Posted on 03/25/2022 10:21:50 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if we had just robbed liquor stores in Leningrad so we would be out by now, along with having one final drunken party before arrest. - Freddy Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr's more pragmatic brother.
Ukraine is a country of over 40 million people and you can find single instances of anything including drag queens.
What is representative of Ukraine is their society-wide brave and effective resistance, where they are kicking Russian ass.
Russia now has Day 30 of their 3-day war at their hands and things are not going their way. They’re losing! You must be devastated by the latest developments!
I like the “stupidity” that Ukrainians have much more than that of Russians.
Russians said, “we will submit to the Czar - he will take care of us and treat us well.”
Ukrainians said “we will win” despite all the “smart people” saying they’ll lose in 3 days and they should just stop resisting and asking for more ammo and weapons.
The Ukrainian Foreign Minister shared a detail from the negotiations from the 25th of February, where he was asking Germany for war materials and German officials said - “What for? Your army is going to lose in the next 6 hours.”
So let me get it straight.
What you’re saying is that what we thought is the Mighty Russian Army has their asses handed to them not by tough Ukrainian men, but by prancing genderfluid queers?
I’m almost finished reading for 2nd time. Couldn’t be much better today. The hardships/death sentences of the gulags should be read by all.
Your comment is correct about the Napoleonic/Roman Law countries, but regarding travel passports (zagranpassports) in Russia, bribes are absolutely not required. It is an enumerated constitutional right of Russian citizens to leave the country. Issuance of a zagranpassport requires the filling of an application and the payment of a fee (5000 rub for paper application, 3500 rub for electronic). You go to the office for a photo and fingerprints, and get your passport in 3-4 weeks. It is a very matter-of-fact process, very much like getting a US passport except that the photos need to be done in the office.
When I was in the USAF, 68-72, I traveled throughout the world just using my USAF ID card. No questions asked.
I have zero concerns about Ukraine and their ‘tribal’ affairs within their country, nor what Russia does there or not. It’s their business.
I don’t consider it bravery when men are forced to fight in a war not of their choosing but demanded by a puppet master in the hand of outsiders - using the people to fight a proxy war..... And they would have no reistence without the USA.
Nor would they have entered this war without the Biden Administration enciting it.
Ukraine’s a rubble, population has left and every day more people die and you want to say that Russia’s loosing! LOLOL It’s a war that Ukraine has not won nor can it. There are no winners in their war.
You should know Croatians and every other nation is on the ground....Syrians, dead beats, the list goes on....but if you want to confirm the photo have at it.
What? They don’t put on dresses?
I agree with your point that they will probably just issue him a passport. The entire thing is a dumb procedural issue.
With regard to the bribes, current generation Russian biometric zagranpassports are produced centrally in Moscow (by Goznak, I think). No bribe (even if you could convince someone to take it) at your local MVD will make it go faster.
In general, the migration division of MVD is one of the most professional, well-run, parts of the Russian government right now. I can tell you this from personal experience.
You mean you don’t recognize the picture???
Didn’t recognize it, but now I searched.
My first thought was that it is JP Belmondo. Probably primed to it because he sadly died recently (RIP).
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