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sometimes i fear that the current iranian leadership is suffering from putin syndrome: so many red lines that they’ve turned into a red carpet.

говорю на русском как на родном, живу в настоящее время в одной из постсоциалистических стран.

both major nationalities of finland, the finnish and sámi peoples, are speakers of finno-ugric languages, a branch of the non-indo-european uralic family. finnish swedes speak swedish, a language in the germanic branch of the indo-european family. slavic languages are spoken predominantly by immigrant communities, the largest of which is the russian-language community, consisting of about 1% of the population.

anybody talking about “ancient slavic runes” or promoting any kind of runiform “ancient slavic symbols” should be considered either clueless and unserious at best or a fascist at worst. There is little to no evidence for any kind of pre-christian slavic writing, especially rune-type.

pseudoscientific theories professing otherwise are usually connected to ideas like the “nordic-arian” myth, “hyperborea,” and other esoteric nazi nonsense, developed in part by far-right white émigrés and, in part, by literal card-carrying members of the german nazi party.

tragically, since the illegal dissolution of the ussr, the cia and other western intelligence agencies have been successfully pushing this idea, as well as other intellectual diarrhoea, into our public (sub-)consciousness, as well as even into some of our educational institutions, leading to some uninformed and clueless young people adopting those ideas as supposed fact, even if they haven’t willfully embraced reactionary ideology.

to answer your question, though, those game developers clearly know what they’re doing: they are nazis and just too cowardly to admit it openly!

i’ve always found it somewhat strange how many people in the west consider all these soviet international friendship posters to have a homoerotic subtext. is friendship between people of the same gender so unthinkable there that one immediately assumes that doing things together must be romantic?

GIF of character Marty McFly in the movie Back to the Future saying "Hey, I’ve Seen This One!

france is shocked that israel is torturing europeans for once, instead of arabs as it is “supposed” to.

They also broke the spine of one of the activists who were detained in Greece

nothing shall be forgotten, no one should be forgiven.

it is important to note, that despite the soviet-style aesthetics, pridnestrovie/transnistria is not a socialist state, having officially denounced and abandoned socialism back in 1991. the vast majority of the economy is owned by oligarch victor gușan and his sheriff corporation, who treats the place as his personal fiefdom, . most main government positions in the territory are are essentially appointed by gușan, with the people holding them basically functioning as enforcers of his will.

nevertheless, tiraspol still plays a historically progressive role in the current geopolitical situation, with the local russian military presence being a deterrent against further western imperialist expansion in the region, and the government’s policy of holding on to some semblance of internationalism, or at least inter-ethnic understanding, serving as an alternative to the increasingly intolerant and discriminatory policies of the pro-românian régime in chișinău.

always remember that a better world is possible, comrade! <3 you’re strong and will overcome your current difficulties.

always try to seek out and be part of a community (or, better yet, several!). it doesn’t necessarily have to be explicitly political, but they should be people you can trust and rely on. at their core, most people are kind and will likely be willing to help out if things get truly tough.