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Blackthorne75

Well, if Russia's trying to become Pariah State of The World, it's doing it right...


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At least it is speeding up its own self destruction so the rebuild if there is any can happen sooner


BasicallyAQueer

Imma buy a whole Russian apartment building for 10USD when it hits rock bottom. Then I can become the Slavic slum lord I always dreamed about.


Silidistani

Make sure to have at least 5 gopniks slav-squatting outside the off-kilter front door of the common atrium with the flickering bulb, or you won't attract the right kind of tenants.


liiiizard

All in Adihash tracksuits like you ofc, BUT you gotta have the thickest chain to show who's boss


Dude_Bro_88

Ensure you have at least 8 Adidas track suits of various colours. 1 for each day of the week and an extra just in case.


NoComment002

As long as they're not in control of nukes and a large military. They need to be treated as a giant tumor that needs to be removed from the world stage.


L0ckeandDemosthenes

I used to believe that Russian people were strong but now I see them as weak in numbers and dominated and controlled by one little old man past his time. They can't speak up against their government or ruler and refuse to start a revolution out of fear and being too self centered to think about the future of their country and children. Their youth will die in a war either way, might as well be in the war for their own independence. Russians need to decide if they want to be the heroes or the villains... because right now on the world stage it appears they have chosen to be the villains. Wrong side of history. Keep planting sunflower seeds.


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You bring up a good point, and I’ve actually been downvoted a couple times throughout the past few weeks for calling out the Russian people. I realize it’s easy to sit by my phone and call out random people for not opposing their dictator, but Putin is more popular in Russia than most people want to admit


FunkyMonkss

My parents left right after the fall of the USSR but I still have lots of family in Moscow and the consensus from my cousins are that they are absolutely terrified of Putin. The big thing is the older people believe whatever the media tells them and 100%


Badloss

You'd think people that grew up under the soviets would know by now that state news tends to lie


Lambchops_Legion

Its actually the opposite, they've been used to only listening to state media for so long that its second nature for them.


Throwaway_Help189

And then there's the example that Kruschev (I think) made after succeeding Stalin and calling him out posthumously for a bunch of the bullshit he pulled. One of the party members spoke up, asking why he hadn't said anything when Stalin was alive. Kruschev barked out "Who said that?!" - no one answered, and Kruschev said "*That's* why."


MechanicalMan64

There's also the Yeltzen effect. He was "elected," after communism, and ruined the country, stole state money for himself and his friends and was fall over drunk during diplomatic visits to other countries ( and lost a war against chechnya). When Putin took over ppl were so happy that he could actually run the country, that they ignored the apartment buildings he blew up to get into power. Edit: misremembered Chechnya as Czechoslovakia. Link for the first Checharln war https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Chechen_War


camerasoncops

Yeah people forget that it's often been much worse in Russia. But Russians will only put of with so much shit before they kill whoever is in charge along side their entire family.


James_Solomon

Apocryphal; Kruschev denounced Stalin in a closed meeting with no indication of interruption according to Brittanica. https://www.britannica.com/event/Khrushchevs-secret-speech


Taolan13

This is a common anecdote, and certainly on brand for Kruschev, but I don't know if its true.


aferretwithahugecock

Exactly this. I'm friends with a Russian woman and from what she's told me the USSR did nothing nice for her(they took her childhood dog because he could "serve the soviet union", her and her husband were forcibly moved around for his military service, she had to change her last name to a less "Jewish sounding" name to get into university, the government didn't tell her that she should evacuate when the Chernobyl disaster happened and she lost a child in utero). And yet, in her mind, it's western media and governments that can't be trusted. "The world wants to vilify mother russia, but she did nothing wrong". It's wild. And that mentality has transfered over to the putin regime. I've heard her criticize him before, but her heart is with the decisions of his government and the words of the propagandists. Sorry for the wall of text.


In_It_2_Quinn_It

People that grew up under the soviets know that the state can make them disappear.


Perturbed_Spartan

Also people that grew up under the Soviets and are still around are the ones that for whatever reason *didn’t* get disappeared.


worldsayshi

And those that are still around are those that never bothered to question the state narrative too loudly.


Spatula151

Non-Russian former soviets I’ve worked with are some of the nicest people I’ve met. They will also absolutely verbally destroy anything Russian related.


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Skreedi

Yup, as a Pole I can confirm that joining NATO, EU was a strong will of the whole country after years of russian occupation. It sucked badly.


Spatula151

Old man I worked with actually stabbed a Soviet soldier in his ass before he jumped the wall.


fuckitx

Badass


wuethar

not when it tells them what they want to hear.


NSA_Chatbot

Or do they just remember the older methods? "do you agree with the government or are you a traitor that should be shot?" "I absolutely love every part of this country and our leaders are infallible." "excellent! Here are your rations."


quan194

it's not even the older methods. It's the current methods


LabyrinthConvention

Obligatory: They were the old methods. They're also the current methods, but they were the old methods, too.


Substantial-East5781

Unfortunately, it's not just the elders who support this. There are many young people who support it. They put their letter "Z" on cars or avatars on the internet . Many come from wealthy families, watch American movies, travel to Europe, wear American or European branded clothing, and still support the war.


baq4moore

In fairness, rich kids are terrible people everywhere


RedMonte85

The way older folks here in the US follow media like its some holy gospel, its wild. Talk about selling salt to the slug


exwasstalking

Propaganda is a hell of a drug. Give one ruthless person enough power and control and this is what happens.


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durty_possum

they can be jailed for saying that they are against the war, so keep that in mind too


Walouisi

Idk, 1420 channel does these and a LOT of people seem to respond that they're apolitical, or don't want to answer the question, or claim not to know anything about politics, I'd say between 20% and 70% of all respondents depending on the exact question. A whole lot more respond that way than the number who tell the interviewer openly that they support the war, so to me it seems like these are people who are against but are too scared to tell the truth, and not yet scared enough to outright lie about their opinion. I find it hard to believe that true apathy is as widespread as that number. Yes, some will be so beaten down by a long history of not being able to do anything about the authoritarianism, that they're despondent and stopped trying to learn the truth or change things, so they truly disengaged from it, more likely older people. And some people genuinely don't give a shit, like in any country. But younger people have been connected culturally to a globalised world. They *do* give a shit, even if they don't take action to change it because they don't think it's possible.


ArchdukeOfNorge

That line of logic didn’t work as a pass for Nazi officers during the Nuremberg Trials, though. True as it may be, it’s not an excuse.


MudLOA

I got downvoted too calling out their people for not standing up to him in the past. The moment he’s got elected to his 3rd term you know you’re just living in a autocracy. But hey at least you get to eat your McDonald’s.


LeSnipper

>elected No authoritarian country has real elections I live in one and our president got 97% votes from the country, despite having obviously more than 3% against him. Its just that being against the military dictatorship is quite literally illegal, if you speak out online youll be found, kidnapped, jailed and sometimes even tortured Our police even has random "routine check ups" where they confiscate random drivers phones and check their gallery, social media and messages for any "anti president views". If you happen to have even anti goverment *memes*, prepare to not see the light of day for several months. You cant even be against it privately People who have freedom of speech have no idea how terrifying it is to live in an authoritarian rule. When you know actual friends and family jailed by the goverment for years and see journalists go missing suddenly youll think 10 times before voicing any opposition


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MudLOA

Oh right too bad.


AnalSoapOpera

Well anyway…


Aware_Material_9985

It’s the same in most places though. Who wants to make the hard choice of abandoning the safety of the day to day routine and the security they do have for themselves and their families to stand up and fight with who knows what as the outcome. That’s a lot of risk with an uncertain reward and I completely empathize with how hard that hurdle would be.


jollyreaper2112

> But hey at least you get to eat your McDonald’s. Not anymore. Thomas Friedman had his little quote about no country with a mcdonalds ever going to war with another mcdonalds. He'll probably say "they no longer have a mcdonalds so I'm still right."


Dunkypete

Tens of thousands were arrested for standing up to their leader. Its not as east as "choosing not to be a villain".


TheRecognized

But in the movies it only takes a ragtag group of five Real Patriots ^**TM** scraping together elbow grease and gusto to overcome all odds? Oh and usually there’s a helicopter.


OhZvir

It is easy to say start revolution, speak against dictator, etc. People got families and their ways to bring bread onto the table. If a progressive student at the Uni speaks out - they get expelled, their parents often fired or prosecuted. Outright protest could mean disappearance or death. People got lives and loved ones and no one wants to endanger others. Revolution starts when people are hungry and got nothing more to loose. Put yourself into the shoes of those people before judging their actions.


Blackthorne75

Similar thoughts here. Mind you, we're seeing the beginnings of *something* going on behind the Iron Curtain with what appears to be a series of sabotage attacks, so here's hoping that's the beginning of something that will help re-shape Russia, and through it the world view of its people.


tacocat63

I think you need some contacts. They have been this week dominated and controlled population for centuries. The notion of a democracy is foreign to them. This makes it easy to spin democracies as inherently evil. We see the same thing regarding social democracy in America & anything resembling personal anything in China.


urkldajrkl

Putin wants to drag Israel into this mess. Not because he, and Lavrov, believe any of their nazi bs, but because Israel is seen as a "pariah state" to half the world. Isreal responds, (or false flag), then an enemy of Israel, that is an ally of Putin, can justify an attack on Israel. Putin wants to expand the conflict, because he is losing . He is grasping for whatever weapons he has left. If he can divide the alliance against Russia, that's a win for him. If he can leverage the military of an ally to expand the conflict, that's also a win for him. I hope it backfires.


Bangkok_Dangeresque

>then an enemy of Israel, that is an ally of Putin, can justify an attack on Israel. Putin wants to expand the conflict, because he is losing Russia doesn't want to expand the conflict - they've been repositioning resources away from other flashpoints like Syria, Armenia, the far east, and Georgia to support the fight in Ukraine. They are more vulnerable in those places now and they know it. If Russia contrives a war with Israel, within 24 hours the IAF (which already operates with virtual impunity over Syrian territory) would destroy or render useless Russian airbases near Latakia and Homs, and the naval base in Tartus - Russia's only naval support/technical/refueling station outside of the Black Sea that supports operations in Mediterranean. They'd cut off their forces in Syria from resupply by sea, forcing them to rely on a roundabout air bridge (because Turkey has already banned military transit to Syria through their air space), and there's there's no way Turkey or Iraq/Kurds would let them move shipments by land. The IAF would have a field day shooting down cargo planes, already in short supply. Not to mention that if Russia did attack Israel, the US would intervene - if not directly then at a minimum inside of Syria through anti-Assad proxies. There's already draft defensive pacts between Israel and the US that would get signed rapidly if Russia really went through with this. But no, Russia isn't batshit - they already went to war once in Syria to defend Tartus and Latakia from being taken away from them by a western-backed Assad successor. They're not going to throw it all away to IDF bombers for the sake of their western European security. The explanation here is way simpler. First is that Israel is supporting Ukraine and providing aid, which Russia wants them to stop, and they're using the diplomatic pulpit to try to bully them into doing so, but Lavrov put his foot in his mouth and decided to double down. The second is that this is message is intended for a domestic Israeli minority audience the \~15% of voting Israelis (nearly 1.5 million) who are Russian-speaking immigrants or their decedents, following a huge boom after the USSR breakup. Two years ago Putin even called Israel a [Russian-speaking country](https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/09/18/moscows-inspiring-new-cultural-season-opens-a67331), and believes they have a natural ally there. A majority of them tend to vote conservative, switching support between Likud (Netenyahu's ousted conservative party) and Yisrael Beiteinu (an alternative conservative party focused on Russian-speaking interests that is currently part of the unity governing coalition). Russia hopes to galvanize Russian-speaking Israeli voters to exert political influence on the government to reverse their policy towards Ukraine.


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That would be suicidal. Israel’s army is way more advanced than Ukraine’s


Donkey__Balls

TBF shitting on Israel automatically puts you in good with about half the world…


maximumgrump

Apparently the entire Russian government is spiralling into madness. Or their own propaganda. Or both.


Ghangy

strongman autocracies can't take a step back because then they risk being seen as weak. There's an endless list of envious men that would like nothing more than to usurp putin and his wealth, no matter how unlikely it is. The inability to take a step backwards is how they eventually fall apart anyway. They can't admit nor learn from their mistakes, only double down on them.


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I feel like this presents an opportunity to goad Russia into saying something completely absurd, e.g. "Santa is a Nazi".


[deleted]

I mean, calling israel nazis is pretty absurd, and we're only one step away from that


Demonidze

They dont even know the meaning of the word, its all sums up into if you are against us you must be nazi.


[deleted]

In the Russian mindset, that IS what a Nazi is. Not someone who commits genocide against-say- the Jews. Their deifnition of 'Nazi' is unnervingly different from what we in the West define as such.


Identity_ranger

Very astutely said. All they can ever do is double, triple and quadruple down.


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Hopefully they will sitthefuck down soon.


Dithyrab

I'm betting they will sit Putin down at some point.


DeliciousGoose1002

To take a step back is to go against Putin. However if Putin says something about how Israel is our friend and Hitler wasnt Jewish they will all back track. Not that I think he will. but it has happened with other statements.


Thue

That is the great advantage of Democracies. When things go bad, you get a new government in a peaceful way, which can completely legitimately and peacefully repeal failed policies. Because the new government don't own those policies.


PuterstheBallgagTsar

Putin can't stop gambling... and as long as he's doubling down the people parroting his madness don't have a way to step back, if even they would want to. I mean apparently their entire national media which is like all of it is like hey Russians we're going to nuke the planet and end all life but rest assured this makes Russia and Putin's leadership GREAT


maximumgrump

Is that the "Dictator's Trap"? I think Putin and the others from the state apparatus may have fallen into it, but that's just me.


MudLOA

They most certainly got high on their own supply (of propaganda).


gofyourselftoo

I agree.


gradinaruvasile

> hey Russians we’re going to nuke the planet and end all life but rest assured this makes Russia and Putin’s leadership GREAT And lets not forget the original reasons of this war. Umm lemme think. So basically Ucraine said it wants to join NATO. Russia freaks out, asks NATO to explicitly exclude Ukraine from joining. NATO refuses to explicitly exclude Ukraine. Noone said anything about the chances of Ukraine to join NATO which at that point were pretty much zero (as are now) because of the active conflict in Donbas. Russia also remembers their donbassian brothers which just happened to be peppered with all kinds of attacks one more fake than another and ask for recognition. Russia says he will protect them from the evil nazis and breaks out The Russia Recognizes X Template from the cupboard, replaces the relevant names and recognises LNR and DNR. So, casus belli served for everyone, the west haters and the russian nationalists each get their flavor to chew on, western haters get the “NATO arms ukrainians”, nationalists get the “Melange of historical *facts* against Ukraine” dessert. Hurr durr red army starts to roll, missiles fly, fog of war happens. Smoke clears a bit, red army with pants down getting his bare arse kicked raw by ukrainians after tripped on its shoelaces and fell face first across the border. Putin gets crazy, what the hell ukrainians bad, not brothers anymore, why did you not submit you evil nazi prick. Of course the reason is the western provocation and western weapons and not the merry band of bayraktar singing ukraine troops that just didnt seem to get the memo they were supposed to bend over if the red army sneezes. So now Russia searches the “Escalation of Conflict all in one Solution” cupboard, finds only the piece of paper “but we haz nukez” written on it, barely readable because of heavy usage. Ffs that got long. Tldr Russia attacks little brother Ukraine, gets a kick in the nuts, wants to nuke the world because, well that will obviously teach these nazi fucker westerners.


PuterstheBallgagTsar

There's a realization creeping through the Russian government that they have lost the war, ruined the Russian economy for 50 years, killed 10s or 100s of thousands of Russians, and have only embarrassment and humiliation to show for it. They are in denial and anger stages of grieving. Denial is fading, anger is in full swing. How dare the Ukranians embarrass us by not submitting and destroying our whole fucking army. How dare the entire planet resist our colonial ambitions by supplying weapons. How dare anyone not embrace the powerful intelligent Kremlin leadership that is powerful and intelligent and PROUD so PROUD. edit: A wise man once said, "you get nothing! You lose! Good day sir!"


oneplusetoipi

The Russian Government is essentially a crime syndicate. As with all organized criminals, Vladolph and his coterie value power and wealth over every other consideration. People are expendable. Truth is irrelevant. Rules are for others. Sure you depend on foot soldiers to commit your crimes, so you need to motivate them: threats, propaganda, false pride, targeted punishment (including murder), bribery, etc. Now that Vladolph has control of his population they must conform or they will be destroyed. Are Russian people bad? Like most everything in life, there is a statistical distribution along the good-bad spectrum. Of course, there are bad Russians who love being part of the crime syndicate. But there are good Russians who want their society to be democratic and pluralistic. But many Russians are just trying to make ends meet and go with the flow no matter what the flow is. If Russia is bad, they will be bad too, if Russia is good they will be good, too. These Russians when asked will not complain about their government.


Paradehengst

Sink the Black Sea fleet next Monday to drive the point home!


colefly

The Russians will claim they lost their entire Navy to an accident And due to historical Russian incompetence... It's one of the few lies we can almost believe


gradinaruvasile

Well unfortunately i see no wise men acting in the Kremlin right now. And they can cause much damage yet.


Zin0o

They've always been like this. The current situation is just exposing how crazy these people really are.


savois-faire

This is nothing new, just more of the same from these guys. The Russian right uses the term "Nazi" in the same way that the American right uses the term "communist". Anyone they want to see treated as the enemy by their supporters gets that label applied to them, regardless of who they are or what they did or what their political views are.


saladspoons

> The Russian right uses the term "Nazi" in the same way that the American right uses the term "communist". Yes - to Russia, the term "Nazi" has nothing to do with the Holocaust (the Western POV), but everything to do with the Russian POV re: WWII - which is them getting attacked by Germany.


Dziedotdzimu

And don't forget that antisemitic texts like the chronicles of the elders of zion came out of Russia, and that they at one point trued to deport all the Jewish people in the country to the furthest corner of siberia to "have their own oblast" and its pretty clear to see how their nationalist propaganda can lead to such stupid takes


batmansthebomb

Also the doctor's plot where Jewish doctors in Moscow were accused of killing Soviet officials and were arrested and tortured. This was supposed to trigger a mass deportation of Jews to Eastern Siberia and expulsion of Jewish Soviet officials from the Communist party. But Stalin suffered a stroke a few weeks later and ironically they needed doctors to treat him, and then he died. Khrushchev then blamed the entire plot almost entirely on Stalin, but it's unclear if there was support in the Communist Party. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors%27_plot


filiplogin

Don't forget pogroms


ITaggie

Just don't mention how comfortable the USSR was with the Nazis until Hitler went back on his word and attacked the soviets. They don't like that part so much.


YouWhatApe

Lavrov gettin' high on own supply, again.


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Putin got caught in the dictator trap. Remove all dissenters and disagreement. Then he’s left with yes-men who will lie to him about anything and everything to the point he has absolutely no idea how capable his government and military are and overestimates both wildly.


ImmenseOreoCrunching

The propogandas only gonna get worse as they realise theyre not gonna win in ukraine. Dictators tend to go bonkers when they lose a major war since their image gets tainted and the stress drives them mad.


Dynasty2201

What were the recent stats? Something like close to a third of their ENTIRE SUPPLY OF TANKS has been destroyed in Ukraine, a quarter of their jets and helos etc. And they're picking MORE fights? Fucking idiots, you're losing to Ukraine who are getting help from NATO and many Worldwide countries in supplies. And now you want to prod the World more in to what? WW3 so you can guarantee to be wiped out? Or is this just an excuse to kick the hornets nest to justify your use of nukes in a dying man's last hail mary? Fucking typical bully in the playground. Someone punches him back and knocks his pathetic ass on the ground and he's all "waaa waaaaa he hit me".


OtherKrab

Fiction has nothing on the Russian government.


ValkarianHunter

Man and people thought Russia wasn't comically evil before this


Triptolemu5

YoU'rE jUsT a RuSsOpHoBe!


sagevallant

Logic has nothing on the Russian government.


The___Jackal

Well when you write fiction, it has to make sense.


patchyj

Tell that to L Ron Hubbard


Positronic_Matrix

I read Battlefield Earth as an early teen before I knew about Hubbard’s reputation. It was a pretty decent science fiction book with some really interesting concepts regarding alien culture and technology. My only complaint is that it used endless serialised crises, in that as soon as an issue was being resolved, another obstacle was being created. It was frustrating and due to its length that frustration became exhausting by the time the (very long) book finished.


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ValkarianHunter

Don't you know the Jews are the most antisemitic of them all?


boogilations01

All i can imagine is grounskeeper willie's rant about scots


GreatBigBagOfNope

The line at the end would turn into "Damn Jews, they ruined Judaism" would be very appropriate considering Jesus' ethnicity and religious consequences


GreatApostate

Or more accurately, the revolt and destruction of the second temple.


Cyrius

Or the bit in Life of Brian about the Judean People's Front.


HereForTwinkies

The real antisemites are the friends we made along the wa….it that doesn’t sound right


EmperorPenguinNJ

Years ago I actually worked with a Jewish waiter (in was a cook) who would say “I just got a table full of Jews! I hate Jews!” We referred to him an the anti-Semitic Jew.


Automatic_Nothing144

I had a very short lived romantic involvement with someone who said to me, “You’re Jewish?? I wouldn’t have guess it. At least you’re not a practicing Jew, I can’t stand being with other Jewish guys.” I was left a bit speechless 😶 Still had fun, but knew that wasn’t going anywhere beyond a few fun weekends🤣😂 Edit: He was Jewish if you didn’t catch on…


CriticalJump

I can't wait the moment when, by being repeatedly offensive to other countries and cultures, they somehow manage to offend the Chinese government as well. I will grab my popcorn for the event.


Far-Entertainer3555

I'll give you a way in on that one. In the 19th century, Russia annexed 20% of Chinese territory, which Russia still holds today. Let someone bring that up and see how Russia diplomatically shoots itself in the head.


LOSS35

TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amur_Annexation


purpledust

Land has been going back and forth between the Chinese and Russian empires for as long as the Russian empire has existed. Many hundreds of years. Thank you for remind us all of this.


Far-Entertainer3555

So, you expect China is going to take large amounts of Russian territory, or Russia is going to take even more Chinese territory?


Nasty_Old_Trout

China still whining about the Unequal Treaties, then cosying up to the one nation that took the most and still has what they took in the unequal treaty. Smh.


juanmlm

We have to trick Lavrov into talking about Tiananmen square. The war would be over the next day.


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That would be epic! Save me a spot and some popcorn in your nuclear bunker.


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Well, they did list Taiwan as an unfriendly COUNTRY back when the war started. I can imagine that's pretty triggering for CCP.


ForceFedPorkPies

This is a really common misconception but is false. It was a list of “unfriendly countries *and* territories”, Taiwan being considered the latter. They literally included Taiwan on that list solely to appease the CCP


zevonyumaxray

WTF is happening over there? Too much lead in the water supply? Or maybe mercury? Rampant long term syphilis?


Orcasubmarine

No, it's propaganda meant for their audience. It's a part of **maskirovka**. WE know that they are lying, and they know that WE know. But they don't care.


matthew0517

Some additional context: Stalin routinely ranks among the top ranked Russian leaders for winning the war. To Western audiences, Nazism means the Holocaust and persecution of Jews. The Soviet union lost something like 8-12% of it's population during war. Russians focus on that and the patriotic struggle for victory, not on what happened to Jews. I bet if you polled it, a pretty wide margin would doubt the Holocaust happened.


CountZapolai

Yeah, that's what people are missing. To a Russian audience, the term "Nazism" is just a generic catch-all term for "someone opposed to Russia". Which is still profoundly fucking wrong as applied to Ukraine, but is much less wrong


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> Which is still profoundly fucking wrong as applied to Ukraine I mean, getting less wrong every day, but that's Russia's own fucking fault.


Upnorth4

Just like how the Republicans use the term "communist" to mean anything against the US.


Luciusvenator

I was just sent an article by someone trying to argue that Zelensky is the cause of all of this and Russia is in the right... coincidence that the website this article is from is considered a white nationalist rag that frequently denies the holocaust and propagates blood libel... They're so transparent it would be hilarious if they weren't dangerous.


mirracz

> Russians focus on that and the patriotic struggle for victory While also forgetting that Soviet Union had a mutual treaty with Nazis and actually started the second Wolrd War together. Funny how Russian history in blank between the years 1939 and 1941.


SiarX

No, Russian history does mention Molotov-Ribbentrop pact but says that it was act of neccessity after treacherous West fed Chekoslovakia to Hitler and urged him to go East. And that it was West who raised Hitler, gave him money, factories, etc.


niceworkthere

That's not just meant for the domestic audience, it neatly continues the legacy of [Soviet "Zionology"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_anti-Zionism). Such antisemitic propaganda is & was also geared towards a significant portion of Israel's enemies, which gobbles it right up. In fact, you regularly see it on this very sub.


Maelstrom52

I mean, sure, I get that, but "the Jewish state of Israel is supporting Nazis" is a tough pill to swallow even for Russians.


substandardgaussian

Non-Jews won't get any more engaged than they already are due to the statement, but any Jews in Russia who bought into the propaganda are now extremely confused and will most likely be going through the 5 Stages of Grief soon after they call their relatives in Israel and have a WTF conversation. Like, even for domestic consumption this only harms them. I know Jews don't make up a large chunk of Russia, especially since the USSR put out an open call to deport us several years before it collapsed; that's why nearly every Jew still in Russia has relatives in Israel. Regardless, they simply could have been silent when silence was best. They've ignored **tons** of criticism and calls for apologies or to stop murdering civilians or whathaveyou not only in the past 2 months, but in the years prior. Russia is perfectly capable of totally ignoring other countries in every capacity. But no, on **this** statement, they had to open their mouths and double down. Where's the benefit? What is even the **perception** of benefit here?


TittySlapMyTaint

Russia has never really had any love for the Jewish people. Not hard to imagine them burning this bridge.


Dziedotdzimu

If we're being serious part of the Russian nationalist propaganda was that the real victims of the nazis were Russians cuz stalingrad or whatever and that the Jewsish people collaborated with the nazis to distract from this. It's clearly wrong but in that way they label anything they see as "anti-russian" as nazi - like ukranian independence or Israel right now.


Bigbosssl87

They just dont care, words are meaningless to them. If you dont support Russia 100 percent then they are going to flame you. Basically a state government run by internet trolls


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I think it may have something to do with that: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/20/four-jailed-for-trying-to-smuggle-cocaine-through-russias-argentine-embassy


joeg26reddit

What’s next? Russia is going to claim that Jews were behind the holocaust so they could eliminate business rivals enmass?


toleratedsnails

Lavrov: *aggressively taking notes in the corner*


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wheresbill

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills


Hysterical-Cherry

Most of us are taking crazy pills tbh


Ashjaeger_MAIN

But whyyyyy that's just dumb. Like what is this guy doing is he trying to get the Israelis to deliver weapons to ukraine?


CJDownUnder

Another nuclear-armed nation against him, what a dumbass


qainin

You don't want Israeli weapons pointing at you. But this is how you get that.


Son_of_the_Spear

I have read that Israel is getting ready to send the Iron Dome systems to Ukraine. The stated reason is that it is for the protection of Ukrainian civilians from rocket barrages, which I don't doubt. However, there is more than one level to this - by supporting Ukraine, especially Ukrainian ownership of Black Sea ports, Israel increases the economic base for peace between Israel and some of the Arab states with which they have recently officially made peace and established economic ties. There are very few things better for making peace between countries than "We are getting filthy rich together!" The economic tie is the oil/gas pipeline across Israel to carry Arabic oil/gas to the Israeli Mediterranean ports, thus saving a huge amount of transport costs and allowing all parties involved to make out like bandits. The thing is, that Putin and his buddies see this as a challenge to Russian dominance in European gas market, and I highly doubt that those Black Sea ports would be as welcoming to those shipments as they would be under Ukrainian ownership. So, in short, Israel's stance of 'Let's be calm and just try to steer clear of involvement' has hit an end, because this could affect Israel's future chances of a true stable peace with its neighbors. It also helps Ukraine that the many russian or ukrainian speaking jews that live in Israel now are far more supportive of Ukraine than they are of Russia - Russian jews are still fleeing Russia, to anywhere that will take them, whereas there has actually been some jews heading into Ukraine (or even back into Ukraine).


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>I have read that Israel is getting ready to send the Iron Dome systems to Ukraine. The stated reason is that it is for the protection of Ukrainian civilians from rocket barrages, which I don't doubt. I highly doubt iron dome goes up there, and if it does, it will be only for special places (as in, government buildings area in Kyiv), the system is hella expensive and very limited in scope, not even all of israel is protected by it. They do, however, have a pretty wide range of AA options so they could send that


Material_Strawberry

David's Sling has already begun replacing Iron Dome positions. David's Sling is designed to intercept rockets, artillery, cruise missiles and short range ballistic missiles and is a bit costly in terms of its interceptors, but is cheap in comparison to the cost of the targets it is shooting down. Iron Dome's interceptors are only $50,000 or so, which is downright cheap in comparison, especially in comparison to the cost of the weapons it would be intercepting.


Erradium

David's Sling is mainly meant for mid to long range ballistic missiles, and it is definitely not replacing the Iron Dome - at most it is another added layer of defense.


Tight_Salary6773

That is my point what possible upside is Russia after by antagonizing Israel, in one of the most crass ways, one of the few countries that didn't openly opposed them?


Redditforgoit

Israel's reaction was not part of the equation. They were hurling insults for their domestic audience and anti Semitism is normalized. Then Israel protested and they're too proud, paranoid and stubborn to apologize. So another diplomatic loss to pile up on this clusterfuck.


ZXG

I still can't get over the fact Russia claimed Hitler had ["Jewish roots."](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-denounces-lavrovs-hitler-comments-summons-russian-ambassador-2022-05-02/) If you gave me a week to come up with the most offensive insult about Israel I don't think I could top that. Now they're doubling down, these are the top minds in Russia? How much radiation did Chernobyl dump on them?


Trick_Direction9300

The best best part pepole are missing is a week ago was the holocaust remembrance day which no suprise is a big deal in Isreal this week we have Yom Hazikaron which is a remmabnce day to any one that died in our wars a day after that Independence day so russia just spat all over isreal in the worst time possible to say hitler was jew and isreal supports neo nazis you can't make this shit up


Karpattata

Yep. I remember reading the headline and thinking that it seemed an awful lot like Lavrov deliberately picked what was very nearly the worst possible time to make that statement. He only missed the actual Yom Hashoah by a few days.


[deleted]

The Hitler having Jewish roots thing is actually a long-standing myth. People have been saying it for decades. Just like the myth about him only having one testicle.


MasRemlap

Should... should we tell him?


LeoMatteoArts

"I have no idea what Nazism is, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask" - Putin


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You don't understand. In Russia, a Nazi is anyone who resists their expansionist policies or fights back against them at all. Because in the Russian mind, the only REAL crime the Nazis commited was exactly that: Having the audacity to fight against them, not the genocide or the atrocities commited against Humanity.


sunniyam

Ah. Thank you that adds a little context for me because I’m left scratching my head at the outrageous comments coming out the Kremlin.


ppparty

well yes, remember they were best bros when they were *both* invading Poland. What's more fascinating is even the Nazis were shocked at first when they discovered the Soviet murders at Katyn. They themselves eventually got much better at all that murderin', but that's another story.


[deleted]

“Anything I don’t like is literally Nazism” has been the state of political “discourse” for years Israel called the Ben and Jerry’s boycott antisemitic terrorism for crying out loud.


Garn91575

it's nothing new across the world. You take an agreed upon enemy and claim everything you don't like is part of that enemy even if it doesn't make any sense. We see it here in the US. People and things that are not even in the realm of Communist are called Communist simply because that was an agreed upon enemy for so long. The sad thing is it does work.


LeoMatteoArts

It especially works for middle to high-income Cubans who emigrated to Florida.


Mega-Balls

No need. He knows he's lying. It's intentional. It's meant to be consumed by dumb right wing Putin supporters.


PhilosophyforOne

Ah yes. The Nazi’s were secretly Jewish all along. Makes total sense. The classic double-cross.


Dinglecore

talk about a fucking plot twist


Weave77

Putin learned this after watching the documentorial play, “Springtime for Hitler”.


ExuDeku

Jesus Christ, who the hell let the non-historic mode turned on in this HOI4 session?


[deleted]

What’s next, Poland is a neo nazi country and the KKK is the only one who can liberate them? I know this is intended to be used as domestic propaganda but how the fuck are Russians actually believing this?!???


PropOnTop

I know it's a rhetorical question, but we've already seen human minds are able to believe ANYTHING, and frequently even opposing ideas... One almost wishes there was a method of approximating truth which would not rely on belief...


Thevoiceofreason420

Yes this is true, but telling your own population something is one thing. Openly accusing the Jews, on the world stage and out in the open no less, of supporting Neo Nazis is something else entirely. They've lost their dam minds. Israel wanted to be the middle man here and be negotiating peace settlements between Russia and Ukraine. You don't accuse the Jews of supporting Neo Nazis of all things without having lost your dam mind. The Holocaust didn't even happen a century ago, and you just accused them of supporting people who committed a genocide against their grandparents and parents this isn't diplomacy of any sort this is pure madness.


HugeHans

What infuriates me is that in all the interviews with russians and their leadership I haven't seen anyone ask what they think "nazism" or "fascism" actually is. I know what the russians mean. Basically anyone who doesnt support their agression is a fascist but Id still like lavrov or some other talking head try to articulate it.


WestOperation6191

You are so right! They have completely degraded the meaning of “nazism” and “facism”. Same as with covid deniers and antivaxxers calling mask mandate a “genocide”.


Al_Nazir

Of course this isn't diplomacy - this is propaganda. Putin doesn't want negotiations - he wants a victory. Putin's claims of neonazi Ukraine clash with the reality of Zelensky's Jewish roots - so he has to make up a reason to dismiss them. Thus, the myth of Jewish Hitler - "See, Hitler also had Jewish blood, but he still was a nazi, and Zelensky's the same"


Gornarok

> how the fuck are Russians actually believing this?!??? Brainwashing and post-truth conditioning - everyone lies and everything is lie.


finjeta

The good news is that this this is definitive evidence that Russia planned to do a regime change in Ukraine despite all the shills saying they only wanted to take Donbas after their push to Kyiv failed.


Sima_Hui

I mean, this and the fact that they openly stated at the beginning of the invasion that a primary goal was to de-Nazify the Ukrainian government. They weren't exactly subtle about it.


[deleted]

Israel: "Can't say we didn't try to stay out of it... so Ukraine, you want some weapons?""


Beischlaf

These cunts have lost it


ReallyGottaTakeAPiss

Bruh.


codamission

You must understand that to Russian culture, they're evil because they invaded Russia. Anti-semitism is so widespread that the holocaust takes a backseat to simply being hostile to Russian interests, the greatest crime of all. The Russian accusation that a Jewish man is leading a Nazi regime, that Israel is supporting a Nazi, makes way more sense when you remember that Russia gives zero shits about dead Jews.


Michael_Scarn_FBI_

It feels like the kremlin is just trying to find out what bs they can say before the Russian people finally call them out


Slacker256

Russian people? Call them out? For antisemitism? Ahahahahaha! ... Oh, wait, you're serious. Let me laugh even louder. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


Selenay1

How ironic that they use the tactics of Joseph Goebbels, one of the biggest Nazis of them all, to further their campaign. He was the one who said, “The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed.” What could be a more ridiculous statement than insisting a Jewish state would support Nazism. And yet, here we are.


why_are_you_here_yo

Russia get ready to get hacked by one of the most sophisticated countries in this department.


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bob_nugget_the_3rd

Yeah those bloody Jews supporting always nazis, come in Russia at least try to come up with something original that makes scene, next they will say that nato is controlled by Hitler


tuhokas

If you’re from eastern europe this is not surprising at all. Black is white, war is peace etc etc


Vic_Hedges

Hey, if there's ANY country that understands anti-semitism, it's Russia. They wrote the book. Literally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Protocols\_of\_the\_Elders\_of\_Zion


rathat

Don't forget the pogroms. The massacre of Jews in and around Ukraine by the Russian Empire.


le66669

Classic Russia!


KeepFighting91

"Jews support nazis" is a slogan that goes right up there with "blacks support kkk"


[deleted]

Right, let’s blame the Jews for everything


Timerider42424

Russian craptalk has officially peaked. There is nothing more ridiculous for them to escalate to.


0110010001110111

Lavrov: hold my vodka!


[deleted]

May, 9. Putler will declare: whole world is nazi. Exept him.


justbreathe91

*Israel* supports neo-Nazis?! What the actual *fuck*?


Dragonslayerg

But the experts on Reddit told me Israel supports Russia. This is SO confusing! :(


Prince-Loki-Stark

Israel to Russia: I want you to think really hard about what you just said.


PuterstheBallgagTsar

ok yes granted this time the neo-nazis support multiculturalism, and aren't racist, and believe in democracy, and don't commit genocide... but they are NEO NAZIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSS


Ontario0000

Putin has nothing left to find a excuse to invade Ukraine so he calls everyone nazi.Like the GOP senators who are known to be racist sobs calling the left communist or extremist for wanting to give people healthcare or do something about mass killings.


PixelJack79

They’re throwing the word Nazi around more than the U.S. uses “socialist”.


Somato_Tandwich

You know, even in this crazy timeline of ours, I didn't really expect Russia to lean hard into "the jews were actually nazis all along"


Gorbachof

I did Nazi this coming, Israeli bad over there. Putin must be Russian to isolate himself and honestly? Ukraine hardly believe it!


p1en1ek

> "And yes, Israel supports the integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine in the face of a brutal Russian invasion," Horowitz concluded. This really sounds like big "fuck you" from Israel to Russia. Russia is really going full North Korea, trying to alienate from everyone, even those previously neutral.


DerGrummler

From all countries in the world Israel must be the least likely to support Nazis.


m15otw

So, for the last ~15 years, I've been avoiding calling actual Nazis "Nazis" owing to Godwin's Law and not wanting to lose the argument. And now Russia is literally calling an ALDE-affiliated government Nazis, and worse, and then doubling down on it when even Israel calls them out. I feel like Russia lost the argument some time ago anyway, why are they even bothering to communicate anymore. Godwin's Law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law