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Note that the Ukrainian postal service managed to unveil a stamp commemorating destruction of the bridge within hours of the explosion.
by ummonk 4y ago
Note that the Ukrainian postal service managed to unveil a stamp commemorating destruction of the bridge within hours of the explosion.
- iammjm 4y agoAre you suggesting the Ukrainian postal service pulled it off? This was months in the making; I bet they already have projects for the liberation of Crimea ready.
- EdwardDiego 4y agoNeither snow nor rain nor heat nor trained attack dolphins stay these couriers from the swift completion of their secret bridge demolitions? We'll know it was the Ukrainian postal service when someone asks Putin to sign to confirm delivery of a whole parcel of humiliation.
- pclmulqdq 4y agoI think the suggestion was that this was a planned Ukrainian covert operation, and the postal service was told in advance as a propaganda play. Zelensky is a former actor who clearly understands PR, so it is not unlikely that he would plan something of that sort.
- awb 4y agoWhy would they risk a leak that threatened the operation just to promote a stamp? It doesn’t seem like it would take hours to grab a screenshot off of a TV broadcast and photoshop it onto a stamp, without advanced knowledge.
- Symbiote 4y agoThe stamp shows fires on the high part of the bridge: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/08/putin-dealt-bitter-blow-as-blast-cripples-key-bridge-to-crimea https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/08/putin-dealt-bi... I expect the Ukranian post office has many similar stamps designed and ready. They make good material to promote Ukraine.
- pclmulqdq 4y agoThey don't have to be told about the attack as part of the promotion. A group of stamp artists gets told "we want to make stamps of 50 different Russian monuments getting blown up to support national unity." Then, they produce some art - Lenin's tomb, this bridge, the Kremlin, some sort of iconic skyscraper, etc. One of the 50 gets blown up, and a stamp line gets released. For bonus points, if one of those artists actually is a Russian asset, the Russians now waste resources guarding all the other monuments expecting future attacks. The screenshot-the-TV approach also works, and there are ML filters that can stylize that art, so we wouldn't know how the stamps were actually created.
- shepherdjerred 4y agoYou can never trust a postman. My dog has been suspicious of them for years.
- throw_a_grenade 4y ago“Minuteman-II: 30 minutes World-wide delivery, or your next one is free!” (stolen from someone's .signature)
- orangepanda 4y agoThere’s a reason for the saying "going postal"
- checkyoursudo 4y agoCould have had that ready to go for months.
- moralestapia 4y agoAs well as the attack. That wasn't an improvised event.
- EdwardDiego 4y agoUnveiled how? Whipped up a digital image? Or released a commemorative set available in local stores? I'm assuming Photoshopping up a taunting stamp design is easy and fun when you're patriotically inclined.
- gus_massa 4y agoI don't want to be mean, but it's a quite bad Photoshop work, like if they rushed to make it in a few hours...
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- YeBanKo 4y agoIf they had prints available the next day it would be telling. This bridge has been talked about as a next target since the flagship was hit. Not surprising there was art available.
- layer8 4y agoYou can preorder it here: https://postmark.ukrposhta.ua/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=897 https://postmark.ukrposhta.ua/index.php?route=product/produc...