AverageUlyanovFan [any]

Yeah, you're right of course. It's just a sad, never-ending race to the bottom everywhere.

More imperialist plunder!

That's probably a response to Russia renaming a Kirov avenue to Stolypin. Can't fall behind Russia in decommunisation!

Relevant xkcd

Peace advocates have expressed concerns that weapons transfers from the West will draw out Russia’s war while enriching arms-makers.

That's... that's literally the point.

Russia’s Central Bank says that 39% of its foreign currency reserves is now either gold or Yuan.

Wait, wasn't it higher before?

Also the Central Bank has rolled back the ban on selling currency to individuals on 8th and it seems that the ruble exchange rate has been growing back up, albeit not catastrophically.

Here's the law on Verkhovnaya Rada website: https://itd.rada.gov.ua/billInfo/Bills/Card/39391. First attached document is for the bill itself (though it's a PDF in Ukrainian) and it does say that those liable for military service, as well as people on a bunch of leadership roles must return within 15 days, and next that they have to return within 15 days after the bill becomes law — it's not yet. The sentence proposed for offense is 5 to 10 years.

Z is actually a secret society from the USSR times. A lot of prominent figures had it in their CPSU membership cards, like Korolev, Gagarin, Zhukov and Brezhnev

In Russian-speaking infosphere Roskomnadzor has attacked several western-liberal media outlets, accusing of, apart from fake news about shootings/bombings, calling the special military operation "war". Some people dunk on it by calling it a not-war, or by substituting war for it in all other contexts, e.g. talking about a start of World Special Operation 3 :19::84: . However, you can see that this is the official stance and so official channels, many Putin stans and some simply cautious outlets have complied.

"Officials need to save democracy. It's okay for them to go more fascist tho". Did I read that right?

We need to do a revolution and get rid of bourgeoisie so it never is. Save pegging! Do communism!

I didn't see that coming and this made me chuckle. Thanks, comrade.

This is narrative slavery at its finest. People are already primed to believe Ukraine good and Russia bad, so they'll believe anything that already fits into that narrative with ease while changing it becomes extremely hard. Combine that with constant appeal to emotion to shut off the brain and atomization so there's not many people one would listen to with respect, and you get a slave that'll willfully spread your agenda while taking pride in doing so for free

It's Geneva suggestions if West does it, remember?

Lmao they're talking like a bunch of thugs... and apparently in Russian and not Ukrainian?

WW2 is the only war in popular history where there was a clearly evil side as established by Nuremberg trials. So Putin = evil = Hitler.

Tbh even comparing Ukrainian army or Azov to Nazi is overstatement. What made Nazis terrifying is its economic power, ideological unity and expansionist policies. Holocaust is such an abhorrent war crime because it was high-tech genocide on industrial scale. Meanwhile those Ukrainian cosplayers can't even unify their own country, their economic conditions have been plummeting since the fall of USSR and they suck so much their regions are seceding . That's nowhere near real Nazis. All they have to show is some swastika tattoos and enough atrocities to guarantee the same cauldron in the hell if that exists.

Do they mean dead, nazis, fleeing their country or sitting at basements hoping to not get shelled?

Keeping people in jingoistic haze is a classic bourgeoisie press tactic though? They only need to sell whatever the end result is as a victory or at least the best practically possible outcome some time later.

Patrick videos are probably the closest we get to see the war without it being refined into a hate porn for one of the camps.

To be fair ruble has stopped skyrocketing after the Central bank has severely limited the ability of its own population to buy currency so the ruble supply is forcibly kept low. The measures are still in place and afaik currency black market trades at around 100 RUB per USD.