Posted on 03/22/2022 4:00:57 PM PDT by Widget Jr
Looks like KGB.
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having met many KGB guys, he looks like a mouse that got stepped on by a GRU guy.
Russian, if you are fluent (reading and speaking) in both, translates almost exactly to the English.
He was 11 years old when the CCCP ceased to exist.
You are only getting one side, entirely:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/technology/russia-ukraine-internet-isolation.html
A lot of what you are hearing is getting absurd, 7,000, 9,000, 13,000, 15,000 Russian dead... bla bla bla.
Yes, it’s one sided “propaganda” because I can assure you, the Russians are also taking prisoners, they are also killing folks, they are also seizing land... If you want to make lies believable, you need to at least appear as objective and neutral, but in this conflict you have blatant censorship (in the WEST!).
Growing up in the Cold War, we were exposed to propaganda, both from the West and East, but you at least had the chance to hear the other side, which today you do not get, despite 1,761 TV channels, Internet, smart phones... We are blind and deaf but completely flooded with one sided so-called news which in part is Government sponsored. That is “propaganda.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
Read my post 64.
If this were the Russians doing the same thing, this is the argument you would hear right now: It is wrong to use a POW like this in a psyop campaign.
This is more than just propoganda today. You have blatent censorship (turning off all .ru news/media)...
I was going to look up exactly what sort of document the 2 April 1982 date is on. Its not a passport, nor a Russian mil ID
The lines the date is on is too indistinct to make out if that is birthday or initial service date. Maybe you fared better?
What are you not understanding?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/technology/russia-ukraine-internet-isolation.html
We are blocking everything and exactly NOT doing what you claim we are/would.
For example, the Russians do casualty notification just like we do, i.e. next of kin is notified when someone dies... A few days ago while Western media were already at 2,000 to 4,000, the actual number was around 400 something. ~ 1/10 of what our media was pumping it up to. And yes, they were providing names etc. of the fallen, none of which is visible anymore and no, Western media was not providing any of this information. They were running with whatever they were being spoon fed from whatever sources (who knows?)...
There are usually two sides to an argument. Hearing both helps. You’re not getting that.
My guess of what will happen.
You will wake up one morning and read about how peace was negotiated.
Ukraine will agree to no NATO membership, so will the West, which is what we did in 2014 but lied about.
So after weeks or months or hearing how Russia was defeated, how they lost 150,000 soldiers, everyone deserted, morale is low, supply shortages, and all their generals being killed, maybe just out of our “benevolence,” (because we’re nice guys like that) Ukraine and the West will agree to the Russian’s terms/conditions.
But no worries, we’ll declare victory anyhow!
We shall see.
If he joined the army in 1982 he’d have to be close to 60 years old now. If he joined on December 25, 1991, the last day the Soviet Union existed, he’d have to be almost 50. He’s too young.
I can see the Russians printing up a billion dog tags and using old ones because they’re still in stock.
Still, without knowing exactly which ID that is, its is speculation as to his birth date. Maybe he is 60. By his looks he could be - certainly in his 50s.
What we know about Russia's death toll in Ukraine
Russia's state run tabloid ran their casualty figures then deleted them within 24 hours. They got those numbers from Russian sources, not American sources.
That was a hack job, i.e. the numbers were not put there by their media.
CNN and others re-posted it, which they promptly deleted when it was figured out that it's a “hack job.”
You are re-posting discredited information that can be readily found. Why is that?
Well, I meant the failings of the machine translators.
The Komsomolskaya Pravda article had the numbers in it when it was first put online. After social media caught on, then the numbers were removed. That is called "editing", not "hacking".
You are re-posting discredited information that can be readily found. Why is that?
Discredited where, by who? I'm linking to sources, what are your sources? What do you consider credible or in this case?
We were always told the Russians never get rid of anything.
Half of the world calls tea, Cha. Well so do the Russians, чай (chay).
Pardon my misunderstanding. Komsomolskaya Pravda said their site was hacked, that means computer hacking. As far as the numbers being a journalistic hack job, KP is a state run tabloid running what the Russian communist party wants people to hear. The Russian government does not want bad news about the invasion getting out. It is really hard to believe those casualty figures got past editors and political checks by accident.
I was more or less talking about the grammar and sentence structure in a translation
https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-death-toll-komsomolskaya-hackers/31765465.html
When someone takes over your web-page and puts things on there that you did not intend, that's not editing.
But I get it. Anything which sounds good must be the truth. Anything that doesn't is enemy propaganda.
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