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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

Something about feces rapidly approaching an air ventilation unit.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/03/europe/russian-convoy-stalled-outside-kyiv-intl/index.html

https://metro.co.uk/2022/03/02/ukraine-invites-russian-mums-to-come-and-pick-up-their-captured-sons-in-kyiv-16202469/

Wait, Sweden or Switzerland?

Man, of all the threads I've started, why does this have to become the most relevant one?

Also, kudos to the CDU as the biggest opposition party for playing along and realizing that this is larger than silly party politics, promising to support the government's new direction.

German chancellor Olaf Scholz just delivered a tremendous speech in the Bundestag regarding the whole Russia-Ukraine war. The longest standing ovation was given when he pointed out the courageous Russians who are protesting the war in Russia, defying the threat of arrests and severe punishment...

Is this what adults during the Cold War were feeling like? Or rather not, since they didn't have the internet yet.

And a protest in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin was suddenly accompanied by a surprise guest: Gitanas Nausėda, current president of NATO member Lithuania. He argued that if Kyiv were to fall today, Putin would be on Lithuania's doorstep tomorrow.

Oh wow. Allegedly, Russia is deploying mobile crematoriums to conceal the fate of their own downed soldiers. And since Russia is heavily censoring information regarding the war, Ukraine has launched a hotline for Russians seeking information on the fate of their relatives who are fighting for...

Just putting this here:

Ukraine now reports 3500 killed soldiers. On the Russian side. Seriously, what these people are doing is sheer badassery at this point. UPDATE: Anonymous has taken down several Russian government websites.

Man. Just to think. After so many years of propaganda troll campaigns to promote the Russian version of things, to see all of that just turn to dust and have the West, among which Putin has spent so much effort into sowing dissent, turn so unilaterally against Russia. Even prominent members of...

And just as NATO is mobilizing its forces, it becomes blatantly apparant that the current German military is about as healthy as a rotten steak. https://www.politico.eu/article/i-am-pissed-off-chief-of-the-german-army-alfons-mais-states/...

Bruno Kahl, president of the Federal intelligence Service BND (the German foreign intelligence service), had been in Ukraine by the time the Russian invasion happened, and had to be rescued by special forces...

Read my post above.

By the way, for those who aren't massively versed in German history, the title I chose for this thread is a deliberate reference to a specific chapter in German history: On June 15, 1961, Walter Ulbricht, the First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, i.e. the de facto leader of...

There are four reactors at the Chernobyl power plant. Reactor #4 blew up in 1986. The remaining three reactors continued operation afterwards, but were shut down for good in 1993, 1996 and 2000, in part due to massive international protest. There are still a surprisingly large number of people...

Some bold Russians took to the streets and protested against the invasion of Ukraine. Obviously, they were quickly arrested.