bd1 Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Luca Brasi to Putins Don Corleone? carlo rizzi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Alymov Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 (edited) http://www.rferl.org/media/video/putin-souvenirs-russia/27220994.htmlRussians Purchase Putin ParaphernaliaPublished 1 September 2015With patriotic passions running high in Russia, the country's souvenir shops are doing brisk business. And Putin souvenirs are all the rage. (RFE/RL's Current Time TV) Edited September 3, 2015 by Roman Alymov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 It's like Coke and Mentos but with a chance of burning explosion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxvJcPToXb0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bd1 Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 VDV priest corps + inflatable church. now i bet that this is something sparky has not thought of, yet.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urbanoid Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Pika Pika Russian version: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EchoFiveMike Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Nothing says "Russia Stronk!" like blowing up the hostages along with the terrorists. S/F....Ken M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BansheeOne Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 And yourself, too. We have a standing phrase of "hostage rescue the Russian way" in our family that goes back to images of liberal use of heavy weapons including Hinds and Grads in anti-terrorist operations in the Caucasus one or two decades back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bd1 Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 (edited) is the third guy from left at 0.27-0.30 shooting at the helicopter just in case? Edited September 13, 2015 by bd1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marek Tucan Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Well at least they did not use TOS-1... But I thought the Japanese had the antitank polemine franchise? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyE Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Alymov Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Nothing says "Russia Stronk!" like blowing up the hostages along with the terrorists. S/F....Ken M I know it does not meter for Westerners, but still it is Kazakhstan special forces show, not Russia. Here the same action from other cameras Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toysoldier Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JasonJ Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Well at least they did not use TOS-1... But I thought the Japanese had the antitank polemine franchise?Although for a bus, MGs or a Ha-Go would have been adequate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Alymov Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 I recommend this article http://russia-insider.com/en/russia-and-west-have-swapped-spiritual-and-cultural-roles/ri9514 It is written by religious person and is overestimating importance of religion in contemporary Russia, but is well representing local spirit, as Russians see themselves. For Russian readers - another good article http://www.vz.ru/opinions/2015/9/14/766724.html Main idea is «What Russia we are building? Is it “Another North Korea" or Orthodox Cristian Iran? No. We Soviet kids of late-1980 grow up watching mix of Soviet and American movies, that formed our dreams. Then we grow up and learned West is far from what we dreamed about and that Soviet propaganda about it we hated when kids was in fact true. So what? Now we, generation of 40-50 year old, are building country of our childhood dreams, “America as it should be” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toysoldier Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 That is in fact a mind boggling concept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Niehorster Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Does your generation see Vladimir Putin is your Ronald Reagan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Alymov Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Does your generation see Vladimir Putin is your Ronald Reagan?We were kids in Ronald Reagan time - so it is more about movie heroes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzermann Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Plugs into an old idea the Tsars apparently had. After the fall of Constantinople, I gather there was indea that florished for many years that Russia was the new Holy Roman Empire relocated. Moscow even went so far as to call itself the Third Rome, which kind of set the ground for Tsars to get too full of themselves centuries later."Tsar" is derived from cesar. The claim is right there. Familiar ground for them to see themselves as morally superior to the west really.Goes back to the schism. Of course the eastern church saw itself as the one and only true christian church and the western were dirty splitters. And going even further back to the split within the roman empire in latin west and greek east. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrOw03gIIQQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Tan Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 That is a very interesting insight. A strong, assertive Russia...economically and politically with consumerist aspirations and none of the weak progressive ideas. Hmmmm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urbanoid Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzermann Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Well in the west toaday everything is TINA. So don't worry too much Vlad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bd1 Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 I recommend this article http://russia-insider.com/en/russia-and-west-have-swapped-spiritual-and-cultural-roles/ri9514 It is written by religious person and is overestimating importance of religion in contemporary Russia, but is well representing local spirit, as Russians see themselves. For Russian readers - another good article http://www.vz.ru/opinions/2015/9/14/766724.html Main idea is «What Russia we are building? Is it “Another North Korea" or Orthodox Cristian Iran? No. We Soviet kids of late-1980 grow up watching mix of Soviet and American movies, that formed our dreams. Then we grow up and learned West is far from what we dreamed about and that Soviet propaganda about it we hated when kids was in fact true. So what? Now we, generation of 40-50 year old, are building country of our childhood dreams, “America as it should be” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyE Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 What is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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