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  • Registered Users Posts: 18,529 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Russia can certainly afford to pay full reparations to Ukraine - saying they haven't got the money won't wash.

    Also, the regime has inflicted 'far' more damage on Ukraine than has happened in most wars in the last few decades. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Serbia etc didn't see entire cities flattened in the manner that happened to Mariupol and elsewhere. Veteran war correspondents who have reported on many past conflicts say they are absolutely shocked by the level of deliberate destruction the Russians have carried out on Ukrainian cities.



  • Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭bobowen


    You get very upset when confronted with truth. Not one part of my post was a lie.

    And the Wagner Group are not Nazis no matter what you read in your always biased sources. The only "proof" of this lie is apparently doctored photos of their founder with Nazi tattoo's. If you can find any primary evidence of Utkin saying anything Nazi like please provide it. If not its just another one of your unproven angry ramblings masquerading as facts.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,573 ✭✭✭jackboy


    You may be right but I just can’t see it. Talking about them being made to pay due to some legal stuff while they are ethnically cleansing a country doesn’t make sense to me. It’s almost if following legal money rules is higher priority than not ethnically cleansing. I don’t think it makes sense.

    If the west want to enforce the reparations they will need to occupy Russia and just take its resources.



  • Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭bobowen


    Most of the 20 million of Russia's war dead were executions by the Bolsheviks you say? What crazy history book did you read that in?

    You do know people can check up on what you write don't you? If you are referring to the purges that was before Germany invaded Russia.

    80% of the deaths in the war were attributable to the German/Ukrainian Nazi forces with the rest mainly due to famine. Its all there on the internet for people to check up on.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_Soviet_Union



  • Registered Users Posts: 29,464 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    A country whose lies to the world about denazification are shown up by actions like this:

    Chief Rabbi Of Moscow Leaves Russia After Refusing To Publicly Support Ukraine War

    https://www.rferl.org/a/moscow-rabbi-goldschmidt-leaves-russia-ukraine/31889244.html

    The Wagner Group contain Neo Nazis on a mission worthy of Nazis, to commit war crimes for Russia like Bucha.

    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/05/23/russian-neo-nazis-participate-in-denazifying-ukraine-der-spiegel-a77762

    Maybe you should keep up to date with the latest propaganda cues from the Kremlin because when are posting out of dates ones which Putin and Lavrov etc has pulled the rug out from under you by admitting it was just a land grab to wipe Ukraine off the map.

    Russia is the country which invades its neighbours, butchers its civilians, indsicrminately flattens cities.

    The country whose propaganda stirs up hate against its neighbours and threatens to wipe them off the map is Russia.

    The country in Europe most in need of denazification is Russia.

    The country whose present day actions most echo that of the Nazis is Russia.

    It is a fascist dictatorship whose stock in trade is murder, invasion, propaganda and lies.

    They are the successors of the butchers who sides with the Nazis in 1939, historical events they still deny.

    Russian propaganda has obviously fooled you, but you're not fooling anyone here with your lies.

    Your previous Russian propaganda lies about Budapest have been proven to be false. Your continue to post nothing more than Russian propaganda lies and cues on this thread. You have zero credibility. You post no sources. You post only Russian lies.

    Russian propaganda is as see through and transparent as its tanks are vulnerable to Javelin missiles which have left a lot of dead Russian tankies. Your Russian propaganda efforts here are dead too.

    Russia denazify yourself.

    Post edited by odyssey06 on

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    Anyways, Ukraine can never be an EU member unless it agrees borders with Putin. That's why Serbia and Montenegro haven't been accepted as members yet, their borders are contested.

    You are aware of the existence of Cyprus right?



  • Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭bobowen


    A lot of bold text there odyssey. Lets keep this civil. It could escalate to bold italics if we're not careful.

    "You post no sources."

    I have provided a western source every time you have asked me to provide one. Go back and look.

    And the Moscow Times is a Netherlands based anti Russian propaganda website that any serious poster would be embarrassed to quote.

    Post edited by bobowen on


  • Registered Users Posts: 29,464 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    You have to "asked" to provide sources. Go back over the last few posts of Russian propaganda you have put up, where are the sources?

    Your lies about the Budapest agreement were shown up.

    That the Wagner Group contains Neo Nazis has been established.

    That anyone could come onto this thread and fake concern about Nazis in Ukraine in light of that is abhorrent. Putin has even moved on from the whole denazification lies because even as propaganda it was such an obvious lie. Russia isn't there because of fake concern about Nazis. Russia is there to take Ukranian land, resources and people because it still acts like a 1930s gangster fascist dictatorship.

    You have no credibility.

    The Chief Rabbi leaves for fear of persecution.

    In what country?

    Nope not Ukraine. Russia.

    Civilians being executed by invaders.

    By Russia.

    Which country is a fascist dictatorship and which is a democracy?

    Russia.

    Which is a democracy?

    Ukraine.

    The country whose present day actions most echo that of the Nazis is Russia.

    Who are the successors of the Nazis?

    Nope not Ukraine. Russia.

    Russia denazify yourself.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭bobowen


    Go back and look. I provided you with the founding document of the Ukrainian State where it stated a commitment to never join a military block and you refused to accept it. It predates the Budapest agreement.

    Seriously lad. The bold text just makes you look unstable and angry.



  • Registered Users Posts: 29,464 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    None of your posts today contain any sources. You provide no Western source which state that Ukraine violated the Budapest agreement.

    I post in bold because it makes it even more obvious when you are unable to respond to facts when your lies are challenged.

    And just as your lies about Nazis have backfired on you so have your lies about Budapest.

    Russia deploys Neo Nazis to Ukraine. Established fact.

    Russia persecutes its Chief Rabbi. Established fact.

    Russia needs to denazify itself.

    Your posted an irrelevent document only Stalinists would pay any heed to about what a Ukranian state soviet did. Before Ukraine was a country.

    And even if you are the type who cares about the actions of a state soviet, the constitution of the USSR allowed any state to leave it freely, without condition.

    ARTICLE 17. To every Union Republic is reserved the right freely to secede from the U.S.S.R.

    Of course they were lying then in their murderous communist dictatorship just as a murderous fascist dictatorship running Russia lies today.

    The Budapest agreement was violated by Russia not Ukraine.

    What clause of the Budapest agreement was violated by Ukraine?

    It was your claim. Specific clause. By what action of Ukraine was it violated.

    The world knows who violated Budapest - Russia, when it invaded Crimea.

    Your lies can't conceal the crimes of Russia and its Nazis.

    Post edited by odyssey06 on

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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  • Registered Users Posts: 925 ✭✭✭ilkhanid


    The Nazis had no problem with Muslim soldiers;they enrolled Soviet Muslims willing to fight into the Wehrmacht. Anybody who had an enmity for the Jews was a potential ally for the Nazis. You can bet your sweet ass Putin has even less regard for Muslims than Hitler had, but an Islamist thug, Kadyrov, is a useful ally willing to fight dirty for the same Putin who was supposedly fighting for ''Christian civilization'' alongside Assad against IS.

    Post edited by ilkhanid on


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,272 ✭✭✭fash


    They are literally called the "Wagner group" because Wagner was Hitler's favourite composer.

    Are you unaware of Hitler's connection to the Nazi party?

    (Although it would explain several matters if so...)



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,460 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    You do know who the NAZI's were, yeah ?

    You know,militaristic state, blaming everyone else ,invading their neighbours , ( and claiming they're really just taking what's theirs ) , run by an autocracy .. states assets mainly for the benefit of an oligarch class who kick back to the top .. hate symbols - now who does that remind you of ...

    Was everyone in the Azov battalions nicey nicey - I doubt it - they're a tool for a job -and Russia's invasions ( plural ) have created their need ..

    The far right don't have much support in Ukraine -

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



  • Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭bobowen


    Wagner is many peoples favourite composer. Its Wagner, the legendary composer who died 70 years before the 3rd Reich existed. You are allowed to like Wagner and not be a Nazi. Why? Because Wagner wasn't a Nazi.

    By your logic all Beatles fans are Charles Manson followers because Charles Manson liked the Beatles.



  • Registered Users Posts: 13,902 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Yes, just like Combat 18 really like the number 18.



  • Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭bobowen


    Mother of God. The mental gymnastics you people are all putting yourselves through in order to prove that the Nazi's (who proudly and openly admit that they are Nazi's) aren't actually Nazi's. No. But the people who hate Nazis more than any other group in the world (bar the Jewish community) and are currently in a war to "denazify" these admitted Nazi's...they are the actual Nazi's.

    The cognitive dissonance in these logistical leaps you are all engaged in is off the charts. Even the press don't call the Russians Nazi's.

    And your description of Nazism is way off. You basically just made up your own definition of Nazism to fit your argument. Here is the description used in Wikipedia.

    "Nazism is a form of fascism with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. It incorporates fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, scientific racism, and the use of eugenics into its creed. "

    Russia has a parliament and is a liberal democracy despite what you've been brainwashed into thinking for the last 20 years. No doubt you all disagree. But what you cannot say is that Russia is Anti Semitic, anti communist or scientifically racist. It has never claimed to be a higher form of being to any other race.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,272 ✭✭✭fash


    Your "by your logic..." strawman shows the problem here.

    You have a fundamental inability to understand data or maths.

    I'm betting that is fundamentally the reason you've been swayed by Russian propaganda.

    So sure, Utkin happens to have Nazi tatoos and, despite growing up & getting educated in Hicksville Russia develops a taste for classical music - and not merely any classical music but, despite his nationalistic tendencies, eschews the vast repetoire of classical music from his own country & instead, he, a soldier, for Russia - develops such a particular liking for a bombastic German Bavaria-based classical music composer, a country against whose army the Russia of which he was a member had a struggle to the death with that he named his mercenary group (filled with openly Neo-Nazi sub groups such as the Rusich task force) after him - and this is independent & coincidental to his love of Nazi paraphernalia.

    Not only this, but he was, despite his service in an obsessed by its victory over the Nazis, entirely unaware of the association with Hitler - and despite the no doubt many people pointing out the association with Hitler and Russia's problems with large numbers of neo-nazis, elected to maintain the name "Wagner group".

    And to suggest otherwise is an outrage.

    Post edited by fash on


  • Registered Users Posts: 29,464 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Russias chief rabbi leaves out of fear of his life.

    Russia deploys neo nazis to brutalise the people of Ukraine.

    Holocaust survivors die at Russias hands.

    This is not a country concerned about nazis in Ukraine in any real way or their concern would be to protect Jews and distance themselves from neo nazi symbolism. Putin and Lavrov admitted this is a land grab and recolonisation of Ukraine.

    Russias parliament is a joke with no powers. A talking shop for Putins stooges.

    Putin an unaccountable fascist dictator who has plundered Russia of huge sums. Whose political opponents disappear or are jailed or die or flee.

    Russia a liberal democracy?

    You have to be far detached from reality and truth to think that.

    Nobody belives this propaganda except those already brainwashed by it.

    The country whose actions today are most like that of the Nazis is Russia.

    Russia denazify yourself if you want to denazify anywhere.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users Posts: 29,464 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    "Nazism is a form of fascism with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. It incorporates fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, scientific racism, and the use of eugenics into its creed. 

    Russia has a parliament and is a liberal democracy despite what you've been brainwashed into thinking for the last 20 years. No doubt you all disagree. But what you cannot say is that Russia is Anti Semitic, anti communist or scientifically racist. It has never claimed to be a higher form of being to any other race."

    Change the country name to Ukraine and even by your own definition Ukraine isnt a Nazi regime and you show up the whole denazification of Ukraine as nothing more than a Russian propaganda plot.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,272 ✭✭✭fash


    Not anti-Semitic?!


    Funny how the head Russian Rabbi is now on the run having been chased out of Russia for his lack of support for the war.



    A liberal democracy!?


    Not "scientifically" racist?

    Tell me how many mosques there are in Moscow again? And how many in Kyiv?

    Let's see what evidence you can provide to support your assertions on this non-racist, non-antisemitic, liberal democracy of yours.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,582 ✭✭✭Field east


    Will somebody out there do whatever is necessary to get this abomination OFF THE PITCH



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,440 ✭✭✭McGiver


    Read it again - I said it was a combination of starvation, genocide by the Bolsheviks and being used as a cannon fodder of the Red Army. That's the reality. You can spout all sorts of nonsense here but you won't change it.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,440 ✭✭✭McGiver


    Incoherent nonsense with Kremlin propaganda as its only source.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,440 ✭✭✭McGiver


    Russia being liberal democracy is the joke of the day 🤣😂😜

    I mean, there's nothing to add here really...



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,440 ✭✭✭McGiver


    Great short documentary about anti-fascist unit Popular Front fighting for Ukraine against Russia.

    Hence we can conclude that the whole Ukrainian Army is composed of Antifa and Ukraine is an Antifa country. Of course it's a joke and nonsense just like the Russian propaganda obsession with Azov batallion.

    EDIT: The group is called Hoods Hoods Clan.

    Post edited by McGiver on


  • Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭bobowen


    Looks like you did a lot of research there and went down your echo chamber rabbit hole to unearth a lot of facts but you have no links to evidence that the Wagner Group or any of its alleged members are Nazi's.

    You've made a somewhat snobbish assumption that because Utkin came from a poor uneducated background he wouldn't be into classical music. And if he was why wasn't it a Russian composer. All your own assumptions to fit your argument. Not facts.

    Your eyes then lit up when you stumbled across references to the Rusich group within Wagner, most probably gleened from pro western sites of the radio free europe ilk backed up with open source intelligence "evidence" of members with tattoos. That is not evidence.

    The entire Wagner group are Nazis narrative is based on one obviously doctored photo "unearthed" in 2020 of Utkin with SS tattoos. One. No speeches. No criminal records. No official emblems. No photos with other prominent neo Nazis. Nothing. You are attempting to equate them to the Asov battalion with one photo and a nom De guerre of a composer Hitler also happened to like. That's all you have. Wouldn't hold up in court would it?

    Assumptions gleened from the Chinese whispers of pro western think tanks and publications with agenda's to make people like you falsely feel confident that you have the proof to back up your claims. You have no real proof and deep down you know you don't.



  • Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭bobowen


    Was it because Russia is anti Semitic that Israel refused to join in the sanctions with everyone else? Or is it because Israel value their ties to Russia and see them as a friendly nation and not Anti Semitic at all? I think the latter.

    Your evidence is all very meta. One book by a University of Illinois professor? Seriously?



  • Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭bobowen


    Now that's what I call fascism. Unironically Putinesque.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,440 ✭✭✭McGiver


    I recommend every serious poster @odyssey @Strazdas @ilkhanid @fash etc to put the latest incarnation of the Kremlin bot on ignore. That's thread clarity sorted straight away...

    Bots/trolls don't discuss, it's a waste of time engaging with if they persist spouting delusions/conspiracies after being replied to with facts.

    Let's get back to the topic 😀



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  • Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭bobowen


    "it's a waste of time engaging with if they persist spouting delusions/conspiracies after being replied to with facts."

    Name one example of this if you can please.



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