ilyich

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by ilyich 5y ago
Yes, you're right. But there's a slight difference. No street, square, bridge etc. in Russia is named after Vlasov. And there are no monuments to Vlasov in Russia. Also Putin never said that praising a Nazi war criminal as a natio
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by ilyich 5y ago
What I am trying to explain is that "Slava Ukraine! Heroyam Slava!" is a direct calque from the German "Heil Hitler! Sieg Heil!". "Slava" literally means "Heil" ("hail" in English). "Hi
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by ilyich 5y ago
The modern response "Heroiam slava!" (Glory to the heroes!) appeared in the 1930s among members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). [0] The greeting "Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!" became an off
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by ilyich 5y ago
Area. To produce 1 gigawatt of power you need 1000 square kilometers of wind turbines or 300 sq km of solar elements or 3 sq km of nuclear power plants. How much land do you have in your country that you are ready to deforestate in order to
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by ilyich 5y ago
In Ukraine the three was all. Since a year ago zero is all. And there was not even a court decision. He just unplugged them overnight without notice. How democratic.
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by ilyich 5y ago
>that the Ukraine president is a dictator and so on... A year ago Zelensky closed all opposition TV channels on the pretext they were pro-Russian. [0] Not one or two. All of them. Since then there is no opposition TV in Ukraine. An extre
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by ilyich 5y ago
>Trust me. Look. I have pen Or even better: "Privet kamrad. My name John. Zer is a site Utub. Itz no blokt in Rasha. Taip Ukreyn in surch boks end it vil shou yu trus yu didn't no."
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by ilyich 5y ago
Europe and the USA simply have no alternative to Russian oil and natural gas. They may have in 20 or 30 years from now if they start investing in it several billion dollars per year right now. That's why gas prices in Europe and oil pr
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by ilyich 5y ago
During all this war Europe and USA even for a single minute didn't stop buying Russian oil and natural gas to support Putin's invasion. It's European and American money that supports war crimes.
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by ilyich 5y ago
>They can't even arrest 1% of population - detention system can't handle that. Why can't they? In free and democratic USA 5% of the population is incarcerated.
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by ilyich 5y ago
>If it costs more, well damn that's the price for freedom I guess right now, still acceptable given circumstances. Without Russian energy supply Europeans will be heating their houses with freedom. And European industry will also be
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by ilyich 5y ago
You can heat it with solar, wind and democracy.
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by ilyich 5y ago
>Say it's a cold cloudy day with no wind and it's been so for a week. What if it's been so for a month? What if the country is Sweden? What if the month is January? What if the average temperature is -20C? >So who pays
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by ilyich 5y ago
I wish I could upvote your comment a hundred times. I am astonished to see such technically literate populace just repeating mainstream bullshit propaganda instead of having their own thoughts. And it's not only regarding the nuclear b
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by ilyich 5y ago
Wikipedia is full of disinformation on topics regarding politics and history. It is a good source of knowledge about mathematics, astronomy, biology, physics etc, but if you want an unbiased opinion on any political/historical issue yo
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by ilyich 6y ago
There is one thing that confuses me: >After an 18-month legal struggle, he was granted political asylum in the Netherlands, while his wife and children are living safely in Turkey. So after such inhuman tortures living safely with his wi
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by ilyich 6y ago
He will be able to maintain the repo. From the sentence [0] you can see that he is sentenced to spend his term in an open prison [1] (Russian колония-поселение) It means he will be able to have internet access without any problems. So no ne
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by ilyich 7y ago
First, by the time of his imprisonment he was not yet the world's greatest rocket engineer. He became one some 20 years after. Quote from here: https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA_history/50_years_of_humans_...
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by ilyich 7y ago
The only fucking idiot among top Soviet politicians was Gorbachev who sold one of the world's biggest economic, scientific and military powers just for 30 pieces of silver. His predecessors were no idiots at all. They are depicted as c
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by ilyich 7y ago
Did you know that Solzhenitsyn was successfully treated from cancer by evil communist doctors while being in Gulag that did not have any healthcare? Did you also know that while being in Gulag Solzhenitsyn was a "stukach" who repo
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by ilyich 7y ago
>"Wasn't much better than USSR" is such bullshit on so many levels that it's hard to even to begin. In the US: - you wouldn't disappear in a gulag for 10 years I totally agree. The US is much more better. There&#