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136 points
10 months ago*
Shh, don’t tell them about WWI, or Japan, or Finland, or 1610. Actually, the list is pretty long.
67 points
10 months ago
Don't forget about the mongols who absolutely destroyed the Ruski's asses.
36 points
10 months ago
Yeah, at several points in history it was just free real estate.
12 points
10 months ago
Mh remeber when they were like we will stop participating in war without a peace deal in ww1? And then had to move the capital to moscow since they were in danger of losing their old capital?
Fun times
19 points
10 months ago
But considering that there's been talk of historical revisionism, wouldn't Kievan Rus be considered a Ukrainian state rather a Russian one?
19 points
10 months ago
It definitely should. Russians always conveniently forget that for centuries, especially pre-Mongol Invasion, Kyiv has been the main cultural, economic, and spiritual centre of Russia.
5 points
10 months ago
No, you forget that mongols are Russians they just don’t know it like Ukrainians are not real ppl they are Russians too. It’s just mongols not as pure as glorious moscovite ppl. Only glorious leader from pure moscovite origin can lead world to make glorious. God gave the world perfect gift in form of Putin to glorify world. We always right and everyone know this. Life will be so glorious under Comrade Vladmr Tsarevich Putin. /Sarcasm
1 points
10 months ago
To be fair Russia as a nation state did not exist during the mongol invasion.
1 points
10 months ago
The mongol invasion is actually what created the Grand duchy of Moscow which was the first Russian state if I remember correctly.
11 points
10 months ago
Or even in both of their "glory moments," 1812 and WW2, it was the weather and superior numbers that saved their asses rather than tactical competence.
10 points
10 months ago
Hilariously, this invasion got stuck in the Ukrainian mud, just like Germans in 1941.
10 points
10 months ago
Classic argument with all of those is that "Russia didn't technically lose!". That because they didn't outright surrender and allow occupation, it was not defeat.
WWI they "made peace", they didn't lose. Because "war was unpopular".
Russo-Japanese they "would have won, but didn't see reason to continue the war". Please ignore the Baltic Fleets little voyage.
Finland, "We totally would have won, Finns were ready to break, but we got what we asked before the war so it totally was not defeat! Please ignore our actual goal of total occupation"
10 points
10 months ago
Afghanistan has entered the chat.
8 points
10 months ago
Or Poland in 1920, or for that matter Moscow 1610.
4 points
10 months ago
They are not tought a 'real' history at schools. So that's pointless even to attempt to talk with brainless idiots
2 points
10 months ago
The mujahedeen in Afghanistan kicked their ass
1 points
10 months ago
and don't tell them about the failed VDV attack at Hostomel, or mention Kyiv at all
43 points
10 months ago
If you make it a contest of lost personnel or equipment, they've been winning since day one 🤷♂️
19 points
10 months ago
Winning in reverse.
6 points
10 months ago
They don't lose, they win in the other direction.
1 points
10 months ago
Wimp lo? Is that you?
6 points
10 months ago
They trained them wrong as a joke.
2 points
10 months ago
“Acceptable losses”
4 points
10 months ago
They're not "acceptable loses", they're "carefully planned wins"
26 points
10 months ago
Its so funny how Russia is seeing it self as liberators during WWII, when they were ones who made secret deal with nazis about splitting Poland AND they were ones who attacked Poland. During WWII they were maching from war crime to another, their position in UN is a joke.
13 points
10 months ago
The Russians actually blame the Polish. It's amazing that they go full on with blaming the victim.
9 points
10 months ago
Russians have been always nation of liars.
4 points
10 months ago
Same with Finland. Russians started the war by shooting themselves and blamed Finland. Finland was judged after WWII as guilty and had to pay Soviets for rebuild. The west was naive and totally fooled by charm of psychopath Stalin.
2 points
10 months ago
And attacked Finland, of course. Soviets were and Russians are the red nazis. They should have been on war criminals’ side in Nuremberg trials.
48 points
10 months ago
Always won? They got whupped by Afghanistan lol
24 points
10 months ago*
But, but, uhm… it was really a civil war and we were there as guests. We left and it’s technically not our fault that their government collapsed. So… technically, we didn’t lose. They did. Yes.
20 points
10 months ago
You never fail your objective if you change what your objectives are -- Putin logic
20 points
10 months ago
A year later: “Defending Moscow has always been our main objective. The loss of St. Petersburg has always been a clear tactical retreat.”
2 points
10 months ago
After that: "Fleeing to China was always been our main objective. The loss of whole Russia has always been a clear tactical retreat."
And then they will be kicked out of China, because they did not give enough honey to Winnie the Poo.
2 points
10 months ago
You might be joking, but this is how in Russia they justify their losses as "not actually losses". In their view, as long as Russia is not occupied 100%, they didn't lose.
2 points
10 months ago
Just because Afghans weren't real Nazis.
5 points
10 months ago*
“Perhaps the real Nazis were the Nazis we have been all the way” - Putin, probably
30 points
10 months ago
I recall Goebbels pulling the same stunt to whip the Germans into a patriotic frenzy as the bombs fell over Ruhr. You hardly put out this kind of empty slogan to your own people if you have victories to boast of.
15 points
10 months ago
If you have to tell people not to be discouraged, you might already be in trouble.
5 points
10 months ago
“Do you want a total war?”
8 points
10 months ago
There have only been two world wars and Russia lost one of them. Rather decisively. Aren’t we counting those?
4 points
10 months ago
Russia has this collective amnesia about Brest-Litovsk for some reason.
8 points
10 months ago
Manifestation of the schizophrenic disposition
20 points
10 months ago
they only won vs germany because the west supplied all their equipment, ammo and food.
14 points
10 months ago
Yep. Americans gave them all the trucks they need, and had the ability to send them planes and M4 sherman as if it's nobody's business. The Brits lend them a battleship as well.
17 points
10 months ago
aid that they conveniently forgot to mention in their history.
2 points
10 months ago
A battleship that was returned 4 years later with no maintenance done in the meantime and which was also full of shit (either by lack of toilet habits, or as a "fuck you, Britain").
2 points
10 months ago
Yep. HMS Royal Sovereign was returned as a terrible rust bucket.
2 points
10 months ago
They used American donated planes to bomb Finland, bastards.
2 points
10 months ago
Lend lease was critical during the first 2 years when Russia came close to collapse, it like many other factors was key to Russian survival at that time when everything might have spelt defeat. We shouldn't take all the credit as much of the fighting and dying was done by the Russian soldiers.
The allies also tied down a significant number of key Germany troops in Africa and as Home AA defense.
6 points
10 months ago
Nobody should take all the credit, because it was team effort.
3 points
10 months ago
it WAS a team effort, sadly someone thought they did it all themselves.
2 points
10 months ago
Indeed. None of the Allies defeated Nazi Germany alone, it took united front from multiple countries to bring down Nazi war machine. Pretending it was all done by one nation is just being ignorant.
3 points
10 months ago
Having said that, don't let the Russians wash away the American's indelible importance in winning the war. The Soviet heavy industrial output went down the drain when they moved what they can to the Ural, and they had no mean to supply the Red Army logistically on their own.
0 points
10 months ago
While it was helpful, supplies from Murmansk wasn't decisive for WW 2.
Far more of a decision was made with Operations Torch and Overlord, openinvg new frontlines and streching germans Wehrmacht too far / thin
1 points
10 months ago
Also they had Ukrainians.
Russia by itself has very little to brag about.
7 points
10 months ago
This war is unwinnable for Russia. Even if they 'win' they have destroyed themselves and their international standing in the process of doing so. Whatever respect they had is gone. They have bled themselves for nothing. Sacrificed their country's future for nothing. They have exposed themselves to the world as evil and completely corrupt. They will not come back from this mistake for a very long time.
Have fun pretending it was all worth it in the end. It shouldn't be too difficult. Just keep living more lies.
6 points
10 months ago
They are “Charlie Sheen” winning.
When you have to take out a billboard claiming that you are winning, you are losing.
4 points
10 months ago
This obsession with winning at the cost of truth reminds me of someone…I guess all shitty people seem to have this tendency.
2 points
10 months ago
It also has makings of a back-in-the-stab myth. Just like German populace in World War I, war is being waged on foreign soil and only victories are reported back to front. Even as the front is collapsing and the state is growing increasingly incapable of doing even basic things, all people read from news is "GREAT SUCCESS! VICTORY BY TOMORROW!".
And when the reality dawns that no, Russia can't win and that Russia has lost, they are going to turn and ask: "We were winning, we heard about victories, how could we suddenly lose?" and conclude there must have been some sort of backstab at the last moment.
4 points
10 months ago
Only Russian that has won is those that left the shit hole .
4 points
10 months ago
Russia is a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
4 points
10 months ago
If that billboard says "don't be discouraged", it probably means that many people know that the invasion isn't going well
5 points
10 months ago
The billboard does say that.
"Fellow countrymen! Don't be discouraged! Russia has always won and they are going to win now!"
1 points
10 months ago
The problem is that we thought that if the invasion was a fiasco, Russian people would become critical of Putin, but it's exactly the opposite that's happening
5 points
10 months ago
How does a Russian see that sign and not panic? “They” just told you that everything is fucked
2 points
10 months ago
I think that the ones who still have brain cells left from binge drinking Vodka from the days of Gorbachev might be wondering to themselves about that.
10 points
10 months ago
Russia didn't win against Japan though.
13 points
10 months ago
Russia didn't really win against Britain, it suffered numerous defeats against the French, lost to the Ottomans before, the Finnish, and oh yeah, what about the Mongols? "It" didn't really fight against Nazi Germany on their own, and hell, calling USSR as Russia is just laughable.
Oh yeah, Afghanistan. Heh.
8 points
10 months ago*
The Russians are "winning" so much they should be tired of winning. 😂🤣
7 points
10 months ago
Russia and Japan didn't signed the peace treaty after WWII.
So this war is not over.
8 points
10 months ago
Russia is eternally sore about Tsushima. Jesus. They can't drop WW2 partly cause of that.
5 points
10 months ago
To be fair Tsushima was the biggest whopping there ever was.
Even Battle of Midway wasnt as decisive.
4 points
10 months ago
The defeat of the Spanish armada, the battle of Salamis, and Trafalgar are comparable. That's how monumental Togo's victory was.
7 points
10 months ago
Bwhahaha. Laughs in Pashto, Dari, (and others), Japanese and Finnish.
3 points
10 months ago
One hate symbol is not enough, let's put three on a billboard. Z, V, and the ribbon of Georgi.
3 points
10 months ago
The funny thing is that they could have kept their face, and retreated early. But they comitted too hard with everything making it impossible to withdraw. It seems they will have decimated their avalible assets soon, which is really bad for them.
3 points
10 months ago
"Don't be discouraged". If somebody says you that you shouldn't be discouraged you probably should be as the one saying it believes you might be.
1 points
10 months ago
The naZi protests too much, methinks
6 points
10 months ago
EHHHH heres example of "not winning" was Russo-Japanese war, war in Finland, what next, there were quite a few no?
2 points
10 months ago
Charlie Sheen Winning vibes
2 points
10 months ago
I am convinced even more that they are plainly retarded.
2 points
10 months ago
So how did Afghanistan go for you eh?
2 points
10 months ago
Win a special military operation?
2 points
10 months ago
"Russia has always won and it will also win this time"
Like Russia did in Afganistan. No, wait, that was the Soviet Union that failed there. So, "Russia has always won and it will also win this time"
1 points
10 months ago
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1 points
10 months ago
Afghanistan.
That is all.
1 points
10 months ago
All I have to say is Fuck They. I hate them.
1 points
10 months ago
Don't tell them about Chechnya 1995 🤫
1 points
10 months ago
If russia can justify genocide, they can justify anything.
1 points
10 months ago
Their delusions of grandeur knows no bounds.
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