russia

russia, aka Muscovy, and its colonial empire

Границы России нигде не заканчивается - russia’s borders end nowhere

вернём границы 1945 года! - Let’s bring back the borders of 1945!

Cemetery in russia..

сильная россия —strong russia

Yes, they call Putin their tsar

worth it.

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“ Russia is not squeaky clean. Russia is what it is. And we are not ashamed of showing who we are.

— Sergey Lavrov, Lavrov: Russia is not squeaky clean and not ashamed, 17 June 2022

“ Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

— John McCain

russia [5], also known as Muscovy or Nihilistan, is a KGB-run dictatorship[6], expansionist colonial empire, and state sponsor of terrorism[7][8].

It is the direct legal and spiritual successor of the genocidal Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the Evil Empire) and its ruling ideology is referred to as Kremlinism. Its supporters are referred to as vatniks, tankies, useful idiots, and Kremlintarians. Its victims are referred to as russophobes.

Its ruler is traditionnaly referred to as “tsar” (or “czar”, from latin Caesar). The current tsar is KGB lieutenant-colonel and former Communist Party of the Soviet Union member Vladmir Putin, possibly the richest man in the world through sheer corruption [9].

Philosophy

“ Long time observers may be confused why Russia so readily embraces the most obviously conflicted ideologies.
Ideologies are just costumes for Russia. Underlying everything is a religious belief in an all powerful Czar, and in salvation through enduring and inflicting suffering.

— Roman Skaskiw, March 2, 2023

russian World

Firehose of falsehood

Continuity with USSR

[1] Kremlinism/WWII, GULag, Holodomor...
[2] Why deny the genocides of the previous regime, unless it’s the same regime?

GrandTurion, Russia = Soviet Union 🧵 (thread) (pdf)

Geography

Russia is the only country surrounded by the West on all sides!

State symbols

Totally not communist, not the evil empire anymore, don’t you worry!

The State Duma building in Moscow
russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Economy

Twelve reasons why Russia sucks

How bad is the economic situation in Russia?

russia inching toward bankruptcy: russian Finance Ministry made a completely fictitious transaction with the Central Bank of Russia. It ’sold’ €28.517 billion, £2.77 billion, & ¥121.852 billion in frozen assets parked in the West due to sanctions, which it can’t access.

Landmarks

Famous bridges

https://twitter.com/infussambas/status/1665370180073996289

Immigration Opportunities

Russia hoping to attract 7 million Conservatives.

Equality

47 million Russians do not have hot running water. 29 million don’t have any running water. 22 million do not have central heating. 35 million do not have an indoor toilet.

Russia’s 500 Super Rich Wealthier Than Poorest 99.8% – Report

Vladimir Vladimirovich has been very concerned about russia’s slums. For 15 years. Too bad he couldn’t do anything about it...
... had to get that gold toilet paper holder first. Inside Putin’s $700M yacht, complete with gold toilet paper holder
well, at least one russian citizen can enjoy decent living accomodations.
Putin attended a political rally last week to commemorate Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea recently donning a down puffer jacket that appears to be from Loro Piana and which sells for nearly $14,000. “We have not had unity like this for a long time,” he told a cheering crowd.

Slavery

Religion

LGBT rights

Chechen authorities rounding up and killing gay men in ’prophylactic purge,’ Russian paper says

Russia to ban sharing LGBT ’propaganda’ with adults as well as children

Russia moves to ban ’LGBT propaganda’ among all ages

Russian Lawmakers Vote in Favor of ’LGBT Propaganda’ Expansion

Anti-Gay Law to Push Russia’s LGBT Community ‘Into the Shadows,’ Activists Warn

It is all about family. Family is a man and a woman and children. November 25, 2022

Culture

A monkey in SS uniform, goats with swastika - this is russian circus.

Катерина, “You steal land, you steal life, you steal humans, you steal washing machines, you steal foreign culture and call it «great & russian»...What kind of species are you, ”russkomirovcy“? 🧵” (thread) (pdf)

Music

Russia’s Musical Blacklist

Prison culture

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the notorious Wagner mercenary group, says that he is not currently recruiting anally raped prisoners but wants to create a separate “cock division” to ensure that other convict soldiers do not have to serve with such untouchable outcasts. (thread) (pdf) (Yevgeny Prigozhin)

The Wagner mercenary group’s ’cock division’ now seems to be a reality, judging by a new video of a Wagner convict recruit’s debriefing. In the video, the convict talks of how Wagner is mobilising a segregated unit of raped men, who are treated as untouchables. (thread) (pdf)

Military

Putin militarizes society: ‘For the president, for the army, for Russia’

The Long History of Russia and War

See: Russia/Military/Respect for the military, lack thereof

Military parades

Sergej Sumlenny, “OTD four years ago, in a small town of Sibay, Russia-occupied Bashkortostan, I saw these hundreds of perfectly drilled school kids marching in perfect groups, and said: “in top 5 years, many will return home in body bags, but before they will kill a lot of civilians”.”, April 30, 2023 (thread) (pdf)

Military parade of kindergarten groups. This is an example of extreme #militarism of Russian state and society that was happening even before full scale invasion of #Ukraine. #Russia

Family values

Conversation with the mother of a captive Russian soldier

The Putin regime’s true family values on display: Alexey Moskalev, who was charged with felony “discrediting” the military after his 6th-grader daughter submitted an anti-war drawing to art class, has been sentenced to 2 years in prison. His daughter will remain in an orphanage.

See: Russian invasion of Ukraine/Russians against the war

Architectural achievements

Zindan

Ordinary russians

Ordinary Russian fascism.

This nice older Russian lady openly calls Ukrainian “Nazis” and urges to kill every Ukrainian, including the babies (she repeats this wish several time) in order to “clean up this rot (the Ukrainians)”. This is the face of the Russian “antifascism”.

Russian woman says that Poland must be defeated, that the country was trying to steal Russian territory during the Second World War and that “Poland has hated Russia for a long time.”

Tolerance and Diversity

“Slavs Only”: Housing Discrimination in Russian Cities

Tourism promotion

Gastronomy

Famous russians

Historical heroes

The main criterion to be on this list of “people admired by russians” seems to be... having murdered a lot of russians:

“ В мае 2021 года среди самых выдающихся личностей, по мнению россиян, оказались: И. Сталин (39%), В. Ленин (30%), А. Пушкин (23%), Пётр I (19%) и В. Путин (15%). Доля тех, кто называл В. Путина сократилась в два раза по сравнению с 2017 годом.
In May 2021, among the most prominent personalities, according to Russians, were: I. Stalin (39%), V. Lenin (30%), A. Pushkin (23%), Peter I (19%) and V. Putin ( 15%).

— Левада-Центр [10]