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It really depends what the propaganda machine needs at that particular moment. See, she's not critical of the war (and likely she isn't, not just phrasing smart), she's just worried that the guys are uncomfortable at the front.

TIL

Beltalowda, baratna!

I think it's the literal of "crosses" as Ukraine is using those on equipment.

Sure, here's the proposal:

1. Definitive military defeat of the ruzzian invaders and restoration of Ukraine borders
2. Allow them to sell stuff again, but as part of their capitulation agreement, make them keep 10% of profits, and use the other 90% for the restoration of the damage caused by them in Ukraine. Keep that in place until an agreed amount is paid off

Here's a method. When facing a choice where all options seem to be good, pick a random one. As an extension, if, after picking, you don't like the selection, eliminate it and pick another random.

Repeat until good enough, otherwise again pick a random one, but this time final.

Since they all are ok, there no wrong choice, thus a random is still ok and better than no choice.

Straightforward. Nazis and soviets had a military pact, jointly invaded and divided Poland, thus starting the ww2.

Lol, so the soviets did not have a pact with Nazis and didn't invade Poland just two weeks after the Nazis?

My friend, I understand your desire to see Soviet Union as some sort of dualistic opponent of the imperialist US (which the latter is), and use that to declare as the good side, but I'm afraid the USSR was just as imperialist and as terrible, just differently.

It was way more like two mafia gangs fighting each other. And the one that won is now finally showing its true colours.

The fundamental approach to equality in the early Soviet Union was via killing all those "not equal". Lenin was very adamant about using extreme violence to "convince" the population. So was Stalin. The following ones were a little less blood thirsty, but simply because their predecessors did a great job killing millions.

Sorry, Soviet Union was a tyrannical oligarchy, as far from socialism as its great opponent the US of A.

By the way, your argument that you don't know but I also cannot know because I was late to the party (pun intended) is... a very naive one. But I agree with you - you don't know and fight rather hard to retain your faith.

As someone who lived in USSR, slow me to adjust your statement.

Everyone was declared to have equal rights, not dissimilar to the constitutions of other countries.

Contrary to those declarations the soviet passports had "nationality" in them.

On top of that, while it was reasonable for everyone to have a common language, it was a common understanding that if one is too progress in life and career, they should adopt russian and, better, become one. Which was actively supported. While I grew up in Ukraine, in school we had Ukrainian language and literature as a foreign language, maybe 10% of what we spent learning russian ones.

So yeah, everyone was equal, as long as they are russian. Every other nationality was at best mocked. Ukrainians are greedy, Georgians are brainless machos, Chukchas are stupid, Jews are sneaky thieves etc.

On top of that, there was systemic discrimination of women which culminated in the joke-proverb "woman, keep your mouth shut, your day is 8th of march".

And of course the equality was topped by the oligarchy. See in a one-party system, people are either party members or not. The country was obviously ruled exclusively by the party members, which not only meant that the non-members had zero representation, it also meant that most members had equally zero representation.

Ironically, in that sense, there was equality since nobody had any rights.

So a small elite has formed, it was mostly replenished via nepotism and those were the "more equal" ones.

The patriotic movements you're mentioning, while they naturally picked the flag after the collapse, had little to do with the said collapse. It crashed because it was resistant to change.

And the soviets were well aware of the "nationalist danger", that why after causing holodomor they settled millions of ethnic russians into the emptied homes in Ukraine. That's why after the second world war (which the soviets don't call that because they actually started it together with the Nazis) they sent hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tatars to Siberia and replaced them with... more ethnically and loyal russians.

So yeah, everyone was declared equal, but only male, russian and well-connected were.

Pretty much. The soviets have systematically cultivated political apathy and pootler has brought it to the next level. Imagine having access to millions of bodies and nobody cares when you expend a million or two. That's dictator's wet dream.

There will be no civil war in russia after their defeat. They were all conditioned into complete apathy (that's why all other dictators and wannabes are paying attention). That's why most of those who join today, do that simply for money.

So all that might happen is mafia clashes as they will establish new spheres of control and then it will come back to the rise of the next "great" leader.

Fuel is directly used in war. Electricity in the near-front areas is the same.

Heating in the cities that are not engaged in direct military activities is a terrorist tactic designed to kill or at least break the will of civilians.

That's different.