Left headline: “Russia asks USA for just a little bit more food.” (1999) Right headline: “Russia fed half of the World.” (2018)
Putin literally broke the food dependency Russia inherited from the late USSR. Food sanctions, and the “import replacement programs”, which aim to replace imports with domestic industrial production are the most important development in Russia in the last 30 years…
What is the source of animosity between Poland and Russia? 1.Historical issues 2.Current economic issues 3.Political issues 4.Cultural issue 5.Hard to say
I don’t speak Polish so I wrote it as I understand it.
A tale of two cities and two different approaches to WWII memorials…
In Vienna, on the Schwarzenberg Plaz, restoration works on the gold plating on the Memorial to soviet soldiers. The healing of the memorial, the restorers are wearing white coats like medics. The restoration works should be completed in the beginning of May, right for the Celebration of the Great Victory.
A memorable fragment from the current anti-Russian hysteria in the Czech Republic that is worth of a note on this blog…
Ondřej Kolář, the Mayor of Prague 6: “The reality is such that there is a Russian here, who is tasked with liquidation. Not just of me but Mr. Hřib (the Principal Mayor of Prague) and Mr. Novotný (the Mayor of Řeporyje).”
Ondřej Kolář is the mayor of Prague 6, who recently removed the statue to the Soviet liberator of Prague, Ivan Konev. Pavel Novotný is the mayor of Řeporyje, a village that forms the outskirts of Pragua. He brings plenty of traffic to this blog, and recently came up with the initiative to commemorate the soldiers of the Russian Liberation Army. A Nazi collaborator group formed of Russians, who at the very end of the War turned on their Nazi masters and helped the revolt of Czech patriots against the German occupiers...
The Czech Republic is a funny place. Following the removal of Konev’s statue, Russia reacted with enacting a law that would prosecute people, who desecrate the monuments to Red Army in Eastern Europe. But the reaction of the Czechs has been rather hysterical. Not so long ago, a piece of news began circulation that the Czech secret service, the BIS, has information that a man has arrived in Prague, who can be a potential danger to Ondřej Kolář, Pavel Novotný, and the principal mayor of Prague, Zdeněk Hřib. All, as I know, were placed under police protection. Recently, the Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs said he knows of Russian actions and that should anything happen to Kolář or Novotný, they will know who did it.
I personally think, the BIS has links to Kolář and this is a conspiracy to create a moral panic with the aim of damaging Czech-Russian relations, and the current government in the Czech Republic as all the mayors represent the opposition. The opposition in the Czech Republic is normally represented in urban areas, whereas the government and the president represent the countryside.
Some people seized on the opportunity to have a bit of laugh at the expense of the eccentric mayors of Prague. Some Zdeněk Pernica from an obscure regional right-wing party asked on Facebook how much is the reward, and added that he lost money due to Corona and needs to cover the losses. He did not mention anyone in text but included a doctored picture with himself holding a rifle and the three mayors seated.
Novotný and representatives of the Czech liberal wing went into hysteria and tried to get the police involved.
Police CZ, thank you, here is a man worthy of investigation from Brno…
The journalists were also active…
This is an explicit threat of death made by Zdeněk Pernica, this should be of interest to the police. The police president was also tagged.
I really hope the police still has some sense of humour left unlike the liberal turds that went ratting on the man. The issue was widely reported in mainstream media, which tried to create a moral panic.
“Do you know the size of the reward in rubles?” -wrote on a social network, the head of the movement, Slušní lidé (polite people) and included a picture of Prague politicians, who are facing threats because of the removal of the Konev statue. All three are under poĺice protection.
Apart from Ruslan Shavetdinnov, whose case has been widely reported by the likes of the Washington funded RFE/RL, the rest of the individuals I have covered are low level activists really. This time, I discovered the brother and husband of Lyubov Sobol, the Moscow resident activist, and close Navalny comrade.
The information is now relatively dated, it actually comes from 2016 but it has resurfaced recently, and it is worth reposing here because it adds to the series I was running.
It turns out, the brother of Lyubov Sobol, Grigory Musatov took active part in the Euromaidan.
The grinning twerp on the right is Grigory Musatov…
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A rare sight, the Hrushevsky street is without Molotow cocktails. What a mess!
Her husband, Sergey Mokhov is not far off:
Here Mokhov shows support for the neonazi Azov Battalion…
Whenever you are being told about 40% of young Russians wanting to quit Russia for a better life in the West, think of this guy…
Mikhail Roskin is driving his tractor towards the USA. Says his wife won a green card and they are going to US without contacts or good knowledge of English. Be careful he writes about politics. He is being read by Alexey Navalny.
And he is coming back…
There is some complete fuckery happening with the evacuation of Russians from the US. 1. Today an empty Boeing 777 flew from NYC to Moscow. They allowed only 50 people on board. They accepted only those that had registration in Moscow, the others were simply left behind…
Come crisis, Putin’s Russia help please, I don’t wanna stay in Murica, can’t afford medical insurance because I’m a sucker. And such is the story of the majority of those that say “I wanna emigrate…”
The following is why Russophobia is dangerous. If you eek out a response from them, you get a glimpse of what Russophobes actually believe. A hodgepodge of anti-Russian myths…
The Nazis have liberated the Ukrainians from Russian genocide. But to us there isn’t any difference between a Nazi officer or the Soviet Communist officer, both are occupation regimes. (translation from Czech)
The myth of Ukrainian genocide, DONE BY THE RUSSIANS, seems to have taken root among the Russophobic creeps. It does not strike them that Stalin and Lazar Kaganivich were not Russians. And here is why the Russians should never and will never apologise or atone for USSR and socialism.