Kartapolov is the leader of the defence commity of the Duma and a Putin ally.
Very moving account of the daily experience of war on the front, in contact with the ennemy.
Turns out the russian soldiers are thieves as well!
but it turns out, the people are very stupid because they trust the politicians who are lying to them.
the truth is out there, 90% of the rest of the world is against them. But Russians still believe their crooked politicians who are lying to their faces about the entire war. And that makes them sheep of the worst kind.
Fun, fun
The Ruski peasants, orcs and oligarchs deserve to feel the pain thats coming their way - I think they will need decades of suffering to assist them adjust their attitude that Russia and its people are somehow a big deal.
well, some of the oligarchs arenāt feeling much of anything!
I donāt know how to say this properly really, but why do you always use peasant as an insult (nothing wrong about being a peasant in a country with such awful wealth distribution really) and why do you always blanket Russians all into the same category of awful people ? Many are awful for sure, but I know some very nice ones that I care about and that I am sad I wonāt be able to see or visit for probably decades or even ever. Russians are not much worse than Americans really imo., MAGA would have loved to cheer for a war under an authoritarian leader, and they are countless millions of mostly uneducated and ill informed nationalists as well, despite the US not having anything like the media control and state dominated voice that Russians are conditioned with. I am uncomfortable with the generalisation because you never say itās a generalisation I guess.
This isnāt a dig at you, as the English say. I am just uncomfortable with blanketing as I have met quite a few Russians who are thoughtful in my life and I would also like to meet them again. I donāt find any joy in Russians suffering in general, although I find it oif course necessary that they do.
Guess I am just soft !
Usually not a sign of a very functional system when the leader has to sign a decree to fix every little details.^^"
fixed it for you.
guessing itās right here, which would affect the power station downstream.
fuck me, these Russians are a nasty lot. may they burn in hell
Continuing with account from war, hereās a diary from an Ukrainian conscript.
Freed link: archive.ph
I would have loved to hear my grandfatherās stories of WW2. Landing on Juno beach on D-Day and what followed. He was a radio operator. His older brother was in the tank division (Fort Garry Horse) and died the day after D-Day. I canāt imagine what they endured.
Alexander Novak did a very good job unfortunately, in his travels to the cartel-countries. It will seriously aid the Russian war economy. I wonder how he convinced them to help out. Maybe they didnāt need much convincing, but itās a political risk for those dictatorships to anger the US.
When I was a young lad 8 or 9, I asked my Dad what heād done in the war?
He told me that heād driven a lorry load of blankets around for the duration.
It was only after heād died that I found out from his Brother that heād commanded a Bren gun carrier. Heād fought in N Africa and Italy. He landed on D Day +4 and fought through France, Holland and Germany. He left my Mum and my Brother and Sisters in 1940 and didnāt return until late 1945. When he got off the train at Lime Street my Mum didnāt recognise him. He had gone bald in the time he was away and looked a lot older.
I wish that Iād asked him again when I got older. 
I was too young to understand what heād gone through, he passed when I was 12. We have his uniform and medals still, and one of my uncleās neighbors found my great uncleās tombstone at Beny-Sur-Mer when they were touring the area. took a picture and sent it to us.