[KarlInOhio]

He acted smarter. During the night he went to a store, broke a window. Got inside, filled his bag with valuable stuff and waited for police to come. They came, arrested him. He got 5 years of jail for robbing a store *as a regular criminal*. That's how he survived the Great Purge

“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.

[Krosan]

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.”