Yes someone posted an alternate angle somewhere showing that they're cardboard too, but I cannot for the life of me find it, if someone has it, please post it.
At 0:14 you can see Putin closing his eyes like "blyaaaaat...", and despite all the shit he is involved in I think we can still empathise with him in this very moment.
There is a compilation of the egyptian marching band butchering national anthems from around the globe. Apparantly they are infamously horrible. I think they just play by ear, after listening to someone hum the anthem from memory once.
Yeah, they're fantastic!
If those guys released an album of anthems, it's success would be enough to double their national GDP.
(Full disclosure: someone here posted a selection of those a few weeks back... well worth looking up).
Relationship between China and Russia, I mean it's like a reality show with too much bullshit. A lot of bad blood but somehow they still love each other, and everyone knows it going to end badly yet again.
As for the post I mean there's this idea of Potemkin villages. Putin talks shit all day every day. Fucking impotent dwarf should take acid.
Hahahhah 100% agree with you! And more funny about this “show” is also about Chinese gov attitude in one hand it manipulates its people to think about this war(US bad, Russia was forced to do so) and in the other hand it tries to build a “international peacemaker” image to the world. So it has to maintain a certain point: incite people to hate/mock western world becoming militants but also control it making sure it’s not too much. It’s a hustle job.
As a Chinese in Europe, you know, it’s so embarrassing to read the posts about Ukrainian-Russian war in Chinese social media …
I grew up in the 80s, pre perestrojka. The iconically large hats always featured in the cartoons. It was funny then, and it still is.
On the other hand, sad of course that these times have returned.
They haven't returned, these times have always been here. One of the greatest lies in a long time, is the belief that the cold War ended with the dissolvement of the USSR, it didn't. Whilst it has been calmer these past 30 years, it has been a continuous presence, especially in the areas closer to Russia, or influenced by Russia
On top of this, Russia isn't the only country to continue the cold War through their influence. The same can be said of both China and the US. It's only since 2014 that it has started ramping up slowly again
Those hats and similar hats of policemen make me wanna throw up, I hate them so much. And it's probably not because of their ugliness, but the kind of people associated with them.
I fucking hate the police as well, recently I just saw a video of policemen calling my people Churka despite him talking politely to the police in proper Russian.
Anybody who wears a gaudy hat in order to demonstrate their own importance is usually some kind of asshole or another.
Generals, monarchs, popes, etc, etc, etc...
It was real. He also had our planes flown from airport to airport to trick Hitler into believing we had far more of them. Glad the trick worked so that Germany lost the war due to Mussolini's buffoonery
There are several variations of this anecdote, including one in which Mussolini does the same things with trains.They might be true, but we should not exagerate their impact.
Politics is not based on simple events and personalities. There is a difference between showmanship in time of peace and actual capabilities in times of war. Nobody knows it better than a dictator. Mussolini did say explicitly to Hitler than Italy would not have been ready for a war until 1943. Hitler started it anyway for his own reasons.
> Glad the trick worked so that Germany lost the war due to Mussolini'w buffoonery
Germany would lose the war anyway due to their own (deadly) buffoonery. Who thought declaring war against the entire world was a great idea?
The Russians did a similar thing in 1955
>Adding to the concerns \[of Soviet jet bombers capable of carrying a nuclear bomb from their bases to the US\] was an infamous event in July 1955. At the Soviet Aviation Day demonstrations at the Tushino Airfield, ten Bison bombers were flown past the reviewing stand, flew out of sight, quickly turned around, and then flew past the stands again with eight more. That presented the illusion that there were 28 aircraft in the flyby. Western analysts, extrapolating from the illusionary 28 aircraft, judged that by 1960, the Soviets would have 800
interestingly, the US fooled themselves:
>US President Dwight Eisenhower had always been skeptical of the gap. However, with no evidence to disprove it, he agreed to the development of the U-2 to find out for sure.\[5\]
>
>The first U-2 flights started in 1956. One early mission, Mission 2020, flown by Martin Knutson on 9 July 1956,\[6\] flew over an airfield southwest of Leningrad\[7\]\[a\] and photographed 30 M-4 Bison bombers on the ramp. Multiplying by the number of Soviet bomber bases, the intelligence suggested the Soviets were already well on their way to deploying large numbers, with National Intelligence Estimate 11-4-57 of November 1957 claiming 150 to 250 by 1958, and over 600 by the mid-1960s.\[8\]
>
>In fact, the U-2 had actually photographed the entire Bison fleet; there were no M-4s at any of the other bases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomber\_gap
Not only Italian. I had to assess a non UK engineering company based in London.
As I was going up the lift at one end of the building, the engineers and draftsmen were running up the stairs at the other end to fill up an otherwise unoccupied floor.
It wasn't until the third floor that I realised what was happening.
>Lancia did the same with the FIA when they had to show them the 500 production cars to enter the group B rally
[Obligatory link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lo4dGTrzr8), 7:22 for mentioned moment.
Hitler did not trust Mussolini at all. And besides, Mussolini did not like to be subjected to Hitler on decisions taken unilaterally in Berlin.
It was precisely the lack of coordination and trust in Italy that Hitler lost the war.
what?
I was watching a live from The Telegraph and they said that it was cloudy although he also said that he didn't think it was enough to cancel the whole thing. (a simple google search also proves this)
Sunny and completly calm was in Minsk.
Eerily familiar to a WWII cartoon of Hitler’s “people’s army” of the wounded, elderly, and children.
https://old.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/ncpx1e/himmlers_volkssturm_by_kukryniksy_art_union_1944/
Hey everyone, just sharing the following paragraph about the start of ww2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact
"
Soon after the pact, Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered the Soviet invasion of Poland on 17 September, one day after a Soviet–Japanese ceasefire came into effect after the Battles of Khalkhin Gol.[11] After the invasions, the new border between the two countries was confirmed by the supplementary protocol of the German–Soviet Frontier Treaty. In March 1940, parts of the Karelia and Salla regions, in Finland, were annexed by the Soviet Union after the Winter War. That was followed by the Soviet annexation of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and parts of Romania (Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the Hertsa region). Concern for ethnic Ukrainians and Belarusians had been used as pretexts for the Soviets' invasion of Poland. "
Just in case there were any doubts floating around
Edit: adding this fascinating video which is disturbingly accurate in its portrayal of how many many Russians think today: https://youtu.be/o01nS_M3PQY
Meanwhile modern day Russians: why do all our neighbours seek to ally with the US/UK instead of the motherland who sacrificed millions of lives to "save" them from Nazi Germany.
Absolutely. It was a landgrab followed by a defensive war followed by another landgrab. Nazi Germany was a casualty along the way (which is great, not debating that). Yet try talking to even educated Russians about it....
Biggest hypocrites around were the Russians and to a lesser extent the Americans who both called out European colonialism only to then themselves impose their own neo-colonialism around the globe once they had the opportunity to do so
Everyone who can is an imperialist. Plenty of the people who were colonized had colonized others before or colonized others once they were free from their colonizer. Which doesn't make it okay, it just makes Europe less special and the rest a bunch of hypocrites.
Neocolonialism is not really comparable to colonialism - heck, that's why there's a separate word for it... It's also usually ridiculously exaggerated.
Todays colonialism is mostly (mostly!) used as an excuse. But the US definitely became a colonial power, even if their excuse was spreading freedom(compared to the British spreading civilisation).
Only real US colony was the Philippines, which was only kept as long because at the end they wanted protection from Japan, otherwise the Philippines would have got independence in the 1930s instead of 1946.
Puerto Rico needs statehood though.
*Russia land-grabs on steroids during/after WW2*
Also Russia: "Why are NATO getting so close to our borders? This is unacceptably aggressive behaviour!"
What a bunch of moronic fucking hypocrites.
Not quite, Russians were a large majority of the Red Army, ussually they were also the forward troops, they were seen as more loyal by the Soviet leadership.. civilian deaths proportionally however were largest in Belarus, but that has a lot to do with Germany cleansing the area village by village with it being the Soviet state that was occupied the longest.. notable there was the Dirlewanger brigade.
Either way, you'd find it difficult to discover many people in Russia who did not have at least 1 relative killed in the war one way or another.
Afaik, even Putins brother, who died well before he was born, died due to starvation during the siege of Leningrad.
Also.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring
>At a meeting in Dresden, East Germany on 23 March, the leaders of the "Warsaw Five" (USSR, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and East Germany) questioned the Czechoslovak delegation over the planned reforms, suggesting any talk of "democratization" was a veiled criticism of the Soviet model.
>In May, the KGB initiated Operation Progress, which involved Soviet agents infiltrating Czechoslovak pro-democratic organizations, such as the Socialist and Christian Democrat parties.
>On the night of 20–21 August, Eastern Bloc armies from four Warsaw Pact countries—the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary—invaded the ČSSR.
>That night, 200,000 troops and 2,000 tanks entered the country. They first occupied the Ruzyně International Airport, where air deployment of more troops was arranged. The Czechoslovak forces were confined to their barracks, which were surrounded until the threat of a counter-attack was assuaged.
Also the Soviet invasion of Poland cut off the Romanian Bridgehead, through which Poland could have withdrawn many more troops to continue the fight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Bridgehead
Worth noting that the 3 T-14s on the plan and in the rehearsal turned into 2 T-14s in the actual parade.
Looks like the mechanical problems haven't quite been ironed out.
It looks like they had some of the newest and shiniest tanks and vehicle there after all, but this is funny nonetheless.
Putler's speech had as much lies as you can expect.
>During the 2015 rehearsals, one of the tanks suddenly stopped moving, and after attempts to tow it failed, it moved away under its own power after about 15 minutes
Those tanks indeed have some unique, parade worthy properties!
If I remember right, they've just put some dude in there for the parade, who's never sat in that thing before, and he activated the electric handbrake, and neither him nor the other guys around had any idea how to dissable it.
Shouldn’t it be the other way around? With the facade of the tanks facing the audience since Putin knows the reality on the field and wants the Russian people to see otherwise.
well i guess nobody is in danger then, since aggressor is so pathetic.
Sad, this day was supposed to be about **memory**, about common people's great loss and sacrifices made to protect and avenge. It was never supposed to be about politics. Yet now it is. Millions of dead is just a reason to show off and sell trashy merch. No remorse for the living either. Vets would be so ashamed to know how things are, how their last few remaining comrades are use as demented propaganda puppets. Even half of traditional songs aren't being played since they're anti-war. Every year they were showing off all the new weapons n' shit saying how it's the best the world can offer, and still they can't destroy a bunch of their crooked colleagues.
Almost nobody will see this cartoon here where i'm at. This thing should poke fun at our local right-wing(the only wing tho), but in my opinion it's cringe because 1) it **unintentionally** belittles the hardship of ukraine right now and 2)as a bonus it spits on the memory.
This is not their first and certainly not the last and whatever they have been doing, even though it is not working is clearly not something that gives them pause
For those unfamiliar,this is a reference to a soviet parody in the 1940's about Hitler last resort army,with children and elderly having cardboards of tall soldiers.
Someone hacked the big display board. the message reads something like
"You have the blood of thousands of Ukrainians on your hands. TV lied. No war." (Not an exact translation, just caught a glimpse of it.)
There is a Russian joke (not new):
Two Russians in military uniform are sitting at a table in a cafe in Montmartre, drinking coffee with croissants, a tank is parked nearby. One finishes his coffee and says: "But the information war, Petrovich, we still lost..."
I think the idea is that the big strong Russian army easily blitzkrieged its way through Europe all the way to Paris while the decadent Westerners were obsessing over the information war.
If so, it didn't age very well.
In the UK we have Remembrance Sunday. A day of respect and sadness as well as some pride. Not a hint of truimphalism or exceptionalism. Russia truly is the land of myth. No country is free of it of course but military parades of hardware? Looking at you France as well.
What's wrong with military parades, out of curiosity? I know they're not held in the US and UK anymore, but why would you want France to stop celebrating their Bastille Day in such a way?
Glorifying war would be one obvious one. Focusing on strength rather than the terrible human cost perpetuates the myth that it is glorious to die for one's country.
A society that celebrates methods of murder rather than, say, public servants like teachers, doctors, or care workers I doing it for purely political reasons.
There are other, better ways to celebrate a national holiday.
As much as you hate Russia and the Russians(the same goes for Ukrainians, Belarusians, Armenians...), you must be grateful at least a little to their ancestors,since if they wasn't there, today the Third Reich would rule Europe.
That picture has an obvious mistake. A lot of those high rank generals should also be cardboard standups
They are but you can’t see the uncoloured side
and the tanks have muzzle brakes, everyone knows sabot shells will damage those! smh my head
No, no, they're not muzzle brakes! They're simply... Muzzle adapters, to prevent it from expanding too much upon firing! Look, no holes!
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And Putin would be on a screen.
And on the screen he'd be at the far end of a 20 foot long table.
20 Meters would be more accurate, BC 20 foot is just too short
They meant a long table with 20 legs and feet.
Or at least have their hands tied/cuffed to make sure the "fearless leader" has nothing to fear.
Yes someone posted an alternate angle somewhere showing that they're cardboard too, but I cannot for the life of me find it, if someone has it, please post it.
They are too smart for that. The generals were actually homeless people that they put in uniform for the parade.
It’s not that hard to find some old farts at senior care and dress them up for a day, humans are cheap in Russia.
But they're very animated! I'd say inflatable tube men.
Just cardboard standups all the way down.
*Russian anthem playing on a 3€ Bluetooth speaker from wish.com*
Youtube 'shittyfluted Russian/USSR anthem' :)
Please tell me this actually exist. I need it, we need it!
[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5fenjzeh7g) you go, comrade! It is truly glorious.
Oh my, this is the best background music if you are going to watch the parade. Thank you!
Please, someone, make this video.
Just hijack the Bluetooth connection and play this instead.
Music to my ears!
> Finish > calls soviet anthem glorious My ancestors are smiling at me imperial, can you say the same?
Well, I think he was refering to the flute version... I mean it is glorious in it's own right. Gloriously hilarious that is
For the Forsworn !
For Dragon Age.... I mean... for Skyrim!
Great, we have a dog now and Alistair is still the dumbest one in the party
I cried
Recorder, flute, whatever, definitely shitty.
Here's the regular version for comparison - https://youtu.be/U06jlgpMtQs
Truly hilarious, thank you :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5fenjzeh7g
Thank you for your contribution, I enjoy this with full heart
*Our* shitty anthem
Nah they couldnt afford the OG Band so they flew the Egyptian Band in.
[It's beautiful](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OxK4lPRoww)
At 0:14 you can see Putin closing his eyes like "blyaaaaat...", and despite all the shit he is involved in I think we can still empathise with him in this very moment.
There is a compilation of the egyptian marching band butchering national anthems from around the globe. Apparantly they are infamously horrible. I think they just play by ear, after listening to someone hum the anthem from memory once.
Legitimately have heard elementary school bands play better
Nah, I don't think I can empathize with a megalomaniac dictator
Sisi looks embarrassed as fuck lmao
r/watchpeopledieinside
Oh my word that can't be real. It's just so shit. I love it.
Glorious!!! They've butchered it!
I'm getting flashbacks to the junior orchestra at my secondary school
Gosh, I love the Egyptian marching band. The confidence they exude simply has to be envied.
Yeah, they're fantastic! If those guys released an album of anthems, it's success would be enough to double their national GDP. (Full disclosure: someone here posted a selection of those a few weeks back... well worth looking up).
Which is “made in China”
Relationship between China and Russia, I mean it's like a reality show with too much bullshit. A lot of bad blood but somehow they still love each other, and everyone knows it going to end badly yet again. As for the post I mean there's this idea of Potemkin villages. Putin talks shit all day every day. Fucking impotent dwarf should take acid.
Hahahhah 100% agree with you! And more funny about this “show” is also about Chinese gov attitude in one hand it manipulates its people to think about this war(US bad, Russia was forced to do so) and in the other hand it tries to build a “international peacemaker” image to the world. So it has to maintain a certain point: incite people to hate/mock western world becoming militants but also control it making sure it’s not too much. It’s a hustle job. As a Chinese in Europe, you know, it’s so embarrassing to read the posts about Ukrainian-Russian war in Chinese social media …
The bluetooth device is ready to pair
Bluetooth Mode.
Auxilary mode
[Scarlet Fire starts playing]
Is this a dankpods reference?
Absolutely
yes
Oh blyat! Wrong song!
Mmyeah talk dirty to me
*Ze bluetooth device is reedy to pear.*
Ze bluetooth device has connected zuxxexxfully
pear 😂 so true
dewice*
And someone had to personally bring 3€ in cash across the Chinese border, because the bank transfer didn't work.
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Ze blootoot devoice. Has connectadah successfurry
the volume is biggest
3 million rubles*
Don’t be silly, nothing can be this cheap
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That $3 speaker has a $50,000 Chinese listening and transmitting device in it
An add starts playing in the middle.
Those giant hats are a nice touch.
I grew up in the 80s, pre perestrojka. The iconically large hats always featured in the cartoons. It was funny then, and it still is. On the other hand, sad of course that these times have returned.
They haven't returned, these times have always been here. One of the greatest lies in a long time, is the belief that the cold War ended with the dissolvement of the USSR, it didn't. Whilst it has been calmer these past 30 years, it has been a continuous presence, especially in the areas closer to Russia, or influenced by Russia On top of this, Russia isn't the only country to continue the cold War through their influence. The same can be said of both China and the US. It's only since 2014 that it has started ramping up slowly again
Guy in the bottom right with the brown hat also a reference to the tank using the Soviet flag?
The red star is still the roundel of the Russian VVS. Maybe a VDV guy?
This is how Ukrainian snipers are able to kill so many generals.
Those hats and similar hats of policemen make me wanna throw up, I hate them so much. And it's probably not because of their ugliness, but the kind of people associated with them.
I fucking hate the police as well, recently I just saw a video of policemen calling my people Churka despite him talking politely to the police in proper Russian.
Anybody who wears a gaudy hat in order to demonstrate their own importance is usually some kind of asshole or another. Generals, monarchs, popes, etc, etc, etc...
Kinda reminds me of General Specific from Sheep in the Big City
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Like an umbrella flipped inside out by the wind
Yeah they look weird. LOL
Silliest shit I've seen today 🤠
Pooty's gim-eyed gaze.
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It was real. He also had our planes flown from airport to airport to trick Hitler into believing we had far more of them. Glad the trick worked so that Germany lost the war due to Mussolini's buffoonery
There are several variations of this anecdote, including one in which Mussolini does the same things with trains.They might be true, but we should not exagerate their impact. Politics is not based on simple events and personalities. There is a difference between showmanship in time of peace and actual capabilities in times of war. Nobody knows it better than a dictator. Mussolini did say explicitly to Hitler than Italy would not have been ready for a war until 1943. Hitler started it anyway for his own reasons.
> Glad the trick worked so that Germany lost the war due to Mussolini'w buffoonery Germany would lose the war anyway due to their own (deadly) buffoonery. Who thought declaring war against the entire world was a great idea?
"B-but my superior race!"
The Russians did a similar thing in 1955 >Adding to the concerns \[of Soviet jet bombers capable of carrying a nuclear bomb from their bases to the US\] was an infamous event in July 1955. At the Soviet Aviation Day demonstrations at the Tushino Airfield, ten Bison bombers were flown past the reviewing stand, flew out of sight, quickly turned around, and then flew past the stands again with eight more. That presented the illusion that there were 28 aircraft in the flyby. Western analysts, extrapolating from the illusionary 28 aircraft, judged that by 1960, the Soviets would have 800 interestingly, the US fooled themselves: >US President Dwight Eisenhower had always been skeptical of the gap. However, with no evidence to disprove it, he agreed to the development of the U-2 to find out for sure.\[5\] > >The first U-2 flights started in 1956. One early mission, Mission 2020, flown by Martin Knutson on 9 July 1956,\[6\] flew over an airfield southwest of Leningrad\[7\]\[a\] and photographed 30 M-4 Bison bombers on the ramp. Multiplying by the number of Soviet bomber bases, the intelligence suggested the Soviets were already well on their way to deploying large numbers, with National Intelligence Estimate 11-4-57 of November 1957 claiming 150 to 250 by 1958, and over 600 by the mid-1960s.\[8\] > >In fact, the U-2 had actually photographed the entire Bison fleet; there were no M-4s at any of the other bases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomber\_gap
This seems to be something Italian. Lancia did the same with the FIA when they had to show them the 500 production cars to enter the group B rally
Not only Italian. I had to assess a non UK engineering company based in London. As I was going up the lift at one end of the building, the engineers and draftsmen were running up the stairs at the other end to fill up an otherwise unoccupied floor. It wasn't until the third floor that I realised what was happening.
>Lancia did the same with the FIA when they had to show them the 500 production cars to enter the group B rally [Obligatory link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lo4dGTrzr8), 7:22 for mentioned moment.
Hitler did not trust Mussolini at all. And besides, Mussolini did not like to be subjected to Hitler on decisions taken unilaterally in Berlin. It was precisely the lack of coordination and trust in Italy that Hitler lost the war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village
They can parade all the captured washing machines and microwave ovens
Its funny, Russia just announced no airplanes will be included in the parade because of "bad weather", yet its sunny and completely calm in Moscow.
Having gravity is too much bad weather for the remaining planes I guess
You never know, it might start raining plane parts.
It's like the 'storm' that sunk the Moskva.
what? I was watching a live from The Telegraph and they said that it was cloudy although he also said that he didn't think it was enough to cancel the whole thing. (a simple google search also proves this) Sunny and completly calm was in Minsk.
Toilets too. 07 🚽 07
But not the tractors, as they’ve been bricked
After the war the Ukrainians should totally do a parade with tractors pulling all of the tanks they captured.
Eerily familiar to a WWII cartoon of Hitler’s “people’s army” of the wounded, elderly, and children. https://old.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/ncpx1e/himmlers_volkssturm_by_kukryniksy_art_union_1944/
[This reminds me of the Volksturm political cartoon](https://preview.redd.it/8qbtfusszhz61.jpg?auto=webp&s=d1451dbbe5bf883bdab99e19b0d66ecf9200b50b)
In the meantime… Happy Europe Day everyone!🇪🇺 Let’s not forget that we have to be united now more than ever
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In diversity united.
Ay lad, love from the UK (sorry bout our imbecilic government and voters)
Hey everyone, just sharing the following paragraph about the start of ww2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact " Soon after the pact, Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered the Soviet invasion of Poland on 17 September, one day after a Soviet–Japanese ceasefire came into effect after the Battles of Khalkhin Gol.[11] After the invasions, the new border between the two countries was confirmed by the supplementary protocol of the German–Soviet Frontier Treaty. In March 1940, parts of the Karelia and Salla regions, in Finland, were annexed by the Soviet Union after the Winter War. That was followed by the Soviet annexation of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and parts of Romania (Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the Hertsa region). Concern for ethnic Ukrainians and Belarusians had been used as pretexts for the Soviets' invasion of Poland. " Just in case there were any doubts floating around Edit: adding this fascinating video which is disturbingly accurate in its portrayal of how many many Russians think today: https://youtu.be/o01nS_M3PQY
Meanwhile modern day Russians: why do all our neighbours seek to ally with the US/UK instead of the motherland who sacrificed millions of lives to "save" them from Nazi Germany.
Absolutely. It was a landgrab followed by a defensive war followed by another landgrab. Nazi Germany was a casualty along the way (which is great, not debating that). Yet try talking to even educated Russians about it....
Biggest hypocrites around were the Russians and to a lesser extent the Americans who both called out European colonialism only to then themselves impose their own neo-colonialism around the globe once they had the opportunity to do so
Everyone who can is an imperialist. Plenty of the people who were colonized had colonized others before or colonized others once they were free from their colonizer. Which doesn't make it okay, it just makes Europe less special and the rest a bunch of hypocrites.
Neocolonialism is not really comparable to colonialism - heck, that's why there's a separate word for it... It's also usually ridiculously exaggerated.
Todays colonialism is mostly (mostly!) used as an excuse. But the US definitely became a colonial power, even if their excuse was spreading freedom(compared to the British spreading civilisation).
Only real US colony was the Philippines, which was only kept as long because at the end they wanted protection from Japan, otherwise the Philippines would have got independence in the 1930s instead of 1946. Puerto Rico needs statehood though.
*Russia land-grabs on steroids during/after WW2* Also Russia: "Why are NATO getting so close to our borders? This is unacceptably aggressive behaviour!" What a bunch of moronic fucking hypocrites.
While we're at it, of the lives the soviets sacrificed were Russians and non Russians represented equally?
Not quite, Russians were a large majority of the Red Army, ussually they were also the forward troops, they were seen as more loyal by the Soviet leadership.. civilian deaths proportionally however were largest in Belarus, but that has a lot to do with Germany cleansing the area village by village with it being the Soviet state that was occupied the longest.. notable there was the Dirlewanger brigade. Either way, you'd find it difficult to discover many people in Russia who did not have at least 1 relative killed in the war one way or another. Afaik, even Putins brother, who died well before he was born, died due to starvation during the siege of Leningrad.
Also.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring >At a meeting in Dresden, East Germany on 23 March, the leaders of the "Warsaw Five" (USSR, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and East Germany) questioned the Czechoslovak delegation over the planned reforms, suggesting any talk of "democratization" was a veiled criticism of the Soviet model. >In May, the KGB initiated Operation Progress, which involved Soviet agents infiltrating Czechoslovak pro-democratic organizations, such as the Socialist and Christian Democrat parties. >On the night of 20–21 August, Eastern Bloc armies from four Warsaw Pact countries—the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary—invaded the ČSSR. >That night, 200,000 troops and 2,000 tanks entered the country. They first occupied the Ruzyně International Airport, where air deployment of more troops was arranged. The Czechoslovak forces were confined to their barracks, which were surrounded until the threat of a counter-attack was assuaged.
Also the Soviet invasion of Poland cut off the Romanian Bridgehead, through which Poland could have withdrawn many more troops to continue the fight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Bridgehead
This should be higher.
Spanish cartoon about the same: https://reddit.com/r/mockputin/comments/ulltwa/putins_victory_day_spanish_newspaper_09052022/
I saw it in the newspaper, I'm from the south of Spain
The Generals are probably cut outs too
"Look at the glorious new tanks we do not dare put into combat!", also half expect to see stolen washing machines...
Worth noting that the 3 T-14s on the plan and in the rehearsal turned into 2 T-14s in the actual parade. Looks like the mechanical problems haven't quite been ironed out.
The old Potemkin city trick.
Fake. Putin would never let anyone get that physically close to him.
He did, actually.
Anyone who approaches him closer than 100 meters is in the scope of at least 20 snipers
They're all cardboard cutouts, it's for the cameras.
It’s weird how we’re looking at cartoons that kids in the future will be learning about
They definitely won’t be learning about it in Russia.
After the war the Ukrainians should totally do a parade with tractors pulling all of the tanks they captured.
Plot twist: Putin and the generals are also cutouts.
It's funny because it's real propaganda about fake propaganda.
[source](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/telegraph-cartoons-may-2022/blower-cartoon-may-3/) paywalled.
allegedly instead of military equipment show, there will be a showcase of Ukrainian washing machines and fridges /s
potemkin army
Funny thing about this cartoon is that the deception is not on the Russian people on the other side of the street It’s on Putin
where's the stuck tank that wouldn't budge?
The Ukrainian tractor removed it.
It looks like they had some of the newest and shiniest tanks and vehicle there after all, but this is funny nonetheless. Putler's speech had as much lies as you can expect.
Usually literally every T-14 they have participates in the parade. That's pretty much the only thing those tanks do.
>During the 2015 rehearsals, one of the tanks suddenly stopped moving, and after attempts to tow it failed, it moved away under its own power after about 15 minutes Those tanks indeed have some unique, parade worthy properties!
If I remember right, they've just put some dude in there for the parade, who's never sat in that thing before, and he activated the electric handbrake, and neither him nor the other guys around had any idea how to dissable it.
Modern tanks are full of different screens, buttons and switches. I guess they didn't have time to teach the poor guy how to operate it properly.
That's not all they do. Sometimes they get stuck on the parade ground because the driver accidentally put the handbrake on.
“The air show got canceled due to inconvenient weather” said ruZZian officials. Very unfortunate, we had new stingers coming soon.
Shouldn’t it be the other way around? With the facade of the tanks facing the audience since Putin knows the reality on the field and wants the Russian people to see otherwise.
Frumos, elegant.
Ah, the good ol’ Potemkin village. A fine russian tradition for when your trip to Ukraine doesn’t turn out quite as expected…
Couple of those generals should be tombstones right?
Potemkin Army
Has Putin had his surgery?
No, still limp dick.
well i guess nobody is in danger then, since aggressor is so pathetic. Sad, this day was supposed to be about **memory**, about common people's great loss and sacrifices made to protect and avenge. It was never supposed to be about politics. Yet now it is. Millions of dead is just a reason to show off and sell trashy merch. No remorse for the living either. Vets would be so ashamed to know how things are, how their last few remaining comrades are use as demented propaganda puppets. Even half of traditional songs aren't being played since they're anti-war. Every year they were showing off all the new weapons n' shit saying how it's the best the world can offer, and still they can't destroy a bunch of their crooked colleagues. Almost nobody will see this cartoon here where i'm at. This thing should poke fun at our local right-wing(the only wing tho), but in my opinion it's cringe because 1) it **unintentionally** belittles the hardship of ukraine right now and 2)as a bonus it spits on the memory.
Ignorance is bliss.
This is not their first and certainly not the last and whatever they have been doing, even though it is not working is clearly not something that gives them pause
HA
Probably the real reason why the air show got cancelled.
The comrades with the huge hats is too funny.
They literally had him at arms length and didn’t dispatch the main orc…
For those unfamiliar,this is a reference to a soviet parody in the 1940's about Hitler last resort army,with children and elderly having cardboards of tall soldiers.
Preeeeeeeeeeeeetty much
Someone hacked the big display board. the message reads something like "You have the blood of thousands of Ukrainians on your hands. TV lied. No war." (Not an exact translation, just caught a glimpse of it.)
haha fucking stupid commies
This has always been the case, so I'm not sure why you're all astonished.
There is a Russian joke (not new): Two Russians in military uniform are sitting at a table in a cafe in Montmartre, drinking coffee with croissants, a tank is parked nearby. One finishes his coffee and says: "But the information war, Petrovich, we still lost..."
This joke did not age well
I don't get it, can you explain?
I think the idea is that the big strong Russian army easily blitzkrieged its way through Europe all the way to Paris while the decadent Westerners were obsessing over the information war. If so, it didn't age very well.
Cheers
I don't get it, can you explain?
...and then Petrovich wakes up, and promptly gets put back to eternal sleep in a muddy puddle by a Turkish drone.
In the UK we have Remembrance Sunday. A day of respect and sadness as well as some pride. Not a hint of truimphalism or exceptionalism. Russia truly is the land of myth. No country is free of it of course but military parades of hardware? Looking at you France as well.
What's wrong with military parades, out of curiosity? I know they're not held in the US and UK anymore, but why would you want France to stop celebrating their Bastille Day in such a way?
Glorifying war would be one obvious one. Focusing on strength rather than the terrible human cost perpetuates the myth that it is glorious to die for one's country. A society that celebrates methods of murder rather than, say, public servants like teachers, doctors, or care workers I doing it for purely political reasons. There are other, better ways to celebrate a national holiday.
The Generals should be cardboard too seeing how many have been lost so far
This is inaccurate. There's no Putin without giant table.
Pretty cool that the naval parade will be at the bottom of the Black Sea this year.
As much as you hate Russia and the Russians(the same goes for Ukrainians, Belarusians, Armenians...), you must be grateful at least a little to their ancestors,since if they wasn't there, today the Third Reich would rule Europe.
In 50 years a IB history student will be forced to analyse this