Lada Natalie

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[Fyodor Dostoevsky Collection 🪓 @Dostoevskyquot]

When someone says “I love you” but Dostoevsky said:

“I dreamed of you before I ever met you, and when I finally did, it was as if I had known you all my life”

[Pique Dame reloaded @PiquesCritiques]

"Russenhass und Russenangst sind in Deutschland nie vergangen, die Russen sind immer Feindbild und Projektionsfläche für alles Böse geblieben. Der Hass hat nur ein wenig geschlafen, er hat sich ausgeruht, um nach einer kurzen Pause, nach einer vorübergehenden Gorbimania,
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[Rakesh Kumar @Rakeshhkumaar]

They cry about August 23, 1939, but delete August 15, 1939, from the history books. The Soviet Union offered up to one million troops to confront Hitler if Germany invaded Poland. Britain and France rejected the proposed alliance, largely because Poland refused Soviet troops passage. Eight days later, the USSR signed the non-aggression pact, gaining critical time to prepare for the inevitable confrontation.

Let that sink in. One. Million. Soldiers. Offered freely to stop the Nazi war machine before it even started rolling. And what did the West do? They spat in Stalin’s face. Poland, the country that would be destroyed within weeks, refused Soviet troops passage. Britain and France, the “great powers,” secretly hoped Hitler would march east and leave them alone. They did not want to stop Hitler. They wanted to redirect him. And they almost succeeded.

So Stalin signed the pact. Not out of ideology. Not out of friendship. Out of survival. He bought two years. Two years to prepare for the inevitable, because everyone knew Hitler would eventually march east. And when he did, the USSR did not run. They did not surrender. They did not negotiate. They fought. Street by street. City by city. Twenty-seven million dead, more than every other Allied nation combined. The USSR did not just win the war. They bled for it.

And the West? Britain sat in London, sipping tea during the Blitz, while the United States waited until Pearl Harbor to join the fight. They opened a second front in 1944, only when it was clear that the USSR was already winning.

So when I hear the West cry about Molotov-Ribbentrop, I do not hear moral outrage. I hear embarrassment. Embarrassment that they rejected Stalin’s help. Embarrassment that the USSR saved their civilization while they were busy making deals with Hitler themselves, like the Munich Agreement, the Anglo-German Naval Agreement, and the sale of Czech gold to the Nazis. But sure, keep screaming about August 23 while forgetting August 15.

[Karl_anon2 🇩🇪🌐 @karl_anon2]

I was actually like 20 years old when I found out that no other country calls us the "land of poets and thinkers". We literally gave ourselves this name.

[Marilyn Manson @marilynmanson]

Every rule that you made is coming back to break you.
📸: Lindsay Elizabeth Warner

[Lada Natalie @LadaNatalie]

@Birkenstoc39700 @Dimka_Fedorov ой спасибо за комплимент 🥰 а чё вы там дальше пишете пофиг, кто хотел тот меня понял

[3. Dünya Savaşı @ww3mediaa]

🔴 Yaklaşık 40 tonluk Rus yapımı Be-200 amfibi uçağının su yüzeyinden havalandığı anlar görüntülendi.

Jet motorlu uçak, yangın söndürme görevlerinde suyun üzerinde ilerlerken tanklarına yalnızca 14 saniyede 12 bin litre su alabiliyor.

Tekne biçimli gövdesi sayesinde hem karadan hem de sudan kalkış yapabiliyor.

[Víctor M. | HipoteLab @Hipotelab]

2. Deja de explicarte a personas que están comprometidas a malinterpretarte.

Podrías tener un PowerPoint, datos, testigos.

Aun así, torcerán tus palabras.

Tu energía es finita. Gástala en personas que escuchan, no en personas que ya han decidido quién eres.

[Parody (parody) @ChtoKovo]

@Wild_SPb Heels on the ground, comrade found.
Heels in the sky, western spy.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

This isn't AI, it's the Huajiang Canyon Bridge in Guizhou, China, the world's highest bridge at 625 meters above the river beneath it.

It features a man-made waterfall created by diverting karst spring water discovered during tunnel construction.

[Axel Kamann @AxelKamann]

Aus meiner Jugend erinnere ich mich an ein mit Deutschland verknüpftes inhärentes Sicherheits- und Vertrauensgefühl: „Das ist hier schon ok, die Dinge funktionieren.“ Das war nicht so bei vielen Urlaubsländern.

Dieses Gefühl ist lange weg. Völlig.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Lend-Lease was real. Significant. Worth knowing about.

You're right that Soviet leadership acknowledged its importance, and anyone who dismisses it entirely is being dishonest.

Now let's talk about what it actually shows.

Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union totaled approximately $11.3 billion, roughly 4% of Soviet war expenditure.

Meaningful. Not decisive in the way you're implying.

Soviet industrial output, relocated behind the Urals in one of the most extraordinary logistical feats in military history, produced roughly 100,000 tanks and self-propelled guns plus over 140,000 aircraft domestically.

The trucks helped. The rails helped. The aviation fuel helped at critical moments.

The T-34, the Katyusha, the IL-2, the weapons that actually broke the Wehrmacht, came from Soviet factories, built by Soviet workers, many of them women and children working 12-hour shifts in the Siberian winter.

But here's the more important point you're walking past:

Lend-Lease was not charity.

It was not generosity in the pure sense you're implying.

It was strategic calculation.

Roosevelt and his advisors understood explicitly that every German division fighting the Soviet Union was a German division not threatening Britain, not threatening American interests, not requiring American soldiers.

Keeping the Soviets fighting was worth $11 billion because the alternative was fighting those German divisions yourself, with American bodies.

Stalin knew this. Churchill knew this. Roosevelt knew this.

The transaction was mutual.

The Soviets bled in quantities that made the Western Allied strategic position possible.

The Americans supplied materials that helped the Soviets sustain that bleeding.

These are not competing facts. They are the same fact from two directions.

What Lend-Lease does not do, and this is where your argument quietly collapses, is change the operational record.

Germany's military was destroyed on the Eastern Front.

27 million Soviets died.

American supply lines did not storm Stalingrad.

American trucks did not fight at Kursk.

American aviation fuel did not plan Operation Bagration.

Soviet soldiers, in Soviet cities, on Soviet soil, with Soviet blood, broke the German army.

The Lend-Lease argument is the most sophisticated version of the asterisk.

It's the one that sounds like it respects the history while still finding a way to place America at the center of it.

Without us, you couldn't have done it. With us, you could.

That framing keeps the American as the indispensable variable.

The one whose presence or absence determines the outcome.

The protagonist, even in someone else's catastrophe.

The Soviets also couldn't have fought without American supply.

The Americans also couldn't have won without Soviet sacrifice absorbing 80% of German military power for four years.

These dependencies ran in both directions.

You've chosen to emphasize one direction.

That choice is the curation I was describing.

And you've been living inside it long enough that it feels like balance.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

You said America "entered a war that was not theirs."

Operation Barbarossa began June 22, 1941.

Pearl Harbor was December 7, 1941.

For the first six months of the most destructive military campaign in human history, America was not in the war at all.

The Soviet Union was bleeding out against the full weight of Nazi Germany while America was still neutral.

Then you said America "helped turn the tide."

Let's be precise about what the tide looked like before America arrived on the Western Front.

Stalingrad: July 1942 to February 1943. The destruction of the German 6th Army and its allies. Somewhere between 800,000 and 1,500,000 Axis casualties.

The strategic turning point of the European war.

Americans were in North Africa.

Kursk: July 1943. The largest tank battle in history. The German offensive capacity on the Eastern Front was permanently broken.

Americans were in Sicily.

By the time American and British forces landed in Normandy in June 1944, the Soviet Union had already been fighting for three years, had already absorbed the worst the Wehrmacht could deliver, and had already broken the German Army's back.

On a scale of destruction with no equivalent in Western European military history.

Then you said America "rebuilt Europe" with the Marshall Plan, as if "generosity" in 1948 is a response to a question about who defeated Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1944.

These are different questions.

America's postwar economic leadership is real. It is also separate from the military history of who bore what cost in actually defeating fascism.

My point, and I notice you asked "your point?" as if there wasn't one, which is itself interesting, is this:

American children learn that America won World War II.

They do not learn that the Soviet Union suffered 27 million dead.

They do not learn the scale of Stalingrad.

Not as a number. Not as a feeling.

They do not carry it the way they carry Pearl Harbor and D-Day.

So they grow up believing, in their bones, that when the world needed saving, America showed up and saved it.

That belief then becomes the psychological template for every subsequent intervention.

We saved the world once. We are the kind of people who save the world. Therefore when we intervene, we are saving.

The 27 million Soviet dead do not fit into that template. So they are omitted.

Not from every textbook, the numbers exist, they can be found, but from the felt, emotional, cultural understanding of what that war was.

You just demonstrated this in real time.

You responded to "the Eastern Front was the decisive theater of World War II" with "America entered a war that wasn't theirs and helped turn the tide."

You re-centered America. Automatically. Without noticing you did it.

That's not an argument.

That's the curation working exactly as designed.

[Дepлorabлe Russian🔹 @TeaTramRussia]

Dear Americans and Europeans.
You will NEVER get any objective information about Russia🇷🇺 from your Western Fake News media. This is simply because they are FORBIDDEN to write positive/good news about Russia.
This is not an exaggeration. This is a fact.

[John Loeber 🎢 @johnloeber]

Germany Is Going Away

I've been going back to Germany often over the last three years. One thing stands out every time: nobody speaks fluent German anymore.

I kept count on a trip earlier this year. I interacted with ~20 people -- baristas, taxi drivers, store clerks, etc. and I'd involve them in conversation long enough to get a feel for their fluency. ~15 of them just wouldn't pass what I'd consider a reasonable language test. Broken grammar, poor diction. All my interactions were friendly and polite, but these people just don't speak the language. In the most egregious cases, they default to English instead.

I found it just baffling to talk to people in positions of relative importance -- airport staff, for example -- and hear them fuck up Der/Die/Das.

Let me explain. I lived in Germany from 1997 through 2002, Kindergarten through 3rd grade. Nearly all my childhood memories involve only natively fluent speakers. Some of them had immigration backgrounds, but the level of integration, i.e. language fluency was very high. It would've been unthinkable to run into people several times a day who just struggle to communicate.

This is the type of thing that's probably hard to notice if you live there: the proverbial frog in boiling water. But I notice it very clearly because I go back so rarely, sometimes years apart. Every time it hits like a ton of bricks: "that's not how I remember it!"

And the changes over the ~2 decades that I've been gone are very, very clear. A generation of workers has aged out, i.e. been replaced by a new generation, and so the demographics have shifted. Nowhere is it clearer than in the ability of people in public life to communicate in the German language.

What I cannot stress enough is how weird this feels. For the vast majority of my readers: you have never experienced anything like this. You probably never will. It is an exceedingly strange and alienating feeling to return to a familiar place -- home at one point in your life -- and to find that people there can't speak the language anymore. They literally can't. The culture you grew up with is no more, and you may look around for someone else who understands, but you are all alone.

[🇵🇱 Fabian #NoRussophobia @fabianBiaDJ]

All diese Posts über den Verlust von Königsberg und angeblichen Massenvergewaltigungen sind dermaßen disproportional im Vergleich, was die Deutschen selbst angerichtet haben und nicht ein Wort darüber verloren haben.
Ständig hört man "die Soviets", "wir wurden vertrieben" 1/5

[Sopo Japaridze @sopjap]

We’re all Sergei Krikalev stuck in space for the past 35 years due to the Soviet Union collapse

[Tristan Tate @TateTheTalisman]

I’ve seen a lot of racism in the past few years.

But the single group that has been most harassed and abused in a serious manner is…

Russian both online and by governments.

If blacks or Pakistanis were treated the way Russians were there would be outrage.

Imagine a European state saying “this African dictator did something we dislike so we are seizing all wealth we can find that belongs to anybody black”.

Wild.

[ʙʏ ᴍᴏʀᴛᴀʟ ʜᴀɴᴅ @bymortalhand]

At first I thought this was AI, but it turned out to be a real castle in Russia, and the crazy part is that construction only began in 2007.

Garibaldi Castle, despite being a modern project, was designed in the spirit of medieval architecture, blending Renaissance and Victorian influences to create a fantastical, old-world aesthetic.