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@againstviralmisinformation510 You know they've been keeping track of the ships attacked right? You should try reading the news instead of just watching it. They've hit ships en route from Turkey to Indonesia, one from from Singapore to Egypt, one from Greece to Singapore, Saudi Arabia to Réunion island, another Saudi Arabia to UAE, Romania to India, Russia to who knows where, India or China. Another from Malaysia to Italy, India to Egypt, Morocco to India, and one from Dubai to the far east.
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@againstviralmisinformation510 There are few organizations in all of human history as embarrassing as the Russian Navy. are you sure you want to play this game? All of these are from the Russian Federation but I would be remis if I didn't mention the crash of a Tu-104A that was carrying many of the Pacific Fleet's senior officers from Leningrad. resulting in the death of all 50 people on board, including 28 high-ranking Soviet military personnel. Among the dead were 16 admirals and generals, including the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral Emil Spiridonov, and his wife. Yikes, I cant even imagine the type of terminal brain damage that led to putting that much brass on a single flight.
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May - first of a series of five ammunition explosions at Pacific Fleet ammunition storage arsenals, 1992-2003.
1994 – Four conscripts in the Pacific Fleet died of a stomach infection due to malnutrition.
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22 September – A nuclear submarine had its electricity cut by an electricity company at a naval base due to unpaid bills. The submarine's cooling system ceased to function and the reactor "came close to meltdown".
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16 June – A fuel leak from a missile poisoned 11 servicemen at a naval base in Primorsky Krai.
21 February – A Russian Navy Antonov An-26, crashes 1.5 km short of runway at Lakhta Airfield, near Archangelsk, during an emergency landing. Of the 20 people on board, 17 were killed.
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30 August – The decommissioned November-class nuclear-powered submarine K-159 sank while it was being towed to Polyarny, Murmansk Oblast in the Barents Sea to be stripped of its nuclear reactors. Nine crew members died.
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5 August – AS-28, under the command of Lieutenant Vyacheslav Milashevskiy, became entangled with the aerial of a hydrophone array off the coast of Kamchatka, in Berezovaya Bay, 70 km southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy. The aerial, anchored by 60-tonne concrete blocks, snared the propeller of the submarine, and the submarine then sank to the seafloor at a depth of 190 m (600 ft). This was too deep for the ship's complement of seven to leave the submarine and swim to the surface. On August 7, all seven sailors were rescued with the help of the United States Navy and the Royal Navy
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7 September – A fire broke out in the submarine, Daniil Moskovsky, as it was being towed across the Barents Sea to Vidyayevo, Murmansk Oblast. Two on board died.
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8 November – The Akula II-class submarine K-152 Nerpa's freon fire extinguishing system was accidentally activated, killing 20 and injuring at least 22 people. The incident occurred while the submarine was conducting sea trials off the Russian Pacific coast.
7 January – A small fire broke out on board the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov while anchored off Turkey. The fire, caused by a short circuit, led to the death of one crew member from carbon monoxide poisoning. On 16 February 2009, along with other Russian naval vessels, she was involved in a large oil spill while refueling off the south coast of Ireland.
March – A fire broke out on the hull of the decommissioned nuclear submarine Orenburg, a Delta III-class submarine while at the Severodvinsk docks in Arkhangelsk Oblast.
4 May – A Kamov Ka-27 Helicopter landing on the frigate Yaroslav Mudry, crashed on the deck and then rolled over the side into the Baltic Sea. The 5 crew from the helicopter were successfully rescued.
October – Another blaze occurred during the decommissioning of the nuclear submarine, Kazan at Severodvinsk.
6 November – A Russian Naval Aviation Tupolev Tu-142 M3 from the 310th Independent Long Range Anti-Submarine Aviation Regiment based at Kamenny Ruchey Airbase, Khabarovsk Krai crashed on a routine training exercise into the Tatar Strait near Sakhalin island 15–20 km from the coast off Cape Datta north of Sovetskaya Gavan with the loss of all 11 crew.
February – A blaze broke out on the decommissioned nuclear submarine K-480 Ak Bars, at Severodvinsk. Casualties unknown.
29 December – The Delta-IV-class nuclear submarine, Ekaterinburg, caught fire while in dry-dock in the Roslyakovo shipyard, north of Murmansk. The blaze broke out on scaffolding that had been erected around it. The rubber outer hull was badly burnt and nine people were injured fighting the fire. No radiation leak was detected.
16 September – 15 sailors were injured after a fire broke out on the nuclear submarine K-150 Tomsk at a shipyard near Vladivostok. Officials claimed the nuclear reactor was "deactivated" prior to the fire.
7 April – Orel, an Oscar II-class submarine, caught fire during repairs in a dry dock in the Severodvinsk shipyard. No casualties have been reported and the nuclear reactor had been turned off before the fire started. The submarine entered service in 1992.
29 April – The decommissioned Soviet-era nuclear submarine K-173 Krasnoyarsk caught fire while being disassembled in Vilyuchinsk, Kamchatka. The Defence Ministry reported that its rubber-coated outer hull caught fire. The vessel had been built in 1983 and launched in 1986 as part of the Soviet Union’s Pacific Fleet.
14 November – A MiG-29K crashed in the Mediterranean while attempting to land on the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov.[76] The pilot safely ejected. The plane was on a training mission for the Russian military intervention in Syria.
3 December - A Su-33 based on Admiral Kuznetsov crashed while making a second landing attempt after a combat sortie over Syria. The pilot survived without injuries and was immediately recovered by search and rescue teams. According to the Russian Ministry of Defence, the plane was lost after an arresting cable ruptured.
27 April – Russian spy ship Liman sank off the Turkish coast, 29 km from Kilyos, after colliding with a freighter in fog. All 78 crew members were rescued.
30 October – The aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov was damaged while undergoing a refit: the dry dock sank, sending a 70-tonne crane crashing onto the ship and causing a 5m gash. One ship-worker went missing and four required medical care after falling into the sea near Murmansk.
1 July – A navy research submersible, thought to be AS-12 Losharik, suffered a fire and 14 crew members died due to fume inhalation. The vessel had been conducting research in Russia's Arctic territorial waters, according to the Defence Ministry, though Russian media reports said it was a nuclear mini-submarine deployed in special operations.
12 December – The aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, caught fire during repair work at Murmansk. Six were injured and one person was reported missing.
14 April – The battleship Moskva sank in the Black Sea during hostilities with Ukraine following a fire, as claimed by Russian authorities. Ukraine claimed it sank the ship with a missile. Officially Russia admitted one sailor died, but independent reports suggested 40 may have perished.
22 December – The Admiral Kuznetsov caught fire again while on repair work in Murmansk. The fire was extinguished rapidly and no casualties were reported
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According to Cluster Munition Monitor 2022, the list of 16 countries that refuse to sign the convention and who produce cluster munitions included Brazil, China, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Israel, India, North Korea, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, the United States and Turkey.
You need to get your info straight.
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Top 5 oil producing countries 2023. I'm not sure what you are talking about.
1. United States
Production: 20,213,000 bpd
2. Saudi Arabia
Production: 12,144,000 bpd
3. Russia
Production: 10,938,000 bpd
4. Canada
Production: 5,694,000 bpd
5. China
Production: 5,119,000 bpd
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@yaqob3275 Is whataboutism all you can do. Here watch me.
I wish they did that with Central African Republic, Syria, The Donbas, Dagestan,
Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia-Alania, Abkhazia, Chechnya, Uzbekistan, Transnistria, Georgia, Afghanista, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Albania. Before Russia invaded those countries 😆🤣
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@yaqob3275 Russia retreated from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Kherson. Its called winning people!
Next Russia captures a mid sized town a few miles across the border in just under a year with only 100k casualties, just ignore the flanks collapsing. Next up its trench warfare that never ends, unless Ukraine breaks them with the 1,085 Tanks, 4,185 AFVs, 2,000 HMMWVs and 870 Artillery that they've acquired recently
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'Stable genius' Trump does some more rambling, he must be worried about starting WW2.
"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."
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@RUTHLESSambition5
"I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war." - Joseph Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev offered the same opinion.
"If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," he wrote in his memoirs. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me."
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@corvus4135 Russia breached two articles of the 1948 Genocide Convention, by publicly inciting genocide through denial of the right of Ukraine as a state and Ukrainians as a nation to exist, and by the forcible transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia, which is a genocidal act under article II of the convention.
historian of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust, Timothy D. Snyder, described the What Russia should do with Ukraine essay as "an explicit program for the complete elimination of the Ukrainian nation as such". According to Snyder, Sergeytsev presents the Russian definition of "Nazi" as being "a Ukrainian who refuses to admit being a Russian", and any "affinity for Ukrainian culture or for the European Union" is seen as "Nazism".
Thus, per Snyder, the document defines Russians as not being Nazis, and justifies using the methods of fascism against Ukrainians while calling the methods "denazification". Snyder describes the document as "one of the most openly genocidal documents [that he had] ever seen", stating that the document calls for the majority of Ukrainians, twenty million people, to be killed or sent to labour camps. Snyder argues that Sergeytsev's document, published two days after information about the Bucha massacre became widely known, makes the establishment of genocidal intent much easier to prove legally than in other cases of mass killing
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@MyDogRescuer here's what the top 10 actually is, because you seem to be confused.
GDP (USD billions)/GDP per capita.
#1 United States Of America (U.S.A) $26,854 $80.03
#2 China $19,374 $13.72
#3 Japan $4,410 $35.39
#4 Germany $4,309 $51.38
#5 India $3,750 $2.6
#6 United Kingdom (U.K.) $3,159 $46.31
#7 France $2,924 $44.41
#8 Italy $2,170 $36.81
#9 Canada $2,090 $52.72
#10 Brazil $2,080 $9.67
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@PerceivedREALITY999 Ukraine made Ukrainian the official language, thats not discrimination against Russians. The official language in Russia is Russian, that must mean they are discriminating against Ukrainians right? What braindead logic. Oh Russia has discriminated against Ukrainian language in the past though.
720 Peter the Great issued an edict prohibiting printing books in the Ukrainian language, and since 1729 all edicts and instructions have only been in the Russian language. In 1763 Catherine the Great issued an edict prohibiting lectures in the Ukrainian language at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In 1769 the Most Holy Synod prohibited printing and using the Ukrainian alphabet book. In 1775 the Zaporizhian Sich was destroyed. In 1832 all studying at schools of the Right-bank Ukraine transitioned to exclusively Russian language. In 1847 the Russian government persecuted all members of the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius and prohibited the works of Taras Shevchenko, Panteleimon Kulish, Mykola Kostomarov (Nikolai Kostomarov) and others. In 1862 all free Sunday schools for adults in Ukraine were closed. In 1863 the Russian Minister of Interior Valuev decided that the Little Russian language (Ukrainian language) had never existed and could not ever exist. During that time in the winter of 1863–64, the January Uprising took place at the western regions of the Russian Empire, uniting peoples of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Next year in 1864 the "Regulation about elementary school" claimed that all teaching should be conducted in the Russian language. In 1879 the Russian Minister of Education Dmitry Tolstoy (later the Russian Minister of Interior) officially and openly stated that all people of the Russian Empire should be Russified. In the 1880s several edicts were issued prohibiting education in the Ukrainian language at private schools, theatric performances in Ukrainian, any use of Ukrainian in official institutions, and christening Ukrainian names. In 1892 another edict prohibited translation from the Russian to Ukrainian. In 1895 the Main Administration of Publishing prohibited printing children books in Ukrainian. In 1911 the resolution adopted at the 7th Congress of Noblemen in Moscow prohibited the use of any languages other than Russian. In 1914 the Russian government officially prohibited celebrations of the 100th Anniversary of Shevchenko's birthday and posted gendarmes at the Chernecha Hill. The same year Nicholas II of Russia issued an edict prohibiting the Ukrainian press.
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@Gerrard_Pike2008 This isn't top secret Manu.
Crowley, Leo T. "Lend-Lease". In Walter Yust, ed., 10 Eventful Years (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 1947)
"Lend-Lease and Military Aid to the Allies in the Early Years of World War II". Office of the Historian. United States Department of State. Retrieved March 9, 2018
Lend-Lease Shipments: World War II, Section IIIB, Published by Office, Chief of Finance, War Department, December 31, 1946
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@againstviralmisinformation510 First all (from the thesaurus) Synonyms of colonize (verb settle) conquer. found. immigrate. migrate. Like I said your semantic games aren't convincing.
Lets hold some referendums in the Caucuses and see how that goes. Moscow is very unpopular there.
When you say Russia helped the South Ossetians are you referring to the ethnic cleansing that went on there?
"Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in South Ossetia was a mass expulsion of ethnic Georgians conducted in South Ossetia and other territories occupied by Russian and South Ossetian forces, which happened during and after the 2008 Russia–Georgia war. Overall, at least 20,000 Georgians were forcibly displaced from South Ossetia." Standard fare from Russia. Luckily they were allowed to leave instead of killed off in typical Russian fashion.
The Human Rights Watch concluded that the "South Ossetian forces sought to ethnically cleanse" the Georgian-populated areas. In 2009, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe resolutions condemned "the ethnic cleansing and other human rights violations in South Ossetia, as well as the failure of Russia and the de facto authorities to bring these practices to a halt and their perpetrators to justice". According to the September 2009 report of the European Union-sponsored Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia, "several elements suggest the conclusion that ethnic cleansing was carried out against ethnic Georgians in South Ossetia both during and after the August 2008 conflict."
The leader of Puerto Rico is Pedro Pierluisi, who was elected by Puerto Ricans. They also speak Spanish there, the US has no official language. Puerto Rico also receives subsidies, Department of the Treasury announced Puerto Rico will receive up to $109 million in funding. American Samoa also elects their own leader and receives subsidies. That means they aren't colonies by your logic right?
I'm also not the one making inane claims like the US isn't a colonial power, obviously they are, just like Russia. Only one of us is trying to deny reality and it isn't me.
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@againstviralmisinformation510 While i'm at it. Here's some more minorities that Russia 'helped' They 'helped' 30-50 million in total.
1935: Between 7,000 and 9,000 Finns from Lembovo and Nikoulias districts, in the Leningrad region, becaome the first group to be massively deported based on ethnicity. Falsely accused of betrayal, the Finns were expelled to secure the Soviet frontiers. The People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), forerunner of the Committee for State Security (KGB) orchestrated the operation, as it did for all subsequent mass deportations.
1936, April: About 35,700 Poles living alongside the Ukrainian frontier and some 20,000 Finnish peasants were deported to Kazakhstan for the same reasons as those previously mentioned. The deportation was class-based in the sense that it targeted specific economic categories; but it was also ethnically motivated, as it aimed to secure the frontiers.
1937, September-October: The first large-scale operation of massive deportation occurred in the Soviet Far East. About 175,000 Koreans living along the Chinese and Korean borders were relocated by force to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. They were charged with espionage, spying for the Japanese. After a brutal expulsion, the Koreans experienced severe living conditions. Moscow did not inform the local Uzbek and Kazakh authorities about the arrival of a large population of “administrative settlers.” Nothing was prepared to accommodate or provide them with basic supplies such as food, clothes and shoes. Although there was no reliable data regarding the Korean death toll, testimonies and NKVD documents indicate that many of them died from disease, starvation and lack of housing. By 1945, they joined the long list of “special settlers,” among other punished peoples.
1939, September 17: (Poland) The Red Army invaded Poland.
1940, February to April: (The Red Army annexed territories in the eastern parts of Poland) About 250,000 Poles and thousands of Ukrainians and Byelorussians were deported in three major waves to Siberia and to Central and Far Eastern Asia in order to remove the most active populations from the annexed territories. Although based on ethnic criteria, these forced expulsions mainly targeted families of military colonists, prisoners-of-war and foresters. They were dispatched to labor camps or executed.
1941, June 13-14: (Baltic countries) In the aftermath of the Baltic States’ conquest, about 39,395 persons – Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians but also Poles, Finns, and Germans – were deported to the Soviet Far East. Ivan Serov coordinated the operation under the command of Lavrenti Beria.
1941, August: The Finns, or Ingrians, inhabiting the Leningrad region and who had not been deported in 1932-1934, were expelled by force to Central Asia. The USSR took this measure to prevent them from assisting the Finnish army that had just invaded the Soviet Karelia region.
1941, August 28: A decree from the Supreme Soviet Presidium established that Russian-Germans were collectively responsible for collaboration with the German invaders, and ordered their massive deportation. From the end of August 1941 until June 1942, about 1,200,000 Russian-Germans were removed from their homes and relocated in Siberia and Central Asia. The operation mobilized thousands of soldiers, policemen and NKVD members. Hundreds of trains and vehicles were dedicated to this task at a time of Russian military retreat. No reliable data exists on the death toll among the Russian-German deportees.
1943, October 12: The Supreme Soviet issued a decree ordering the deportation of all the Karachays, a Turkish-speaking people inhabiting the North Caucasus. The USSR accused them of collaboration with the German army, which had been occuping Karachay territory for the previous six months. In November 68,938 persons, mainly disarmed (women, children, elderly people and war veterans) were transported under very hard conditions to Kirghizia and Kazakhstan. The men serving with the Red Army or fighting in partisan movements were demobilized and sent into exile or to labor camps. All the Karachays paid for the relationship that a few of their fellow Karachays had established with the German occupiers. This scenario became a common one for all punished peoples.
1943, December 27: Under Beria’s orders began the brutal deportation of the Kalmyks, a Buddhist people living in southern Russia near the Volga river basin. In three days, about 93,000 persons were expelled to Siberia. The lack of food and disease claimed the lives of thousands of people who had been forced into jam-packed cattle cars. Likewise, the settlements in exile were equally inhospitable. During the first glacial Siberian winter many died, faced with widespread indifference.
1944, February 23: The Soviet government deported the Chechens and the Ingush, two Muslim peoples of the North Caucasus. Although the Germans had only occupied a region in the extreme northwest of the Republic, Chechens and Ingush were accused of betrayal and massive collaboration with the German occupiers, like the other punished peoples. Beria’s administration used methods resembling those of earlier deportations. Yet this operation proved to be more difficult due to the uneven nature of the terrain. Furthermore, the resistance of a few Chechen and Ingush groups slowed down the NKVD soldiers’ agenda. Nonetheless, in seven days nearly 478,000 people, comprised of 387,000 Chechens and 91,000 Ingush, were arrested, loaded into hundreds of convoys and then resettled in Central Asia, mainly in Kazakhstan. It is difficult to set an exact death toll due to the lack of evidence. According to different estimations, between 30% and 50% of the deportees died, either during the journey or in the first years of exile in the special settlements.
1944, March 7: The deportation of the 38,000 Balkars, a small Turkish people living near the Elbruz Mountain in Northern Caucasus, began. Three days later, all deportee-convoys were en route to Central Asia. Between 20% and 40% of the Balkars died between 1944 and 1956.
1944, May 18: The Crimean Tatars, a Muslim Turkish-speaking people originating from the peninsula of Crimea located on the borders of Black Sea, were deported. This forced removal took place one month after the German army, who had occupied the peninsula from 1942 to April 1944, retreated. In two days roughly 190,000 persons, mostly women, children and elderly people, were loaded into freight trains and transferred to an unknown destination. Most of them landed in Uzbekistan, while others arrived either in the Volga basin or Siberia. The forced expulsion, along with thirteen years of exile as special settlers, took a heavy toll among the Crimean Tatars. According to different studies and censuses, between 20% and 46.2% of them died either during the journey or in the first year and a half of exile.
1944, June: Other non-Slavic peoples living in Crimea were deported a few weeks after the Crimean Tatars: 12,075 Bulgarians, 14,300 Greeks and about 10,000 Armenians were expelled from their homes and sent to Central Asia against their will. All of them were accused of treason and more specifically, of having commercial interests that linked them to the German occupiers. At the same time, Greeks from Rostov and Krasnodar were exiled to the eastern regions of the Soviet Union. They were suspected of having a close relationship with Greece, as most of them had refused Soviet citizenship and struggled to maintain their Greek culture.
1944, November: Muslim Turkish-speaking peoples living in Georgia along the Turkish borders (the Meskhetian Turks, the Khemchins and the Kurds) became the next target of the Stalinist national policy. Given that the Nazi army had never reached Georgia, they could not be accused of massive collaboration. Instead they were charged with being Turkish spies. About 90,000 persons were brutally expelled and relocated to Central Asia to “clean” the frontiers. This constituted the last large-scale operation.
The NKVD continued hunting down all members of these groups who might have managed to escape deportation, for some reason.
1948: Confronted with the large insurrection that followed the Baltic States’ annexation, the Soviet central apparatus decided to deport new groups of Lithuanians, Estonians and Latvians: about 48,000 persons were sent to Siberia.
1948, November 26: Stalin issued a decree by which all massive deportations were declared definitive.
1949, March: The previous measures did not stop the revolts in the Baltic States. In response, Stalin ordered the deportation of an additional 30,000 families, that is to say a total of about 95,000 persons, to discourage insurgents and bring all the opponents to heel. All deportees became special settlers and lived under the NKVD’s harsh rule.
1949: About 37,000 Greeks living in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Krasnodar Region were deported to Kazakhstan. Like their fellow Greeks forcibly removed in 1944, they were accused of disloyalty and non-integration.
1950: After the organized famine of 1946-47, the Soviet government decided to deport approximately 100,000 Moldavians from Moldavia, who were suspected of having close ties with their Romanian neighbors. They too joined the long list of special settlers and endured especially difficult conditions in exile.
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@agent3268 This is from the Wiki because you seem to be confused.
While the shelling of Bakhmut began in May 2022, the main assault towards the city started on 1 August after Russian forces advanced from the direction of Popasna following a Ukrainian withdrawal from that front.[35] The main assault force primarily consisted of mercenaries from the Russian paramilitary organization Wagner Group, supported by regular Russian troops and reportedly Donetsk People's Republic militia elements.[14][36][13]
As of late 2022, following Ukraine's Kharkiv and Kherson counteroffensives, the Bakhmut–Soledar front became an important focus of the war, being one of the few front lines in Ukraine where Russia remained on the offensive.[37] Attacks on the city intensified in November 2022 as assaulting Russian forces were reinforced by units redeployed from the Kherson front, together with newly mobilized recruits.[38][39] By this time, much of the front line had descended into positional trench warfare, with both sides suffering high casualties without any significant advances.[40] By using repeated assaults composed of former convicts, Wagner troops were able to gradually gain ground,[41][42] and by February 2023, they captured territory in the north and south of Bakhmut and threatened encirclement, forcing Ukrainian forces to slowly pull out into the city,[43][44] and the battle turned into fierce urban warfare.[43] By March 2023, Russian forces captured the eastern half of the city, up to the Bakhmutka river, and continued to advance into Ukrainian-controlled parts of Bakhmut.[45][46]
On 20 May 2023, Bakhmut had been mostly captured by Russian forces,[47][48][49] with the Ukrainian military controlling only a small strip of the city proper along the T0504 highway.[50][51][52] Nonetheless, Ukraine started counterattacks on Russia's flanks, seeking to encircle the city.[6] Around the same time on 25 May, Wagner began withdrawing from the city to be replaced by regular Russian troops,[53] amidst heavy internal squabbles between Wagner leadership and Russian high command.[54][55]
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@QigongGreyDragon In 1938, during its conflict with Japan, the ROC defaulted on its sovereign debt. After the military victory of the communists, the ROC government fled to Taiwan. The People’s Republic of China was eventually recognized internationally as the successor government of China. Under well-established international law, the “successor government” doctrine holds that the current government of China, led by the Chinese Communist Party, is responsible for repayment of the defaulted bonds.
A private group of American citizens holds a large quantity of these gold-denominated bonds. This citizen-led group, the American Bondholders Foundation (ABF), serves as trustee with power of attorney for some 20,000 bondholders, whose bonds are valued at well more than $1 trillion before interest..
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@tasospanagiotou7823 Where do you guys get this nonsense? Zelensky's first language is Russian, he still gets criticized for not speaking perfect Ukrainain. 2014 was when Russia began its invasion. Gee I wonder why Ukraine would want to ban pro Russian parties. Nobody gave af about Russian's until they invaded.
Yanukovich was voted out by 100% of parliament, including his own party, he fled because of the uprising that occured due to his attempt to hold onto power.
How do you feel about Russia suppressing the Ukrainian language in Ukraine?
The Russian Empire promoted the spread of the Russian language among the native Ukrainian population, actively refusing to acknowledge the existence of a Ukrainian language.
Alarmed by the threat of Ukrainian separatism (in its turn influenced by the 1863 demands of Polish nationalists), the Russian Minister of Internal Affairs Pyotr Valuev in 1863 issued a secret decree that banned the publication of religious texts and educational texts written in the Ukrainian language as non-grammatical, but allowed all other texts, including fiction. The Emperor Alexander II in 1876 expanded this ban by issuing the Ems Ukaz (which lapsed in 1905). The Ukaz banned all Ukrainian-language books and song-lyrics, as well as the importation of such works. Furthermore, Ukrainian-language public performances, plays, and lectures were forbidden. In 1881 the decree was amended to allow the publishing of lyrics and dictionaries, and the performances of some plays in the Ukrainian language with local officials' approval. Ukrainian-only troupes were, however, forbidden.
During the Soviet times, the attitude to Ukrainian language and culture went through periods of promotion (policy of "korenization", c. 1923 to c. 1933), suppression (during the subsequent period of Stalinism)
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@theo3030 Everything after 2009 was done in response to Russia's invasion of Georgia. And Kosovo is nowhere near Russia. Camp Bondsteel is home to a super threatening 7k soldiers. The base also has a hospital, two gyms, and two recreation buildings with phones, computers, pool tables, and video games. a chapel, a large dining facility, a fire station, a military police station, two cappuccino bars, a Burger King, Taco Bell, and an Anthony's Pizza. There is also a barber shop, a laundry facility employing local nationals, a dry cleaner, a tailor, various local vendors who sell Kosovo souvenirs and products, and sports fields.
What exactly is Russia so afraid of? Maybe Pakistan doesn't like CSTO expansion, that means they can invade central Asia right?
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@rajshah7734 Russia is illegally occupying Manchuria, Kuril Islands, Georgia, the Gulf of Finland islands, Karelian Isthmus, Ladoga Karelia, Salla, Rybachy Peninsula, The Donbas, Zaporizhia, Crimea, Transnistria. etc etc.
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@johnwi-l_l-iamsf3763 lol why did you delete your comment?
Remember when Russia said the retreat from Kyiv was a 'gesture of goodwill', or when they said the Moskva sank due to high seas, or when they warned about Ukrainian war mosquitos, or when they said Ukraine was on the brink of collapse then they retreated from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kherson and Kharkiv and a year and a half later STILL cant take the Donbas. Remember when they said everything was going according to plan while they dust off the T54s, remember the 3 copies of The Sims 3, remember when they destroyed a bunch of farm equipment and tried to pass it off as Leopards, remember how they destroyed a bunch of Leopards and Bradleys months before they even arrived in the country, remember how they've destroyed more HIMARS then have been produced, remember how they've destroyed the entire Ukrainian army 6 times over. Remember?
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@againstviralmisinformation510 Finally you're asking smart questions. (well not really but here I go anyways)
For starters I can hold up a blank sheet of paper with out fear of going to jail. And I dont have to worry about my daughter drawing a picture the state doesn't like and having to flee for my life, like Alexei Moskalyov.
I can run for public office without risking eating a polonium sandwich. like political rivals Sergei Yushenkov and Boris Nemtsov. Or end up in the Gulag like Navalny.
I have the right to a fair trial unlike the 380 political prisoners in Russia (as of June 2020, there are far more now) including 63 individuals prosecuted, directly or indirectly, for political activities (including Alexey Navalny) and 245 prosecuted for their involvement with one of the Muslim organizations that are banned in Russia. 78 individuals on the list, i.e. more than 20% of the total, are residents of Crimea.
The judiciary of Russia is subject to manipulation by political authorities according to Amnesty International. According to Constitution of Russia, top judges are appointed by the Federation Council, following nomination by the President of Russia. Anna Politkovskaya described in her book Putin's Russia stories of judges who did not follow "orders from the above" and were assaulted or removed from their positions. In an open letter written in 2005, former judge Olga Kudeshkina criticized the chairman of the Moscow city court O. Egorova for "recommending judges to make right decisions" which allegedly caused more than 80 judges in Moscow to retire in the period from 2002 to 2005.
The courts generally follow the non-acquittals policy; in 2004 acquittals constituted only 0.7 percent of all judgments. Judges are dependent on administrators, bidding prosecutorial offices in turn. The work of public prosecutors varies from poor to dismal. Lawyers are mostly court appointed and low paid. There was a rapid deterioration of the situation characterized by abuse of the criminal process, harassment and persecution of defense bar members in politically sensitive cases in recent years. The principles of adversariness and equality of the parties to criminal proceedings are not observed.
The court system has been widely used to suppress political opposition as in the cases of Pssy Riot, Alexei Navalny, Zarema Bagavutdinova, and Vyacheslav Maltsev and to block candidatures of Kremlin's political enemies.
According to MEPs Russia did not meet election standards as defined by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. The preliminary findings of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights report on procedural violations, lack of media impartiality, harassment of independent monitors and lack of separation between party and state.
I can be a journalist without fear of being assassinated like Yuri Schekochikhin, Anna Politkovskaya and Nikolay Andrushchenko.
I have access to free press unlike in Russia. Reporters Without Borders put Russia at 147th place in the World Press Freedom Index (from a list of 168 countries). According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 47 journalists have been killed in Russia for their professional activity, since 1992 (as of 15 January 2008). Thirty were killed during President Boris Yeltsin's reign, and the rest were killed under the president Vladimir Putin.
On 4 March 2022, Putin signed into law a bill introducing prison sentences of up to 15 years for those who publish "knowingly false information" about the Russian armed forces and their operations, leading to some media outlets in Russia to stop reporting on Ukraine or shutting their media outlet As of December 2022, more than 4,000 people were prosecuted under "fake news" laws in connection with the war in Ukraine. I could go on but i fear were already approaching novel length with this post.
I have freedom to assemble. Russian Constitution states of the Freedom of assembly that citizens of the Russian Federation shall have the right to gather peacefully, without weapons, and to hold meetings, rallies, demonstrations, marches and pickets.
According to Amnesty International (2013 report) peaceful protests across Russia, including gatherings of small groups of people who presented no public threat or inconvenience, were routinely dispersed by police, often with excessive force. The day before the inauguration of President Putin, peaceful protesters against elections to Bolotnaya Square in Moscow were halted by police. 19 protesters faced criminal charges in connection with events characterized by authorities as "mass riots". Several leading political activists were named as witnesses in the case and had their homes searched in operations that were widely broadcast by state-controlled television channels. Over 6 and 7 May, hundreds of peaceful individuals were arrested across Moscow. According to Amnesty International police used excessive and unlawful force against protestors during the Bolotnaya Square protest on 6 May 2012. Hundreds of peaceful protesters were arrested.
According to a Russian law introduced in 2014, a fine or detention of up to 15 days may be given for holding a demonstration without the permission of authorities and prison sentences of up to five years may be given for three breaches. Single-person pickets have resulted in fines and a three-year prison sentence.
I can be a human rights activist without fear of death, unlike the unfortuate Galina Starovoitova, and Stanislav Markelov.
I likely wont be tortured, unlike Andrei Sychev had to have both legs and genitals amputated after this torture due to gangrene caused by cut bloodflow.
The Constitution of Russia forbids arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment. However, in practice, Russian police, Federal Security Service and prison and jail guards are regularly observed practicing torture with impunity - including beatings with many different types of batons, sticks and truncheons, water battles, sacks with sand etc., the "Elephant Method" which is beating a victim wearing a gas mask with cut airflow and the "Supermarket Method" which is the same but with a plastic bag on head, electric shocks including to genitals, nose, and ears (known as "Phone call to Putin"), binding in stress positions, cigarette burns, needles and electric needles hammered under nails, prolonged suspension, sleep deprivation, food deprivation, rpe, penetration with foreign objects, asphyxiation - in interrogating arrested suspects. Another torture method is the "Television" which involves forcing the victim to stand in a mid-squat with extended arms in front of them holding a stool or even two stools, with the seat facing them. Other torture methods include the "Rack" or "Stretch" which involves hanging a victim on hands tied behind the back, the "Refrigerator" which involves subjecting a naked victim sometimes doused in cold water to subzero temperatures, the "Furnace" where the victim is left in heat in a small space and "Chinese torture" where the feet of the victim laying on a tabletop are beaten with clubs. In 2000, human rights Ombudsman Oleg Mironov estimated that 50% of prisoners with whom he spoke claimed to have been tortured. Amnesty International reported that Russian military forces in Chechnya engage in torture. There is much more regarding torture but I feel like I'm just piling on at this point.
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Typically I can be a scientist without fear of reprisal. unlike; Igor Sutyagin (sentenced to 15 years). Evgeny Afanasyev and Svyatoslav Bobyshev, (sentenced to 12 and a half and 12 years). Scientist Igor Reshetin and his associates at the Russian rocket and space researcher TsNIIMash-Export.
Physicist Valentin Danilov (sentenced to 14 years) Oskar Kaibyshev (given a 6-year suspended sentence and a fine of $132,000) Ecologist and journalist Alexander Nikitin, who worked with the Bellona Foundation, was likewise accused of espionage. He published material exposing hazards posed by the Russian Navy's nuclear fleet. He was acquitted in 1999 after spending several years in prison (his case was sent for re-investigation 13 times while he remained in prison). Other cases of prosecution are the cases of investigative journalist and ecologist Grigory Pasko, sentenced to three years' imprisonment and later released under a general amnesty, Vladimir Petrenko who described dangers posed by military chemical warfare stockpiles and was held in pretrial confinement for seven months, and Nikolay Shchur, chairman of the Snezhinskiy Ecological Fund who was held in pretrial confinement for six months.
Again there's more but i'm just beating a dead horse at this point.
I can run a business without fear of arbitrary reprisal. There has been a number of high-profile cases of human rights abuses connected to business in Russia. Among other abuses, this most obviously involves abuse of article 17 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. These include the case of the former heads of the oil company Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and Platon Lebedev whom Amnesty International declared prisoners of conscience, and the case of the lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, whose efforts to expose a conspiracy of criminals and corrupt law-enforcement officials earned him sustained abuse in prison which led to his death. An analogous case was the death in custody of the businesswoman Vera Trifonova, who was in jail for alleged fraud. Cases such as these have contributed to suspicion in other countries about the Russian justice system, which has manifested itself in the refusal to grant Russian extradition requests for businessmen fleeing abroad. Notable instances of this are the cases of the tycoon Boris Berezovsky and former Yukos vice president Alexander Temerko in the UK, the media magnate Vladimir Gusinsky in Spain and Greece, Leonid Nevzlin in Israel and Ivan Kolesnikov in Cyprus. A case that will test the attitude of the French authorities to this issue is that of the shipping magnate Vitaly Arkhangelsky. The WikiLeaks revelations indicated the low level of confidence other governments have in the Russian government on such issues. Cases involving major companies may gain coverage in the world media, but there are many further cases equally worthy of attention: a typical case involves the expropriation of assets, with criminals and corrupt law-enforcement officials collaborating to bring false charges against businesspeople, who are told that they must hand over assets to avoid criminal proceedings against them. A prominent campaigner against such abuses is Yana Yakovleva, herself a victim who set up the group Business Solidarity in the aftermath of her ordeal.
I have freedom of religion. The Constitution of Russian Federation provides for freedom of religion and the equality of all religions before the law as well as the separation of church and state. However, reports of religious abuse continue to come out of Russia. According to International Christian Concern, during 2021 "crackdowns on religious freedom have intensified in Russia." During June 2021, Forum 18 highlighted that "twice as many prisoners of conscience are serving sentences or are in detention awaiting appeals for exercising freedom of religion or belief as in November 2020." Many religious scholars and human right organizations have recently spoken up about the abuses taking place in Russia against minorities. The U.S. State Department considers Russia one of the worlds' "worst violators" of religious freedom. The influx of missionaries over the past several years has also led to pressure by groups in Russia, specifically nationalists and the Russian Orthodox Church, to limit the activities of these "nontraditional" religious groups. In response, the Duma passed a new, restrictive, and potentially discriminatory law in October 1997. The law is very complex, with many ambiguous and contradictory provisions. The law's most controversial provisions separates religious "groups" and "organizations" and introduces a 15-year rule, which allows groups that have existed for 15 years or longer to obtain accredited status. According to Russian priest and dissident Gleb Yakunin, new religion law "heavily favors the Russian Orthodox Church at the expense of all other religions, including Judaism, Catholicism, and Protestantism.", and it is "a step backward in Russia's process of democratization." Since 2017, Jehovah's Witnesses have faced persecution for unclear reasons.
This just goes on and on and this is only about the half of it and the post length is getting silly here. Next time you could just check the wiki instead of asking ridiculous questions.
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@againstviralmisinformation510 There were Russian's fighting against Ukraine since 2014. You can pretend otherwise if you want. Here's what strelkov said "I'm the one who pulled the trigger of war. If our unit hadn't crossed the border, everything would have fizzled out, like in Kharkiv, like in Odessa". He said his unit was formed in Crimea and consisted of volunteers from Russia."
Wagner was there, and as Putin said “I want to point out and I want everyone to know about it: The maintenance of the entire Wagner Group was fully provided for by the state. From the Ministry of Defense, from the state budget, we fully financed this group.” Making it a branch of the Russian miitary. Prigozhin admitted they were in the Donbas. "From ’14 until ’22, Donbass was being carved up. Donbass was being pillaged by various people, some of them were from the presidential administration, some from the Federal Security Service (FSB), and some were attracted oligarchs, like Kurchenko. These are the people who stole money from the residents of Donbass, who were in the unrecognized republics of LNR and DNR...We were shooting at them, they were shooting at us, and this was happening for all these long 8 years from ’14 to ’22."
Do you know what a casualty is? Most casualties don't get to retire. They get wounded and unless they are kia or maimed they go back to the fight. Do you know how reserves work? You can have 40k fighting in a battle and send in reserves to cover losses. I'm sure you think you know better than the people there, but dont expect anyone to take you serious.
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@againstviralmisinformation510 There were Russian's fighting against Ukraine since 2014. You can pretend otherwise if you want. Here's what strelkov said "I'm the one who pulled the trigger of war. If our unit hadn't crossed the border, everything would have fizzled out, like in Kharkiv, like in Odessa". He said his unit was formed in Crimea and consisted of volunteers from Russia."
Wagner was there, and as Putin said “I want to point out and I want everyone to know about it: The maintenance of the entire Wagner Group was fully provided for by the state. From the Ministry of Defense, from the state budget, we fully financed this group.” Making it a branch of the Russian miitary.
Prigozhin admitted they were in the Donbas. "From ’14 until ’22, Donbass was being carved up. Donbass was being pillaged by various people, some of them were from the presidential administration, some from the fsb, and some were attracted oligarchs, like Kurchenko. These are the people who stole money from the residents of Donbass, who were in the unrecognized republics of LNR and DNR...We were shooting at them, they were shooting at us, and this was happening for all these long 8 years from ’14 to ’22."
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23.12.23 Sai Baba
Bab el-Mandeb
Gabon
Two anti-ship ballistic missiles fired at shipping lanes, but missed. Crude oil tanker sailing from Russia hit by drone, but continued voyage. (the destination isn't stated, probably because Russia has a bunch of unregistered ships roaming around these days. Most likely it was headed to China or India.) The source is CENTCOM.
There was a hearing, Kyiv took them to court, not sure what you think the US has to do with it. On 16 March 2022 by 13 votes to 2, the ICJ ordered provisional measures. The ICJ held that it was ‘necessary for the Court to indicate certain measures in order to protect the right of Ukraine that the Court has found to be plausible’.
The Court firstly ordered that Russia should ‘immediately suspend the military operations that it commenced on 24 February 2022 in the territory of Ukraine’. Secondly, the Court, again by 13 votes to 2, ordered that Russia should ‘ensure that any military or irregular armed units which may be directed or supported by it … take no steps in furtherance of the military operations’.
The genocide case is still pending and will likely be a few more years.
I have no idea how you lie so confidently about something so untrue. Is it ignorance, malice or just a compulsive liar?
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@tasospanagiotou7823 Russia is doing a pretty good job proving NATO right. Once more because I guess reading comprehension isn't your strong suit. Russia gets no say in what other sovereign states do, not Bulgaria, not Finland, not Ukraine. There was never any deal regarding NATO expansion (please provide the treaty for that) This is just another Putin fantasy. Gee I wonder why the ex com bloc countries, who had to put up with decades or centuries of Russian occupation would want to prevent that from happening again.
If the Baltics weren't in NATO then all the garbage Russia is doing in Ukraine would have already been done there, oh no Russian nationals are in some form of imaginary danger better annex the Baltics to save them. Same thing in Georgia, same BS over and over.
Poland is concerned about Russian expansion by your logic they can invade Belarus right? It's such a brainless way of thinking it makes me wonder how you are able to use the internet, do you have a helper?
And pesky NATO wont even let the Serbs do any ethnic cleansing. NATO bombing killed about 1,000 members of the Yugoslav security forces in addition to between 489 and 528 civilians. Yugoslavs had killed 1,500 to 2,131 combatants.10,317 civilians were killed or missing, with 85% of those being Kosovar Albanian and some 848,000 were expelled from Kosovo. Of course these numbers pale in comparison to the civilian casualties caused by Russia in Ukraine in its delusional pursuit of empire.
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@Komeshokakunanwene Most sent minor delegations. The only leaders to attend were:
Egypt, Mozambique, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Eritrea, the Central African Republic, Libya, Cameroon, Senegal, South Africa, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, and Congo.
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@Gerrard_Pike2008 Russian authorities will now be able to send deaf, oligophrenic and schizophrenic people to the front line
Yesterday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu approved a list of diseases with which citizens will not be able to serve under contract during mobilization, martial law and wartime. The list consists of 26 points, including HIV, hepatitis B and C, diabetes mellitus, all forms of active tuberculosis, drug addiction, lack of limbs or a kidney.
However, many serious diseases were not on the list. Now people with heart defects, hearing loss, schizophrenia and oligophrenia will be sent to the front to die for the tsar.
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