."
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Tfw I have air and bread but no Il-2 ground attack aircraft :trans-sad:
Why even bother being in the Soviet Army at that point 😔
So I guess after 2+ years of living as a girl I'm officially detransitioning.
Done a lot of thinking and come to the conclusion that I'm not uncomfortable with being a man, just masculinity. Calling myself a woman never felt quite right.
I still like stuff like makeup and purses though and will continue wearing those, definitely learned a lot.
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I swear to god if one more person gives me shit about wearing a mask I'm going to fart in their actual face
It's kind of like during a cholera outbreak if someone were to give you shit for not taking a dump in their drinking water. Like how dare you?
I'm glad I haven't had a confrontation yet, because I wouldn't be able to keep my cool about it
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I’m running around my house growling “GOBLIN MODE, HAHAHAHA <metal guitar riff>” like it’s some sort of pre- October Rust Type O Negative interlude; all while doing random minor chores.
I think being cooped up largely alone in my house for 2 years is starting to show?
Mood. I have also picked up the bad habit of talking and reacting to myself, it's sort of minor but now that I have to regularly interact with people again Ive been getting a lot of looks when I gasp, groan, or mumble while typing of a computer or something.
A sudden decrease in the amount of emojis someone uses while texting you means they hate you now
Young Australians are now so ashamed of themselves and their country that given the choice between fighting for the nation or fleeing they would choose to leave, according to new polling. The Institute of Public Affairs undertook a survey of 1,000 Australians in March and found 40 per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds would leave the country if it was in the same position as Ukraine. The institute's Director Daniel Wild believes there are several reasons for what he described as a “deeply concerning and revealing result”. “One is that we’ve simply taken our way of life and our values for granted for many years,” Mr Wild told Sky News Australia. “But the second point is also that young Australians are too often presented with a very negative view of our way of life, a very negative view of Australia’s culture and history.”
:aus-delenda-est: more people are saying it folks
I wonder why so many young people don't feel any desire to be patriotic? Could it be the fact that the rotten core of neoliberalism has shown itself so much and they're seeing through all the bullshit? Nope must be because they're ungrateful and entitled.
i also cant imagine why theyd be ashamed of australias history
its not like anything bad ever happened, keith windschuttle told me so
I love how they just assume Australia is great and don't consider that maybe the country should work harder to earn the respect of its people.
Like fuck you. You can't fuck multiple generations and then be like "huh you wouldn't die for me?
i mean its the ipa, they think that australias most egregious crime is 18c preventing them saying slurs about aboriginal people in public
Maybe they don't want to die in a pointless war? But this person jumps straight to the negative culture critique.
Maybe they realize that Australia's saber-rattling at China is a mouse squeaking at a lion and don't want to get ground in to bonemeal for nationalism and capitalism?
"Young Australians have a very negative view of the campaign of genocide that exterminated dozens of distinct cultures in order to create Australia, which isn't very poggers".
Y'all made me buy disco elysium. Never was a big fan of RPGs but I am really digging it so far. Learned that they tally how much of a communist you are so my current goal is to make that number as comically high as I can
oh fuck yeah hit me with that "Marx and Engels argued for equality of outcome" ideology polisci class i was getting less jokerfied for a bit
