TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 72 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
Important read for women who don't wish to be baby factories.
https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/going-retrograde?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
😳 Deadly head-on collision: in the Czech Republic, a passenger train on the way to Ukraine collided with a freight train.
The tragedy happened in the evening near Pardubice station. Four people have already died and more than 20 have been injured, including children. Helicopters were involved in the rescue operation.
⚡️ 2 Ukrainian women died as a result of a train collision in the Czech Republic, — Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The citizenship of the other 2 victims is being clarified.
Russian Military Motorcycles ‘Mad Max’ Are a Bad Idea, — Forbes
In an attempt to make up for the loss of about 15,000 armored vehicles during the large-scale war in Ukraine, Russia began equipping new assault groups with inexpensive civilian vehicles. At first, these were Chinese-made all-terrain vehicles, such as golf carts. Then, motorcycles from China and Belarus, the publication writes.
“Naturally, in their original configurations, these light vehicles are extremely vulnerable to Ukrainian artillery, missiles, and drones. When Russian motorized assault groups first deployed this spring, they were ‘knocked in the teeth,’ according to the Ukrainian 79th Airborne Assault Brigade,” the article says.
That’s why the Russians reinforced the armor of the motorcycles. Observers compare these motorcycles to those in the post-apocalyptic film series “Mad Max.”
“The problem, of course, is that motorcycles cannot cope with a large amount of armor without losing mobility,” analysts note.
🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russia-China gas pipeline deal stalled over Beijing's price demands.
The Financial Times writes that Russia's attempts to conclude an agreement on the construction of a gas pipeline with China have reached a dead end due to unreasonable demands from Beijing regarding the price and volume of supplies.
Sources told the FT that China had insisted on paying a price close to Russia's heavily subsidized domestic prices and would commit to buying only a small fraction of the pipeline's planned annual capacity of 50 billion cubic metres.
Callsign: Snake lives on in our hearts
https://open.substack.com/pub/annabowles/p/callsign-snake?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Republican idiocy for poor Merrick Garland.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jefftiedrich/p/its-merrick-garlands-turn-to-endure?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
I hope they end up paying millions for what they did to him.
Russian Singer Monetochka's New Song Inspires Emigres to Share Pre-War Memories
The new song by Russian pop star Monetochka is inspiring Russians to share videos on social media that show what life was like before the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Hundreds of thousands of Russians, including politicians, activists, journalists and artists, have moved abroad since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, which has killed thousands of Ukrainians and Russians, sparked a sweeping crackdown on dissent and isolated Putinistan from the West.
“It Happened in Russia,” the first song on Monetochka’s new album “Prayers. Anecdotes. Toasts,” has gone viral among anti-war emigres since its release last week. The song’s chorus says: “It happened in Russia, which means it was a long time ago."
“It happened in Russia, which means it was only a dream. A dream cannot be stolen, it will stay with me,” the lyrics continue.
Hundreds of videos posted to social media include everything from clips of foreigners partying in Moscow during the 2018 FIFA World Cup and late opposition figures Alexei Navalny and Boris Nemtsov to scenes of everyday life.
One video posted on TikTok says “Do you remember the times when famous performers from all over the world came to Russia?” with clips from popular Western bands’ concerts in Russia including Muse, Maroon 5, Imagine Dragons and Fall Out Boy — all of whom no longer perform in Putinistan.
In another video, a young man leafs through a book that has blocks of text blacked out, a reflection on ruZZia’s intensified literary censorship during the war.
“I remember the times when we thought it was impossible to paint over pieces of text and sell a book that way,” the video’s caption reads.
Some people — including both Russian emigres and people who stayed in the country — have posted footage of their daily lives and time with their friends and families before the war.
“Russia has stolen from us,” said one comment under an Instagram Reel featuring the song.
Monetochka, who also fled russia because of her opposition to the war, was designated by the Z-regime as a “foreign agent” in 2023.
Some comments: I feel this song painfully. It was in Russia, it was in a dream. I haven't gone anywhere, but I'm not at home at all and I'm very scared.
I had to move to another country, I really miss Russia without the war, without all these stupid new laws, without the imposed pseudo-patriotism. I love my homeland, it's true, but now, alas, it's impossible to be in Russia. I sit and cry like a fool.
For some reason, in the songs of the "foreign agent" you can feel much more love for the Motherland than in those of Shaman.
I burst into tears... I am 22 years old, I really want to leave, but I do not have the opportunity. Every year the atmosphere heats up. Relatives are becoming more and more embittered under the influence of propaganda, becoming completely different people. Wishing death to everyone who disagrees becomes the norm. I can't put up with this.
Thank you for the song. That country no longer exists, everything was abused, everything was appropriated
But the memory remained.
Source
@freerussia_report
How you dig up contract soldiers? Try in a temporary evacuation center (TAC)
An evacuated Belgorod refugee was taken from the TAC to the military recruitment center and forced to sign a contract with the russian Defeat Ministry. The man has already been sent for training - A report from 'Lantern'
Vladimir Lyapin, a resident of the Graivoron district who was evacuated, was requested to sign a contract with the Dickhead Ministry and go to war at a temporary accommodation center in Stary Oskol. According to 'Lantern', the recruitment was carried out by Andrei Danilov, an employee of the local administration. In mid-May, he visited the TAC and requested Lyapin to go to Ukraine. According to his cohabitant, he refused.
On May 21, Danilov came to Lyapin again - this time with the head of the TAC Natalia Semyonova, who did not like the fact that he was drinking and swearing. They allegedly broke the lock on the door, opened the room and forced the man to go with them to the Starooskolsk military enlistment office in his slippers, where he allegedly "agreed to go to war". The same day he was arrested for swearing drunkenly on a bench in the evening. After his arrest, Vladimir was taken away to spend the night in the TAC, and the next day was sent to a selection point for contract service in Belgorod.
The man thought that he was going for a medical examination, and after it he would come back. In the end, at the selection point he was asked to sign a certain document - it turned out to be a contract with the Deceive and Cheat Ministry. Lyapin was assigned as a rifleman-assistant grenade launcher of a motorized rifle platoon and has already been sent for training to the Voronezh region.
“He says that when they took him away, there was uproar all over the TAC. He wanted to run away. They wouldn't let him take his bag. They threw him out in just what he was wearing. I asked him, “Do you want to be there?” “No, I don't want to be there, they made me,” he said. He sounded upset. I didn't have time to ask, “Did you see what you signed?”. The connection was interrupted. When he was agitated to go, he said, “Bury me near my mother.” And then another: 'I'll survive to spite everyone and come back'. Now he regrets...”
Together with Lyapin, Sergei Yashenko, a Ukrainian refugee from Kupyansk, was taken to the military enlistment office. Danilov requested him several times to sign a contract, but he flatly refused.
The recruiting official Danilov told 'Lantern' that both Lyapin and Yashenko allegedly "asked to go to the 'SMO' zone because of the shelling of Graivoron".
@freerussia_report
The Ekaterinburg Metropolitan called women who do not realize “their femininity” a bad copy of men
“A woman must correctly formulate her true, and not rights imposed on her. Her right to realize her unique femininity, her otherness. And not the opportunity to be socially a bad copy of a man.
It’s amazing when you see that women themselves defend what is called the right to abortion. How we were deceived, how we believed that this was their genuine interest and even right.
If women begin to realize and defend their true rights, and not consider that their main right is to compete with men or indulge their base desires, then our entire way of life will change,” he regurgitated at the International Women’s Forum.
This deluded idiot hasn't realized until now that he is not only a bad copy of a man, but also a pathetic imitation of a human being and obviously not capable to grasp in which century we're currently living. Perhaps his 'otherness' is blocking that. 🤷♀️
@freerussia_report
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 72 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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