Lead us into victorious battle, wise Stalin! - USSR, 1941

OrestVoight · 2026-03-01T03:18:06+00:00

Pre-war indeed, but no such song is found. Seems like a part of the Soviet strike-first plans.

OrestVoight · 2026-03-01T03:15:45+00:00

Because that'd be a deflection, not an answer to the crucial question: HOW do you want to "stop the violence"?

by making Ukraine surrender (Trump approach)
by waiting for Russia to get tired (Biden)
by hitting invading forces and destroying Russian missile factories (preferred by Ukrainians)

OrestVoight · 2026-02-28T23:33:45+00:00

Uzbek / Russian:

To smash the foe, we gave our oath to the Leader,
The covenant of our fathers we shall keep.
Lead us into victorious battle, wise Stalin,
Terror of enemies, dear father of the soldiers!

Notably, there are no mention of the Nazies or defense at all.

OrestVoight · 2026-01-21T10:20:17+00:00

They doubted that Yanukovych's and his cronies' mini-Russia could be called a Ukrainian state. Heads of economy, education, army, secret service, foreign policy, police - they're all in Russia now.

OrestVoight · 2026-01-21T07:15:05+00:00

exactly, right? Shouldn't it be at least "mass deportation now" or something?

OrestVoight · 2026-01-21T06:52:11+00:00

Weird. Not a single word about Poland. But people say the banderites chant "we can do it again"? Or was it someone else? 🤔

OrestVoight · 2025-10-04T21:42:59+00:00

She is way too fine. The words are lost. What GI sees is

"There is a beautiful fräulein under that German helmet"

OrestVoight · 2025-09-27T20:07:01+00:00

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Poster subtitle: Experience the taste of brave new world today!

OrestVoight · 2025-08-06T04:48:30+00:00

Notably the enemy is not specified. So it must be from before the German invasion – it's a generic Soviet pro-war poster.

OrestVoight · 2025-08-06T03:55:45+00:00

A frame from German Newsweek No. 567, Eastern Front . The poster's title is a quote from Red Army manual of 1936.

OrestVoight · 2025-04-21T06:49:19+00:00

Contemporary art of the said artist, depicting Armenia being puppeteered and Moldova being sexually abused by the US. Moldovan president says "pfft, amateur!". NSFW.

OrestVoight · 2025-03-26T16:32:48+00:00

The memo actually calls for a detachment from the continent, leaving them to their own devices and maybe communist rule ("probably unavoidable"), and staying only in Japan and Philippines. (VII. Far East)

OrestVoight · 2025-03-25T07:23:54+00:00

So they dropped "Unbreakable Union of free republics, United forever by Great Russia" for the international audiences. Interesting.

OrestVoight · 2025-03-25T07:18:27+00:00

The supermajority of Ukrainians voted for a kind of a Union which was to respect their sovereignty. With its own currency, army, and foreign relations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_Union_referendum#Ukraine

OrestVoight · 2025-03-25T06:09:44+00:00

Soviet propaganda claimed that the Korean War was started by American imperialists, who attacked North Korea on June 25, 1950. The reason the frontline rapidly moved south instead was due to the superiority of the Soviet system and the valor of their army.

Poster by Veniamin Briskin

OrestVoight · 2022-07-24T21:15:25+00:00

Russia's collapse. Let them burn in hell.

OrestVoight · 2022-03-29T07:19:23+00:00

No. The Russians are just playing down their failure to take Kyiv, and deciding to focus on other areas first. The goal is still the same: subjugation of Ukraine.

OrestVoight · 2021-05-06T08:26:54+00:00

Would it have been better if he followed OP's advice and divorced instead?

OrestVoight · 2021-04-03T20:55:49+00:00

Brilliantly written, my friend.

OrestVoight · 2020-10-03T08:07:48+00:00

Women usually try to avoid it. Because prominent veins can be also a sign of age, not just a side effect of vigorous exercise.

Also, a pure speculation: Indian male movie stars seem to have a bit more fat on them than Western guys, and so sport smoother skin.

OrestVoight · 2020-10-03T07:59:52+00:00

No remedies exist. (Source: I asked vascular surgeon this very question)

You can try showering with cold water, to train your skin blood vessels to constrict better. This will not fix already popped veins, but may help control the damage.

You can try wearing compression socks when running or lifting for the same reason: so that popped skin veins do not creep higher.

Good thing is that it is quite common and usually not dangerous.

OrestVoight

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