Profile of Hypnotoad

I was talking about the Holodomor. We will never know for sure how many died in this genocide, 20-30 million Ukrainians murdered is the high end of the spectrum of estimates, but i've seen sources that have been calculated at as high as 12 million, so given the lack of clear evidence on precise numbers and the nature of this genocide, the former estimates are entirely likely, let alone possible.

Like I said more than once, i'm not trying to denigrate the sacrifice of anyone in this war, i'm only protesting this Russian denial/belligerence about the past on what should be a day of rememberance.

I also never pretended to know what's in the minds of every Russian, but I know what the school history textbooks in Russia say and I know the attitudes/commentary of the Russian government in regards to the war so I don't have to have lived in Russia to make the observations that I make, just as you don't need to live in America to know that most Americans are technically obese.

Blaming Soviet crimes on Stalin (as Putin does in that clip) is exactly what i'm talking about, the Soviet system was criminal before and after Stalin (for instance Solzhenitsyn's key argument against the Soviet system was that Stalin merely amplified a system already established by Lenin and Dzherzinsky) so using Stalin's legacy as a scapegoat to offload blame for Soviet Russian crimes is bullshit.

Would anyone accept a German saying 'That shit with the Jews wasn't our fault - it was just Hitler'?

Would Stalin been able to have done what he did without his Russian lieutenants and footsoldiers?

Russia's paid propaganda destabilizes contries? How exactly?

I will just say that every country that has the power to do HAS ALWAYS and WILL ALWAYS try to extend its reach and gain benefit from it. It is obviously the most common and popular thing to do these days - spit at the Soviet Union. But politics have always been like that. Be it Germany with WW2, or the US with Iraq/Panama/Grenada, or the Brits stealing from and oppressing Indians, or European colonies in Africa, or Poles invading Russia long before the USSR existed or mongols conquering most of Asia, or Italians gassing Abyssynian tribesmen. Before you start the usual "omg soviet empire of evil" rant - be FAIR, and try to remember someone NOT extending their influence when they HAVE THE MEANS to do it.

And obviously, as far as the actual holiday goes - it is meant for those who gave their lives defending their homeland and has nothing to do with political bullshit being spread through it by this or that politician.

While you are right in pointing out that pretty much all nations abuse their power to commit crimes, the critical difference between the west and Russia is that British children learn about the crimes of the British empire, German children learn about Nazism and American children learn about what happened to their native fellow citizens.
Whereas Russian children are taught - "while the Soviet Union was not a democracy, it was a shining example of fairness and equality the world over" (that was an excerpt from a Russian school history textbook)

The reason why there is so much hatred towards Russia is because your people have ignored or denied the criminality of your past (the hatred is not because there IS criminality in Russian history), or even worse justified these crimes as somehow necessary in the fight against Nazism.

Your nations sacrifice in WW2 does not absolve the murder of 20-30 million Ukrainians, the ethnic cleansing of Germans and Poles from their homes at the end of WW2, the oppression of Europe for 50 years during the cold war or the slaughter of the Afghans in the 80's among other crimes.

I also personally find it offensive how your people denigrate the sacrifice of the other allies in WW2. Yes the sacrifice of the Americans, the British, the French and the other allies was smaller in magnitude than that of the Russian nation, but they are no less dead, their families suffer their loss no less and their contribution to the defeat of Nazism is no less heroic. You Russians are not the only ones to fight Nazism, and for your people to pretend otherwise is appalling.

In closing, I think you'd be hard pressed to find an American who denies the CIA's involvement in Latin America, or even who says it was justified/necessary in the context of the Cold War, or an Englishman or a Scot who condones the British treatment of the Indians let alone a German who celebrates Nazism.

Could we say the same about the Russian attitude to the crimes of the Soviet union?

funny that some brainless noobs from IGN played Campaign... and they were really bad

They must not have played tutorial first MVGame

Stephennnnn after a couple of drinks...


Watching a 2v2 double American shoutcast where they've naturally gone Inf/Armor:


Maccaroni trying to troll RiSin on this thread:


My mental image of Comp1exity:


Aljaz's response to every question from Ami during his SNF S4 appearance:


RiSin and the RuKaCl boys out on a nice Sunday stroll:

Edit:
Imagine this:
Some random guy storms into your house and forces you to live in a small room under your stairs without access to the rest of the house.
It this fair? Depends on whom you ask. I'm pretty sure that the guy who just stormed in thinks this is alright (being crazy and all), but you might have a different opinion.

Minutes later, I come in. I throw out the previous guy oppressing you and I let you not only have the room under the stairs, but I also let you use your bathroom.

I hope you see where this is going.

What really takes the cake is when you have intellectuals in the west saying that the second guy is actually better than the first guy -even 'right'/justified etc- because he let you use the bathroom..