Good night white pride!
"Russia takes control of first major Ukrainian city"
Yeah, if you don't count the oldest (by far) city in the country that was taken by Russian forces a month and a half ago.
Wait so they admit that Russia possesses Sevastapol or that it was always Russian?
"The evacuation of German 6th Army from Stalingrad to Siberia represents and important but costly victory for Moscow."
Good that they're gonna clear the place out - they're sure to find some shit in there.
Be fair, I'm sure there's a few swastikas, iron crosses, and eagles in there too
They actually used the word surrender? Usually they say they were evacuated after completing their mission lol.
Even still western media can’t help but slip in sympathetic wording like “uncertain fate”, implying that we as readers should be invested in the wellbeing of these people. Ordinary Iraqi soldiers defending their nation didn’t get this type of sorrowful commentary
In fact, I decided to look up some articles from 2004 to see how they describe the capture of Iraqi soldiers (they mostly use flat passive language if they are mentioned at all, that X amount of Iraqi guard surrender and were captured at Y battle, sent to Z base for processing).
Half of the articles are about torture and whether it’s right or wrong, and there are some articles about how torturing Iraqis made our vets feel bad
https://www.bbc.com/news/44031774.amp
Only this sick depraved empire can come to your country, destroy all civilization, torture thousands of your people & then write articles years later about how hard it was for them torture others and what a burden it is.
I remember articles arguing to not accept the surrender of Republican Guard.
Mariupol and specifically Azovstal steel plant was very, very grim. People in and around Mariupol testified that their residential areas were used to station artillery, and that the Ukrainian military forced them to stay in place in order to make the Russian army more hesitant to advance on their positions (since, despite what you may have been told, the Russian military does actually want to avoid civilian casualties, whether their motivations are humanitarian or PR-related or both is besides the point). Most of the people in Mariupol, being Russian speakers of the Donbass region, were more sympathetic to LPR/DPR/Russia than to West Ukraine. So it was very easy for the Ukrainian military to use them as human shields, accuse them of being disloyal saboteurs, etc., since these are the same civilians they've been committing war crimes against for 8 years now. At least a few thousand civilians were prevented from leaving, and many of the the ones that tried to escape anyway testify that they were fired upon by the Ukrainian military. As the situation got worse, the military retreated to the tunnels beneath the Azovstal steel plant and took civilians with them into these "shelters" as hostages. This is in spite of the fact that Russia's modus operandi is to only engage with armed forces and to open humanitarian corridors in their front lines for civilians to escape through. So you have, for weeks on end, these people trapped beneath the steel plant, getting rained on with artillery, dust and smoke everywhere, many injured, dying, infected wounds. I saw grainy cell phone footage of injured people, soldiers and civilians, quite literally rotting alive in the basements of Azovstal. No doubt many people were also breathing in asbestos and shit like that since, if I recall the steel plant is pretty old, and Russia/Ukraine are one of the few regions in the world that still mines and uses asbestos on an industrial scale.
fun fact I've learned about Azovstal steel plant:
it is "a vast Soviet-era plant founded under Josef Stalin and designed with a maze of bunkers and tunnels to withstand nuclear attack."
the nazis of azov battalion hiding inside of soviet-era infrastructure is hella ironic
I mean 2 former Soviet republics that became capitalist oligarchies fighting a war using Soviet equipment in Soviet built cities is just sad.
a maze of bunkers and tunnels to withstand nuclear attack
Haven't really been following the Ukraine stuff but this kind of stuff afaik is really common all across the former Soviet Union, though I'm sure to people who don't know that it sounds spooky and scary. The USSR apparently actually wanted its population to have a chance of surviving the nuclear holocaust.
Nice sentiment but tbh I think I'd rather have the first warhead detonate right on top of me instead.
Slightly unfair to the people of Mariupol, who are mostly Russian speaking and under occupation by the Nazis for that reason.
But yeah, fuck Azov.
Uncertain Fate :Scales: Certain fate. Hmmm I think I'll choose to not die in a hole.
I just fucking hate NATO so much at this point, I hope all these disgusting "leaders" of ours will die of copium overuse in that glorious multipolar world that's juuust about visible on the horizon now. Fuck the West, fuck white people, fuck those NATO warmongers. I hate every one of you. (not you my dear chapo comrades, of course!)
