"Free Russian legion fight in Russia" Topic

Remember when they were best buddies with Adolf and held joint military parades?

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Cry harder about nazis Cuprum, we know the actual story.

"Are the secret Nazi views of one of the hired leaders of a Russian private military company equivalent to the wide presence in Ukraine in the public field, including in the public service, of a huge number of public Nazis? I don't think so."

You mean the "Nazis" who won about 2% of the vote in the elections.

Let us put the two leaders on a pedestal, one voted for in free elections, without soviet influence, and who the majority, even Russian speaking, Ukrainians support and fight for.

The other, a small dictator whose political opponents are either in jail or fall from windows.

Cuprum – " I don't think so" No, you think what you are told to think by your mighty little nazi dictator,

Tally Ho!

Russia notably one of the most racist countries on the planet. And Putin isn't short of cheerleaders with similar views to Utkin – though he does somewhat take the biscuit for his seemingly – he wants a monoethnic state IIRC.

We could also do a compare and contrast of LGBTQ+ related legislation in Ukraine and Russia among other things…

Were were the pictures taken? Are they GPS coded? If not the pictures could have been taken in Ukraine!!!

Denis Kapustin alias Denis Nikitin, Russian Neonazi, was also highly involved in the German Neonazi/Hooligan scene in Cologne and Nationwide.
Mixed Martial Arts fighter running a sports label 'White Rex'.
Well-financed, nobody knows exactly how, had good contacts in Eastern Europe, especially Russia…

Yes, of course, contacts to the Moscow Hooligan/Neonazi scene, what else?

Some of those fine young Russians left two British football fans behind in a coma in 2016 at the European Championship in France.
The Moscow hooligan scene was coddled by parts of the Russian political establishment until it went too far and began to damage reputations abroad by such actions.

We kicked Kapustin/Nikitin out of Germany in 2019.
Also banned from entering the Schengen area.
He went to Russia and later to Ukraine.

And now the twist.
He came to Cologne from Russia with his family in 2001.
As a Jewish contingent refugee.

A Russian 'Jew' becomes a Neonazi in Germany, establishes contacts with Russia, and joins Ukrainian neo-Nazis after Ukraine became increasingly anti-Russian because of Russia's invasion of the Krim and its support of the aggression in the Donbas region.
Just to fight the Russians under Ukrainian command later on.

Bizarre you say?

Parts of the German Secret Services considered him in mid 2010ths simply to be an Agent Provocateur.
Not all, but the brighter ones.

Russian social life is very brutal, very predatory. Amongst bussinesmen, there is saying that in Russia "bomb under the car is like pre-trial letter".

Here is raport about "reiderstwo" means "raiding" – common criminal practice when troop of soldiers/armed men capture bussines/workshop and demands transfer of ownership (to "silowik" – officer of armed force, police, FSB or just high civil servant) by threatening the life of rightul owner' children (kindpaped from school).
reiderstvo.org/en
Either You give up Your factory (to f.ex. chief of police) or Your children will die.

The current trend that became more obvious over the last five years can be characterized as a pandemic of illegal raiding, with cases spreading across all Russia's regions undermining their socioeconomic development and destroying their investment climate.
• A rising number of cases involve malicious criminal prosecution of entrepreneurs whose assets became subject to economic disputes and were targeted by private and public raiders with strong connections to law enforcement agencies.
• Mistrust in law enforcement and courts continues to grow in Russia, with the vast majority of entrepreneurs believing that the justice system is neither independent nor objective.
• Entrepreneurship is considered one of the most dangerous occupations in Russia, with the vast majority of entrepreneurs saying it is unsafe to do business in the country.
• The country's leadership is well aware of the damage being inflicted on Russia's business climate, but in many cases, they are either the beneficiaries of or active participants in illegal raiding.
• Raids against the assets of well-known Western investors in Russia have contributed to the hesitancy of foreign investors to do business in Russia.
• Illicit financial gains from raiding are laundered into the international financial system, and this inflow of dirty money contributes to the corrosion of financial and political institutions of the recipient countries.
• There is growing evidence that corrupt officials, law enforcement, and illegal raiders from Russia misuse the international police organizations and arbitration bodies, the media, and the globalized financial system to their advantage.
• Since raiding cases have increasingly gone to foreign courts and arbitration bodies for litigation, it is important that Western experts learn how to identify the "red flags" of a raiding case.

There is also great difference between classes, nearly feudal:
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Gini coefficient measuring inequalities is one of the highest in the world (USA has Bezos and Musk and Hollywood and Silicon Valley).

There is prevalent racism against Muslims and people from Asia (due to security reasons, regarding them as criminals, mafia, stealing jobs etc). Polish attache in Moscow Witold Jarosz wrote in memoires how he was shocked when in taxi application in Moscow there was an option: "niet cziornych" ("not blackies") means client demands drivers not from Central Asia. BTW it has nothing to do with Africans, as there is no Africans in Russia except some students and sportsmen so there isnt prevalent antiafrican resentment (skinheads often attack Africans, but most Russians are curious and welcoming).

Actually surprised the UKs is as low as it is

Actually surprised the UKs is as low as it is

Yep, but could be even better.
Just look at Iraq…
Or Ethiopia.
;-)

…
Gini Index Explained and Gini Co-efficients Around the World

Regarding the Gini-Coefficient just wait for 2027/28.
UK Living Standard Outlook 2023

Rising interest rates boost savings and investment incomes so that incomes of the top 5 per cent are on course to rise by 4 per cent between 2021-22 and 2023-24. Although income inequality across the bulk of the distribution will fall during 2022-23 and 2023-24, this rapid growth in investment income means that the Gini coefficient is projected to reach a record high of 40.8 per cent in 2027-28.

On the other hand….
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There is also the World Happiness Report

Growing up with Aki Kaurismδki and the Leningrad Cowboys, I always thought all Finns were quirky and depressive.
You learn something new about people every day.
:)

Finns are so happy because they fought and won to live outside Ruskij Mir.

It's funny that they tell me now about what country I live in ;-)
I'm also a businessman with 25 years of experience…
What you are describing here was widespread in the 90s, immediately after the "democratization" of Russia. By the way, Khodorkovsky, so beloved in the West (like many other oligarchs who fled from Russia to the West) is one of these murderous businessmen who ordered the murder of his competitors. I have always said that in the 90s a criminal revolution took place in Russia with the direct support of the West. Your advisers worked in the Kremlin and were directly involved in the implementation of this entire corruption system in Russia. These advisers were later imprisoned by your own courts for the flagrant corruption in which they wallowed.
With the advent of Putin, the level of corruption and especially ordinary crime has dropped significantly. But yes, it's still very big. By the way, one of the reasons why I do not want to see pro-Western leaders here is that I am sure that the level of corruption will skyrocket again. It is enough to look at the history of relations between the US president's family and Ukraine.
By the way, to say that the level of corruption in Ukraine is lower than in Russia is simply ridiculous.

There is no unambiguous evidence that the Russians shot the Poles in Katyn. There are only different versions. Why is there still no trial in this case? There are only political games around this case.

Friends with Adolf? Immediately after Western friends gave Adolf Czechoslovakia? Having prevented the USSR from defending it, according to the military alliance with the Czechoslovaks? Yes, in Russia it is well remembered.

What and when did the Finns win? They lost all the wars against the USSR.

Yeah sure, and back then NATO briefly considered invading Russia to clean up the hopeless mess it is, but that was just too disgusting.
We already had secret plans being made in the back rooms of power, sure what else.
We would have had people believe that we were going to save Ukraine and some other Eastern European countries from invasion by the Russian Federation.
But after we saw what you did in the GDR, we just sent economic advisers instead.
To destroy you of course.
Cunning plan, wasn't it?
Better than that Madeleine Albright Declaration you're still spreading over there.
But that didn't work either; every idiot had his hand out.
For a moment we thought we left a bridge too far and had us lost in the Middle East, baksheesh and all.
So we left again.
And half of Eastern Europe followed us.
Because, well, there was nothing to get from you.
As always you just channeled everything to Moscow and St. Petersburg instead of putting it into the development of Russia and its colony Siberia.

Invading Russia?
My goodness, we're glad you're staying where you are.
Corruption is a direct result of a weak state and civic institutions in countries where networks of personal relationships are believed to be the only decisive factor.
Consequently, with Putin and his spook buddies, you have brought to power exactly that kind of people whose only modus operandi are personal contacts in secret.

Congratulations!

Russia, you reap what you have sown.
Take a look in the mirror and learn to live with what you see.

Oh, and just get out of Ukraine, they don't like being told what it's really like in their country.
We support that decision.

There is no unambiguous evidence that the Russians shot the Poles in Katyn. There are only different versions. Why is there still no trial in this case? There are only political games around this case.

The Soviet/Russian governments seem to disagree with you…

the Soviet Union claimed the Nazis had killed the victims, and it continued to deny responsibility for the massacres until 1990, when it officially acknowledged and condemned the killings by the NKVD, as well as the subsequent cover-up by the Soviet government.

An investigation conducted by the office of the prosecutors general of the Soviet Union (1990–1991) and the Russian Federation (1991–2004) confirmed Soviet responsibility for the massacres, but refused to classify this action as a war crime or as an act of mass murder. The investigation was closed on the grounds that the perpetrators were dead, and since the Russian government would not classify the dead as victims of the Great Purge, formal posthumous rehabilitation was deemed inapplicable. In November 2010, hoping to improve relations with Poland, the Russian State Duma approved a declaration condemning Stalin and other Soviet officials for ordering the massacre. However, with the Russo-Ukrainian War, the relations became strained. In 2021, the Russian Ministry of Culture downgraded the memorial complex at Katyn on its Register of Sites of Cultural Heritage from a place of federal to one of only regional importance.[7]

The Soviet/Russian governments seem to disagree with you

No, I think he's just a step ahead of them.
In about six months it will be declared mass suicide by mutual defenestration.
As a German, I'm also considering here whether we should not simply delete a few zeros from the number of victims we caused during the war of extermination against the Soviet population.
This also creates room for a clear conscience.
I mean, everybody is doing it apparently, so it can't be wrong.

"By the way, to say that the level of corruption in Ukraine is lower than in Russia is simply ridiculous" If you are a blind russian. The performance of the soviet army has highlighted so much corruption leading to poor and non existent equipment for one thing.

Tally Ho!

nick +1

Well said…

Armand

Russians fighting Russians … Hmmm … good concept …

Anti-Putin Russian militia says more incursions into Russian territory to come

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Armand

Yevgenyy I admire your hopeless patience.
Another LOL story pushed by our infox pros.

Russians traitors then?
Because free, humm. 100000 were so much not free that they could go away ( many are back).
The meanibg of words, already a longtime casualty of the detructors of our world.

On the other end the Russian insistence that Ukr should not hit the inside of Ru is "funny". You wage war on your neighbour and pretend that well he can't hit you.
The first casualty of war: truth, the second seems to be common sense.

41.000 here… and counting…

Armand

The first casualty of war: truth, the second seems to be common sense.

Bingo !

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From Ukrainian newspaper.

From Drone Strikes to Ground Incursions, War Comes to Russia

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Armand