And that's funny that we talk about Soviet shit, because the cult Polish band Kult (ha!) has a song 'Sowieci', with one line going like "Is this shit falling from the sky? No it's the Soviets, the Soviets, the Reds, the Reds, hide hide hide" (or else you'll be robbed and raped, as the song goes). https://youtube.com/watch?v=w_VQlOxXjqU
But what I really meant is https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/t49r6v/soviet_made_shit_as_it_was_in_1991_as_it_still_is/
Maybe go and calculate the Russian military budget since 1991, then add all their older weapons (making most of their thousands of tanks and so on) and infrastructure that were supposed to crush all of NATO when HIMARS was being developed in the 1980s.
And then compare all this together to the American military budgets. Or how much was spent on just trying to defeat the tiny backwards North Vietnam.
Yeah, the masses of Soviet shit quickly overrun Poland in 1939 along with much more sophisticated German weapons. Then they proceeded to murder or deport over a million people in the next few months.
It didn't work so well for the sons of bitches in Finland soon later.
And they fight more like in WWII now, dying in frozen trenches mostly from artillery fire and airstrikes (helicopters and planes but also drones of various kinds). In Chechnya they had total air supremacy and practically always total in artillery too (Chechens had only few artillery pieces larger than infantry mortars).
No, because they mostly use the Soviet shit, retardo. Including ours old shit (but also our new weapons like the Krab, and of course their own new weapons).
The American aid is still but a trickle. No matter how much you tankies wail about how "much" it is, it's laughably little for what is a WWIII against the USSR in just one country instead of the global war of Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising.
And how about this today, even as Finland is entirely at peace?
The "Jewish puppet" can't even get any help from Israel against the Iranian drones.
And since you're apparently Finnish, what did your own "great guy" and the nationalists in general do with traitor elements ("Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic") when Finland fought for independence from Russia?
Let's say I don't know, so you tell me and we'll compare the respective "freedoms and goodies".
We can also compare with others, such as South Korea until late 1980s.
Everyone will do it when the country is massively invaded and occupied. As you can see, or maybe nor because you're disabled, it "was" different "before Russia invaded and took that away". All sorts of actual fifth column was tolerated instead of repressed, despite the country being already at war and partially occupied. And that's for over half decade before "the great guy" even took over when he defeated the previous "guy" in free elections (and the said previous "guy" returned from abroad in January 2022 to be tried for charges of treason, but now he's fighting to defend the country by financing and leading his own unit).
Since you so inquired so much about the Western weapons and what they do, masses of newly partially mobiliZed from Saratov Oblast just got partially or totally demobilized by a single HIMARS strike (a single launcher's salvo of 6 death merchandise rockets) in a New Year's Eve blast.
This happened in the first minute of 2023 while they were drinking and watching Putin's speech (Putin in a suit surrounded by actors in uniforms) in an occupied school with an artillery storage in the basement under them because they are actually retarded, just like their supporters in the West.
What a politically incorrect war, against the very specially military operating mentally handicapped alcoholics.
Here's a commentary on this event by the now convicted war criminal Strelkov (who had recently mobilized himself back and then few weeks later demobed himself after concluding that alles verloren) in a translation: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FlgHfSYXgAE7JWs?format=jpg&name=medium (tldr: Sad, many such cases.)
And so, you see, this is how the "famously accurate" Western weapons work. You fire 6 rockets from 1 truck in under 1 minute, 4 of them directly hit the target, and the enemy is now minus a whole battalion of manpower that they have spent entire hours training with all their standard issue Mosin Nagants made in 1941 and whatever other Soviet shit along with an entire cache of North Korean shells.
Mostly because the enemy is literally retarded, but nevertheless.
When the draft versions were released, several international media organizations voiced opposition to the law, including the Committee to Protect Journalists and the European Federation of Journalists.
Ricardo Gutiérrez, general secretary of the European Federation of Journalists, told The New York Times the law still contradicted European press freedom standards.
I thought you guys were all like "fuck the journos and the EU".
Poland is similarly critcized for our "authoritarian" media laws, and we're not even at war for survival. Like:
BRUSSELS, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Hungary and Poland are turning increasingly authoritarian, a European rights group said on Tuesday, a day before the European Union's top court rules on whether to cut funding to member states flouting democratic rights and freedoms.
The Berlin-based Civil Liberties Union for Europe singled out the two formerly communist EU countries in a broader report highlighting how the rule of law has deteriorated across the 27-nation bloc during the coronavirus pandemic.
The umbrella advocacy, which brings together rights groups from 17 EU countries, said Hungary and Poland were "seizing further control of the justice system, civil society and media, while cutting basic human rights and fuelling divisions by scapegoating migrants and other minority groups".
Warsaw and Budapest deny wrongdoing and accuse the EU of imposing liberal values alien to what they say are their traditional, conservative and Catholic societies.
Or this (going even beyond the EU):
Poland angers US by rushing through media law amid concerns over press freedom
US ‘deeply troubled’ by the bill, which tightens foreign ownership rules, arguing it will weaken press freedom
Reuters
Sat 18 Dec 2021 01.53 EST
Poland’s parliament passed a media bill that detractors say aims to silence a news channel critical of the government, in an unexpected move that will stoke concern over media freedom and reopen a diplomatic dispute with the US.
Critics say the legislation will affect the ability of news channel TVN24, owned by US media company Discovery Inc, to operate because it tightens the rules around foreign ownership of media in Poland.
The vote sours relations with the US, Poland’s most powerful ally, at a time of heightened tension in eastern Europe over an increasingly assertive Russia.
The European Commission said the new law sends another negative signal about the respect of rule of law and democratic values in Poland.
“Once this bill becomes a law, the Commission will not hesitate to take action in case of non-compliance with EU law,” commission vice-president Vera Jourova said in a statement.
Opposition lawmakers said the manner in which the committee was convened was illegal and breached democratic standards.
Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, deputy head of the committee and a member of the opposition Left grouping, said members had been told to attend by text message 24 minutes beforehand, when rules state they should be informed three days in advance.
The bill must be signed by president Andrzej Duda to become law. Duda, an ally of the government, has previously said that takeovers of foreign-owned media groups should take place on market terms and not with forced solutions, in a sign he could use his power to veto the bill.
The US state department called on Duda to protect free speech, freedom to engage in economic activity, property rights and equal treatment.
“The United States is deeply troubled by the passage in Poland today of a law that would undermine freedom of expression, weaken media freedom, and erode foreign investors confidence in their property rights and the sanctity of contracts in Poland,” state department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement.
The Law and Justice party has long argued that foreign media groups have too much influence in Poland, distorting public debate. PiS says the bill aims to stop countries like Russia or China gaining influence over Polish media.
Critics say that moves against foreign media groups seek to limit media freedom and are part of an increasingly authoritarian agenda that has already put Warsaw at loggerheads with Brussels over LGBT rights and over changes to the judiciary that the EU says undermine the independence of courts.
But hey you can start sucking off the journos and the EU (and Leftoids and the American State Dept) if you really want so.
This series also made IMDb change the user score algorithm, because the early arithmetic mean should be 1.2 and the median 1. So they changed it and thus it became 6.9 (lowered to 5.7 by now).
Click on rating distribution: https://imdb.com/title/tt13406036/ratings/?ref_=tt_ov_rt
26,559 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 5.7 / 10
Arithmetic mean = 1.3 Median = 1
Top 1000 Voters 3.0
It's mostly fine.
The main cast if you wonder about that: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bd/24/1c/bd241ca2851ebc5d4528d7b87fc0c9cf.jpg
Don't tell the other countries nationalists lol
"All the stabbings" would fit the story well lol
It's waaaay more Welsh than English here. The narrator is an "Englishman" (Saxon) but raised by the Britons (after miraclously surviving their ritual sacrifice as an infant) and entirely identifying with them:
These are the tales of the last days before the great darkness descended. These are the tales of the land we call Lloegyr, which means the Lost Lands, the country that was once ours but which our enemies now call England.
The author usually writes about the English, including in The Saxon Chronicles / The Last Kingdom (the Viking invasion of England).
Is the midget demon repelled by bricks like the vampires are by garlic?
I wanted to say how it's questionable would the international audiences be even interested in anything remotely genuine (unlike the literal Jewish fantasy of Wakanda), but then I remembered there's a French African-folklore animated movie, Kirikou and the Sorceress, that was so successful that it got several sequels and spinoffs in many years after its release and there was even a video game.
To the surprise of many, Kirikou and Sorceress has become one of the greatest successes of French animated cinema. After modest beginnings, thanks to word of mouth the film quickly became a hit in France. Thanks to its success, the film has been translated into 16 languages and was exported around the world. Beginning in 1999, it was distributed in Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway. In subsequent years, the film also appeared in the United States, Germany and the UK. This international success has been bolstered by dozens of awards, including the Best Feature Film Award at the International Animation Film Festival in Ukraine and the Best European Feature Film Award at the British Animation Film Festival.
That's more than a great most of standalone animated films.
"Women always win" - Imp I the Blackpilled
Along with a presumably very low budget (the fuck even is ITVX) it's guaranted to be a literal shit show. Even worse than the last season of The Last Kingdom.
Instead, They (Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2019) invest money in things like ridicalous "prequels" to other fantasy books series.
See, you won't explain too lol
Not just African, Mulan is curiously the only Disney remake where no one (zero, null, including unnamed background characters) was randomly race swapped in an "update for modern audiences" to "better reflect the world that we live in".
Meanwhile even Snow White isn't white lol
The books were fucking modern already, from the mid/late 1990s, and got their audiences because without it there would be no "adaptation". But no.
Let's not forget the mulatto Guinevere and the black Elian the White (lolz) in the BBC Merlin, just EVERYONE Arthurian being black in Once Upon a Time, blacks everywhere in Guy Ritchie's stupid King Arthur movie (that I also stupidly went to see in a theater without watching any trailer not reading anything beforehand), the black-mulatto Arthur himself (and his half-sister born to another black woman, their father being white) in Netflix's Cursed, and so on, and so forth.
While they never even use any of the actual exotic knights of Arthur, some (at least 2) of whom are canonically half-black while several others are ambiguously Saracen and pagan (probably Arabic and Muslim, maybe Jewish). They just always ignore them because their names aren't the few household ones. Such as,
Sir Palamedes (var. Palomedes, Palomides, Palamede, and Palomydes) is a minor figure within the literary Arthurian tradition. He is a Saracen knight of the Round Table; unbaptised and thus technically a pagan, but a true Christian at heart; a courtly lover who never achieves his desires; a figure of eternal chivalry in his pursuit of the Questing Beast. (...) Perhaps a portion of the fascination the Palamedes of the Prose Tristan has held for critics and writers is due to his narrative positioning as both outsider and insider who is nevertheless effectual. (...) Since he is aware of the near-impossibility of ever winning his beloved and yet continues to adore her despite her rejection of his love, Palamedes is arguably one of the few true courtly lovers in the Arthurian stories. In this sense, his love for her is the pure embodiment of the courtly ideal. (...) The history of the literary Palomedes is long and varied, stretching from the 13th century to the present day. With the resurgence of academic and popular interest in the troubled hero, Palomedes' own popularity has begun to increase. There are many new novels, plays, and poems featuring the character; each presents a different aspect of the tradition, permitting Palomedes to change and adapt to the needs and demands of different audiences in different times.
Not movies and no television lol
Btw Chretien de Troyes might have been a converted Jew who created the Holy Grail motif as a symbol for the need to convert the other Jews to Christianity (https://www.jstor.org/stable/460649).
I talked how I had zero expectations, not least because the director is the one behind that Antifa Robin Hood movie and the Halo TV travesty, but I still feel angry. In the book series (from only the 1990s), Sagramor is an extremely rare black person in all Britannia and beyond (Armorica) and everyone is freaked out when first seeing him, so much that the Saxons believe him a demon from their underworld (https://books.google.com/books?id=0CsNyIl7DlgC&pg=PT181). It's very historically grounded despite magic (which may or may not be real, not least because of an unreliable narrator). But lol no, "updated for modern audiences to reflect the world we live in", too, of course. Fuck you.
While proclaiming "defending socialism" and "fighting bandits" while "protecting the population". In Syria too (the Baath Arab Socialist Party).
Saddam's chemical weapons were all made in Iraq. But the expertise in both use and production came from the Soviet-trained Egyptians (who have had gassed the royalists in Yemen, supporting the socialist side in their own Afghanistan style adventure).
Egyptians just like Iraqis later used Soviet-made aircraft and bombs as delivery weapons.
No one talks about it and few even know because neither the West nor Israel were at fault or involved in any way whatsoever, so no one cares, and especially not the dumbass tankies such as yourself.
Also the greatest of the following waves of Soviet deportation just began in 1941 when it was interrupted by the (special military) Operation Barbarossa. Which quickly wrecked tens of thousands of Soviet tanks and planes, which they have had more the rest of the world combined.
Then a m decade later in Korea, America and allies from half of the world badly struggled against a very small part of the new Soviet military arsenal (just several hundred tanks and planes). It was in a way a reversal of the current situation in the terms of minimum investment for maximum effect in a huge proxy war (secretly direct with the best Soviet fighter aces).
Even more so against France in Indochina at the same time.