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Putin's tiny army: Russian child soldiers trained in battle tactics, weapons and hand-to-hand combat
The Daily Mail ^ | 24 March 2014

Posted on 03/24/2014 6:37:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Some parents would gasp at the thought of their children playing with a toy gun, but these Russian children are actually encouraged to take up real arms.

Military sports club, 'Berkut', (meaning golden eagle), trains up young Russian, who dream of joining the elite units of the Russian army and fighting under the command of President Vladimir Putin.

A young boy is pictured on their website brandishing a hand gun and dressed in military fatigues with his finger over the trigger.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: children; militarytraining; russia
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To: 353FMG

Notice, NO diversity in those ranks.

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I saw a couple of Central Asian types.


41 posted on 03/24/2014 9:03:42 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (FIGHT! FIGHT! SEVERE CONSERVATIVE AND THE WILD RIGHT!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Putin Youth?


42 posted on 03/24/2014 9:29:21 PM PDT by Red White and Blue patriot (USA all the way. Love it or Leave it. Ted Cruz 2016)
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To: eleni121

Screw you, Putin bootlicker. Russia is the monster.


43 posted on 03/24/2014 9:31:20 PM PDT by Red White and Blue patriot (USA all the way. Love it or Leave it. Ted Cruz 2016)
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To: Psalm 144

If you hate this country so much, go to Russia. You won’t have first or second amendment rights but at least your prince Putin will protect you from homos.


44 posted on 03/24/2014 9:34:42 PM PDT by Red White and Blue patriot (USA all the way. Love it or Leave it. Ted Cruz 2016)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Makes me think of the opening scenes of “Enemy at the Gates” where Zaitsev, as a young boy shoots his first fox.


45 posted on 03/24/2014 9:38:08 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Red White and Blue patriot

What an ugly thing to say.

Does this mean we’re not friends anymore?

You know, if I thought you weren’t my friend, I just don’t think I could bear it.


46 posted on 03/24/2014 9:42:56 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (FIGHT! FIGHT! SEVERE CONSERVATIVE AND THE WILD RIGHT!)
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To: eleni121

“Western installed”? What, were Lenin and Stalin Scots-Irish?

Compared to Russian Communists, German Nazis were pikers. The Russians slaughtered millions of their own, in purges and in gulags and in ‘forced collectivization’.

In the 1930s, they instigated a famine in Ukraine and, before all was said and done, ten million Ukrainians died from the murderous policies of the Russians.

Russia, attempting to gain control of Spain, ordered its proxies in that country to conduct a purge. Thousands were tortured and murdered.

Russia strengthened and supported Mao, one of the greatest murderers in history.

The crimes Communist Russia committed throughout the twentieth century are unspeakable. They fostered evil throughout the world, and they poured out the blood of millions. And the willingness of westerners to defend and excuse them is shameful.

Putin is only the most recent in a line of Russian dictators to be ludicrously praised by westerners. The man invades another country, steals their land, and people applaud his thuggery and admire his strength - as if poor little Ukraine ever stood a chance. It’s appalling.


47 posted on 03/24/2014 10:00:23 PM PDT by Irish Rose (Will work for chocolate.)
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To: Irish Rose

You seem to be pushing some kind of genetic hate theory against Russian people, instead of properly assessing blame where it belongs on communists.

This makes about as much sense as the racial hate theories on Stormfront.

You should be ashamed.

The Russian people were victims of Communism.
There was a civil war to stop it.
The communists instituted a crushing totalitarian dictatorship that liquified those who opposed it.
The communists were not voted in.

You blame the starvation in millions of people in Ukraine collectively on the Russian people.

The logic of your claim is totally indefensible.

Stalin wasn’t Russian.
Anyone who opposed him would be killed outright.
The massacres were done at his order and whim.
You think the average Russian person wanted to do and supported this?

You should be ashamed.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Conservatives should be wary of all strong governments.

But blind hatred of people from a particular country should offend the conscience of all decent people.

Did you notice you are becoming what you hate?


48 posted on 03/25/2014 3:23:46 AM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: henkster
“Parents “gasping” at the thought of their kids handling guns is a real problem in our country.”....

If I had ANY say if what is taught in our schools (with authority to back it up) I would make it MANDATORY that each and EVERY kid in our school system would be taught gun safety, shooting and handling of guns. There would be NO EXCEPTIONS nor "amnesty" to avoid it. I'm not saying people should be MADE to appreciate guns, only to be familiar with their care and intentional use. (I can dream can't I)

49 posted on 03/25/2014 3:57:51 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Mount Athos

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Conservatives should be wary of all strong governments.”

Then you should proclaim the annexation of lands in a sovereign country as coercive in nature and illegal, the actions of a rogue Russia that has gone off the rails.


50 posted on 03/25/2014 6:01:02 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (Russians to the Left of me, Useful Idiots to the Right...)
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To: Irish Rose
MURDER BY SOCIALISM

... For Perspective ...
Combat deaths:
In all wars between 1900 and 1987, including World Wars I and II, Vietnam, Korea, and the Mexican and Russian Revolutions: 34,100,000 combat deaths.

 

China (Mao Tse Tsung):
WWII Combat deaths: 6,400,000 - Kinder

Mao murdered by starvation 1958-1961: 38,000,000
Murdered by Mao (shot, hanged, etc):
1923-1949: 3,466,000
1949-1987: 35,236,000
1923-1987 76,702,000
Mao's Grand Total: 114, 702,000

 

The Soviet Union (Stalin, Bera, Khrushchev):
WWII Combat deaths: 26,400,000 - Sokolov
WWII Civilian deaths: 24,000,000 - Korol

Murdered by Stalin et al, 1917-1987: 61,911,000

 

Germany (Hitler):
WWII Combat deaths: 4,750,000 - Eckhardt
WWII Civilian deaths: 3,800,000 - Encarta

Murdered by Hitler, 1933-1945: 20,946,000

 

Japan:
WWII Combat deaths: 2,000,000 - Urlanis

Japanese by murder: 10,000,000# (Mostly Japanese who refused to serve and their families)
Nanking, China: 369,366

#Does not count those murdered by Japan in China and SE Asia, Pacific Islands

 

Yugoslavia:
WWII Combat deaths: 400,000 - Eckhardt
WWII Civilian deaths: 1,400,000 - Urlanis

 

Poland:
WWII Combat deaths: 850,000 - HarperCollins
WWII Civilian deaths: 6,028,000

 

Italy:
WWII Combat deaths: 400,000 - Urlanis
WWII Civilian deaths: 152,941 - Britannica

 

US:
WWII Combat deaths: 408,000 - Eckhardt
WWII Civilian deaths: 15,300

 

Does not count those who were murdered after Vietnam war (2 mil), or Cambodia - (4 mil)

51 posted on 03/25/2014 8:08:43 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

When I was a kid, I was a member of a club called Junior Essex Troop of Cavalry. It was based in West Orange and Westfield, NJ. We rode horses, shot rifles and marched...and wore uniforms. Sadly, I don’t believe it exists anymore.


52 posted on 03/25/2014 9:03:48 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: rbmillerjr

Nope...you’re making things up...try reading Solzhenitsyn. He’ll set you straight. In fact the Russian people were monstrously exploited by mostly non Russian ethnic Bolsheviks. You are confused...


53 posted on 03/25/2014 8:56:27 PM PDT by eleni121 ("All Along the Watchtower" Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9)
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To: Irish Rose

Right off the bat you’re wrong. Millions of Russian Ukranian Georgian etc. Christians were slaughtered by Communists ...The Germans facilitated Lenin’s return and the majority Bolshevik leadership was non Russian. Read up on Jacob Schiff and the Wall st. bankers and their role in the atrocities.


54 posted on 03/25/2014 9:06:12 PM PDT by eleni121 ("All Along the Watchtower" Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9)
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To: eleni121

Your Russian/Serbian propaganda isn’t working here.

YOur rationalizations of why Russia did what it did, are irrelevant.

They were the Evil Empire and this is established.

Responsible for millions upon millions of brutal deaths.


55 posted on 03/25/2014 9:14:13 PM PDT by rbmillerjr (Russians to the Left of me, Useful Idiots to the Right...)
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To: rbmillerjr

Get a grip. Saying so does not make it so. Nothing of what you write has any basis in reality. Step one: learn to distinguish between Soviet Union and Russia. The now gone Soviet system has much more in common with the US than Russia today.


56 posted on 03/25/2014 9:20:18 PM PDT by eleni121 ("All Along the Watchtower" Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9)
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To: eleni121

A deflection that doesn’t pertain to the subject.

It was Russians who dominated the USSR and it is Russians who now illegally annex a sovereign nation.


57 posted on 03/25/2014 9:24:05 PM PDT by rbmillerjr (Russians to the Left of me, Useful Idiots to the Right...)
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To: rbmillerjr

You just cannot handle the truth and that is that the putsch in Kiev is engineered by the IMF and “western” cronies like Soros and the rest of them...and will be as bad for the people in Ukraine as the other takeovers in Iraq and Egypt (thank God it failed) and Libya and trying to in Syria - have been.


58 posted on 03/27/2014 9:12:16 AM PDT by eleni121 ("All Along the Watchtower" Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9)
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