Ok, what’s your point? I thought all Russian language speakers were de-facto Russians, one of the justifications for the SMO?
Posted by: Longhorn | May 6 2023 0:11 utc | 177
Stalin’s mother tongue was Georgian, do you see the difference?

Posted by: RB | May 6 2023 18:42 utc | 404

Vragtes | May 6 2023 17:58 utc | 405
“I am British and live in England though I was not born in the UK. I am married, have children and grandchildren…I can’t wait till this perfidious, immoral country gets its come-uppance, even though I, my family and many other innocents people may die or be injured in the process.”
I can see other countries aren’t sending their best… I also think UK foreign policy is utterly wrong-headed, but I have no desire to see my people slaughtered.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | May 6 2023 19:23 utc | 406

Thank you. It’s more than chickenshit. The character assassination of Lira is the same totalitarian tactic used to justify and gain public support for the censorship and imprisonment of Julian Assange.
Posted by: Willow | May 6 2023 8:47 utc | 265
ffs. You mention Lira in the same breath as Assange? Get a grip.
Assange made a difference. Lira not so much.

Posted by: Drinky Crow | May 6 2023 19:37 utc | 408

This is rather notable, I had caught just a few brief mentions on TG channels, strange it wasn’t played up more. I find this a decent channel:
It was a Brilliant OP NATO instructors were Destroyed by the Russian Aerospace Forces in Chernihiv
The vid says “raid behind enemy lines” so RF planes managed to fly in and out of Ukrainian territory? That would be a very big deal, anyone have more info?

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | May 6 2023 19:54 utc | 410

The question you should be asking is; why are you such a sucker for Russian propaganda?

Posted by: Longhorn | May 6 2023 13:24 utc | 332

Posted by: West of England Andy | May 6 2023 20:35 utc | 412

With the exception of a handful of you, this place is full of lunatics. You sit behind a computer all day under a fake name and do nothing but bitch bitch bitch. Such miserable lives you live. I feel sorry for you.

Posted by: Sid Farkus | May 6 2023 20:35 utc | 414

@ rk, §302:
So, like Brandon, you think the Ukraine are “winning!”?

Posted by: John Marks | May 6 2023 20:49 utc | 416

Ooooh ! I just fort, ‘passingthrough’ is obviously an anagram of “dire rear” !

Posted by: Sarlat La Canède | May 6 2023 20:56 utc | 418

@ Dacian | May 6 2023 16:03 #380
The “collapse” of the Soviets! WWII was unique in that it wasn’t just inter-imperialist – it was distorted by the presence of a socialist state. Therefore, it was also anti-socialist. In assessing the war, one must always be aware of the ferocity and scope of the international class struggle. For the first time in history the masses had seized and held state power – the historic nightmare of all ruling classes. From the new state’s birth, the world bourgeoisie was obsessed by a drive to kill it. This drive was manifested both outside and inside the CCCP and was reflected, often in subtle ways, in the Soviet intelligentsia. It was aided by the fact that revolutionaries in Russia had long concentrated on the overthrow of feudalism. Some of them, like Bukharin, wavered before the destruction of capitalism and the building of socialism. Stalin was appointed Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and the conduct of the war, as Marshall Zhukov recognized, was from beginning to end in his hands. If Stalin had not won the fight for industrialization and defeated the Trot’s and Bukharinites, the CCCP would have become a nazi province. Had he not had the foresight to build a metallurgical industry in the Urals, the Red Armies could not have been supplied with arms. Had he not industrialized the economy and introduced mechanized farming, he would have had neither a base for producing arms nor a mass of soldiers trained in the operation of machinery. Had he not signed the non-aggression treat with Germany, the CCCP might have been attacked 22 months sooner. Had he not moved the Soviet armies into Poland, the German attack would have begun even closer to Moscow. Had he not subdued General Mannerheim’s Finland, Leningrad would have fallen. Had he not ordered the transfer of 1400 factories from west to the eas, the most massive movement of its kind in history, Russian industry would have received a possible fatal blow. Had he not built up the army and equipped it with modern arms, it would have been destroyed on the frontiers.
When the nazis invaded, Stalin, aided by other party and army leaders, developed a new strategy for modern warfare. He was able to achieve this primarily because he had a socialist and not a capitalist base from which to operate. The strategy rested on viewing the war not just from a military point of view but in its’ total implications. For instance, Stalin immediately named it the Great Patriotic War, not a War for Socialism, as it actually was, for to have done so would have narrowed support for it, both internal and internationally. He perceived that the war would not be decided by previously successful blitzkreig tactics or shock and awe but by broader factors.
Neither the US nor UK imperialists wished to see the CCCP victorious. Both hoped that the CCCP and Germany would mutually destroy each other and allow British and American imperial interests penetrate deep into Europe. They supplied the CCCP with what they thought was just enough assistance to help it to resist but not conquer the Germans. They delayed opening a second front in the hope of a Soviet-German stalemate, but delayed too long: not until the Red Army was marching into Berlin. The US & UK miscalculated because they did not understand the special strengths of a socialist state.
Anyway, to make a long story short – the CCCP, led by Stalin, defeated the nazis but at a horrific cost. Although over 10 million nazis were destroyed on the eastern front, the CCCP lost over 20 million people. Surely some of those casualties were politically astute communists. This must have had an effect, a weakening of the CP. IMHO, it goes a long way in explaining how a revisionist like Krushchev could come to power after Stalin died. Socialism didn’t fail Russia. Russia failed socialism…

Posted by: zeke2u | May 6 2023 21:08 utc | 420

Sid Farkus @ 419
You sit behind a computer all day under a fake name and do nothing but bitch bitch bitch.
Some of us masterbate as well

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 6 2023 21:41 utc | 422

Posted by: Qassam | May 6 2023 12:11 utc | 314
If a Kinzhal had been shot down the ukes would be displaying pieces of it all over the media. Until proof is provided, here have some salt.

Posted by: T.D. | May 6 2023 22:29 utc | 424

there’s been seven-hundred years
of western civilizations colonizing
the world.
if this conflict in ukraine is the
beginning of a power shift.
it’s just the start, of multiple
wars, lasting many years.

Posted by: Dingo | May 7 2023 3:41 utc | 426

Posted by: klutch kargo | May 6 2023 16:50 utc | 392
«This organ harvesting stuff can’t be true can it? Doesn’t an organ have to be perfused and transported quickly to be of any use.»
Some people seem to manage it:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/italys-gruesome-migrant-organ-transplant-murders
http://www.ayyaantuu.net/nine-somalis-dumped-in-egyptian-sea-after-kidnapped-and-organs-removed-by-traffickers-in-egypt/

Posted by: Blissex | May 7 2023 8:28 utc | 428

@ rk, §302:
So, like Brandon, you think the Ukraine are “winning!”?
Posted by: John Marks | May 6 2023 20:49 utc | 421
The “winning” is for the public, there’s nothing to be won by Ukr. They’ve only enabled free terrorism for nato, no consequences, in a kamikaze move. So far the plan worked for natoids, they kill soldiers, lots of civilians, plant bombs in cars, explode pipes, bridges, shoot drones at Kremlin and so on. And no war takes place in a large part of Ukr, there’s no danger, nothing.
“We have killed Russians and will continue to kill Russians anywhere in this world until Ukraine wins out completely – Budanov”

Posted by: rk | May 7 2023 12:15 utc | 430

I suspect that you are confusing the outcome with the intention, because that was indeed the outcome, but it happened *after* the collapse, and it happened because it is the standard operating procedure of the anglo-american elites towards the vassals: buy the loyalty of the local upper-middle and upper classes by protecting them from “socialism” in exchange of a share of the rent extraction this enables from the lower classes of the vassals.
The collapse of the USSR had a complex set of reasons, but the trigger was the failed coup of the old-timers, and the following wish of the whole russian elites to get rid of a structure that gave too much power to the periphery. What they did not realize is that periphery were buffer states that they needed, just like today the PRC needs the RF and Kazakhstan as buffer states.
Posted by: Blissex | May 7 2023 8:18 utc | 432

No, it happened long before 1991, and also long before 1989.
It’s been more than 30 years since then, many people who witnessed things first-hand have spoken, although unfortunately there is barely anyone who was in such a position who is still alive. Of course, none of that has been reported in the West, you need to read and watch primary sources to learn about these things, so I see where the confusion arises from.
The question is how far back it goes. There are claims it goes as far back as the 1960s, more credibly in the early 1970s, then of course a lot of it went down in the mid-1980s. Of course, it wasn’t a single event, it was a process, so likely everyone who gives such dates is correct — they just witnessed different events that were part of the overall process.
Note that we are not talking here about the collapse of the USSR as a political entity, but about the capitalist counter-revolution. The political collapse ended up being the inevitable price that had to be paid for the success of the capitalist counter-revolution.

Posted by: shadowbanned | May 7 2023 12:59 utc | 432

Wonder if b should rehead this thread….The Missing Lira…..
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | May 7 2023 13:08 utc | 434