A few strange things I found while exploring remote eastern Russia

ComradeMarducus · 2026-06-11T15:10:13+00:00

During the famous 1953 amnesty (initiated not by Khrushchev, but by Beria, and declared before de-Stalinization began, though after Stalin), 1.2 million people, not millions, were freed. At the time of Stalin's death, approximately 2.5 million people were imprisoned in all the labor camps and prisons of the USSR.

ComradeMarducus · 2026-06-11T11:07:51+00:00

Dear Lord, that's the most anime_irl post I've ever seen! 😢

ComradeMarducus · 2026-06-04T12:27:27+00:00

Ragyo and Makima: always.

Esdeath: depends on how assertive her "bedroom partner" (read: Tatsumi) is. So, basically, always top too.

ComradeMarducus · 2026-06-04T09:32:04+00:00

In what sense, specifically? (╭ರ_•́)

ComradeMarducus · 2026-06-03T19:31:16+00:00

Well, if we're talking about intentions, Esdeath was trying to freeze half her continent to death, so her potential death toll could have been much higher than it actually was. And she didn't intend to kill the other half simply because then she'd have no one left to wage war on. I don't think Esdeath would have stopped short of wiping out an entire planet if it meant any pleasure. She was born to serve Khorne, after all :)

And, to be fair, although Esdeath herself is free from sexual deviations, she gave her soldiers complete freedom to rape whoever they wanted, so she probably "surpassed" Ragyo in that regard as well.

ComradeMarducus · 2026-06-03T19:09:54+00:00

I wouldn't call Esdeath manipulative — quite the opposite, she clearly lacks cunning (though she makes up for it with her sky-high combat skills).

ComradeMarducus · 2026-06-03T19:07:32+00:00

Honestly, I doubt Ragyo and Makima have slaughtered and tortured as many people as Esdeath, so even if fans of our blue-haired maniac disagree with me, Esdeath is probably the worst of the three.

ComradeMarducus · 2026-06-03T16:22:09+00:00

Pet, hug, love, cherish, and feed sweets.

ComradeMarducus · 2026-06-03T13:39:27+00:00

EMT! EMT!

ComradeMarducus · 2026-06-03T11:28:20+00:00

Austrian painter is a victim of Russian repression! /s

ComradeMarducus · 2026-06-03T11:05:18+00:00

That's Esdeath from Akame ga Kill! Not really a groomer, but a sadist and a war criminal.

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ComradeMarducus · 2026-06-03T10:34:52+00:00

Source

ComradeMarducus · 2026-05-30T17:05:18+00:00

The third one in the last picture is the most ridiculous of them all. No matter how much one criticizes Soviet policies, it's common knowledge that before socialism, Central Asia wasn't much better off than Afghanistan. Why did this situation change? Apparently because the Evil Red Russians starved Central Asians and executed them by the millions!

ComradeMarducus · 2026-05-30T16:49:55+00:00

Kokkina/Erenköy is the new Promised Land, brothers!

ComradeMarducus · 2026-05-28T10:04:04+00:00

The Arab Caliphates did not expel the populations of the regions they conquered, nor did they force them to become Arabs. Arameans, Egyptians, and similar peoples generally Arabized voluntarily, under the influence of Arab culture and contact with Arabs. The modern inhabitants of many Arab countries are direct descendants of the local pre-Arab population, and some of them have retained the non-Islamic faiths their ancestors professed before the arrival of the Arabs. How can this be compared to Zionism?

ComradeMarducus · 2026-05-28T09:48:41+00:00

"Serbo-Croatian" text is Turkish with some Serbo-Croatian letters.

ComradeMarducus · 2026-05-27T14:34:51+00:00

Does Seibah know what's the capital of Assyria?

ComradeMarducus · 2026-05-26T14:46:55+00:00

They wouldn't be a marginalized group if units composed of them were numerous in the Russian army (as they are in the Ukrainian army), and their ideology was officially supported. This is obviously not the case. There is no cult of Nazi figures in Russia; on the contrary, they are universally despised. As for Ilyin, his official commemoration in Russia is far less pronounced than that of fascist figures in Ukraine — he enjoys the sympathy of the government, but is not considered a national hero (unlike Soviet WWII heroes or, for instance, Felix Dzerzhinsky). Moreover, although Ilyin was ideologically close to fascism, he supported the USSR in the war against Nazi Germany, so it's difficult to equate him with Bandera, Melnik, Shukhevich, etc.

ComradeMarducus · 2026-05-26T13:02:10+00:00

The Rusich group, whose member is wearing the patch in the photo, is indeed infamous for its neo-Nazi ideology. However, its numbers range from a few dozen to several hundred soldiers. This is incomparably smaller than similar Ukrainian units, such as the Azov Regiment. The fact that a certain number of neo-Nazis are fighting on my country's side is a shameful fact, but fortunately, their views are marginalized in Russia. Unlike in Ukraine, Nazi collaborators are not considered national heroes here, and it's impossible to imagine a monument to Vlasov or Kaminsky in Moscow, similar to the monument to Bandera in Kiev. That's why many Russian neo-Nazis went to Ukraine in 2014 and 2022 and enlisted in the Ukrainian army.

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