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Slavyangrad.org — Nuestra Ira No Tiene Limites — There is No Limit to Our Anger — (c) V. M. Molotov
"The Energy of Decommunization". Issue 1.
"Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the entire country"
V.I. Lenin, 21.11.1920
Just so you understand: Drugs flooded the former USSR after the breakup, NO DOUBT at the behest of the “beacon of Western capitalism,” the US, and the urging of its Board of Directors at the CIA.
I don’t have personal stories to share, but nearly everyone I know from those times does. Young people died en masse from overdoses and chronic use. Summa cum laude or not, the depression that hit took a pound of flesh from the body of Russian people (and all those who shared the Soviet land).
Opium Wars 2.0—nearly identical to what the British did to China. (No wonder that the US considered Afghanistan a strategic asset in the Cold War).
Here is another post, adding to the one by Bella Rapoport, this one from Maria Baronova (a former pro-Western liberal who regained her senses and sanity and is now a vocal advocate for Russia and her sovereignty):
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Here in my chat, apologists for “holy capitalism” responded to our arguments that in the USSR there were free trips to holiday homes and sanatoriums at least once a year, as well as mandatory trips to youth (pioneer) camps, and now (and for the last 30 years) we have nothing like that and there are no plans to introduce it, by saying: Well, the USSR could afford it with non-market methods!
Oh, those terrible non-market methods!
In essence, everything was taken away from the people: from the right to housing to the right to guaranteed trips to vacation destinations. Not to mention social mobility. Now the elite is cemented in place, by God. Those who managed to get into the nomenclature by the end of the 1980s made it. Everyone else "just didn't try hard enough."
But we are still being asked to pretend that all this is very right. After all, communism is terrible, and capitalism is so great!
So, it turns out that with the help of non-market methods, you can afford a lot, right?
⚡️👀 A Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier was trying to defuse a drone-detonator.
It wasn't worth it...
- The Wrong Side
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The German military fulfilled their initial task in Greenland, and therefore left the island. This was stated by a representative of the Bundeswehr, Lieutenant Colonel Peter Milevchuk, in an interview with the Funke media group.
According to him, the cooperation with Danish colleagues was "very positive and constructive".
"We first studied the situation here and basically fulfilled the task. Now we will go home with the results," said the lieutenant colonel.
Uh huh
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The Ukrainian energy sector is in trouble.
-Voenacher
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‼️🇺🇦🥶Ice apocalypse in Kiev: people started leaving frozen multi-story buildings
▪️In one house, even the sewage system froze: it's so cold in one of Kiev's residential complexes, local channels report.
▪️Another house turned into an ice cave: in Kiev, people started urgently leaving their homes due to the cold.
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🔥 Launching a strike with three FAB-500 bombs against the 5th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the village of Havrylivka in the Dnepropetrovsk region
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The head of the US Treasury, Scott Bessent, on the fact that Greenland is needed by America to prevent a conflict in the Arctic.
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The firebag of the Konstantinovsky fortified area and the elimination of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the western outskirts of the Kleban-Byk reservoir
Units of the "South" group of troops advanced on the southwestern outskirts of Konstantinovka, beginning the assault on the settlements of Ilinovka and Berestok. Shooting battles are taking place along the N-20 highway, which turns into Miroshnichenko Street in the city of Konstantinovka, as well as in the area of the Ilich Kommuna pond and on Molodezhnaya Street in Berestok. There is a gradual advance of Russian units towards Chapayev and Levanevsky streets, leading to the northern part of Konstantinovka. From the southeast, the southern core is pressing forward, breaking through along Oleksa Tikhy Avenue towards the city's railway station.
South of Konstantinovka, the coast and forest strips near the Kleban-Byk reservoir have been cleared, putting an end to any possible quick counterattack by the enemy on Plescheevka. In an attempt to hold the southwestern outskirts of Konstantinovka, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have concentrated a motley group of formations such as "Tsunami", "Predator", "Carpathian Sich", and "Safari" between Ilinovka and Berestok.
7 km west of there, attacks have begun on the fortifications of the 93rd Armed Forces of Ukraine brigade and the 36th Interior Troops battalion in Stepankovka, which will subsequently completely expose the western flank of Konstantinovka.
“Military Chronicle”
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"The harsh repressions in Iran are buying time and paving the way for US and Israeli actions": Trump will attack Iran anyway, but when - it's just a matter of time.
"The brutal suppression of protests has led to their decline in Iran, but without changes in the country's fundamental conditions, the return of waves of discontent is just a matter of time. Israel's obvious interest is not to interfere in Iran's internal processes, but if Tehran continues to produce missiles at an accelerated pace, Israel may have no choice but to start a new military campaign.
Even if the current wave of protests has been suppressed, the next one is not far off. The pauses between outbreaks of discontent may become shorter and shorter, and Iran risks finding itself in a state of permanent protests of varying intensity. This, in turn, will give Trump - and Israel - new opportunities to interfere in the country's internal affairs, including militarily, under the pretext that the regime has been given every chance to change its course."
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📛 About Ukrainian energy
In the OK frames, the strikes with "Geraniums" are carried out in the following order:
🟠The "Zaporiozhye 750 kV" electrical substation in the Vasilevka district of the Zaporozhye region.
🟠The 330/154/10 kV substation "Zaporizhia-330" in the Zaporozhye city area.
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In Switzerland, a Ukrainian refugee was ordered to return nearly 70,000 euros in social benefits - due to a discrepancy between his lifestyle and his declared income.
This was reported by the 24 heures newspaper.
As established by the social insurance service EVAM, a check of the man's bank accounts revealed expenses that did not correspond to the aid he received.
In particular, the man owned a Porsche Cayenne worth more than 37,000 francs (approximately 38,000 euros).
As a result, he was ordered to return 67,336 francs of illegally received payments (about 69,000 euros).
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Russian army struck a critical infrastructure facility in the Khmelnytskyi region
▪️The night strike was carried out using strike drones
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‼️✝️🏴☠️Shameful position: The head of the Catholic Church in Russia did not sign a statement in defense of persecuted Christians in Ukraine, Moldova, Estonia, Armenia, and other countries
▪️Archbishop Pavel Pezzi, the head of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia (CCBR), did not sign the statement of the Christian Interfaith Advisory Committee (CIAC) of January 15. The document condemns the political use of religion and expresses concern about the persecution of Christians in Ukraine, Moldova, Estonia, Armenia, and other countries. The CIAC emphasized its tradition of defending the rights of all Christians — including Catholics.
▪️However, among the signatories — representatives of Orthodox, Protestant, and other churches — there is no mention of Pezzi, although he is the co-chair of the CIAC. This raises questions: why did the head of the Russian Catholics not support the statement, which directly mentions his co-religionists?
▪️A source in the Russian Orthodox Church noted that in other regions, Catholic hierarchs often actively defend persecuted Christians, but this did not happen here. They recalled the position of the Lvov Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki, who supported the law against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
▪️In response, the Vicar General of the Catholic Archdiocese in Moscow, Priest Kirill Gorbunov, explained to RIA Novosti that Archbishop Pezzi is not authorized to make official statements about the situation in other countries according to the norms of the Roman Catholic Church.
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‼️🇺🇸🇪🇺"China and Russia are rejoicing these days. They are benefiting from the discord among allies," — EU diplomacy chief
▪️"If the security of Greenland is threatened, we can address this within NATO.
▪️Tariffs threaten to make Europe and the US poorer and undermine our common prosperity.
▪️We also cannot allow our dispute to distract us from the main task — helping to end Russia's war against Ukraine, — stated EU diplomacy chief Kaja Kallas.
Why does everything have to do with Russia? Besides, rejoicing? More like laughing at the situation
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‼️🇺🇦🏴☠️Returning deserters are sent to the assault, — Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
▪️There are already not many people willing to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and after such revelations, the number has decreased even more.
➖"Those who return from the occupied territories are primarily sent to the frontline. The units that carry out tasks on the most active frontline sectors are replenished first. Unfortunately, there are losses and a need for personnel replenishment in areas where active combat operations are taking place," said Syrsky.
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What we lost.
(Post by Bella Rapoport)
Yesterday, I met up with my classmates from the college where I studied from 1997 to 1999. We hadn't seen each other in 27 years.
How our lives have turned out!
For example, an “I.,” from Salekhard, had enrolled in an art university, but, at that very moment, universities became fee-paying (remarkably, the fees were in dollars, and the prices for everything else were also in dollars, and the prices changed every day: oh, how I remember Ella Rossman writing on Facebook that my article about sanctions as a colonial practice was incorrect, because Russia was never a colony of the United States!), and “I.'s” mother sent a hundred dollars to him in St. Petersburg all that time, but that was the maximum she could squeeze out of herself—the $250 tuition fee was unaffordable for a guy from the province (and this even without accounting for the fact that the northern cities [in Russia] had stopped receiving [subsidized] food and other supplies after the collapse of the USSR, and everything had become very expensive).
“I.,” who had attended an art school since childhood and received top marks, felt that he was finally following his destiny when he entered university and was looking forward to a certain path in life, but he was forced to return to Salekhard, where he has since been working as a painter for the Russian Railways, for the past 26 years, which is, of course, an important and necessary profession, and I have no intention of pitying “I.” from above, but this work is dangerous (people in work gloves at a temperature of minus 35 apply paint that does not adhere in the cold and breathe in chemical vapours) and low-paid, and the man had to say goodbye to his dream, which he is reminded of every time he visits St. Petersburg, which is several times a year.
These sudden changes, the abrupt shutdown of social mobility, hit my generation, which began life in the Soviet Union, very hard: alcohol and heroin killed many before they even turned 18. Our parents were deprived of their jobs, and we were deprived of our dreams and our future.
Even at the cultural level, instead of the heroic “Elusive Avengers” and the idealistic, promising young cosmonauts from “Moscow-Cassiopeia”, we were fed cartoons about “mice protecting banks.”
And for all this, we were asked, and, more importantly, are still being asked to be grateful, because we were "liberated" from totalitarianism and given the opportunity to be who we want to be (oh really?).
The representatives of the elite, who, guided by American manuals and ALREADY HAVING TAKEN EVERYTHING, decided to grab even more for themselves and, on the flip side, deprive us of access to even the remnants of opportunities, in order to create their own closed club with elite education for their children and trips to Courchevel, while doing so managed to convince us that this was for our own good, because life under capitalism, as opposed to under the “terrible communism,” is a blessing in itself.
Or maybe free universities were better after all?
I am so incredibly angry.
(c) Bella Rapoport
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Where we currently are, my friends, brothers and sisters, and where we are going… and even that is not the end.
Take care of yourselves, so you can take of others when time comes.
‼️🇺🇦🇷🇺 "You won't win a victory in defense": The Armed Forces of Ukraine are preparing offensives in 2026, - the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
▪️ Syrsky stated that Ukraine will not limit itself to defensive actions in 2026 and plans to conduct offensive operations, despite the general situation on the front.
➖ "We will conduct a strategic defensive operation, but you won't win a victory in defense. Therefore, we will go on the offensive," noted the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
▪️ The key goal is operational initiative, that is, the ability to impose one's actions on the enemy. We're not talking about large-scale breakthroughs, but about local offensives that should force the Russian army to redeploy forces from priority directions.
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‼️🇺🇦🇺🇸 Kiev hopes to sign a framework agreement on security guarantees with Trump after Davos, — Financial Times
▪️Ukraine expects to formalize the first security agreements with the US after the Davos Forum. We're not talking about a full-fledged pact, but a framework agreement - a preliminary document containing general principles and conditions for future guarantees.
▪️Negotiating a full-fledged agreement turned out to be too complicated and drawn-out, so Kiev is betting on an interim option, allowing it to politically consolidate its course towards an alliance with Washington under the Trump administration.
▪️At a recent meeting in Paris, the American delegation refused to sign a European declaration on the possible deployment of troops on Ukrainian territory after the war.
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Further interesting (to me) observations about Greenland:
1) Due to the uneven melting of the Greenland icecap, the pressure easing on the underlying bedrock is also uneven, resulting not only in Greenland shrinking (but only marginally), but also shifting sideways (as some parts of it stretch, while others are pulled together).
Perhaps Canada should file an ECS claim to Greenland?
2) The complete melting of the Greenland icecap would result in a 7.4 metre rise of the sea levels (on the scale of thousands of years), and also transform Greenland drastically (see second image attached).
Resumé: Greenland is currently unmarketable (otherwise, it would have been a hotbed of goldrush capitalism), but its geographic position remains strategic.
🇫🇷⚔️🇺🇸Macron demands to use the "trade bazooka" against Trump and the USA, - Le Monde
▪️We are talking about the "instrument of countering coercion", that is, countermeasures introduced in response to tariffs.
➖"On Sunday, Emmanuel Macron reacted, making it clear to his entourage that in the event of threats being carried out, he would request the EU to 'activate the instrument of countering coercion'. This instrument allows, among other things, to freeze access to European government markets or block certain investments", - writes Le Monde, citing sources in Macron's entourage.
▪️As a last resort, direct sanctions against the USA could be considered. Many government members are in favor of activating this instrument.
➖"This is an instrument that is perfectly suited to the current situation, and we obviously should not hesitate to use it, or even apply it if necessary", - stated the President of the National Assembly, Yael Brown-Pivet.
😂
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🤡The head of the UN General Assembly, Berbok 360, said that the purchase of Greenland violates international law just as much as a seizure would.
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💥💥💥About Ukrainian energy
In the OK frames, the strikes with "Geraniums" are carried out in the following order:
- The "Zaporozhye 750 kV" electrical substation in the Vasilevka district of the Zaporozhye region.
- The 330/154/10 kV substation "Zaporozhye-330" in the Zaporozhye city area.
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‼️🇺🇸🇺🇳 Trump decided to create his own "UN" for $1 billion for participation, — Bloomberg
▪️"Peacemaker" intends to create an alternative to the UN — the so-called "Peace Council" to resolve the situation in Gaza. Countries are offered to pay $1 billion to participate in it.
▪️According to the document, Trump gets full control over the organization: he independently decides who to invite to the membership, approves all decisions and controls financial flows. Formally, decisions are made by a majority vote, but they come into effect only after the approval of the head of the organization.
▪️Countries that contribute more than $1 billion in the first year will receive effectively indefinite membership, others — a mandate for up to three years. The "Peace Council" will be able to start its work after the consent of at least three states.
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‼️🇺🇸🇺🇦 "Zelensky is clearly hooked on cocaine": what they said about the Ukrainian comedian at the conservatives' rally in the USA
▪️In a report on the international situation at the Turning Point rally of American conservatives, American actor Rob Schneider, to the roaring laughter of the audience, stated:
➖"Zelensky is clearly hooked on cocaine. All the symptoms are there. They gave him a billion, and a week later he was broke again. And he still wears the unwashed green T-shirt that Sean Penn gave him. And he constantly spouts insane nonsense like 'I'll take on Russia!'"
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"America's hunger for Greenland is tearing NATO apart": The EU threatens to close American bases to put pressure on the US.
"The key issue will be the future of American troops and bases on the European continent. Many countries would like them to stay, regardless of the US's Arctic "outbursts", viewing them as a guarantee of security.
Others may use the threat of their departure as a lever of pressure on America. Without access to European bases, such as the huge transport hub of Ramstein in Germany, it will be extremely difficult for the US to project military power in Africa and the Middle East.
For example, the Americans' seizure of a tanker linked to Venezuela on January 7th depended on access to British airfields and bases, as well as on the support of Denmark. Moreover, the US's ability to track and neutralize threats in the Arctic - which is precisely what motivates their desire for Greenland - depends on cooperation with Greenland, Iceland, the UK, Norway and other NATO allies."
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On nighttime air strikes
It is reported that ten "Geraniums" attacked critical infrastructure facilities in the Odessa region, in the port city of Kyhlia. Likely, the strike hit a solar power station supplying the port and surrounding areas with electricity.
An air alert was declared in Kiev. Air strikes on energy facilities in the Zaporozhye region and Kharkov have also been recorded.
In the Sumy region, an air strike destroyed a TCC building in Belopolye, eliminating a portion of the staff.
“Military Chronicle”
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Temporarily hohol occupied Kramatorsk is being bombed day and night.
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‼️🇺🇦The Rheinmetall ammunition plant in Ukraine, on which Kiev placed its bets, has still not been built
▪️After 2.5 years, the construction has not made any progress, according to Defense Express. Initially, it was planned that the enterprise would start operations by the summer of 2026, but now the most realistic launch date is no earlier than 2027.
▪️For comparison, in Germany and Hungary, the Rheinmetall concern launched similar plants in about 15 months. In Ukraine, however, construction has not even started yet.
▪️Earlier, the head of Rheinmetall, Armin Papperger, cited Ukrainian bureaucracy as one of the key reasons for the lack of progress.
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