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He isnt posing for a poster. That image appears cut from something else.

trhway 2y ago
It doesn't matter. That is for example painted poster https://www.ozon.ru/product/poster-100-na-65-sm-plakat-voennyy-patrioticheskiy-nashe-delo-pravoe-pobeda-budet-za-nami-914221674/?__rr=1&abt_att=1&origin_referer=yandex.ru https://www.ozon.ru/product/poster-100-na-65-sm-plakat-voenn... or another https://stihi.ru/pics/2024/06/14/4714.jpg https://stihi.ru/pics/2024/06/14/4714.jpg (and if it reminds you something with 4-limbed symbol from 80+ years ago - it isn't an accident, it is the nature of the current regime in Russia) While it sounds like a pun, there is no "trigger discipline" in Russia (I myself an ROTC officer). In USSR/Russia the "never point your barrel at anybody or anything" discipline has been taught instead.
- sandworm101 2y ago
  There is a little more to Russian rules. They don't allow carry with a round chambered. They find it very dangerous that so many american guns are carried at the ready. With no round chambered, the trigger is far less of a worry.
  - trhway 2y ago
    Absolutely. It is so fundamental, at the instinct level almost, that it didn't even came to my mind to mention it. Until absolutely necessary, you never chamber your weapon - "what if the trigger gets accidentally pulled!" :) Even military guards on duty are by the military regulations explicitly prohibited from chambering their weapon until necessary: 209. Часовому запрещается: ..., досылать без необходимости патрон в патронник, ... and only when the guarded security perimeter is about to be breached and the guard has already issued 2 verbal warnings, only then the guard chambers the round and makes the first warning shot toward the sky: 211. ... Если нарушитель после предупреждения "Стой, стрелять буду" продолжает движение, часовой досылает патрон в патронник и производит предупредительный выстрел вверх.
yencabulator 2y ago
Yet the question remains. Surely he is not aiming at a target, preparing to shoot.
- sandworm101 2y ago
  Unless the goal is to make him appear dangerously aggressive. Intimidation and fear are bread and butter propaganda tools.

It doesn't matter. That is for example painted poster https://www.ozon.ru/product/poster-100-na-65-sm-plakat-voennyy-patrioticheskiy-nashe-delo-pravoe-pobeda-budet-za-nami-914221674/?__rr=1&abt_att=1&origin_referer=yandex.ru https://www.ozon.ru/product/poster-100-na-65-sm-plakat-voenn... or another https://stihi.ru/pics/2024/06/14/4714.jpg https://stihi.ru/pics/2024/06/14/4714.jpg (and if it reminds you something with 4-limbed symbol from 80+ years ago - it isn't an accident, it is the nature of the current regime in Russia) While it sounds like a pun, there is no "trigger discipline" in Russia (I myself an ROTC officer). In USSR/Russia the "never point your barrel at anybody or anything" discipline has been taught instead.

sandworm101 2y ago
There is a little more to Russian rules. They don't allow carry with a round chambered. They find it very dangerous that so many american guns are carried at the ready. With no round chambered, the trigger is far less of a worry.
- trhway 2y ago
  Absolutely. It is so fundamental, at the instinct level almost, that it didn't even came to my mind to mention it. Until absolutely necessary, you never chamber your weapon - "what if the trigger gets accidentally pulled!" :) Even military guards on duty are by the military regulations explicitly prohibited from chambering their weapon until necessary: 209. Часовому запрещается: ..., досылать без необходимости патрон в патронник, ... and only when the guarded security perimeter is about to be breached and the guard has already issued 2 verbal warnings, only then the guard chambers the round and makes the first warning shot toward the sky: 211. ... Если нарушитель после предупреждения "Стой, стрелять буду" продолжает движение, часовой досылает патрон в патронник и производит предупредительный выстрел вверх.

yencabulator 2y ago

Yet the question remains. Surely he is not aiming at a target, preparing to shoot.

sandworm101 2y ago
Unless the goal is to make him appear dangerously aggressive. Intimidation and fear are bread and butter propaganda tools.