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by alexejb 5d ago
Anne Applebaum is a "historian". There, I fixed it for you.
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by alexejb 10d ago
The tropes about Putin in my sarcastic post above are all from western media or were said by high ranking Western officials at some point in time. The cloned Putin / Putin doubles thing was claimed by Budanov himself as far as I can re
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by alexejb 10d ago
I get it. Like a great statesman once said: "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."
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by alexejb 11d ago
> Zero karma Yep, that is the high price one must pay for dissenting opinions in a discourse where nuance and discussion no longer exist.
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by alexejb 11d ago
Wont donate anything to Ukraine – hopefully the part of my family from there has managed to bring out their boys. Yes, busification is a thing over there, "mate". If the useful idiots here in Europe are strong enough to back a pol
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by alexejb 11d ago
Putin became a meme. He's almighty and weak at the same time. He's the Zar, Stalin AND Hitler in one person. He's been cloned at least a dozen times but seems to have a grave illness and will die soon. On the one hand it&#x27
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by alexejb 11d ago
I think of it the other way: EU politicians want war but are not able to say it out loud and clear. Instead we get a bunch of "russian sabotage" all over the place with flimsy evidence to back it. Get the simple people into a para
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by alexejb 3mo ago
absolutelly – I didn't mean to say that other literary traditions don't have their valid perspective on the same issues. my best guess is that russian culture is on the surface understandable / relatable from a western reader
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by alexejb 3mo ago
those books are considered as classics because they deal with different aspects of the human condition which haven't changed significantly. they also give a different and valid intepretation / perspective on these "eternal to
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by alexejb 3mo ago
> effectively enslaved by invading russian forces for decades to serve as nuclear battlefield with the west seems like western germany, which was also considered to be a nuclear battlefield with the warsaw pact, but the marketing was nic
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by alexejb 5mo ago
cynical take: propaganda value
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by alexejb 6mo ago
I don't think that this was the intention of the original blog post. It's about _digital_ migration for tech savvy folks who want to decouple from us-based tech monopolists.
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by alexejb 6mo ago
Assuming your assessment is correct, how do you think this will affect the digital sector?
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by alexejb 7mo ago
do you even read books or just headlines, wiki articles and nafo memes, 'bro'?
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by alexejb 7mo ago
don't know man - somehow he doesn't waste time on dead hn posts in order to convince other people of nafo trash. instead he's doing research, publishes peer reviewed articles and writes books about whats happening in his home
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by alexejb 7mo ago
> The narratives about coups, Kyiv neo-nazis etc are all obvious cope Here you go, chapter 2.4: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396694016_The_Russi... coups, nazis, us-meddling...
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by alexejb 7mo ago
> All of us who lived in the USSR [...] Interesting where are you from and how old are you? > The narratives about coups, Kyiv neo-nazis etc are all obvious cope, and quite pathetic as such. The narratives about the benevolent West re
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by alexejb 7mo ago
> So once again, the narrative of Russia having no agency...the government, the People, the elites, are all reactive without choice? No, that's not the narrative. It's you assumption. > How's that different or worse fro
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by alexejb 7mo ago
or like all the russian drone sightings at european airports last year. the russians are everywhere, everywhere!!1
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by alexejb 7mo ago
ah yes, the famous "операция скрепка" or was it "paperclip"?
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by alexejb 7mo ago
Which ones have you read already? I just want to know where to pick you up.
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by alexejb 7mo ago
those neighbouring countries had the opportunity to develop themselves. they all wanted independence and sometimes started great efforts to promote russophobia in order to emancipate themselves (the baltics are champions in this regard). bu
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by alexejb 7mo ago
just read some books instead of parroting highly skewed and biased wikipedia articles like in your other post. 'wise o wise'
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by alexejb 7mo ago
...and what has Russia to do with it? The Baltics wanted to be independent, they became independent and started getting rid of their industries in order to focus on service economy and EU integration. All the propaganda I've heard tell
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by alexejb 7mo ago
You should look into "shock therapy" and how western powers advised the Russian government at the time. Also how oligarchs came to power from the late 80s to the late 90s. Russia experienced unhinged free market reforms applied by
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by alexejb 7mo ago
then just read some history books from different perspectives and make you own conclusions. it's rather baffling to see how many tech people on hn are die hard believers of old clichés and western war propaganda.
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by alexejb 1y ago
are move operations for trees implemented now?
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by alexejb 2y ago
I think western propaganda rather promotes the use of "orcs" or skewed history in the shape of "mongols" towards russians.
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by alexejb 2y ago
it's the other way around - ukrainians are depicted as pigs. Сало уронили - героям сала!
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by alexejb 2y ago
As a Russian living in Germany, I perceive that many of the notions surrounding Russia were never truly embraced by the general public. A significant number of people hold preconceived negative opinions and some harbor personal grievances a

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