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Russia Banning Soldier ‘Selfies’ to Prevent Incriminating Evidence from Going Viral
TheTrumpet.com ^ | 31 July 2014 | theTrumpet.com

Posted on 08/01/2014 6:51:03 AM PDT by Thistooshallpass9

Moscow is preparing a bill to prevent Russian troops from posting selfies and other photographs on social media sites, according to July 29 reports.

The proposed legislation came after soldiers published images on social media sites with captions saying they had been firing artillery into Ukraine.

“We shelled Ukraine all night long,” Russian soldier Vadim Grigoryev wrote beneath a picture of weaponry he published last week on Vkontakte, Russia’s most popular social media network.

(Excerpt) Read more at thetrumpet.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: mh17; military; russia; socialmedia; ukraine
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To: bgill

My granddad told me they even taught him to write letters. If they were going to be engaging the Enemy in Belgium they wrote that they would be on leave in Paris. If they were cold, they wrote that they were in a warm barracks with 4 times as many troops as there really were.

It was happy propaganda for home and discouraging propaganda for the enemy if he happened to get the letters. Even after the war the habit was so ingrained that they wrote about it almost as if it were all fun and games.

He wrote the history of his battery (Battery D)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/158942992/113th-Antiaircraft-Artillery-Gun-Battalion-History-All


21 posted on 08/01/2014 8:41:44 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: Thistooshallpass9

Maybe that’s why Facebook is down, z’bergs favor to Putin!


22 posted on 08/01/2014 9:44:49 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: McGruff

Sources?


23 posted on 08/01/2014 10:01:32 AM PDT by Samogon (Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato)
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To: Samogon

Sources? You want to see the pictures? Just search for Ukrainian War Crimes.


24 posted on 08/01/2014 10:04:09 AM PDT by McGruff (Seems like some are more interested in protecting Ukraine's border than ours.)
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To: McGruff

Can you indulge us? Apparently, you have done the research already. Sources, or you are a liar!


25 posted on 08/01/2014 10:06:13 AM PDT by Samogon (Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato)
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To: Samogon

I won’t post the pictures but didn’t take long to search.

https://news.google.com/news?ncl=dSq6w82VnW8LEeMg2CU-OFzNHXCHM&q=ukraine+civilian+deaths&lr=English&hl=en&sa=X&ei=W8rbU-LpIrjKsQTYjYKoDw&ved=0CC0QqgIwAA

Wanna apologize now?


26 posted on 08/01/2014 10:12:09 AM PDT by McGruff (Seems like some are more interested in protecting Ukraine's border than ours.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Don’t believe your lying eyes. “Russians called BS on that”, as comrade McGruff already mentioned. One has to wonder: is Russism infectious?


27 posted on 08/01/2014 10:14:36 AM PDT by Samogon (Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato)
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To: McGruff

Where in those articles anyone said that Ukrainian side is responsible for civilian deaths? If that is your interpretation, you should contemplate some comprehension enhancement exercises. I don’t expect apologies from you. Your comrades are hiding behind women, children and elderly backs and are not hesitant to kill them as need arises.
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/03/06/report-putin-threatens-to-use-ukrainian-women-children-as-human-shields-104924
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2622111/Pro-Russian-forces-use-children-human-shields-new-battles-rage-besieged-Ukrainian-city.html
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/civilians-slovyansk-ukraine-allegedly-used-human-shields-n97156
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/05/05/Four-Ukrainian-troops-killed-in-offensive-on-rebel-held-town—officials


28 posted on 08/01/2014 10:24:41 AM PDT by Samogon (Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato)
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To: Samogon
A video surfaced Tuesday in which some translators say Russian President Vladimir Putin apparently threatened to use Ukrainian women and children as human shields during any Russian invasion of that country.

Thanks for the laugh.

29 posted on 08/01/2014 11:18:57 AM PDT by McGruff (Seems like some are more interested in protecting Ukraine's border than ours.)
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To: Uncle Chip
So is raining down artillery on your neighbor and then lying about it --

What are you talking about? No artillery here. No lies either.

30 posted on 08/01/2014 4:18:04 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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