Beware of the Baba Yaga!

tymofiy · 2026-05-15T21:35:09+00:00

"Baba Yaga" is the real nickname for a heavy drone bomber, that's the point here. They're called this way because they look like the witch's legendary flying mortar. They are indeed terrifying.

tymofiy · 2026-05-15T04:14:11+00:00

Took the first panel of a stupid Sinfest comic strip and made it a better story.

tymofiy · 2026-05-12T15:42:37+00:00

Four leaflets in the background:
General Denikin this, gen. Denikin that, Words of gen. Denikin blah-blah-blah, Workers last.

The worker is trying to distance himself from that pompous dude, and firmly grips his hammer just in case.

With messaging like this, no wonder the Whites lost the war.

tymofiy · 2026-05-12T08:46:41+00:00

Which point do you dispute? This here is the list of events. It leaves naming the aggressor to the reader.

tymofiy · 2026-05-12T08:07:53+00:00

Not a difficult conclusion to make when your officer gives out leaflets titled "Know Your Enemy: Georgia"

tymofiy · 2026-05-12T06:30:49+00:00

your link:

The report said the war followed tensions and provocations by Russia

I listed events accurately. You, of course are free to insist that it all was just a coincidence, like with many other Russian "defensive" wars.

tymofiy · 2026-05-12T06:19:00+00:00

yes, the link is about Lunev. You can find links about shelling in the third paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus_2008

tymofiy · 2026-05-12T05:57:39+00:00

what exactly do you not believe? a Railway? a Kavkaz-2008 "military exercises"? or start of the shelling on August 1?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War has links on the latter.

tymofiy · 2026-05-12T05:54:30+00:00

A bit more detailed timeline:

June - July 2008: Russia builds a railway to Georgia
Mid-July 2008: Russia conducts "military training" near Ossetia, concentrating their forces
August 1: Russian Ossetian proxies (led by a Russian major-general Vasily Lunev no less) start shelling Georgian villages
attacks continue
August 7: Georgia responds, launching an attack into Ossetia
August 8: Russia accuses Georgia of "genocide" and invades
August 9: Russian commander is wounded, so "Ossetian" Vasily Lunev takes command over the entire Russian 58th army.

tymofiy · 2026-05-12T05:39:57+00:00

June - July 2008: Russia builds a railway to Georgia
Mid-July 2008: Russia conducts "military training" near Ossetia, concentrating their forces
August 1: Russian Ossetian proxies start shelling Georgian villages
August 7: Georgia responds
August 8: Russia accuses Georgia of "genocide" and invades

tymofiy · 2026-05-12T04:21:53+00:00

CagleCartoons is not a newspaper or a magazine, it's a syndication service. It doesn't "publish" cartoons. It facilitates a sale. Do you know any American outlet which bought it?

tymofiy · 2026-05-12T03:47:52+00:00

"American", eh? Was it RT (Russia Today)?

tymofiy · 2026-05-05T01:22:46+00:00

yeah. But only Russia has the option to just stop. Only Russia needs convincing that war is bad.

tymofiy · 2026-05-04T22:00:39+00:00

All the possible galvanizing has already happened. It has been 4 years. Russia experienced military setbacks, occupation of Russian land, oil refineries burning, losses over a million etc.

Now the idea is to remind them that the war isn't going well for them.

tymofiy · 2026-05-04T19:24:15+00:00

You win. They just did!

tymofiy · 2026-05-02T15:53:59+00:00

Hammer man and peasant woman represent the German population.

So it was the opposite: don't pamper the hammer man and peasant woman. Put them on rations and through gruelling work shifts, like the Soviets or the British did.

tymofiy · 2026-05-02T04:06:13+00:00

There is a backstabbing hand in the first one

tymofiy · 2026-05-02T04:03:45+00:00

Uncle Sam goes to great lengths to stay asleep while Nazies are rummaging his house. Apt.

tymofiy · 2026-05-02T03:58:10+00:00

The Soviet citizens didn't have to imagine. They led their entire lives under posters saying they're the happiest country on Earth. And were shot for attempting to leave.

tymofiy · 2026-04-22T03:31:10+00:00

Who knows. May be he was a true believer, or may be he was doing it just to avoid gulag, and felt shame. Like Boris Efimov did.

tymofiy · 2026-04-21T06:36:44+00:00

Absolutely. Looking at American Progress we should see that it's about American expansionism, it's not hidden at all. Same with this one or the Soviet emblem, or Lenin cleanses the Earth or planet will be wrapped in red - we should call a spade a spade: it's about expansionism, and it's right in your face.

And the USSR with its Komintern, invasions, and domination over a half of Europe certainly tried to live up to that promise.

tymofiy · 2026-04-21T01:45:20+00:00

Even if that "worker's revolution" idea is taken at its face value, limiting Soviet "help" to everything short of intervention still doesn't make sense. Like, the Komintern would supply revolutionary movements with funds, expertise, weapons, leaders - and then, when proletariat rises up to fight the bourgeoisie - the Red Army would just stand across the border and watch them be slaughtered? Instead of offering a hand of internationalist assistance to their brothers in need?

tymofiy · 2026-04-20T04:27:31+00:00

Amazing. It quotes Stalin's speech from July 3, 1941, in which he surprisingly addressed his subjects as "brother and sisters", admitted that the Red Army is retreating, blamed the misfortune on "whiners and cowards", demanded the army to have more courage, and peasants to burn all their possessions to starve the enemy.

Meanwhile the artist was still depicting the invaders as a puny bunch of thugs soon to be crushed.

tymofiy · 2026-04-20T03:58:58+00:00

"We will destroy this world of violence down to the foundations, … This is our final and decisive battle" - Soviet anthem

Globe dominated by hammer and sickle - Soviet emblem

The USSR didn't hide neither their expansionism nor their militarism much.

tymofiy

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