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The Russian barbarians have destroyed Budapest in 1956. Grozny in 2000. Both were rebuilt. Kyiv will be rebuilt again. It took Hungary 33 years to be free of th
by chx 5y ago
The Russian barbarians have destroyed Budapest in 1956. Grozny in 2000. Both were rebuilt. Kyiv will be rebuilt again. It took Hungary 33 years to be free of the Russian yoke, Chechnya is still occupied 22 years in but nothing lasts forever.
Remember the Ukrainian anthem:
Ukraine is not yet dead, nor its glory and freedom,
Luck will still smile on us brother-Ukrainians.
Our enemies will die, as the dew does in the sunshine,
and we, too, brothers, we'll live happily in our land.
My favorite renditions of it, quite different ones: https://youtu.be/yAthTRmepys https://youtu.be/yAthTRmepys https://youtu.be/ouXXAE73ASY https://youtu.be/ouXXAE73ASY
- jacquesm 5y agoUnfortunately Hungary appears to be sliding back.
- chalst 5y agoPutin is not giving off the same vibes of dark inspiration that he had in, say, Grozny. He comes across as foolishly distant, esp. compared to Zelensky: https://nitter.pussthecat.org/kgorchinskaya/status/1497979262216900613 https://nitter.pussthecat.org/kgorchinskaya/status/149797926... There are signs that he is losing the confidence of Russia's elite: https://nitter.pussthecat.org/olliecarroll/status/1497944338457939973 https://nitter.pussthecat.org/olliecarroll/status/1497944338... In terms of being at risk of a coup, you have to look back to Kruschev to see a leader in Moscow more clearly in danger of losing his grip on power. The invocation of the nuclear threat can only have increased this danger.
- vanusa 5y agoNot to minimize, but the destruction of Grozny (both in raw numbers and in proportion to the resident population) in 2000 was much greater than the havoc wrought on Bupapest in 1956. In terms of civilian deaths per capita, the loss in Grozny was easily 20x, for example.
- bobthechef 5y ago