Russia

Socrates · November 8, 2017

Road rage in Russia:

summerisle · November 14, 2017

Disinformation Cold War style.

summerisle · December 14, 2017

Do we have any Ukranian members ?

Rob17896 · December 14, 2017

summerisle said:
The latest rumblings are that Putin is going to use the same tactics against the Baltic states as he used in the Crimea and Ukraine. Given the lack of appetite nowadays in the UK for any kind of military intervention, would he succeed ?
http://www.theguardian.com/politics...s-after-ukraine-conflict-warns-michael-fallon

Would he try? He is not dumb and the President is so who knows where it might lead. It would be too difficult to predict what might happen.

Mutzo Nutzo · December 14, 2017

Rob17896 said:
Would he try? He is not dumb and the President is so who knows where it might lead. It would be too difficult to predict what might happen.

It’s already happening albeit on a small scale.

NATO will defend the Baltic states just depends if the attack (once identified) is internal or external.

Putin is clever - divide and conquer

summerisle · December 25, 2017

This is a new one on me.

summerisle · January 15, 2018

1925, hours of fun with the Chemical War board game.

summerisle · January 22, 2018

Illustrations from the Soviet book Bezbozhnik U Stanka (Atheist at the Workbench), published in 1926.

Without God/Life under the Lord God.

summerisle · January 22, 2018

Some Soviet prisoners believed that having a tattoo of Lenin/Stalin would offer protection, as it was believed that the prison guards would not shoot at it.