This is the Soviet War Memorial (80m) in Latvia getting torn down today, which is arousing to me as a sadist and I'm sure to Russians as masochists.
But my question is whether /k/ommandos think this is the last war the Russian army is capable of doing? At least not involving internal conflicts, i should say.
Surely given the losses and humiliation, no Russian army would ever dream of marching outside their borders again, especially if NATO enlarges?
>In 1997 the monument was unsuccessfully bombed by members of the Latvian neofascist group Pērkonkrusts, two of whom died during the bombing,[9] while six others, including Igors Šiškins, were sentenced to up to three years in prison in 2000.[10]
Glad to see the Fascists who got arrested lived to see their dreams come true.
>irony What's ironic about it? They learned a valuable lesson and they are now applying it.
Anthony Price
You know what? NATO is based. NATO likes armed rural populations in NATO countries. NATO provided some of the best surplus ever made. NATO nations officers have armies that scare the shit out of best korea, vatnikistan and towelheads. NATO makes cool planes and jets and bombs dickheads like gadaffi and assad with them. NATO is fucking based.
Julian Barnes
So when are we dynamiting the Tomb of the Unknown Rapist?
Russia as a country is objectively in decline, it's demographics are terrible and unlike the developed economies it is surrounded by it does not have a healthy value-added economic sector for workers to transition towards to help offset the revenue and production collapse that will follow. Tech export controls are going to cause deep, long lasting damage to their economy - what little production capacity they have in advanced industries (including defense and critical infrastructure services) is completely reliant on Western imports with no native alternatives and even supposedly friendly countries like China being unwilling to risk sanctions to supply them.
That said the Russian mindset has to be understood, this war is not about rational decisions as much as it is about identity. Russian cultural is inherently imperialistic and has at it's core the idea that the Russian ethnicity is special and destined to control it's neighbors - especially neighbors that were once already under it's control. The fact that this is no longer the case undermines this sense of identity, the fact that the USSR effectively chose to disintegrate and let go of those conquered lands instead of brutalizing their populations (including the Russians living in them) undermines it, and the fact that this vague "the West" that fluctuates in definition across time and serves as a useful other for Russia basically continuously embarrasses them by attracting their former satellites undermines it again. The Russian mindset is one of incredible pride and egotism and a yawning gap between that perceived superiority and the reality of their place in the world - a geopolitical has been with an economy smaller than South Korea's despite having triple the population and infinitely more resources. They fight now to save face and try to manifest that pride they feel into some sort of real world results, even without any actual pragmatic objectives, even if it means increasingly turning into a giant Iran.
Same thing the American left did to Confederate statue.
Nolan Sanders
all the boomers born in the heyday of the empire are dying out (or dead already).. nobody left to tell their grandkids about the good old days.
Adrian Evans
>In 2013 more than 11,000 signatures had been collected on the online petition website ManaBalss.lv to remove the monument and reconstruct Victory Square the way it was originally planned in the 1930s, before the Soviet occupation, commemorating the victory in 1919 over the West Russian Volunteer Army of Pavel Bermondt-Avalov during the Latvian War of Independence.
This would be pretty based.
I'm mostly just wishing for a full ban on Russian language schools. That'll either kick the Russians out or brainwash their kids into thinking they're Latvians, which would be the sort of spiritual netorare that pleases me deeply.
To be fair, I dislike Russia for what it is doing, but the memorial is for those who have died... who are probably the more deserving of a memorial after the treatment they got from the Soviets >b-b-b-ut the rape and the murder and the paedophilia/child abuse Yeah that absolutely sucks, but 20 million men died and this is reminding them of that sacrifice, regardless if they're 'good guys'. I always find this distasteful. Hopefully Latvia will put something else up that isn't related to USSR but a general memorial for people who died.
Ian Mitchell
Id like to see the times when Russia will be so desperate for "small victorious war" what they will attack founder member of their own military alliance and completely destroy their diplomatic reputation. Tick-tock, Tokayev
Carson Bailey
>all the boomers born in the heyday of the empire are dying out (or dead already).. nobody left to tell their grandkids about the good old days.
Though like most of these soviet statues that were put up in the 80s when the Soviets were losing influence and so they put up the statues to go "REMEMBER WHEN WE KILLED NAZIS THAT IS WHY WE ARE STILL BASED!!!"
They were coping statues
Just like many of the Confderate statues were put up decades and decades after the war, some even during the beginning of the Civil Rights movement to cope with the fact that Jim Crow was on the way out.
Charles Clark
Nope commies forcing their will on smaller nations is nigger tier
Nolan Howard
Honestly all war memorials should be that of a weeping mother, father, and child, so as to make them universal, as all wars leave behind widows, orphans, and now-childless parents.
Elijah Cruz
>is the last war the Russian army is capable of doing? no, but it can be if we moderates slaughter every russian man older than 4 years, rape every russian woman and raise their children as hardcore patriots of the Great Ukraine, spanning from Poland and to the Pacific
William Miller
>Civil Rights movement Was also high jacked by communists, same with unions.
Ethan Wright
This is BLM tier shit. Old soviet stuff is kino.
Hunter Rivera
NATOshills have a new meme at last - shame its a bad
Put them up in places where people die for their families and countrymen, not where they died to subjugate neighbouring nations.
Ryder Richardson
The difference is that the Confederate Army wasn't a horde of ill-disciplined rapists and murderers fighting a genocidal war of conquest, the Soviet Army was and the Russian Army still is.
In what way? I don't think Jim Crow is around and blacks can actually defend themselves without punk ass hicks attacking them en masse so it seems to have worked.
>The Russian mindset is one of incredible pride and egotism and a yawning gap between that perceived superiority and the reality of their place in the world Exactly this
Commies get the rope. You're not long for this world rusnigger.
Christian Murphy
Baltic states never wanted to be communist. Commies invaded, killed and sacked them. Later they subverted them and killed their resistance (forest brothers). Baltics had to suffer under them. And now you want them to keep a commie statue? Kek I'd piss on the grave of every mongol subhuman that was burried there if I was them.
>mfw i lived long enough to see the works of communist filth get torn down all across europe and russian vermin being globally humiliated grandpa, if you're watching... you won
>>no argument? post piggy.jpg Xdd Kyiv is still Kyiv user. And Russians are still Russian subhumans (same as Communist).
Liam Cruz
I think that it is important in a globohomo world that President Putins Russia with its stronk ZOG cuck Rouble provides a counter to trannies that dilate kike. Also reddit is jew.
>and completely destroy their diplomatic reputation Bro have you been living under a rock? Russia's become such an international leper even China won't touch them. These clowns need to run to such global luminaries as North Korea and Iran for help, and even then come home empty handed. Unless well-wishes count kek.
Its interesting what they more or less kept them around for last 30 years even when no one was forcing them anymore, even basic shit monuments when its just some random post war made T-34/85. Removing them now is like a sign to Putin what he went full retard this time
Ryan Martin
Imagine forgetting the time 70k Russians lost to 4000 Chechens (with a few hundred Ukrainian helpers) back in the mid 90's.
Here's my modest proposal. >announce plans to demolish it >wait for tankies to gather around to protect it >round them up >keep the monument up, change the plaques to reflect reality
Juan Russell
>Leftist meme word count Hmmmmm.
Joseph Hughes
>nazi You just gonna come here and compliment me or are you gonna buy me dinner too?
In Spanish, "Bandera" means "Flag". Maybe they are fans of flags??
Jayden Carter
I think they didn't remove them in hope of good relation with the new non-communist state next to them. In a stance of neutrality.
Cameron Rodriguez
The real autistic incel was Russia all along
Ethan Jones
Commie traitors and crypto-commie traitors on the left opposed their removal. With Russia flying hammer and sickles as it attacks an innocent country the commies finally had to shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down while normal people got rid of that faggot commie monument.
Hudson Ortiz
Keep /k/oping as youre ukronazis get taken apart piece by piece
At this point, I think it's safe to say that North Korea has a better relationship with the Western world than Russia. Theirs is a totalitarian shithole, but they also stay in their borders and don't bother anyone else apart from the occasional kidnapping of Japanese actresses or shelling some South Korean islands.
I can't believe I just had to fucking defend North Korea's honor.
Here's a bit of secret lore for you, my non-Russian friend. You can't be a fan of Soviet sci-fi and futurism and be a fan of the communist government at the same time. The two were at odds from the begining. Go read Inhabited Island and Time of Rain for some hints of how Soviet sci-fi authors perceived the government.
Leo Carter
That is one advantage of this war, the Tankies are bleeding influence fast and even the liberals are tired of them.
Helps that with ORANGE HITLER gone liberals now realize they don't need the Tankies anymore.
>Tankies when the Useful Idiots declare you a useful idiot
Ryder Jackson
i wonder what will happen to the memorieal in my town it is "Memoriel of freedom givers" or something like that since czech republic was occupied by nazis and soviet armies marched through here en masse on the other hand the two statues are called "partisans" or guerrila that was operating around here at the time and these were local guys mostly and then again, there are enough old farts here that were genuine communists only a few years back i wonder
>Have to live through globohomo, awful cost of living and atomisation of society >At the same time get to see Communism increasingly put in the same box as Nazism and the total humiliation of Russia as a country
There were pros and cons.
Jonathan Rivera
Full damnatio memoriae
Every russian building or monument must be razed to the ground Every russian between the ages of -1 and 200 must be crucified and set on fire Every russian book, movie, painting, photograph, or any other carrier of russian must be incinerated
Only these moderate actions will ensure peace
John Rodriguez
>Capuritibg What did it mean by this?
Oliver Diaz
wake me up when Germany starts recognizing the crimes of communism and starts rounding up Stasi assets.
James Miller
>I finally lived to see Noam Chomsky completely discredited
Thank fucking Christ
Lincoln Ortiz
Yeah you are a victim of the modern us vs them mindset. Just because I like the aesthetics of communism doesn't mean I am a commie or have any sympathies for that ideology.
Ukrainian fascists who genocided Poles, Hungarians, Jews, and Romanians in Ukraine and wanted to collaborate with Hitler only to realise that they were on their shitlist too.
Jacob Morales
This, but unironically
Chase Butler
UNA sent troops to help the Chechens in the first war.
Im a moderate liberal balt and my humane final solution forgoes with all the barbaric dicriminatory killings and rape and just results in liberal and equal 100% vatnig depopulation strategy. I also propose paving Via Baltica with their crushed bones.
Easton Martin
>russians are used as walking weapons for the purpose of destabilizing entire regions >whoa wtf why does everyone hate us
Bentley Reed
Impossible, every single Ukrainian loved his Russian brother until CIA backed coup in 2014
Charles Cox
>Jews, and Romanians Based
Captcha: XKKKJ4
David Sullivan
Must be why Bongs and Vatniks hate each other, they both occupy the same space in international standing; all faded glory.
Camden Hughes
commies invented unions lmao
Thomas Walker
No we hate them because they keep randomly using chemical weapons against our citizens.
Hunter Nguyen
>Revives the West's sense of purpose >Makes Ukrainian Neo-Nazis international heroes >Makes racial nationalism acceptable again in European discourse >Sends tens of millions of white refugees across Europe >Makes Europe consider VISA blocks on Russians which will easily lead to VISA bans on Muslim countries >Has completely discredited the USSR's historical record as the good guys in WW2
Guys ... what if he really was the savior of the white race the whole time?
Wrong. They subverted them early on an this image still persists. Commies also framed Walt Disney as anti-semite (commie term btw) because he spoke out against one of the unions that was actively getting subverted by commies at that time. Next they called him an anti-semite even though he hired a lot of jews and had no problem with them. And Walt Disney as the anti-semite still persists to this fay thanks to communism.
Im not sure she was willing to get her ass blown up for a greater purpose as she was returning from chill nationalist festival
Kayden Davis
not russians per say, but there are idiots that were communists on their own and the communism fell only in 1989, so they are still around in some numbers these people were just braindead idiots that were doing what they were told and what they were told is that russia is our friend and the red party is good, it stuck with them
it was only two years back after elections when comminists for the first time did not have representation in our parlament
Jacob Butler
>And Walt Disney as the anti-semite still persists to this fay thanks to communism.
Assad can't simply afford it without getting completely assfucked. However even the serb cocksuckers have not been sucking russian cock as happily as always, which is miracle in and itself.
Asher Jenkins
Please please please someone do this.
Caleb Reyes
Lol This is going to really piss off russians and the fact that it’s a small country at their border will cause them to froth with rage but be unable to do shit. A+ trolling by Latvia
Josiah Ramirez
Pulling the "Anime villain's real goal was to cause the whole world to unite against him"
Evan Watson
damn I never saw the body
Nolan Sanchez
this, bombing Belgrade is one of the best things NATO has done
They must feel really strong and relevant right now. Destroying a monument, wow... Russia will fight more wars. Because it can. The baltic dwarfs won't fight any wars, because they can't.
I really want to get rid of all the Russian shit in Germany.
Josiah Hall
>destroying soviet memorials and removing their history from Jewkraine since 2014 Based.
Carson Young
Woops! Hehe
Colton Thomas
We can afford it. Can you afford butter lmao?
Gabriel Hernandez
>Tfw probably the prettiest girl I ever saw was a russian speaking saleswoman from a gift shop in Riga I hope she will be loyal. Jeez I'm gonna look like a simp but she had a pretty face and blond curly hair... literally a porcelain dancer figurine. A type of woman you wanna have kids with just to get that best genes for yourself even if usually you don't care about starting a family. Like a >inb vatnik genes No sir, it doesn't work that way. Back in Le good old times warriors were not only killing their enemies but also stealing the best virgin women from the enemy
Nathaniel Fisher
What a good time to derussify eastern Europe. Thanks for making hatred for russians mainstream, monkey man
Yeah I don't know about that, at this rate anybody they could beef with is going to join NATO, and the RU army is going to be conscripting from sped classes if they keep throwing their troops into the wood chipper
David Howard
>calling out 25% of your population as disloyal subjects to be separated Bold move Latvia, bold move.
Brutal, I saw her in the open coffin and thought it wasn't so bad kek
Ryan Powell
Russian history when it comes to wars in which it's the agressor is pretty much: "Jesus Christ hopefully they learn to never try something that stupid again."
Chase Clark
Underrated Post.
Oliver Gomez
Is Egils Levits a Jew? I thought Jews were basically extinct in the Baltics.
Adrian Bennett
If they are irrelevant and cant fight any wars then why russian military cant simply move in and stop destruction of monuments related to 'sacred' russian history? Why stop at useless seething on russian propaganda shows, the same shows where they plan to capture baltic dwarfs in a few hours. Hmmm
Colton Williams
Nobody is ever 'willing' to die you mouthbreathing mongoloid. People do it when they absolutely must, when there is no other choice but abject capitulation, and sometimes not even then. It is a thing with which all soldiers in all nations struggle. But no living being is ever 'willing' to die unless they lack the self-respect inherent in being human.
Lucas Clark
there is plenty of Jews here not all got germaned, some families who ran away during soviet invasion returned in the 90s, and alot of them moved here during soviet times, and quite a lot actually survived ww2 larping as Locals
Jaxson Lopez
It's how the russians cope with being such shitty soldiers and dying so much. They want you to think they're doing it on purpose
Enjoy freezing and starving this winter with only drag story hour as distraction
Christopher Torres
you are here just to get some cheap (You)'s. sad
Owen Peterson
Only reason soviet russia survived ww2 was because britian held out long enough for the US to enter the war and force germany to shift its efforts to the western front and africa away from the soviets. By the time the soviets took berlin germany was effectively finished thanks to the western powers and in typical subhuman fashion the red army was more of a looting party than any serious and professional fighting force. It is funny watching their shitty victory parades well knowing that the only reason russia is allowed to exist in the first place is due to american lend lease and pity from the superior western powers for the low IQ vatnik.
>Just 2 more seansons and biggest exporter of food is going to starve
Henry Clark
>Russians claim Ukrainians and Russians are brothers, really the same people with slight differences and artificial borders separating them >Russians also claim Ukrainians are ugly retarded pig creatures
Russia has produced some genuinely gifted mathematicians, I do not understand how these retards seem to not remember transitive properties from elementary school math
Carter Gutierrez
Don't mind him, he mixed up propaganda talking points aimed at Poles, with the usual globohomo natotranny Any Forums stuff crafted for western audience.
Eli Anderson
>west going to starve really scraping bottom of the barrel (You) dummy
We sure kicked your ass which established our independence post WW1.
Cooper Sanchez
Brits have been having to do such choices since 50s or something. Nothing new really.
Blake Green
>The Latvian SS detachment are renowned as incredible fighters on the battlefield >Thousands continued to fight even after the occupation up to twenty years later with no support >They were officially considered conscripts by the West and ergo free from war crime trials at Nuremburg >Took part in the Berlin Airlift >Were portrayed as heroes even in Soviet propaganda (until the USSR collapsed and Russia was unable to handle the banter) >Were so trusted by the West that they guarded actually Nazi war criminal cells at Nuremburg >When Sweden handed over some of their members over to the Soviets after they tried escaping to Sweden, Sweden would send the King to meet the survivors of the legion to issue a formal apology >The Latvian SS memorial in outlived the Communist Victory Memorial >pic related
I remember when our (Estonian) security services chief explained how to deal with vatnigs on national TV >Flag them in special system >Their cars get stopped and searched for any contraband, any minor offence is prosecuted to the fullest extent >Any time they deal with the government it must be as buearucratic as humanly possible >No government jobs also try to give them felonies whenever possible to prevent employment >When going abroad the border guards must get out their longest rubber gloves and search them inside out until they miss their flight >Every russian national holiday arrest them for 48h to "prevent violence" >Repeat until none left
He called it "making the land under their feet burn". Essentially nigger x10 treatment.
>He called it "making the land under their feet burn". Essentially nigger x10 treatment. >the vatnikwhipper 3000 hahahahahahahhahaha. start with narva and riga first
This is kind of pathetic collecting it all, probably making that vatniks day.
Adam Rogers
>the ultraright Splitters. The megaright beats them any day.
James Myers
I'm so glad our vatnik population is so minuscule in comparison >.t Lithuanian
Josiah Brown
I do not want to live in Russia. >You are simply afraid. Russia is a country of great opportunities >(Notify military police or other law enforcement agencies)
What will happen to the destroyed houses? >All houses and other buildings will be restored after the referendum at the expense of Russia.
Why is the Russian army engaged in looting? >The Russian army is not engaged in looting unlike the Armed Forces of Ukraine. >(If you become a witness, say that this is a human factor and all those responsible will be brought to justice.)
Is everything calm in Crimea? >Yes, thanks to the Russian army, the Crimeans have not known the sounds of gunshots for a long time.
My relatives are fighting in the Armed Forces of Ukraine (any other unit) >Recommend to persuade them to switch over to the side of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. >(Notify the military police or other law enforcement agencies.)
Why is military equipment located near houses? >For your protection and safety. >(Mention that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are hiding behind residential facilities)
Like ever? Probably not. But in our lifetime, I think likely.
Julian Thompson
>also try to give them felonies whenever possible to prevent employment >guards must get out their longest rubber gloves and search them inside out until they miss their flight haahahhahahahahahahahaahaha literally nigger tier holy shit, imagine the seethe
>black people demanding constitutional rights is communist Just say you don’t like black people, you actually come off dumber saying this dumbass shit
Isaiah Brooks
>ever wondered why an ex-communist state is full of antifa? No honestly, I’m not a retard.
John Clark
I bet you’d cheer if they put a big nigger face there instead you faggot war tourist. I don’t like Russia, I don’t hate Ukraine. But I fucking HATE you npcs
Well that's nice, Vasily. We're just plenty willing to make all you subhuman vatniggers die for a greater purpose. Things are more productive that way.
>typical vatnik projection
Enjoy starving and freezing when your economy collapses and all the imported westenr machinery breaks down. We'll be sitting in our heated homes and eating well while laughing at you.
Joshua Cruz
Strawman - The Post
Civil rights were/are subverted and funded by communists...and they like it.
Charles Stewart
Why do so many anti-communists have an abysmal understanding of American socialist history? You’d think they know most of it considering it’s important to their plight today, right?
Cameron Anderson
>words words words words words this is worse than most fucking leftist memes jesus christ
>"nu-/k/" because that makes you look like a credible oldfag >le amerikkkan educational system may may is something gen-y libtard europeans like to mention Commie detected
Hudson Hernandez
All baltic SS division volunteers (great grandpa in 20th waffen SS) were gods among men. It matters not what flag we fight under, we are without peer. Even the Latvian Riflemen fought like devils from hell when it pains me to say so.
Is mentioning Reddit the last thing you commie bootlickers can resort to once you got exposed?
Jacob Cox
>white people are becoming reviled in all western nations, double standard laws that unfairly apply to them, demographic replacement, and elected politicians that actively hate the creators and constitution of the nation they immigrated to. >statue of white person in europe gets torn down >we heckin won! I know you nu males are so fucking demoralized that having a justified war against the shithole nation russia is a way to gush out all that repressed masculinity, but there’s a fucking war on your home front Zelinsky is the servant of people who are not on your side
Dominic Martinez
>automatically goes with a reddit meme >vatnik cope responding asap Ivan, what happened and how bad is it this time?
There are many here to defend their stupid ideology thats actually soooo stupid it has to be actively defended because on its own it would collapse again.
Mason Morales
You forgot the most important piece of 7D chess Pootinsky did. >Be USSR >Slowly demoralize people in the west >Make EU dependant on ressources >Make Russia for everyone sound like the good guys in history books >Buy politicians, buy press, so people wouldn't even think about the possibilty to buy oil and gas somewhere else >Make Germany basically completely dependant on Russia willing to forgive any weird shit they pull off >Nord Stream 2 is basically done, only delayed by some pesky mutts who knew something >Ukraine known as some corrupt almost russian shithole that noone will care about >In just TWO WEEKS royally FUCK UP EVERYTHING >Russia is now known as terrorist state >Soviet history is being revised, now commies apparently are also terrorists, and the actual bad guys in WW2, maybe Wehrmacht wasn't wrong, maybe commies lied about muh holocaust to hide their own crimes >Now all gas and oil is being fully cut off, any alternative is being developed in lightning speed pace One balding manlet ruined what USSR was establishing for 60 years. In just two fucking weeks. Because he wasn't able to take over Ukraine as a soft power in fucking 2k22 since as it turns out, russia has nothing outside of cheap gas
Lincoln Rogers
i love how the latvians didn't have the GUTS to do this as soon as the USSR fell. LMFAO. I hope Ivan rolls back in there and rapes everybody.
Adam Adams
Russia will be downsized. It will still fight wars, but it will have less territories.
Brody Roberts
They are too busy getting raped in Ukraine
Sebastian Hughes
Some people compare the Vietnam War to Ukraine. If anything, comparing Ukraine to Vietnam is a gross understatement.
What happened in Vietnam was a disgrace. It was wasteful, tragic, and should never be repeated (America has failed at this, twice).
Ukraine is a catastrophe.
There is no other way of putting it. The last five months have been a disaster of unprecedented proportions, one that imperils the very existence of Russia as a polity and arguably the entire world with it.
If Afghanistan was Russia's Vietnam, Ukraine is its graveyard. Not merely in the physical sense of tens of thousands of Russian men dead and wrecked Russian military hardware left strewn on the road to Kiev, but the spiritual as well. This war has already cost Russia her honor and her freedom, and when it loses (and it will lose, its gross excesses and threats have left NATO with no choice but to ensure defeat or face existential crisis), it will shatter her dreams. Any notion that Russia be able to make a comeback, to rejoin the Great Powers, will die with the last Russian soldier in Ukraine. A nation can with time, recover from almost any material and even demographic loss, but it cannot recover from having its spirit broken.
Russia outright confessed that they can't do shit because they're in NATO, and of course they claimed that was a bad thing, because Russia deserves the right to invade whoever annoys them.
>HOW DARE YOU NOT ALLOW ME TO CONQUER BALTIC CLAY DON'T YOU KNOW THEY BELONG TO ME!!! >Nato: Lol, Lmao even.
So unfair to poor Russia, don't even let them conquer things, NATO bad bananas
Also
>Any Forums >seething over commie cope statues being torn down You guys have been conquered
Jayden Clark
Just like ultimately the Russio-Japanese war buckbroke the Imperial Russian Empire.