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@yegor6763 This is exactly the way I remember things from the first time I visited the country in 2002. I was 24 and had a girlfriend living in a small city of Lugansk. For years I was back and forth Athens-Alchevsk staying there for long periods. The country was completely demoralized. All our friends there were basically the last soviet generation that found themselves as pre- teens in the craziness that followed the collapse of the USSR. Rampant crime, moral decay in every level, unemployment and the sense of no viable future. Everybody spoke Russian, even in Kiev and the official names of regions and cities were not in this newspeak they are trying to push now, like Kiyv etc. Most of the popular tv programs were in Russian and that included those surealistic overdubs where one guy did all the characters in the movie, including the females lol.
Everybody was apolitical because they saw no use to it and described the country as Bardak (brothel). I still remember the next door family, saying goodbye to their daughter who was going to work abroad. As a stripper. It really made me realize how complex the world is. Normally you would expect some kind of degenerate dysfunctional family to do that. But these people were quite decent, normal folks and the parents highly educated. But also extremely desperate for money. It was really a shocking moment for me. I also remember one day we were shopping in the magazin down the corner, a young girl behind the counter, working for like 50 dollars a month. Suddenly a group of re-patriated strippers who were coming from their ''tour of duty'' came in cheerfully. They were all dressed up in furs, nice hand bags etc. I still remember the girl behind the counter looking at them wide eyed. I thought ''there she goes too''...
Out of our circle of about 15 people, only 6 had a job and only 2 a proper one. Everybody wanted to leave for Kiev but the living costs were forbidding if you had not set up everything. It was practically a contry within the country with huge wage and expenses gap. Since everybody spoke Russian I asked them ''So guys are you Russians?'' to get the answer ''NO! We are Russian speaking Ukrainians''. Today if you call them Ukrainians they will break your head. I talk almost daily with my ex-girlfriend. She use to make fun of me for being very political and now she is so political that makes me pause sometimes. Families are not talking to each other, friends since school call each other names. The people who get their info from the mainstream narrative dont have a clue of how complicated this shit show is.
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@lastword8783 The Leopard 2 is the MBT in Greece. We probably have more than Germany, about 350. It is a good tank for specific uses, by no means a wonder weapon as it is promoted by the coping media. In small numbers it will make absolutely no difference, in big numbers without the infrastructure it can become a logistical nightmare for Ukraine. The whole ''hype'' around the Leopard imo hides ulterior american motives. Germany managed by various ways to become the main provider of tanks in Europe. In order to keep the sales up they are hyping the Leos and the countries that buy them for nationalistic/political reasons build up that hype of the German best buy tank. In reality they have never been tested in a real conflict. The tank is good but the public does not realise that in a real war tanks are going away like candies and they are not supposed to be invinsible.
The American government wants Germany to send or allow Leopards to be sent to Ukraine, in order to deplete the european tank reserves and destroy the myth around them. Once the public sees several of them going up in flames, they will start questioning the military contracts their governments made, and there will be a huge market gap for the american military industry to exploit. They are going to do to the Germans, what they did to the French with those Australian contracts about ships, only this time on their ''home ground''.
In the end the EU would be financially devastated, Russia even after the inevitable victory in Ukraine will be exhausted and the hate between the former brotherly nations will run deep for the next 100 years. Europe will depend on US for energy and fuel. The american military industry will be extremely busy and lucrative, offering more and more jobs that were lost to the Chinese based manufacturing, the politicians will get their kickbacks, oficially no American troops coming home in bags. Its actually brilliant. The US is basically a Bond villain that cant lose unless nuked.
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@neverlookback1244 What do you mean source? Dont you know that over 50% of the Ukrainians are Russian speakers in their daily life, over 30% ethnically Russians and 100% understanding/speaking Russian? I have friends in Ukraine in my age (45 years old) that to this day they dont speak Ukrainian, cause when they were kids, still in USSR they had the right to choose if they wanted to go in a Russian or Ukrainian speaking class but most of them though that Ukrainian language was ''useless''. So unless they belonged to a Ukrainian speaking village/community, they didnt bother at all.
There are Russian speaking Ukrainians that believed in the whole EU/NATO ''the sky will rain money'' narrative or even if they dont they didnt manage to uprise like Donetsk and Lugansk. For example Odessa, a Russian speaking major city, and Kharkov. The Azov battalion was created especially to keep these people down and thats the reason why they were stationed in Mariupol, another Russian speaking city. The people from these areas are conscripted in the Ukrainian army, even f they dont want to. Then you have the minorities like the Hungarians, Romanians and Greeks. All these people are considered an ''obstacle'' to the creation of a ''pure'' Ukrainian state. That is the ideology of the group that highjacked power in 2014 not necessarily of the Ukrainian people in general, but then again that doesnt change the result. As my government supports the Kiev regime against the will of the majority of the population in my country, so their government takes decisions according to the agenda of their ''benefactors'' in US and the small circle of people who call the shots in Ukraine.
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@vasilisgm8966 My grand father was a machine gunner in the Metaxas Line. There was some serious fighting there and the forts actually held better that the Maginot Line, which was considered technologically top notch. But the problem was that no matter how well placed fortified lines were, they were a thing right from the WWI trench warfare. A fast moving mobile army would just find a way to circumvent them, and thats exactly what happened in both cases, with the difference that the defenders of the Metaxa Line fought until the very end. The battle was brutal and there was everything you can imagine. From aerial bombardment to hand to hand fighting in the galleries of the forts. And the Germans fought relentlessly. My grandfather would tell me that he was mowing them down and they would still continue climbing the hill stepping on bodies. His placement started to have serious casualties only after the Stukas hit them. They fought until they run out of ammo. When they asked for more from the radiotelephon the answer was ''there is nothing, you are heroes better than those of (18)21''. They were ordered to surrender, but they were afraid that the Germans would shoot them on the spot. They thought to escape in Bulgarian soil and go around the german positions, but they didnt have the time. When they came out and were lined one German soldier tried to shoot them all down with his MP38, but his mates pulled him away. Most of the soldiers from the forts were allowed to walk free, but the squads from some positions were actually held prisoners. Back then my grandpa didnt know what they were going to do with them. They were afraid that they would give them to the Bulgarians or send them to Germany. They had them in a wire enclosure, out in the open. They didnt mistreat them but they were hungry and cold. There were some local people coming as close as the guards would allow them to throw in some cigarettes or bread. My grandfather and a friend of his decided to not take chances waiting what will happen to them. With the help of a local girl who provided them with civilian clothes they managed to escape. They walked all the way to Corinth. During the occupation my grandfather worked in the Train Organisation that was taken over by the Germans. Until one day a partizan group came over and told them that they needed their help to derail a train. They did it and since there was no turning back after that, they joined the partizan group after taking anything useful from the wreck.
He tried to get in contact with that girl but he could not. After the German retreat he found out that she was taken away. She was jewish. He always got emotional about the girl and a friend of his that got hit by a Stuka in the stomach and they could do nothing to help him. He used to tell us the story every 28th of October. 2 years ago while searching some of his papers, I found something like the beggining of a diary. Probably he started writing his war experiences down but then stop. But those notes are gold because they included the names of his officers, small details about their arrival at the forts, the verses of a marching song of the machinegun squad and the passwords for the night that the war started with Italy. I managed through those details to spot his placement, because the forts were in reality a complex of bigger and smaller fortified positions extended in a very wide area. I was planning to go up there with my mates. There are some very cool tours by the locals, but Covid-19 happened. I still want to go at the first chance.
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