I heard Zelensky was trolling Trump, is that true?

Homeboy is likely on his way out with this attitude

Moscow controlled all decision-making in the USSR.

The majority of top Soviet leaders, including Lenin, Stalin, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev, were from Russia (although Brezhnev was born in Ukraine, he identified as Russian).

The Russian Communist Party was the largest and most powerful within the Soviet system.

Ukraine also had strong nationalist movements that resisted Soviet rule.

Sure there could have been many communist party members in Ukraine, but back then ONE HAD to join a party to get promoted, to be an important person in the country. and people obviously wanted to be promoted and important so they signed the papers.

How many washing machines do you need to make a nuclear submarine equipped with Zircon hypersonic missiles?

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-putin-launches-nuclear-powered-submarine-2025-03-27/

Nearly all countries in the world draft citizens when there is a war

Moscow? The city itself controlled something ? That very city where the Kievan (and thus Russian) princes and the entire population fled after the destruction of Kyiv by the Mongols? Stalin was a Georgian. Brezhnev was Ukrainian as well as Khruschev and Chernenko. And no, Ukrainian Communist party was the biggest, numerically, even given a threefold larger Russian population.
But in some ways, you're right. The same Ukrainian communists (and there could be no others there due to the sheer proximity of the borders) who occupied Poland were eager to curry favor, and it was they who denounced their own neighbors during the Holodomor, just as they now denounce those hiding from mass mobilization.

This post was edited by Norlander on Mar 29 2025 09:22am

No, only authoritarian states forcibly mobilize their citizens, beat them in the process, maim and kill them. And this is telling- Ukrainians do not want to defend a state that has given them nothing. The only state among the post-Soviet countries, including the Warsaw Pact nations, that failed to increase its GDP (and thus its standard of living) compared to the time of the USSR’s collapse, even by 2014. A country where washing machines and toilets have been turned into a cult and serve as propaganda symbols. Pathetic

This post was edited by Norlander on Mar 29 2025 09:18am

oO
I was away for a week. He's going to join the hall of the fallen ones soon.

All things considered, im not that impressed by Russia pumping out their yasen-m's. Russia has always done a fantastic job of maintaining/developing their SSGNs, so to me this is just par for the course.The perm was laid down in 2015, so its definitely taken awhile to be commissioned.

That being said, Russia being able to build nuclear-powered cruise missile fast attack submarines, with the ability to fire zircons, that are comparable to seawolfs, all while apparently collapsing due to economic sanctions by the west, really is a head-scratcher. It probably took thousands of Samsung washing machines to make.

I guess this is a repurposed washing machine factory:

We should thank Ukraine- a country that produces nothing but CO2 and fascists (tens of thousands of Poles, Jews and more recently the people of Amsterdam, wouldn’t let you lie- welcome to the era of white Christian terror)- for the washing machine chips.

This post was edited by Norlander on Mar 29 2025 10:57am