It was made later since the discussion about photo also only surfaced later. And of course there was some looting, but the punishment for it was harsh, so they might want to protect the soldier in photo just in case someone not familiar with Red Army equipment (or anticommunist propagandists) made the accusation. Remember that even Zhukov was once accused of possessing items from looting and was so scared of that accusation he lived in abject fear for few weeks. Ultimately he wasn’t officially accused because he was celebrated war hero, but he was sidelined somewhat, he also never forgiven this which might been a factor in him later joining Khrushchev (Losurdo wrote about it i think).

should’ve just went with “so what”

Right, after horrors Soviet soldiers witnessed in occupied USSR and Poland while marching west i’m quite amazed Germany wasn’t completely razed to the ground.

Your brain on anticommunism: “there was no looting involved but they hidden the looting anyways”.

It wasn’t even a watch but the wrist compass, they were issued to junior officers and senior NCO’s in Red Army, and the soldier in photo was senior NCO.

I have many good ones, but i think my favourite is this one:

It’s from the famous victory parade in Moscow in 24.06.1945, Japan and USSR were not at war yet, so in a truly masterful trolling stroke, Japan was invited to parade to celebrate defeat of their own allies. On the photo you can see Japanese army colonel and a navy officer (hat visible partially) congratulate marshal Zhukov while French, British and American officers are waiting in line.

As of why, it never fail to make me smile.

Last month priests dug up bones of my great-grandmother with no warning or notice. I just went there and there was someone else freshly buried there. RIP my ass, wieczny odpoczynek kurwa ich mać.

Even if we ignore what he’s doing in Palestine, he’s open hitlerite, just more out of the closet than you.

“Yes, it’s completely, totally impossible”

Should be also third hand with Graham Plattner, but it would be lib too.

It was also transphobic which i guess was reason for removal and ban.

It is known

It’s obvious bullshit:

have been characterized by some as a base for the People’s Liberation Army Navy

“by some” who? .Citation needed, while there are 4 citations for Cambodia govt saying it’s under Cambodian control. I would expect something like posession and usage of naval base would be easy to prove, especially in the age of satellites and cellphones, but alas.

The Chinese and Tajik governments deny the existence of one base, while the other was under construction as of 2024. China funds but does not directly own the bases. According to reports they are intended to support joint operations in response to the security situation in Afghanistan.[17][18][19]

If we say that “joint operations” are the same as direct ownership then by the same logic applied to USA would skyrocket their number of bases to something like every single military base in every NATO country.

Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti

This graph would be even more damning if it included the fact that socialist countries economies were mostly real and material ones, based on production of goods, while the capitalist ones are propped up by stonks gambling and layers upon layers of financial instruments. If we deducted this kind of virtual economy the graph would most likely still be way below the 1991 line.

Agree that Gaza was the most recent moment where the mask went full off.

International law died in Korea when UN deployed nearly 2 million troops to destroy the democratic government, and in Germany where western powers completely disregarded treaties in order to resurrect 3,5 Reich. It really was more of stillborn.

No idea, especially that viking was not even a full time profession, not to mention that it was not an ethnicity. 1410 Dutch shipmakers were most likely experienced guild artisans living in a city and their activities didn’t included armed coastal robbery.

Wait why do they call it a “viking ship”, not only it was a cog, type of ship i never heard being connected to vikings but at the point of XV century viking age was long gone, it was the age of Hansa, which notably extensively used cogs - big and heavy ships made for trade.

A cog:

We should be wary of Austrian men with a DOCTRINE, just saying

He is just a shitposter although his shitposts are entirely serious, and he’s not an actual NATO person, that “institution” he is chairman is just an Austrian NATO fanclub which have probably 1 member.