Russia is trying to sabotage European railways, warns Prague : worldnews

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Good that I'm living in Germany where sabotaging the railway system would probably make it better.

[–] Squizzy 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

All I have ever heard about Germany(...mostly) is that the public transport is ridiculously good with enviable punctuality.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Public transport? Yeah,in the bigger cities it's decent, in the rural areas it is shit,though.

But railways? Absolute utter garbage and we have a worse on time performance than Ukraine... During the war.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Your and my definition of utter garbage differ wildly.

Are they late sometimes? yes. Do some trains end up being cancelled? Also yes.

But the same applies for cars. And even more so. I can not count the times where I have been late by over an hour when driving by car. With the trains is has been much less.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Utter garbage. Period.

I travel around 60k km per year, a fair share of it by train and have travelled about two thirds of the European countries by train.

And I have the luxury to use the Austrian, Swiss, French, Italian systems on a monthly basis - each of them is far far better.

Trains are the superior travel system. And if you are lucky you have an urban train system that works decently. But both long range as well as freight are a dumpster fire.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

It is excellent by global standards, but has suffered in recent years from setbacks. So while it’s better than almost anywhere else (besides maybe Switzerland, Austria and Japan), from the perspective of someone living in Germany, it’s declined of late. I think this explains why you often hear negative comments from Germans but positive from others.

[+] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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[+] [email protected] -13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Lovely.

The History of Fascism in Ukraine Part I

With the war in Ukraine raging, it is time to trace the history of fascism in Ukraine. Once believed to be an anachronistic Cold War relic, the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) has emerged as the most successful post-war fascist group. Politicians around the globe shout its fascist slogan “Slava Ukraini”, a phrase that originated with the League of Ukrainian Fascists, was adopted by the OUN and popularized by Stepan Bandera while he and the OUN were on trial for the assassination campaign the OUN were waging in Poland.

It was at the Warsaw trial that the OUN first started using the slogan “Slava Ukraini” publicly in combination with the Roman (Nazi) salute.

History of Fascism in Ukraine Part II

Jews were forced to sing communist songs before being shot or they were forced to shout Slava Ukraini before being beaten to death.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Interesting history lesson.

Is the implication that Spitzspot is a fascist / communist and anti-Semite because they said Slava Ukrani?

They well may be, but that's a big call based on the use of a phrase which has seen a rapid evolution in it's usage in the last few years.

Are all Hindi and buddists and Jainists who continue to use the swastika as a part of their religious symbolism anti-Semite fascists as well?

Is Kim Jong Un a proponent of individual rights and liberties because he leads the Democratic People's Republic of Korea?

I'm guessing there's a few Americanism's that'd have the same complex history.

Slava Ukrani may have it's origins in fascism, but right now across the english speaking world it is seen as a Clarion call championing the freedom of a democratic Ukraine against the current fascist Russian regime.

Words have more than one meaning, and those meanings evolve.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

All attempts to whitewash banderite crap always resemble this good old comics.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Again, most of the people using this statement are using it in solidarity with Ukranian independence and are unaware of its origins.

Your comic is too simple to explain the complexity of this issue.

This was a strawman argument anyway.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

And yet Ukraine’s Nazi problem never ended, and remains to this day.

BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
Truthout, 2015: The Ukraine Mess That Nuland Made
The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
The Guardian, 2017: 'I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video
WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
The Conversation, 2022: Ukraine war follows decades of warnings that NATO expansion into Eastern Europe could provoke Russia

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No shit. The world's fascism problem never ended. Do you have any articles discussing fascism in Russia? Or America? Or the EU?

How do you feel about Volodymyr Zelenskyy? Is he an anti-Semite fascist too?

I'd love to hear your opinion on Putin.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you have any articles discussing fascism in Russia?

Fascists like like Alexei Navalny, you mean?

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Or like Aleksandr Dugin, who some Lemmitor falsely called Putin’s “right-hand man” this week?

Or America? Or the EU?

The best summary of that I think is: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It

How do you feel about Volodymyr Zelenskyy? Is he an anti-Semite fascist too?

Is this one of those “Zelenskyy is Jewish so Ukraine can’t have a Nazi problem” arguments? That’s like saying Obama is black so America can’t have a racism problem. Anyway, there were Jewish Nazis in Nazi Germany, including high ranking officers.

I’d love to hear your opinion on Putin.

I can’t compress the last ~25 years of Russian leadership into an “opinion,” so pass.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

@davel @thisnameisnottolong

You and Putin really hate those Ukrainian Nazis. Will you help Putin or do you have bone spurs or something?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Why don’t you? https://ildu.com.ua/

The Intercept, 2022: Foreign Fighters in Ukraine Could Be a Time Bomb for Their Home Countries Two killed in the Ukrainian Army’s International Legion may have been neo-Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, Ukraine had a dangerous drift towards exclutionary Ukrainian nationalism for many years, which Russia promoted by igniting the conflict through their use of paramilitary forces in Donetsk and Lugansk, which made it great for Ukrainian supremacists and Russian supremacists to fester in both sides.

Despite that, Ukraine elected Zelensky, a Russian speaking president who spoke both Ukrainian and Russian during his inaugural speech as symbolism that it was time for their country to reconcile itself with its minorities.

But this fact is usually omitted in Russian propaganda, since it's so devastating to their narrative.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Despite that, Ukraine elected Zelensky, a Russian speaking president who spoke both Ukrainian and Russian during his inaugural speech as symbolism that it was time for their country to reconcile itself with its minorities.

Yes, that was Zelensky’s sales pitch, and it got him into office, and probably it was even what he wanted, but his presidency didn’t play out that way, because fascist elements in the country, in the military/paramilitary, and in government didn’t allow it to play out that way. The guy was a comedian, an actor who played president on a TV show. He got into office with no political experience and got steamrolled. It’s extremely unfortunate for everyone in the world but the fascist elements in Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How come the only evidence Russian water carriers have for the invasion of sovereign Ukraine is 100 years old?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I already gave the last 10 years’ evidence upthread: https://lemmy.ml/comment/9989886

Also, 100 years old my ass:

After the Orange revolution of 2004 Stepan Bandera was declared a “Hero of Ukraine”. Even a postage stamp was issued commemorating him. During the 2014 Maidan coup, a huge poster of Stepan Bandera hung on the stage. Few in the west had ever heard of Stepan Bandera or the OUN back in 2014. Now in 2022 the world is on the brink of nuclear war and the global economy is collapsing all because CIA and other western intelligence agencies have been using Ukrainian fascists as proxies for nearly 80 years. In Parts 3 and 4, I intend to trace the history of the OUN and its ideological heirs through the Cold War and post-Cold War eras up to the Maidan coup and the Ukrainian civil war.

[–] eran_morad 6 points 7 months ago

Fuck russia. The West must unite to undermine the russian state. We should use all covert means to fuck with them, hopefully accelerating their demographic cataclysm.

[–] hperrin 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don’t understand how these kinds of attacks aren’t an act of war.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

It cannot be declared an act of war if the target country isn't willing to bring consequences on the aggressor.

[+] Papanca 2 points 7 months ago

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh great, the comprador galaxy brains finally got an ideal excuse for railways being rotten by thatcherite neoliberal reforms: blame Russia! And looking at comments, raccoon brain already eat this.

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