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2022-08-16 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
For Poltava, for Borodino, for Stalingrad: the West wants to take revenge on the Russians
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Posted by badanov 2022-08-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ]  Top

#1 "We've given the Bear the odd poke,
But... Stalingrad? Surely you joke?
Take -- bitte! -- our Right,
Without even a fight!
Most sincerely,
The Woke Deutsches Volk"
Posted by Count Galeazzo Jones7981 2022-08-16 03:48||   2022-08-16 03:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Ha ha!

How can you not draw parallels with Nazi Germany again!

We've already drawn it here, and we don't even have to be Russian to do it.😕
Posted by Dron66046 2022-08-16 03:54||   2022-08-16 03:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Seriously -- do Russians buy this crap? No one in the west gives a rat's ass about Poltava, Borodino, or Stalingrad.

I *really* hope no one outside Russia buys into this. How stupid would you have to be?
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-08-16 06:46||   2022-08-16 06:46|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ don't worry, they'll be plenty.

One word - Comintern
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-08-16 07:07||   2022-08-16 07:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Yep. Angry about Stalingrad. That's it.

Idiots. The west has the same fear about Russia now as it did in the early 1980s. They are aggressive. Want to keep their invasion corridors secure (which they were in the 1980s, they just couldn't have one in Poland going free) and have nukes.

Other than that most people don't give 3 shits about the greying geriatric bear.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-08-16 08:14||   2022-08-16 08:14|| Front Page Top

#6 This is domestic propaganda. Everyone does it. They have to tell their people that the Yanks are all coming for 'em don't they? Everyone does it.

'Persuadable people' and all that.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-08-16 08:19||   2022-08-16 08:19|| Front Page Top

#7 But I just love their total ZFG ranting 'journalism'. There's no PC lawyerspeak or circumlocutory narrative about what is decent and good and how to protect it.

Just a lot of 'Aleksey Arestovich
is a son of a dirty bitch.
Don't believe a thing he says!
He lies all the time.
Wait... does this rhyme?
Wow! Let's take it to press!'
Posted by Dron66046 2022-08-16 08:31||   2022-08-16 08:31|| Front Page Top

#8 BS

Most Europeans probably don't remember what went on in Poltava or Borodino. Stalingrad still rings a bell but few would want to have it happened the other way round.
Posted by European Conservative 2022-08-16 09:21||   2022-08-16 09:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Do they remember the crushing of the Hungarians, Poles, and Czechs by you know who?
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-08-16 09:34||   2022-08-16 09:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Some how they forget that DeGaulle told the Americans to leave and they did, except for the ones in Normandy.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-08-16 09:37||   2022-08-16 09:37|| Front Page Top

#11 East Berlin 1953, Budapest 1956, Prague 1968, Warsaw 1981... all well remembered.
Posted by European Conservative 2022-08-16 09:41||   2022-08-16 09:41|| Front Page Top

#12 Mr. Wife and I stood witness with the crowd in Prague’s Charles Square (Karlovo námÄ›stí) that night in 1991 when they waited to see if the Soviet tanks were going to come over the border. Václav Havel was president then — his spine was well-tempered steel.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-08-16 10:43||   2022-08-16 10:43|| Front Page Top

#13 They must have found out about my "Avenge Poltava!" bumper sticker.
Posted by Matt 2022-08-16 11:20||   2022-08-16 11:20|| Front Page Top

#14 By saying the West wants revenge for Stalingrad they are saying the west = Nazis. Not subtle but not surprising.
Posted by ruprecht 2022-08-16 11:47||   2022-08-16 11:47|| Front Page Top

#15 Heard some real zingers from all sides involved.

"We must get involved because transgenders are oppressed and underrepresented in the defense of Ukraine."

The call only lasted as long as Hood vs. Bismark, but it did sortie.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-08-16 12:51||   2022-08-16 12:51|| Front Page Top

#16 Russians only talk about what they see on media, Russian and western.

They think the official positions of governments of the west is to tout homosexuality and pedophilia. For them, that is a choice.

They choose no.
Posted by badanov 2022-08-16 13:49||   2022-08-16 13:49|| Front Page Top

#17 They think the official positions of governments of the west is to tout homosexuality and pedophilia

Well, isn't it?
Posted by Dron66046 2022-08-16 13:58||   2022-08-16 13:58|| Front Page Top

#18 Lookin' pretty ghey.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-08-16 15:04||   2022-08-16 15:04|| Front Page Top

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