[quote] This is what they are showing on Russia’s Channel 1 – a martial number by Alexandrov, composer of the official Soviet anthem.
Who ever imagined that this stuff would be back?[/quote]
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As replies go, this one is really apt.
If you catch my drift, that is.
Disclaimer:
I do not have the habit of describing the killing of a person as “deletion”, and I hate myself for being in favour of killing a human being, but FUCK my ethics right now. This high-brass certainly had it coming because of his superiors decision to invade, and his dutiful fulfilment of the tasks in question.
Put a label on the coffin: return to sender.
I hope you all excuse my outburst. I posted this in full awareness of my cognitive dissonances.
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I attempted a joke about how many extra generals the Russians seem to have, but it wasn’t very funny and I didn’t have anything else to say
Oh I see what you mean now, because a “post” can be a soldier’s assigned position … “post deleted,” har har, that’s better than what I wrote anyway
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Soviet martial music never went away. Under Putin the old Soviet national anthem was given new lyrics to become the Russian national anthem.
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Russia is turning into North Korea.
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Which got its traditions of propaganda art and music from the USSR (and China under Mao Zedong).
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Yan also detected that the emerging bipolarisation in the new world order was not tilting in China’s favour.
The funny thing is that had they supported Ukraine from the beginning, they probably would have gained a lot of trust in the west
. “China is in a position that is somewhat comparable to Russia’s … The US is clearly manipulating the Taiwan issue and constantly fanning the flames in order to dismember China by creating a Ukraine of the Orient.”
Then don’t attack Taiwan and it isn’t a problem. Just like Putin could still happily sell oil to the west and kill journalists if only he had left Ukraine in peace.
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Yup, supporting Taiwan definitely equals “dismembering China.” Sigh…
Also, stating it this way, and knowing China’s view of Taiwan as a breakaway province, clearly shows how they view Ukraine. I don’t know how all this plays out, but I am not feeling optimistic at all.
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I am so sick of hearing these comparisons between Ukraine and Taiwan. The situations aren’t even all that similar.
And given how the war is going, I’m surprised that Chinese academics are still making that comparison. You’d think that they’d want to emphasize how different the situations are.
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“This Liabach concert has amazing production value!”
So were the dancers in the beginning supposed to represent the old senile lady with the USSR flag they were trotting out in their earlier propaganda?
That’s a good attitude to have. But when someone else is literally trying to kill you (and in this case directing others to do so), you have the moral right to defend yourself. Ukraine has the right to exist. So while it is normal to struggle with this, I don’t think it is cognitive dissonance to have an exception to your values.
It is basically the tolerance paradox. You could tolerate Russia being neighbors, but when they invaded and wanted to absorb Ukraine, their intolerance made it so you can no longer tolerate them.
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When I saw the drummer boys I thought of this:
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Possibly two generals at once.
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Russian Commanders and or Generals are probably not high on the potential career list for Russian high school kids right now.
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The news operation costs $1m a year. Ponomarev said he covered running costs himself, from funds accumulated during a successful career as a Silicon Valley investor. His own political views were those of a “left-libertarian anarchist”, he said.
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