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by mopsi 2y ago
As I said, there is no direct evidence of any kind that the highest level of the German government (in Hitler's person) had anything to do with the Holocaust, so why would you expect to find anything where the USSR's leaders expli
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> There are multiple accounts as you say that confirm verbal orders for explicit extermination of Jews None. No direct record of any kind exists to prove that Hitler ordered the Holocaust.
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There is not a single piece of written evidence that Hitler ever ordered the Holocaust. The intent and responsibility have been derived from his speeches, the actions of his subordinates, and other indirect evidence. The USSR's intent
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by mopsi 2y ago
Neo-Nazis present exactly the same case. No direct evidence exists to prove that the highest level of the German government (specifically, Hitler) ordered the extermination of Jews or was even aware of it. They claim there was no intent to
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by mopsi 2y ago
How would you feel about similar excuses made for Nazi atrocities? The Nazi regime was also very immature, barely five years old by the time of Austrian anschluss, and invented many policies on the go, and was at war for most of its existen
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Nice deflection. Except that Solzhenitsyn was imprisoned after the war and his personal experience comes from 1945-1953, well after Barbarossa had anything to do with it. It wasn't much better in the 1970s and 1980s either. I knew a pe
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But astronomical properties have directly shaped the culture. The reason why normal activity slowed down around this time is astronomical. In Stockholm today, daylight started at around 9 in the morning and it was dark before 3 in the after
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> In 2014 Ukraine overthrew their (democratically elected) pro-Russian president with extensive support from the US Wrong. The Ukrainian parliament voted 328-vs-0 to hold early elections after the sitting president got over hundred prote
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Most piracy has moved to online streaming instead of distributing files for later offline viewing. Here's a site I found with 30 seconds of googling: https://westream.to/home - surprisingly polished and with much bette
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The space is for you.
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Name one new location in Europe since the end of the Cold War that hosts US nuclear weapons. Just one.
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What's there to be concerned about? Look at the number of NATO troops and equipment in Europe in the 1980s and 2013, look at the reduction of German tanks from 5000 to 200 and removal of all US tanks from Europe, removal of missiles, d
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by mopsi 2y ago
Unlikely to happen. In Russia, all the modern weapons - from Armata tanks to Su-57 stealth planes to doomsday missiles - are mocked as "multiki" (cartoons), because they don't really exist beyond a few barely functional proto
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Their wonderweapons are artisanal products. That Mach 5 missile needs several days of preparations by specialists from the manufacturer before it is ready for launch. In tech terms: it doesn't scale. And such long preparation leaves am
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Ukraine limiting irrigation water to Crimea is peanuts compared to historical examples such as Free French Air Force participating in months of severe bombing of road and rail networks, bridges, railyards and other critical infrastructure o
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There's a key difference: Russia does not have freedom of the press nor freedom of speech. TV channels and newspapers get talking points from their coordinator in the presidential administration in the Kremlin and then do their best to
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https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1871139065103585621 Such extremely hostile rhetoric is Russian mainstream.
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There was no coup in Ukraine. Russian-backed president got over 100 protesters killed, ran away to Russia to avoid justice, and Ukrainian parliament held presidential elections to replace him.
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More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleva_(airplane)
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There's nothing smart about the current approach. The snowball keeps getting larger and larger. What started with "little green men" in Crimea in 2014 has snowballed into a war that has razed entire cities, turned millions in
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by mopsi 2y ago
Something has gone terribly wrong when such beautiful, but essentially simple interactive graphics feel like an expensive and exotic gift, rather than something readily supported by widely used editors. A decade or more ago, I would've
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by mopsi 2y ago
> Everything thing you say ignores what the Russians have been saying about NATO expansionism, and I think that is more key to understanding both sides of the issue. The trouble with this narrative is that it has no connection with reali
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> The fact is that the Eastern region of Ukraine historically voted for pro Russian candidates. And after being annexed, again voted to be part of Russia. Presumably the people that live there, hedged their bets on who would treat them
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> If Ukrainians have a right to self determination. Clearly under the same principle that Russian majority that lives in eastern part of Ukraine does as well. Russians were not a majority in eastern Ukraine. The split was roughly 55% Ukr
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> why Putin would be under immense pressure to defend the Russians in the east This has approximately as much credibility as trying to argue that Hitler was defending German citizens in Poland and France. Much like Germany with its conce
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by mopsi 2y ago
Depends heavily on where you live. I live in a place where donations must be declared and are capped per person. This ensures we know where the money came from, and prevents disproportional influence from rich people. An obvious hack to byp
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> True but the 10,000 civilians were not all killed while they were living there. Baghdad still stands. Many Ukrainian towns are nothing but a name on a map and a pile of rubble on the ground. I didn't mean to leave an impression as
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Marinka, Ukraine: https://x.com/MFA_Ukraine/status/1632380947734618113 A town of 10 000, completely destroyed, uninhabitable. Current population: 0. With scenes like these, threats of nuclear attack lose potency.
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> There were questions concerning how Kherson was captured so easily. There are also questions how Germans advanced so quickly in 1941. In a few months, they had advanced 600+ km in all three major directions, and captured over 3 million
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By that bizarre standard, Russians "welcomed" the German invaders in 1941 when they failed to destroy many important bridges, and the French similarly "welcomed" the German invaders when they failed to blow up the Meuse

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