what happened to the großrossiya thread

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HA HA YOU FOOL:

http://nobsrussia.com/2015/06/01/beh...nes-of-maidan/

If Ellestar gets drunk and stubs his toe or if the troll factory doesn't pay him his sad little salary on time then he is convinced the CIA is behind it.

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http://worldif.economist.com/article/2/what-if-russia-breaks-up-the-peril-beyond-putin?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/wi/pe/st/theperilbeyondputin

An excellent article by the Economist of London. Russia is way more fragile than it looks, Mr. Putin insured that when he eschewed institution building in favor of personal dictatorship. The reality is the country has a million fault lines and ethnic groups which want independence. The main Argent against that was the western argument that post Soviet borders should never be changed but Putin himself has undermined that and, ironically, Russia itself has the most to lose as a result.

Kerilia, kalingrad, the Kerilia islands, all of these places don't have strong historical ties to Russia while numerous places (the Caucasus region for one) are ethnically, liquistically, and religiously different and so prone to independence. Regions like Kazan have 2 million tartar and only 1.5 million ethnic Russians while even the Ural region and Siberia flirted with independence in 1993. Worse Putin has let the governors of these regions more or less run mini dictatorships without the rule of law as long as they rig elections for Putin.

This system can come apart easily if the dictator cab no longer deliver. As always short sighted self interest by the elites means Russia is ready to come apart in the medium term. Ironically, Putin blames everything on America but America is the last country which wants to see Russia break up because it doesn't want a lot of new unstable countries with nuclear weapons. Ellestar is too busy liking Putin's taint and mouthing bull **** to understand any of this thpugh.

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http://worldif.economist.com/article/2/what-if-russia-breaks-up-the-peril-beyond-putin?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/wi/pe/st/theperilbeyondputin

An excellent article by the Economist of London. Russia is way more fragile than it looks, Mr. Putin insured that when he eschewed institution building in favor of personal dictatorship. The reality is the country has a million fault lines and ethnic groups which want independence. The main Argent against that was the western argument that post Soviet borders should never be changed but Putin himself has undermined that and, ironically, Russia itself has the most to lose as a result.

Kerilia, kalingrad, the Kerilia islands, all of these places don't have strong historical ties to Russia while numerous places (the Caucasus region for one) are ethnically, liquistically, and religiously different and so prone to independence. Regions like Kazan have 2 million tartar and only 1.5 million ethnic Russians while even the Ural region and Siberia flirted with independence in 1993. Worse Putin has let the governors of these regions more or less run mini dictatorships without the rule of law as long as they rig elections for Putin.

This system can come apart easily if the dictator cab no longer deliver. As always short sighted self interest by the elites means Russia is ready to come apart in the medium term. Ironically, Putin blames everything on America but America is the last country which wants to see Russia break up because it doesn't want a lot of new unstable countries with nuclear weapons. Ellestar is too busy liking Putin's taint and mouthing bull **** to understand any of this thpugh.

[self biased]

Do you even autocorrect, bro?

[onodera]

This is a very stupid article, Oerdin. There's no way most of these regions will ever secede. That article is like Panarin's ramblings about the disintegration of the US.

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https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/07/31/ahead-of-patriotic-film-release-russian-culture-minister-tells-archival-workers-to-pipe-down

Russia has declared war on reality. When academics at the Russian State Archive dared to point out that the government's latest propaganda film is a work of historical fiction with no basis in history Putin cronies threaten to have them fired. That is just sad and pathetic.

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https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/07/31/ahead-of-patriotic-film-release-russian-culture-minister-tells-archival-workers-to-pipe-down

Russia has declared war on reality. When academics at the Russian State Archive dared to point out that the government's latest propaganda film is a work of historical fiction with no basis in history Putin cronies threaten to have them fired. That is just sad and pathetic.

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This is a very stupid article, Oerdin. There's no way most of these regions will ever secede. That article is like Panarin's ramblings about the disintegration of the US.

I am sure it goes a bit far but it is right about the failure to build institutions and the over reliance on patronage. What happens when, like in the late Soviet Union, there is no longer largess to hand out? Clearly the patronage system would break down.

Further more, there is a massive problem with corruption and eventually average people are going to get upset seeing their health care cut yet Putin's press secretary is wearing a $500,000 Swiss made watch despite an official salary of just $20,000.

[pchang]

My picture said the watch was $670,000.

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http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/policy-budget/warfare/2015/08/02/us-army-ukraine-russia-electronic-warfare/30913397/

That is a good article. One ability that surprised NATO was Russia's advanced jamming equipment but sadly Russia's invasion of the Ukraine tipped NATO off to this and now they are developing counter measures. Worse sanctions and low oil prices are going to mean Russia is going to have a harder tI'm modernizing it's forces.

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My picture said the watch was $670,000.

Ball park half million.

[pchang]

I'm not rich enough to overlook $170,000.

[onodera]

I am sure it goes a bit far but it is right about the failure to build institutions and the over reliance on patronage. What happens when, like in the late Soviet Union, there is no longer largess to hand out? Clearly the patronage system would break down.

There's no over-reliance on patronage, most regional elites have been replaced with bureaucrats, Chechnya is an exception, along with a few neighbours of its.

[onodera]

I am sure it goes a bit far but it is right about the failure to build institutions and the over reliance on patronage. What happens when, like in the late Soviet Union, there is no longer largess to hand out? Clearly the patronage system would break down.

There's no over-reliance on patronage, most regional elites have been replaced with bureaucrats, Chechnya is an exception, along with a few neighbours of its.

[Ellestar]

https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/07/31...s-to-pipe-down

Russia has declared war on reality. When academics at the Russian State Archive dared to point out that the government's latest propaganda film is a work of historical fiction with no basis in history Putin cronies threaten to have them fired. That is just sad and pathetic.

"Saving Private Ryan" pro-US propaganda film is also a fiction, just as your "300 Spartans" anti-Iranian propaganda film. At the very least, the exact count and composition of forces is wrong - there weren't only 300 Spartans there, and fighting scenes in a film belong to fantasy, not to a historical film. Damn, even fighting in Conan the Barbarian was more realistic than in 300 Spartans. Better film too.

So archival workers were rightfully told to shut up. It's not their business to criticize state propaganda, given that it's up to international standards anyway.