what happened to the großrossiya thread

[Proteus_MST]

They very much believed it.

Then they wanted blue jeans

Blue jeans are the true leg garb for the worker ...
sounds very fitting for communists therefore

[Bereta_Eder]

yet they didn't have it and regarded it as a symbol of capitalism
(or maybe they had something similar?)
in east germany when I was very little (before the fall of the wall) they asked me what I wanted and I said a coke
(they didn't have it but they brought me something similar)

[Dinner]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/russia-suspended-over-doping-140913726.html

Confirmed. Russia engaged in systematic state sponsored doping and likely to get expelled from all international sporting events including the Olympics.

[Bereta_Eder]

American baby killers celebreating Russia's supposed ban from the olympics.
Ok.

[Proteus_MST]

It´s actually a sad thing that it seems like modern russia still doesn´t think it can get good results in international athletic competitions without cheating ... and therefore continues the cheating traditions of the USSR

[Bereta_Eder]

the american basketball "dream team" can't even be checked.
they hide inside american bases where wada can't reach them.

plus americans dope as hell too, they just evade tests better due to different kind of drugs.

[Bereta_Eder]

besides the olympics is all about sponsors and corporations.
"the immortal" committee is corrupt as ****.
they hand out olympic city selections based on the largest bribes
no wonder they can't even keep politics out of it

olympics is swimming in dope

[Proteus_MST]

besides the olympics is all about sponsors and corporations.
"the immortal" committee is corrupt as ****.
they hand out olympic city selections based on the largest bribes
...

That´s sad but true ...
or at least it was so under Juan Antonio Samaranch ...
last I heard was that after Samaranch they did some steps to decrease the corruption in the selection of the olympic cities

[Bereta_Eder]

Perhaps, I don't know.
I wouldn't keep my hopes up though for a system that is inherently as corrupt as that.

[giblets]

Russians are killing Syrian babies

[Bereta_Eder]

Yep. And that's why those babies put bombs in russian planes

[giblets]

The Civilian Toll of Russia’s Bombing Campaign

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, less than two-thirds of the casualties of Russian airstrikes have been combatants.



Exactly three weeks after Russia decided to launch airstrikes in Syria, the country’s campaign has already been criticized for hitting non-ISIS targets, its violations of Turkish airspace, and allowing its planes to fly too close to American ones, as well as a misfiring of cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea that mistakenly landed in Iran.

On Tuesday, some light was shed on the civilian toll of Russia’s bombing campaign. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 370 people have been killed by Russian warplanes since September 30. Of that number, 34 percent have been civilians—127 people, including 36 children and 34 women.

When held against one assessment of the airstrikes by the American-led coalition, which started in September 2014, the Russian numbers come more clearly into view. Back in June, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights noted that of 3,000 people who had been killed by coalition airstrikes in Syria, 162 were civilians. (At the time, the British-based monitoring organization “re-expressed its strong condemnation” of the United States and its international partners.)

The figures in Tuesday’s report did not include an overnight Russian airstrikes in Syria’s Latakia province that killed a high-ranking commander of a Syrian rebel group that had received American-made weapons. According to some reports, at least 15 civilians were killed in the sustained bombardment.

Also, on Tuesday, CNN reported American military pilots have been warned against reacting to Russian planes over Syrian skies. After some recent close calls, the two countries are working to iron out a technical agreement so that pilots will maintain contact with each other in the air.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/russia-airstrikes-syria-civilians-us/411478/

This was published on October 20, by now Russia may have surpassed the western powers in terms of dead Syrian civilians.

[giblets]

Suspected Russian air strikes bombard main street in Syrian city of Douma leaving at least 23 dead including six children

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Russian war planes are believed to be responsible for the air strikes in Douma in the suburbs of Damascus today
At least 23 people, including six children, were killed according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
Rebels in the town often fire rockets into Damacus, and Douma is the target of government air strikes and shelling
See full news coverage of the conflict in Syria at www.dailymail.co.uk/syria

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3308552/Suspected-Russian-air-strikes-bombard-main-street-Syrian-city-Douma-leaving-23-dead-including-six-children.html

Go Russia! Defend your client state at all costs

[Bereta_Eder]

http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...ans-us/411478/

This was published on October 20, by now Russia may have surpassed the western powers in terms of dead Syrian civilians.

Not even close.
Besides it's not "west" vs Russia. It's US vs Russia and a Europe that is awakening.

[giblets]

Russia's only Mediterranean naval base is in Syria