Czechia was a car superpower before the World Wars and after the World Wars but during the Commie days, Škoda made cheap ass wrecks for the plebs and Tatra limousines for the Commie elite. Škoda, together with Yugoslav Zastava, and the Soviet Lada had a very bad reputation for quality among Western consumers. The other commie brands were Polski Fiat and Dacia, which made bootlegs of Western cheap ass cars. The only positioning was towards price, it is cheap, buy cheap. Everybody is poor, buy cheap.
And following the break up of Commie block, and the collapse of Bolshevism, these companies weren’t able to get off from their selling point of cheap ass cars. Škoda was bought by Volkswagen and produced some more high end models but Zastava closed shop and Lada continued to produce cheap ass clunkers. The New Right types view individualism as selfish and immoral ultimately. But I would rather ride a Lada than be on bus in some places.
I live in a rural place, and I need a passenger car to get food and move things. I don’t necessarily need anything high end. I wouldn’t mind something simple as long as it has an automatic box. Personal vehicle allows you more freedom of movement. You really don’t want to take the bus to shops out here.
It is funny that Westerners make luxury cars, and Easterners make cheap clunkers to appeal to the masses. And the elite in the East drives Western cars and the lower classes ride on cheap clunkers. And for some reason, many of the cheap clunker makers couldn’t make it even in cheap ass market. They get pushed out by mid-tier producers and many mid-tier producers try making half decent cars. Dacia is no longer an embarrassment. In Uzbekistan people drive either Chrysler, GM Daewoo or whatever that is or Chinese vehicles, like BYD. The car situation there was really interesting.
Ultimately you need a vehicle to get from point A to point B without experiencing cultural enrichment or booty banditism. If there was any safety on the public transport in Western liberal nations than public transport could be a much better option but the cabins are dirty and the people are weird. And individualism to me means, I don’t owe anybody anything. I’d drive a fucking tank to work if it means I will not have to give a fuck about anything beyond safety on the roads. And yeah, Moscow went a long way to making metro look great but you can still experience cultural enrichment and booty banditism.
Basically, the activists have suggested a registry of single men, who do not pursue a relationship with a woman. These guys could be drafted into a military or alternatively sent to forced labor.
This reminds me of bachelor tax. Russia has a large divorce rate and the women in post-Soviet Russia became gold diggers that demand too much of men. Men in divorce in Russia get shafted much like in many countries of the West. Generally, there aren’t many benefits from being married for man, and many risks. MGTOW is getting popular in Russia, they call it жизнь соло “solo life”. Basically, live for yourself, invest the money you make, enjoy life, and have your sexual needs met by a professional. Russia has quite a developed escort industry.
Gynocracy and feminism breeds incels, men that avoid women, simps that serve melady, Chads with harems, and hypergamous gold diggers. And men get blamed for this situation. 😆👌
Read the article linked above. The author has provided a fine context to this project and I felt like it would stealing somebody else’s work if I quoted him here.
Russia has been quite ahead with this digitalization of the public sphere. Above are Yandex delivery bots. CBDCs like the digital ruble will be a tool of control. All your purchases will be tracked. The currency will be programmable. Therefore, a welfare recipient wouldn’t be able to buy booze and cigarettes with it. Facial recognition technology will allow you to make purchases automatically. The only employee of shops will be security until robots take the place of the latter.
Kiev is the perennial hostage of Moscow’s imperial ambitions.
Moscow, since a long time, constructs its ideological foundation on the connection to historical Rus’, creating a narrative that the capital of Ukraine – Kiev (as the center of Rus, and essentially Rus) is its fundamental component. This imagining supports not only the mythical but also ideological concept of Moscow being the “Third Rome” which determines its status on the world stage.
Without Ukraine, Russia loses not only mythical historical legitimacy but also its symbolic connection with its imperial legacy, which makes the existence of empire impossible in the traditional sense. At the same time, attitude to other colonies once within the Russian Empire and the USSR is completely different.
11 January 1918, the People’s Commissar Soviet, headed by Lenin, recognized the independence of “Turkish Armenia”…
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I love this borscht composed of outdated ideological concepts and anal phobias of the Russophobes. Let’s analyze them. Ukrainians actually think Russia is illegitimately called Russia, and the classic concept of Russian history from the Kievan period to the Moscow period is somehow wrong. They actually think Ukraine is something ancient, which it isn’t. Strangely enough, contemporary Russia was totally OK about Ukraine being Ukraine. Ukraine however turned out to be an anti-Russia. Ukrainian nation building is basically an exercise in the rejection of Russianness. Ukrainian nationalism glorifies traitors like Mazepa and celebrates anything anti-Russian. Therefore, the Russians stuck to the conception that was common and the Ukrainians try to torpedo it.
The Third Rome has to do with the Rurikids being related to the last ruling dynasty of Byzantium, the Porphyrogenites. The Grand Price adopted the title Tsar, and claimed to be the continuator of Rome after Byzantium. In the Middle Ages, this was nothing uncommon. Nobody outside Russia really cared about Moscow’s claim. And I don’t see anyone bringing it up now. This is Ukrop anus anguish.
Russia is not an Empire without Ukraine is a trope brought to us by Zbigniew Brzezinski, who had smelly Polack rectal sensitivities over Ukraine and Russia. Indeed, Putler needs Ukraine because he wants to crown himself emperor of the Third Rome. 😆 You know some people say Russia already is an Empire without Ukraine and needs decolonization.
I also see another ass bleeding in the text above. The other Soviet republics were not colonies of Russia. Without the USSR’s good will, there would probably not be places like Kazakhstan or Azerbaijan. Ukraine would probably would not exist as we know it without Soviet Ukrainksation. Ukrs never cut the USSR any slack. Instead, they adopted the post-colonial discourse from Western universities.
“Western Armenia” the issue was dealt with by Yosif Stalin. The territories which we are talking about were occupied by the Russian army during WWI, and were supported by local separatist movements. In this case, these were Ottoman territories, which made their recognition a matter of temporary tactical courtesy than a strategic choice.
The Bolshevik approach to the national question in the beginning of the twentieth century was pragmatic. The recognition of Polish, Finish independence, and the independence of many others was not motivated by a genuine support for the right of nations for determination but rather by political expediency. In the case of Poland, this direction was already marked by the Interim Government and the Bolsheviks did not see a reason to correct it. Finland because of its political maturity and readiness to resist also found itself outside the orbit of the Bolsheviks.
However, Ukraine always had a special meaning for Moscow. Its historical role in the formation of the Russian state, its natural resource potential, make it impossible for Moscow to see it…
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Finland got independence pretty much with the abolition monarchy in Russia. It existed as a land governed by Nicholas II, not as Russia proper. It had its own laws, its own parliament etc. Poland’s rights have been curtailed after several Polish uprisings in nineteenth century but it existed in the shadows, and the Russians never considered it to be part of Russia.
Vladimir Lenin was completely pro-Ukrainian and he viewed Ukraine as an unfortunate victim of Russian imperialism, and deserving of independence. Lenin even acquiesced to the Brest-Litovsk accords and allowed the occupation of Ukraine by the Central Powers. He betrayed his fellow Communists in Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic. However, the civil war in Ukraine was very much a fight between local Bolsheviks and the Ukrainian People’s Republic under Hrushevsky and Petlyura. Contemporary Russia was also cool with Ukraine until it became anti-Russia in 2014.
Hence, having anal pains over Russian attitude towards Ukraine is kinda misplaced. Not so long ago, Ukraine was Russia, and the Ukrainians were Russians. Hence the Russians are only reacting to the teleological development of the Ukrainian project into anti-Russia. The Russians have very little issue with friendly and brotherly Ukraine, and accept its existence.
…as a region that can be divided from the empire. A complete, organic, national identity of the Ukrainians that is developing separately from the imperial “Russian” completely undermines the foundations of the “Third Rome”. This is why Moscow’s propaganda machine is building narratives about the “triune nation” and “historical commonality”, categorically denying the right of Rus Ukraine to its separate history and independent future.
If we compare this approach with the acknowledgment of the independence of the “Turkish Armenia”, we need to point out that this territory has never been part of the internal core of Moscow, and its strategic importance was only within the frame of a temporary military-political context. The recognition of independence had the character of a diplomatic move and not the reflection of an imperial necessity.
An important factor is also how Moscow uses historical myths. In the case of Ukraine the basis is formed by the mythical “Old Rus”, which is said to be the source of the Russian statehood. At the same time in the case of other territories there aren’t these deep symbolic connections. That means that the destiny of “Turkish Armenia” or even…
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The author refers to Russian historical concepts as myths but talks about so called “Rus Ukraine”. Rus Ukraine is a concept invented by Ukrainian nationalists to link Old Rus history to Ukrainian reality of today. Ukraine however was referred to as Rus, or Russia Minor not so long ago, and the name Ukraine was adopted for the nationalist project under the influence of the poems of Taras Shevchenko, and with support of the Austrian government, somewhere in late nineteenth century. The name was originally used in the context of Shevchenko’s home region in the Central Dnieper region. The Austrians were actually interested in changing the identity of its own subjects
If it wasn’t for failure of Russia in the Great War, this bullshit conception wouldn’t ever succeed, and poison the minds of people into the twenty first century. Ukrainians need anti-Russian mythology to justify their very existence. If faced with reality instead of their propaganda, they become Russians. The former minister, Dmytro Tabachnyk and the writer Oles Buzyna were Russians although they were more Ukrainian than many Ukrnazis. Russianness is high culture, Ukrainism is militant provincialism.
…such important regions such as Poland or Finland, would be decided depending on the current situation, while Ukraine was always at the centre of imperial ambitions. Today’s discourse of Moscow demonstrates lack of change in this approach. In the conditions of today’s World, where empires do not have the same legitimacy as before, Moscow continues to cling to the past, preserving the illusion of historical right to control over Ukraine. However, the historical paradoxes show that if a country tries harder to hold on to what was lost the faster it loses its future.
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I personally believe that much like Lenin accepted the occupation of Ukraine by Central Powers, the current Russian Federation did accept the loss of Ukraine in the nineties. But given the similarities between the two countries, and a strong Russian element within Ukraine, the countries were bound to come together. Much like the Ukrainian Bolsheviks came to accept Moscow, the Russian Federation found willing collaborationists in contemporary Ukraine. Particularly in Donbas and Crimea. It is not that Russia will lose Ukraine but that Ukraine and Russia are natural allies, and to this conception is opposed Ukrainian nationalism that not just asserts that Ukraine is not Russia but also that Ukraine belongs to another civilization and is antagonistic to Russia.
I personally think contemporary Russia never had any wish to claim the entire Ukraine. They never committed the resources, or did any actions that would suggest that. It could come to that if the Ukrainian resistance in Eastern Ukraine collapses but in that case, I still cannot see Russia occupying the entirety of Ukraine. In my opinion they should subjugate the entirety of Ukraine.
They literally included this AI picture of an Asian guy with a cross.
Vlad Bokhan is a Belarusian activist that trolls Russian schools by pretending to be from the United Russian Party and making the former do various silly things. He claims it is to reveal how Fascist Russia is according to the definition of Fascism by Umberto Eco, which in my option is too broad, and amounts to leftist anal pains but whatever…
I think Vlad is aiming too high with this Fascism thing but his pranks are really funny…
The fact that the teachers did not recognize Bandera proves what I have said many times. The Russians in general do not care about Ukraine. Ukrainians and Belarusians care about Russia.
He made teachers pray to icons of Stepan Bandera and Svetlana Snezhko, the latter is a judge that declared his Telegram channel extremist in Belarus. Let me demonstrate Vlad’s extremism:
After successfully pranking a school, he replied to the fooled teachers Slava Ukrayine, singed Ebanaya Rossiya. (Latter means fucking Russia, instead of Edinaya Rossiya meaning United Russia, the party) Slava Ukrayine is literally Fascism as by Umberto Eco. It is the worship of ancestors, it is followed by Heroyim Slava, and the heroes are Ukrainian nationalists that adopted this slogan in 1939, at a conference in Rome, in Fascist Italy. 😝
And saying fucking Russia is Russophobia and Russophobia should carry the capital punishment in my opinion but I digress, the reaction came after a successful prank called “Work Liberates” taken from Arbeit Macht Frei, the slogan on the entrance to Auschwitz.
One might hate Russia but look at the new school they have there. These new schools were all built under Putin, and that’s why the latter is so popular.
Belarusian prankster, Vlad Bokhan, easily convinced teachers at the school in Klin to join an action with the slogan “One people, one nation, one ruler” as a part of a program of the United Russia campaign “Work liberates.”
Both phrases were slogans of the Nazis during WWII (the phrase “work liberates” was posted over the entrance to Auschwitz for instance). The word ruler corresponds to “fuehrer”.
The school has sent the prankster an account in the form of several photographs thinking he is a representative of United Russia.
“This is not a prank, this is an action that reveals the terrible and absurd irony that is happening around us.” -said the prankster.
Vlad also managed to convince teachers in Komsomolsk on Amur to create a list of students to be sent to the camps… Territorial military patriotic camps…
He also, again from the name of United Russia, made teachers in Orlov join an action called “Russian run“, the point was that the participants choose themselves where they would be running.
He recorded the above video to call the teachers to run… The run that they sent him however I found unimpressive.
More funny was his recent stunt. He literally made the teachers in Voronezh wear tinfoil hats. Tinfoil hats that would protect them from enemies abroad.
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The last one went viral and brought my attention to Vlad.
My assessment, public schools, especially in the provinces are bastions of conformism, stupidity, and ignorance. This is not just a problem of Russia. Everywhere schools are invaded by faggots, here in the West quite literally. This shit is funny but I would like to see him prank some school in Moscow, and have men in the pictures. It is mostly (if not exclusively) women in the pictures, and women are notoriously conformist and not very bright.
Dear European, English but also American farmers, your government hates you…
Your animals are making the world worse they are saying. Your farming methods are wrong they are saying. Your tractors are not net zero. You have to pay for your sins against the planet 🌍 and climate.
The Communist government of UK decided to undo family farms with inheritance taxes. I have calculated that my heirs will have to pay the British state £150k after I go to Satan in Hell. I am not sure where they would get this money from. I might have about a third. BTC needs to rise to 10 million. Single mothers and Mohamed in the asylum center need to eat.
But there is a way out, sell your farm, and buy another in Russia. 🇷🇺 I ain’t kidding. Russia does not practice this green shit and does not have inheritance taxes.
Google suppresses a lot of information, for instance, YouTube never offered me the Trump-Joe Rogan interview and I had to search for it myself. Remember, they don’t want another Trump situation at Google.
If you search Google for anything these days, the first page of the results will be sponsored links. Anyway, I believe YouTube and Google are on their way to get banned in Russia. You don’t need YouTube, ban that shit and develop your own platforms! Russian YouTube is not monetized, that means Russian budget gets fuck all from the time Russian people spend on it.
Russia’s largest data center operator BitRiver has partnered with the Russian Direct Investment Fund to build mining and AI computing facilities across BRICS nations.
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“We will focus on creating a mining-based infrastructure – building data centers and connecting them to necessary power sources to enable AI project deployment and development across the country,” said BitRiver CEO Igor Runets according to the announcement.
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The companies cite a global shortage of energy-intensive data center capacity as a key driver for expansion. The initiative aligns with Russia’s push to strengthen its position as the world’s second-largest crypto mining market after the United States.
Insomniac Resurrected 
