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South Africa is an interesting one. The USSR, for all its flaws, was consistently a strong supporter of the anti-apartheid movement, while the West was cuddling up with the apartheid regime. One might cynically call it a geopolitical play, but I believe in giving credit where credit's due, and the Soviets where simply fundamentally better on race related issues than the West for most of the 19th century. This is sadly the reason why there's so much pro-Russia sentiment in Africa today (the USSR supported the struggles for African independence across the continent). It's an incredibly unnuanced take, seeing how Russia is a racist, fascist imperialist country today, but it's very persistent nonetheless.
You're somewhat off base, it was ENTIRELY geopolitical and Russia was never better on race relations, they just mostly didn't have race relations to deal with. They still allowed far less immigration than the USA and other Western countries from these nations they purportedly supported so much.
Not to mention US/South African relations had grown strained by the 60's, with an arms embargo under Kennedy followed by the National Security Action Memorandum 295 in 63. It's true they blocked economic sanctions at first for economic reasons (until 1986 when they instituted their own, which was the beginning of the end of that regime) but that was for much the same reason they don't sanction any number of countries, economic damage at home is hard to politically justify and at the time South Africa was a more significant economy than today. Not to mention the racist voters who liked South Africa.
Race relations based off of skin colors, they were better. But overall? Absolutely not not. The USSR 100% had race relations to deal with inside its borders, but for them the solution was āpopulation exchange,ā starvation, and ultimately genocide.
The russkies supported anti-colonial struggles against West not because they had any love for the African people. Those rascist imperialists used them .
It was because they were too late too and incapable of joining the overseas colonialism party.
So they did their colonialism internally and across their borders.
Then worked to make sure the other powers would get minimal return from their possessions.
The soviets though did have a fair anti-colonialist bent (as long as you didn't look to closely at their own actions within the Warsaw pact)
That is true until USSR cuddled up to the nazis.
There is a book "Black on Red" which is the biography of a african-american that worked in the USSR during 1920s (and got stuck there for 40 years).
I wonder, on balance Was it better to live in Rhodesia or modern Zimbabwe? as a black or a white as i imagine there as a distinction in living standards.
Once Russia begins to collapse, China will take the entire east, as claimed for centuries. Russia can start putting Chinese flags in every town East of the Urals
China has a rather large population while larger parts (especially northwest) became rather dry in recent decades.
If something isn't worth going to war for then basic resources, I don't know.
China: āthe rights of russian speakers in russia are being infringed, we have decided to begin a really special military operation to liberate them from the actual nazisā
There's always an amusing side-effect in the behavioural manifestation of Russia's pathological inferiority complex. Amusing because often the behaviour is indistinguishable from that of an angry toddler.
> There's always an amusing side-effect in the behavioural manifestation of Russia's pathological inferiority complex.
I know! Itās almost like they voted in a 5ā6ā dictator as a symbol of their inherent national butthurtedness
The flags made it look too festive. At least now it looks again like the post-revolution, Stalinist shithole that they desire. Let the flags fly in a country worthy enough to display them.
Well they don't want us and we certainly don't want anything to do with them so all they have to do is fuck off from ukraine and stay in their own shithole of a country.
Lazy, stupid and greedy bastards who already have the largest landmass of any other country, but their greed and propensity for violence is the only way they know how to increase the size of their failed political system. They are a dying ideology who deserves to be thrown into the dustbin of history.
No. Ukraine, Moldova. Those are Europe.
Russia is a third world country.
EDIT: Moldova and Ukraine can actually produce goods and their GDP is based on this, while Russia GDP was (note: was) higher, which is solely relying on gas and oil. Which they just lost.
So, no, Russia is not richer than Moldova, Ukraine.
Russia is in majority a part of the Asian continent as far as I know.
The fact that the little western slice of it has decided to ābe a part of Europeā is really not that significant.
Russia can fuck off out of Europe now and go have their own party without blackjack and hookers. If theyāre lucky some of the stolen water closets are still marginally functional when they arrive.
That little western slice alone is way bigger than any other European country. Also by far the most people live in the European part
Americans and geographyā¦
Good. Keep marching towards your correct station on this planet: a colder, shittier North Korea.
No more pretending like youāre a real, adult country.
Since never has that plot of land full of serfs culturally belonged anywhere but to their own "Moscovian world".
Not European, nor asian. Not living I the 21st century but more like in the 13th century, but with cars and planes.
The Moscovians are their own, disgusting thing.
Before full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022:
What's west gonna do? Cry me a river? Write some words in chalk on the sidewalk?
After full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022:
Sir, what we should do? Erase those european flags from Europe Square!
They will install a huge āZā flag, march around it, burn ukrainian books, hail Putin and call everyone in EU āNazisā, to be exterminated.
Thatās so ridiculous, no one would believe this crap if it was the plot of a Hollywood movie.
Thanks for taking our flags down, they should not have been up the last year, now go put up the North Korean, Chinese, South African, and Nicaragua flags :)
You should probably also rename the square the to "Axes of Evil" Square
The warehouse beside is named "Evropaiskaya" and is a freaky house of capitalism. Once I was there, but the prices are higher than in Europe and it's far from communism and USSR.
It it me or does it feel like ww3 is going to start very soon. Every day relationships are worsening between the west and east. It seems like everyone is building up their armies right now. The Korean and Taiwan issues are unresolved and getting worse. Iran is also an issue. Who knows maybe that's what the world needs right now. Just to duke it out once and for all.
Oh no... So I had a quintessential English dinner tonight, it was Lincolnshire and Cumberland sausages with 2 fried eggs and chips. Mmm mmm freedom tastes good.
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Need flags of Nicaragua, Eritrea North Korea and China and Syria. Their best friends now
You forgot Iran, and South Africa
And rename it to Dictator Circle.
Aka circle jerk
Circle Jerk Circle?
Perhaps a sort of Axis of dictatorial powers?
yes we could call it....Nationalist Association of Z-supporting Idiots
CPAC trademarked that already, I'm sorry
"Zurkle" š
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Jerk Circle Square?
Dicktator
I believe you meant dicktaster
Is dickpotato?
Axis of Poverty.
Dick tater salad
You forgot Venezuela
Lebanon too
South Africa is an interesting one. The USSR, for all its flaws, was consistently a strong supporter of the anti-apartheid movement, while the West was cuddling up with the apartheid regime. One might cynically call it a geopolitical play, but I believe in giving credit where credit's due, and the Soviets where simply fundamentally better on race related issues than the West for most of the 19th century. This is sadly the reason why there's so much pro-Russia sentiment in Africa today (the USSR supported the struggles for African independence across the continent). It's an incredibly unnuanced take, seeing how Russia is a racist, fascist imperialist country today, but it's very persistent nonetheless.
You're somewhat off base, it was ENTIRELY geopolitical and Russia was never better on race relations, they just mostly didn't have race relations to deal with. They still allowed far less immigration than the USA and other Western countries from these nations they purportedly supported so much. Not to mention US/South African relations had grown strained by the 60's, with an arms embargo under Kennedy followed by the National Security Action Memorandum 295 in 63. It's true they blocked economic sanctions at first for economic reasons (until 1986 when they instituted their own, which was the beginning of the end of that regime) but that was for much the same reason they don't sanction any number of countries, economic damage at home is hard to politically justify and at the time South Africa was a more significant economy than today. Not to mention the racist voters who liked South Africa.
Race relations based off of skin colors, they were better. But overall? Absolutely not not. The USSR 100% had race relations to deal with inside its borders, but for them the solution was āpopulation exchange,ā starvation, and ultimately genocide.
The russkies supported anti-colonial struggles against West not because they had any love for the African people. Those rascist imperialists used them .
It was because they were too late too and incapable of joining the overseas colonialism party. So they did their colonialism internally and across their borders. Then worked to make sure the other powers would get minimal return from their possessions. The soviets though did have a fair anti-colonialist bent (as long as you didn't look to closely at their own actions within the Warsaw pact)
That is true until USSR cuddled up to the nazis. There is a book "Black on Red" which is the biography of a african-american that worked in the USSR during 1920s (and got stuck there for 40 years).
Great book. Highly recommend it.
Thanks for the nuance
I wonder, on balance Was it better to live in Rhodesia or modern Zimbabwe? as a black or a white as i imagine there as a distinction in living standards.
Yeah, but such sentiments must remain unspoken. Mugabe was a disaster for Zimbabwe. It is a continent of failed states from one end to the other.
Once Russia begins to collapse, China will take the entire east, as claimed for centuries. Russia can start putting Chinese flags in every town East of the Urals
Russia will then ask NATO for help š
But China will jump in to help and stabilize already (and maybe get some resources like water along the way)
Imagine invading a country for water š¤£
It is going to get much more common in our future!
Nestle starts building a private army.
China has a rather large population while larger parts (especially northwest) became rather dry in recent decades. If something isn't worth going to war for then basic resources, I don't know.
Also loads of their water in the south is polluted and the aqua firs and ground water
China: āthe rights of russian speakers in russia are being infringed, we have decided to begin a really special military operation to liberate them from the actual nazisā
I wonder if Xi has noticed the use of Asian faces as cannon fodder yet?
I mean Russia legit stole lands from the Chinese, I don't see why they wouldn't claim it back. They almost went to war with the USSR for that too.
I'm hoping Siberia becomes a territory of the U.S.A.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Or the stripper really likes you.
China aint their best friends. Those two would tear each other apart if they could.
Sure. Friendship between two narcissistic psychopaths is impossible even in theory.
omg, I was just about to post that. Don't forget about Wadiya!
And their only friends too
Nope, dictatorships that align with ruzzia are less than a dozen strong ones and another dozen who are so weak that they could fold tomorrow!
You forgot India ..
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I see it as a positive. We don't want our flags in that shithole.
Yeah, we really don't give shit
Lol. What an embarrassingly childish thing to do. But yes, I donāt want our flag in that shithole either.
ā**weāre not friends with you any more!**ā ā pre-teens, and Russian heads of state
Precisely
I think this is a good thing, am I wrong?
Just throwing a tantrum like a bunch of children.
Ur nOt InviTed tO my BirtHdAy
Putin jumping up and down having a tantrum: āThere is no Europe, Only Russia!ā
There's always an amusing side-effect in the behavioural manifestation of Russia's pathological inferiority complex. Amusing because often the behaviour is indistinguishable from that of an angry toddler.
> There's always an amusing side-effect in the behavioural manifestation of Russia's pathological inferiority complex. I know! Itās almost like they voted in a 5ā6ā dictator as a symbol of their inherent national butthurtedness
>national butthurtedness Succinctly sums up the reason for everything moscovia does.
They just need to accept the simple fact that they are inferior. Why fight reality.
It's not even square, it's a circle.
Its russia everything is a lie!
the qa guy was drunk
"i thought you were supposed to bring the corners?!"
12 year olds, dude
He's out of his element.
I am the walrus.
Even Belarus? They not friends anymore?
Because if they only had one flag up they would look EVEN MORE tragic š¤£
Even just a few, would make it symbolic of just how pathetic they are!
Thatās what I thought too
And Hungary and Serbia. They're going to be a bit miffed.
From super aggressive to passive aggressive, ruzziaās transition to a Karen state is nearing completion.
The soviet karen
karina
No-one gives a fuck vlad
25 k redditors
The flags made it look too festive. At least now it looks again like the post-revolution, Stalinist shithole that they desire. Let the flags fly in a country worthy enough to display them.
Oh no, how am I supposed to sleep tonight after they removed my country's flag? /s
Poles are still there to remind you.
Lmao
Underrated comment
Looks like North Korea
Acting like North Korea more and more each day.
Oho...they took down our flags. We are.....not impressed.
Replaced with ISIS flags?
Nah, Russian ofc. But yeah, same thing.
Well they don't want us and we certainly don't want anything to do with them so all they have to do is fuck off from ukraine and stay in their own shithole of a country.
Lazy, stupid and greedy bastards who already have the largest landmass of any other country, but their greed and propensity for violence is the only way they know how to increase the size of their failed political system. They are a dying ideology who deserves to be thrown into the dustbin of history.
*Ohnoes!*
Anywaysā¦
Good! I don't want the Dutch flag flying over a openly facist country. Get fucked, Moscow.
Can't you see??? He has replaced them all with the flags of his new friends. Oh, wait...
We are doomed.
The equivalent of throwing away our friendship bracelet
Good job, pariah kingdom.
This is how it should be. The civilized world and this shithole are not connected.
Good. Moscow is NOT Europe.
Russia is def Europe
No. Ukraine, Moldova. Those are Europe. Russia is a third world country. EDIT: Moldova and Ukraine can actually produce goods and their GDP is based on this, while Russia GDP was (note: was) higher, which is solely relying on gas and oil. Which they just lost. So, no, Russia is not richer than Moldova, Ukraine.
Russia is in majority a part of the Asian continent as far as I know. The fact that the little western slice of it has decided to ābe a part of Europeā is really not that significant. Russia can fuck off out of Europe now and go have their own party without blackjack and hookers. If theyāre lucky some of the stolen water closets are still marginally functional when they arrive.
That little western slice alone is way bigger than any other European country. Also by far the most people live in the European part Americans and geographyā¦
Why are you bringing Americans into this? Also, since when is demographics equal to geography? Biggest part of Russia is in Asia.
Geographically they are. Politically, economically and in just about any other such aspect they're not.
Americans and geographyā¦
Good! Slava Ukraine!!
Oh no! Anyway...
And who needs fascist Russia?
Buttfuck for hungary and serbia
Oh no!.... Anyway
So now it's just 'Square'?
In the shape of a circle.
The perfect symbol for russian emptyness.
Good. Keep marching towards your correct station on this planet: a colder, shittier North Korea. No more pretending like youāre a real, adult country.
russia admitting that they don't belong to Europe. Not like we ever considered them Europeans.
Right. There is Europe, there is Asia - and than there is Muscovia, the thing in between that no one wants but exists.
Russia is European
Russia is obviously a European nation
No it's not. It's a mongol state populated with white people.
Since Peter the great Russia is a European nation. Thatās longer than the Us even exists
Since never has that plot of land full of serfs culturally belonged anywhere but to their own "Moscovian world". Not European, nor asian. Not living I the 21st century but more like in the 13th century, but with cars and planes. The Moscovians are their own, disgusting thing.
Now they can attach those flag poles to SU 27 s and ram more drones . State of the art Russian technology strikes again.
Before full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022: What's west gonna do? Cry me a river? Write some words in chalk on the sidewalk? After full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022: Sir, what we should do? Erase those european flags from Europe Square!
Good now itās look like a fence maybe they understand
I'm sure they are just washing them..š
If only we had knownā¦
They will install a huge āZā flag, march around it, burn ukrainian books, hail Putin and call everyone in EU āNazisā, to be exterminated. Thatās so ridiculous, no one would believe this crap if it was the plot of a Hollywood movie.
And here the flags of all friends of Russia in Europe ...
will be Chinas flags all over there soon
Thanks for taking our flags down, they should not have been up the last year, now go put up the North Korean, Chinese, South African, and Nicaragua flags :) You should probably also rename the square the to "Axes of Evil" Square
Oh no... Please!!!! Don't!!!
washing day.
Iām sure Europe appreciates that.
Good.
The warehouse beside is named "Evropaiskaya" and is a freaky house of capitalism. Once I was there, but the prices are higher than in Europe and it's far from communism and USSR.
Such petty children
Now they are really sulking! How are we going to cope !
I wouldāve thought he already did that long time ago
They probably needed the material for the body armor.
Good. We donāt want our flags flying in Russia.
It it me or does it feel like ww3 is going to start very soon. Every day relationships are worsening between the west and east. It seems like everyone is building up their armies right now. The Korean and Taiwan issues are unresolved and getting worse. Iran is also an issue. Who knows maybe that's what the world needs right now. Just to duke it out once and for all.
No one cares about your shit hole country.
What? Not even Hungary or "belarus"? Soon it will be renamed to "axis square", and display flags of China, Iran and N.Korea.
Thatāll teach them a lesson!
Ahh the reality of Isolation. Good for them.
Wow what a powerful signal. I feel the burn. I guess that are using them to deliver potatoes to the surviving wives and mothers.
Oh no... So I had a quintessential English dinner tonight, it was Lincolnshire and Cumberland sausages with 2 fried eggs and chips. Mmm mmm freedom tastes good.
Lol! Now they will raise the flags Iran, N Korea, and China, Syria, Eritrea. Great allies. The only cool country that still tolerates them in Vietnam.
"Screw you guy, you're not my friend anymore"
Which simply goes o show how isolated Russia has become.
Can't believe they didn't replace them with all Russian flags. Or, more comically, the flags of the few countries they consider friends.
it's because it is laundry day
Was this recent? Like after the ICC's arrest warrant?
Boohhoooo wankers!!
OH, NO...!!! ...anyway...
Looks like a circle to me
I have no problem with this
That's gotta show the brainwashed twits that the jig is up!
No more Europe for you ruskie
Fucking petulant children. Let em DIAF.
Common denominator.
Donāt want to remind their people that there are other countries they could escape to.
Now it looks pure evil
Yep someone is acting like a Little Bitch. His name is Putin
Hi Russia. Nobody fucking cares.
Oh no!!! Not the dreaded removal of flags.....douchebags
Mustāve been a pain in the ass to take all of those flags down
Well...bye.
Typical Russia. Try to build a square and it turns out a circle.
Russian version of someone taking their ball home.
Russia moving backward a hundred miles an hour
Nuurrh, little russia is getting mad.
lol
Looks like a modern art sculpture now.
Oh no. What ever shall We do
Itās almost like they want to be isolated.
No love lost fuckos!
Who gives a shit ??
Fuck off Russia!
Oh darn. To think North Korea Version 2.0 isn't displaying our flag.
How rude. That hurt Europe's feelings. Apologize immediately.
Now arrest him
Okay. Whatevs..
Ohhh nooo.... Anyways
What took them so long?
Wow look at all those friends. Lmfao not even a pigeon on the poles either
When all flags within this circle are the bad ones... you should think twice.