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Hungary:
WAR PEACE WAR
tbf it says ^stop^WAR
Kieselguhr
joined 4 years ago
Holy astroturf Batman, what in the name of psyops is happening on non-political subreddits showing alleged Ukrainian POWs who were allegedly starved on purpose? No sources of course, but thousands of upvotes and hundreds of RUSSIA BAD comments.
I'm still using reddit to doomscroll* once in a while but this atrocity propaganda is getting ludicrous
*apparently doomscrolling is looking at negative news? What do they call when you keep scrolling through stupid slop just to pass the time while you are waiting for something?
Lib brainworms are so weird: they 100% believe there's a continuity from tsarist Russia through the USSR all the way to Putin's Russia; it's all just a Russian Nationalist Empire to them, never mind the fact that there was a capital R Revolution or that the collapse of the USSR might have changed things.
But when you ask them about Western Imperialism... well they might concede that the British Empire was not just fun and games, or that the Trail of Tears was unfortunate -- but now... everything has changed, and there's no Western Imperialism, you silly goose (even though there's a literal continuity, literally the same states ruling the USA and UK as before)
The Abrams is a good tank. But like all tanks it was designed during an era when technology was very different. As tanks go: it is far better than Russia's T-90.
A problem with the Abrams is that it was designed for Western Germany during the 80's which had far better road systems than Eastern Europe, and different weather conditions. The Abrams is a very heavy tank, it also requires a sophisticated level for maintenance, and it is designed to be used in a different way than how Russia uses its tanks. Ukraine is coming from the way Russia fights wars.
It's a good tank, though you can only drive around downtown Frankfurt in it, because it breaks down elsewhere, but it's a good tank, very capable. Well, provided you have a very specialized maintenance crew with it when you are driving around in German towns. (No drones please.)
According to Israeli Minister Amichai Chikli, George Soros is one of the greatest enemies of the Jewish people, while Viktor Orbán is one of Europe's greatest leaders, a true friend of the State of Israel, and "can have a significant impact on all of Europe because he stands against neomarxist brainwashing."
Well, the cultural revolution is a different thing, I was mostly talking about post ww2 Eastern Europe, where it is seen as a national tragedy that the 1%-ers and the far right high ranking state officials had to work as peasants for a couple of years in the 50s. I think almost all of them through their education (privilege) and through their connections were able to get back to a kind of "soviet" "middle class" lifestyle after a few years, and they were literally paid reparations after the fall of communism (which obviously led to gigantic corruption).
Something similar also happened at the universities, where students from peasant and proletarian background were given preference over students who came from a privileged background, even though people who came from formerly rich/middle class families usually had better scores. Again this is seen as a crime of communism, even though we factually know that being from privileged family gives you all kinds of advantages. Commies just wanted to flip the script, so the old intelligentsia does not become the new intelligentsia as well.
One of the greatest crimes the commies did in Eastern Europe was forcing the aristocrats to work like peasants. Just imagine! A countess! Working with peasant women! The horror!
Here's how liberal historians write about this crime:
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"The planning and execution of the 1951 Budapest deportations by the Hungarian political leadership aimed to achieve multiple objectives simultaneously. In the spirit of the intensifying class struggle, they intended to deliver yet another blow to the former social elite, who, despite having lost their economic and political influence due to nationalizations and blacklisting, still lived in relatively closed communities in Budapest's inner districts, forming a sort of social network. This "enclave," at the height of Third World War hysteria, also represented the vision that in the event of a military conflict, these socially hostile groups would remain a "Trojan horse" in the heart of the country, in the middle of the capital.
Additionally, the element of the measures involving the relocation of Budapest deportees to wealthier peasant farmers, termed "kulaks" in contemporary language, in the non-cooperative villages of the eastern counties of the country, was also conceived in the spirit of class struggle. This was intended to exacerbate the tensions between these already geographically and socially distant groups. The military logic, specifically Stalin's vision of the rapidly approaching Third World War, also justified that the deportations were exclusively directed towards Eastern Hungary, closer to the Soviet border, ensuring that the hostile elements remained sufficiently isolated even after the onset of wartime conditions.
A more practical consideration, however, was that through the deportations, the state could acquire several thousand generally high-quality inner Budapest properties. This was essential for establishing the economic status of the new social elite amid scarce housing conditions.
The deportations, which took place between May 21 and July 18, 1951, affected over five thousand families, at least 12,000–14,000 individuals. According to statistical summaries, one-third of the deportees (33%) had served as military officers before 1945, more than one-fifth (23%) were members of the economic elite (wholesalers, bank directors, factory owners or directors), about 17% were former state officials, 6% were policemen, and another 6% were former aristocrats."
I don't know about you, but I was nodding like Jack Nicholson in the famous gif. Certain 1%-er families who were part of the elite in the regime that committed the white terror and the holocaust were froced to live like serfs for a couple of years. Again, these stories are recounted as a deportation that is comparable to the ethnic cleansing and genocide that was done by these elites...
Anyway, this was a tangent. Everyone able should do some kind of manual labor in their life at some point.
Kiesewetter commented on this intelligence assessment, saying that Ukraine can "continue to win",
Meanwhile, a German government spokesman said that Israel has a "right to defend itself within the framework of international law" and described Sunday's deadly strike as "presumably a mistake."
Referring to an ongoing Israeli investigation into the incident, he added: "In any case, a mistake has been made, that can already be said."
Asked about to whether Israel's actions in Gaza constitute war crimes, he said Berlin would reserve judgement until investigations are concluded.
"The conclusion as to whether this is a war crime in terms of international law is something that must be left to lawyers who know the exact facts," he said. "First, investigate what exactly happened and then make a judgement. [Let's] not make an immediate judgement based on pictures."
Officials from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry have revised the death toll from Sunday night's Israeli airstrike on a Rafah refugee camp from 35 to at least 45 and said that over 200 more had been injured.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said his government was investigating a deadly Israeli airstrike that killed scores of Palestinian civilians in a displacement camp in southern Gaza, calling it a "tragic incident."
"Israel has a right to go after Hamas, and we understand this strike killed two senior Hamas terrorists who are responsible for attacks against Israeli civilians," said a US National Security Council spokesperson, "But, as we've been clear, Israel must take every precaution possible to protect civilians."
Death toll in [Kharkiv] DIY store strike rises to 6, local officials say
Russian strikes on a crowded DIY hardware store in Kharkiv on Saturday killed at least six people and injured dozens, the region’s Governor Oleh Syniehubov said on national television.
Forty people were injured, with at least three in serious condition. Sixteen people were still unaccounted for, Syniehubov said.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said about 120 people had been in the hardware store when the bombs struck.
"The attack targeted the shopping center, where there were many people — this is clearly terrorism," Terekhov said.
What I've seen from local liberal media about the most recent act of genocidal mass murder by Israel is that they try to frame it as a retaliations for Hamas rockets, that unfortunately accidentally killed civilians.
Deranged
It will be amazing when Ukraine inevitably loses, how will they spin it?
Or it becomes a frozen conflict with RU controlling 30% of Ukraine for decades and they'll say that UA still has a chance?