Well it seems they are now starting to blame US and Europe for not supplying things quickly enough, and not supplying big shit from the start.

As opposed to, you know, blaming them for being dragged into the whole mess as cannon fodder to begin with

Huh, Israel voted “yes” on the L5?

the foundations of European culture were almost all developed in Africa.

Could you elaborate on this, please?

Thank you

We’d probably have to reinvent Marxism due to its dialectical materialist base

What’s your impression of the people there? Troops, officers?

Guess all capitalist systems inevitably follow the same logic, huh? I wonder if a certain bearded fellow would write a book about it

Very interesting news! An excellent application of new technologies, much better than using robots and AI for war. Hopefully it will further speed up the development of the rail system.

Even if I’m slightly worried about the electric engineers who used to do it before

I actually didn’t know/forgot the name of the fellow, but instantly recognized some of the paintings upon looking up

Soooo are they going to surrender maybe? Peace talks? Stop firing bombs at civilians? Maybe?

The “Russians are lazy and have too many holidays” has been a talking point of our (Russian) homegrown liberals for years. So I agree, it’s not just Brits, it’s all capitalist countries. Some are just quicker with implementation

That would give the yanks an actual pretext for an invasion, unfortunately

Sinkevich. Author of “With fire and sword”, “Deluge” and the third one whose name escapes me at the moment

Which one would you personally pick? Any movie with an orchestral soundtrack, your choice

Having thought about it, here’s a whole series. The Merry Carousel!

My favourite is about the lonely little Hippo

Such is life in the Zone

I’m suddenly reminded of the Stalker movie, which specifically used black and white for “outside”, and full colour for the Zone

Isn’t that technically post-soviet?

What would you replace it with?

Give me a name of Polish artist and one of their works from the 19th or 20th century. Before PRL of course

Do writers count?

Thanks!