CascadeOfLight [he/him]

I have decided to renounce the Order of the White Eagle

“You can’t fire me, I quit!”

Posts keep scrolling by on as each wave becomes ‘the largest Ukrainian drone attack of the war’, but what I don’t understand is, why now?

Did their human-shielded civilian apartment drone workshops suddenly pick up the pace? Or are they now blowing through all their stockpiles?

And is there a strategic goal here, or is this just spiteful Endsieg flailing? Perhaps they know it’s no longer possible to achieve anything on the front lines and they’re trying to rack up some propaganda wins through wild terrorism?

the Air Force has rightfully made clear that its immediate priorities following yesterday’s B-52 crash are engaging with the families of those who perished and working on the investigation

Yeah sorry ma’am, after a painstaking forensic analysis, it turns out your son forgot to clean out the lint trap on the radar

Piles of ash cannot have injuries

The parasite that killed and devoured the Soviet Union xenomorph-style is repeating anticommunist propaganda? I wonder why that could be.

‘The Holodomor’ is a Neonazi propaganda buzzword invented in the 80s to equivocate between the USSR and the Third Reich, specifically chosen to imply similarity to the Holocaust which in turn is a form of Holocaust minimization. The origin of the ‘intentional famine’ myth was literally Joseph fucking Goebbels, and was spread by the media empire of avowed US fascist media tyrant William Randolph Hearst.

Here’s what a die-hard Ukrainian nationalist had to say about the famine of 1932:

The USSR did everything it could to alleviate the famine - which stretched beyond Ukraine both further into the USSR and out beyond its borders, shattering the notion it could possibly have been targeted - and once it was brought under control, no famine ever affected the USSR again in peacetime.

Why would there need to be an alternative? It was already the best possible version of what could have happened, within the bounds of a crushing siege by the entire capitalist world on one hand, and basic human fallibility on the other. There is no other political leader in history with a higher proportion of correct decisions to mistakes than Stalin, and they were mistakes, as in consequences not intended from actions taken earnestly to protect the people of the USSR - unlike the actual unspeakable atrocities being committed constantly by every single imperialist nation at the time, as well as before and since.

Even just on its own terms, the USSR was unimaginably more humane than what came before:

what existed outside of it:

and what came after:

This is called the “Eastern Cross” by the way, a demographic phenomenon unique to former nations of the USSR, where the death rate and birth rate suddenly cross over each other in the 90s. It’s way better that this happened, of course, than the USSR being run by “”“authoritarians”“” who would protect their people from sabotage and murder using the necessary amount of violence (that is, still less than their enemies).

But I forgot, we’re comparing an actual nation that had to actually exist in the dirt and blood of the real world, to the geometrically perfect platonic anarchist society that lives in your head, so I guess I have to concede. I’ll go tell all the communists in the third world to pack it up and disband their organizations and scratch out all the hammers and sickles so you can go tell them how to avoid being assassinated by the CIA the right way.

You’re so right, it would have been way better for everyone in the territory of the USSR to be illiterate and poor and starving, so they wouldn’t have cared so much when the Nazis effortlessly murdered everyone from western Poland to eastern Siberia. Who even needs industrial output when you could have a “”“horizontally-organized”“” bandit kingdom named after its unelected leader?