- 26 Nov 2022 13:03
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U. needs tanks and jets , EU/NATO must give them to U. !! Moscow horde must be stopped !
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Rugoz wrote:The "brotherhood of republics" was never a thing. The SU crushed uprisings in those republics throughout its entire history.
Russian chauvinism was always a thing though.
Silly Stalinist.
MadMonk wrote:if heaven forbid Crimea is lost (!)
Potemkin wrote:Russian chauvinism existed, but was suppressed. I once had a Russian tutor who told me about one of her lecturers at Leningrad State University who gave a lecture on the question of whether Ukrainian was a separate language or was merely a dialect of Russian. His conclusion was that Ukrainian was merely a dialect of Russian. By the following week, he had been fired from his job. The reason for his dismissal? “Great Russian chauvinism”. As I said before, Lenin hated what he called “Great Russian chauvinism”, and deliberately set up the Soviet Union so that it would officially be a partnership of equals. Ironically, this later made it possible to break up the Soviet Union with relative ease in 1991. They didn’t even have to hold a referendum. But the Soviet state, from its beginning to its end, always acted to suppress Russian chauvinism. Putin would likely have been arrested in Soviet times for claiming that Ukraine has no right to exist as a separate republic, but should actually just be part of Russia. He wouldn’t just have lost his job; he would likely have ended up chopping down fir trees in Siberia.
ingliz wrote:It would be a foolish act for the Ukrainians to attempt to take Crimea when Russia can always escalate.
Total war is not pretty. A war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, one in which the accepted rules of war are disregarded, is not something to be courted.
Rugoz wrote:Ukraine needs to take Crimea
ingliz wrote:OK, we will see what happens if or when they try.
I, for one (it seems), hope they settle before it comes to this 'trying' otherwise many more innocent lives will be lost.
Potemkin wrote:Indeed he was, but once he was safely ensconced in power, he took the opportunity to launch a revolution from above, which revived Russian nationalism and restored a quasi-Tsarist absolutist system.
Potemkin wrote:Russian chauvinism existed, but was suppressed.
ingliz wrote:It would be a foolish act for the Ukrainians to attempt to take Crimea when Russia can always escalate.
Total war is not pretty. A war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, one in which the accepted rules of war are disregarded, is not something to be courted.
JohnRawls wrote:Crimia will fall in 2023-2024 either through diplomatic means or militarily. It is question of when by now.
Rancid wrote:Where's @Igor Antunov?
Rancid wrote:Where's the war map?
Potemkin wrote:Putin would likely have been arrested in Soviet times for claiming that Ukraine has no right to exist as a separate republic, but should actually just be part of Russia. He wouldn’t just have lost his job; he would likely have ended up chopping down fir trees in Siberia.
Szabo wrote:Putin also would have likely been shot in the back of the head for canonizing the very same royal Romanov family that had Lenin’s brother executed.
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