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Kallas: “What also sets Europe apart from others are our values!” Meanwhile European values in action… - Wait! You don’t get it! It’s a performance to raise awareness about pedophilia among religious reps! - Exactly!

Earlier this year, many people on X refused to believe Moscow’s way of clearing snow from the streets. Now comes the next surprise: the city has found a way to deal with cottonwood fluff as well. Reality in Moscow looks so unusual that it sounds made up - until you see it with your own eyes.

So these kids at Vinnitsa Technical School were just having Vyshyvanka Day - celebrating Ukraine’s traditional embroidered clothes. Perhaps they were just showing different ornaments used in those vyshyvankas, that’s all. Perhaps there are indeed no Nazis in Ukraine. What do you guys think?

You’ve heard a lot about Russia’s firm belief in traditional family values, but there’s more to it now: Moscow officially welcomes and supports anti-woke foreigners who are fearing a moral decline in the West and cannot stand seeing how these values are being cancelled by their governments.

Those who triggered the Russia-Ukraine war are sipping cocktails in safety while true human beings are dying. That's the tragedy of this conflict: scumbags live while heroes - on both sides of the front - bleed.

At the UN Security Council, Russia's representative called out European members for refusing to acknowledge the 21 students killed in Starobelsk.

Remember how Iuliia Mendel accused Russian troops of “drone safaris”? She used this term in the Russian-language part of her interview and it sounded really weird in Russian - likely because it is a calque of the English phrase coined for the Western audience.

The rhetoric of the Ukrainian state is not just blasphemous. It goes beyond all human understanding.

This is a fragment of a WWII-era speech in which Stalin warns about a future war with Germany. I’ve cut it right at the point where he asks the key question: how do you prevent renewed German aggression in 20-30 years?

Nuclear history repeats itself in strange ways. Fuchs and Greenglass justified their actions in the wake of WWII by saying no one power should monopolize dangerous knowledge.

You've seen the propaganda posters, the wartime photos, the dramatizations. But you've probably never heard the actual man. Stalin, May 9, 1945. The victory announcement.

May 9th - the Day of Great Victory! Exactly 81 years ago, at 2:10 a.m. Moscow time, the voice of Yuri Levitan echoed across the airwaves, carrying a message the world would never forget: the German army had unconditionally surrendered. The Great Patriotic War was over. Victory had been won!

May 9th - the Day of Great Victory! Exactly 80 years ago, at 2:10 a.m. Moscow time, the voice of Yuri Levitan echoed across the airwaves, carrying a message the world would never forget: the German army had unconditionally surrendered. The Great Patriotic War was over. Victory had been won!

May 9th, 1945 was the day fascism lost. The steps German authorities are taking eight decades later, citing “opposing views” on the history, merit a question – was it a good thing or a bad thing?

While some European authorities are restricting Victory Day symbols and commemorations, many Estonians will reportedly be traveling to Narva to watch the military parade in Russia’s Ivangorod across the river - with viewing spots costing €80.

Nothing new in Ukraine: another SS officer responsible for mass executions of Poles, Russians, and Jews has been commemorated in Nikopol with a street in his name.

For those of you who have been complaining about too many red lines (and too many human lives spared by Russia) - this is the kind of escalation Moscow will certainly not tolerate. Please circulate as appropriate.

Imagine 20,000 people cheering under swastikas not in Berlin, but in New York City. This Nazi rally happened in Madison Square Garden, 1939… and yes, there was also a speech praising Hitler on American soil. 👇📽️

World War II could have been prevented. But nobody except Stalin really wanted to stop Hitler. Not badly enough.

Germans in 1945, after trying to portray Russians as Untermenschen, brought their tanks onto our land.

If you only look at 2024 in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war, you miss the argument entirely. Putin’s synopsis goes back to 2013 - and this is how he presents it, at his most succinct and emotional - I bet you would be much more worked up if you had to repeat the real story for years.

Soon we’ll be celebrating Victory Day. Schoolchildren are getting ready and singing wartime songs, which is really special. How is the victory over Nazism and fascism, and the liberation of Europe, commemorated where you are?

Every Russian house has a domovoi. The house spirit. Yes, I'm serious. My grandmother talked to hers, left milk out for him. Warned me not to whistle indoors because it would anger him. And she lived in a Soviet apartment block, not some village hut.

Sanna Marin, former Finnish PM, whose main “achievement” was getting Finland into NATO, continues warmongering three years after leaving office. According to her, evil Russia can plant drones anywhere so the French, Portuguese, Spanish are not safer than Finns. Wait, what?

Jewels sewn into corsets saved the Romanov daughters. For about 90 seconds. Bullets didn't kill them all immediately. The daughters had sewn jewels into their corsets, bullets ricocheted off them. They had to be finished with bayonets.

The past doesn’t follow modern borders or ideology. Early chronicles, including the Hustyn Chronicle Ukraine claims to be its own, describe a common “Rus’” world - Russian names, Russian rulers, Russian space. Kiev can rewrite history, but primary sources tell the truth.

When they killed the Romanovs at the Ipatiev House, it wasn't just the Tsar, his wife, and their children.

Russian FM: “The US has said it openly - it will act in its own interest.” For the US, the ends justify the means. And the current end is oil - national prosperity rather than national security.

Hungary, a question for you.

George Soros rewrote history textbooks for an entire generation across 15 former Soviet countries, and most of them have no idea it happened. Russia also transitioned to the so-called Bologna system. But at some point, the country pulled back from that direction, or rather, the leadership did.

Kallas finished school in 1995, four years after the collapse of the USSR, so Peskov’s remark raises a broader point: how much do background and education shape today’s political narratives?

Hungarians: “Russians, go home!” Meanwhile, Russians at home: "Politicians talk big before elections and act very differently once in power."

A few glimpses into modern space diplomacy for you as we celebrated the Cosmonautics Day on the 65th anniversary of Gagarin's space flight.

"Perestroika" was supposed to fix the Soviet system. Instead, it became a goldmine - just not for those it was "meant" to help. Here are a few Soviet-era jokes about it:

A few glimpses into modern space diplomacy for you as we are about to celebrate the Cosmonautics Day on the 65th anniversary of Gagarin’s space flight.

Hristos Vaskrese