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  1. Kai-Petri

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    A RUSSIAN commander has died after being deliberately targetted by his own troops in the latest embarrassing episode of Vladimir Putin's Ukraine invasion, Western officials say.

    As soldiers begin to lose patience with their commanders for sending them in to fight a war many did not want, there are now signs of anarchy among the ranks.

    Colonel Yuri Medvechek, commander of 37 Motor Rifle Brigade, was run over by his soldiers earlier this week.

    Western officials confirmed he had now died from his injuries following the revolt.

    Russian commander killed DELIBERATELY by his own troops in humiliating loss for Putin
     
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    Chris Rock“s show tickets sell like hot cakes after the slap in the Oscar show...one ticket over 400 dollars already....

     
  3. Prospero Quevedo

    Prospero Quevedo Well-Known Member

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    Hmmm not sure but Biden has promised more military aid and humanitarian supplies. Things are getting bad there food and water getting low soldiers moving place to place hiding in abandoned buildings. Wemon helping by taking care of wounded and making meals with what little they can find. I bet any bakeries are the big help in the war baking bread and rolls as bread is the main staple for most showed the women serving stews and soups with bread. Hundreds maybe thousands lining up at food distribution centers as well as bottled water. The news says our humanitarian supplies are getting low we should do back after katrinia and open donation centers all over the country in every city like we did and take donations of medical supplies or money for and water and food and clothing. I remember buying three cases of water s d buy can fold from the 99 cents store. I still think Putin is going to try to pull something like demand the surrender of the snnexed territories which Ukraine has already Said they will not do Putin will say that the ukrainians are unreasonable and keeping the war going. That guy is a liar and can't be trusted too bad Ukraine gs e up their nukes and if they start building the Putin would use it as a reason to attack saying they are insuring their security. Putin will just blame Ukraine for everything telling his own people lies and arresting those that try to speak out against him, like what are they doing to all those they have already arrested they admit to three thousand but it could be far more and what's going on with all the missing Ukrainian children. Any one who abuses children should rot in hell.
     
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    Been research more on Soviet equipment during the winter war in Finland they found some old WWII tanks Soviet light tanks rather rare model the salvaged and restored them some were complete while others striped out shells the running gear tracks and interior all gone bot the cleaned and painted them and placed them in museums as they are rather s rare model only about five hundred built they say. Also watched more on the finish 406, they changed things french airframe, Soviet engine, German guns. The vid call it the finish frankenstien 406. The engines were captured or salvaged they would salvage everything they could even repairing downed planes to lot back into their own service. The bt42 was only a bit over a dozen the bt43 was one prototype but I'd still like to make one if I can find what iternal arrangement they did. So far just side and front shots
     
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    Look at the Finnish panzer meseum photos and other things while you can. Or what photos they have available.Pretty much everything is collected there.

    The main exhibitions are: the armoured vehicles in the halls, the articles displayed in the halls plus the armoured train and the vehicles on the outside area.

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    Tanks for the memories...
     
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    Yes they say Finland has a large collection of tanks and other WWII vehicles and aircraft
    Wow those guys might have to stay in Ukraine as they would be accused as traitors and imprisoned or executed. If news gets around more revolts or mass desertions may happen there's reports that some Russian soldiers had changed sides now that is crazy. Putin is probably freaking out that everything is falling apart and he can't justify anything he's done
     
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    Like damn the Ukraine is just one huge wrecking yard for Russian AFVs there definitely going to have aot of scrap metal. I think they should put that old Soviet factory back to work if they haven't already they say when the Soviet union fell the Russians abandoned it along with ten thousand old tanks waiting to be remanufactured. Maybe they can greatly increase their army and sell remanufactured tanks to other countries to raise money to increase their military and buy more western weapons as western anti tank wralons have been big in fighting and destroying Russian tanks. I don't know how Biden is saying we don't want to escalate things with the Russians like doesn't he think they know where the weapons that are kicking their asses came from like the news crews have been saying as much. And all over YouTube.
     
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    Just lucky no one was on the sidewalk.
     
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    Btw, Press the Youtube function button on the left side of the home site and get a good view of the museum and its tanks. Cheers.
     
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    The old saying - "He gets what he deserves" comes to mind.
     
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    We have lots of c
    we have lots of car shows here people from all over the world go to the big shows here looking for deals. We met a guy from Australia bought a classic cuda said he paid 100,000 for it but bring it back to Australia the taxes on it would be equal to the paid value we were like wow that's crazy. But funny in China the registration for cars is a one time deal equal to the price of the car which is why most cars are the real cheap junks they are most people can't or don't want to have to pay so much for a car and then pay that amount to register it. I would like it if we had a life time fee of one payment but not at the price of the car. Maybe a ten year compounded fee then ten years reducing fee.
     
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    Ok now the Ukraine is pushing back and retaking land but now finding evidence of war atrocities. The Russians have had a long history of war crimes they try to blame a lot in the nazis but many crimes they blame on the Germans they did so themselves Stalin was a crazy man used the war to hide many of his purges many villages in the Ukraine were wiped out because they did not show complete respect and obedience. Then when the took control of east Germany they killed thousands out of spite many young children. I don't see how they will ever be able to bring the soldiers that did those things to justice and the soldiers must have known they did wrong or why else would they burn the bodies. Putin has pulled his forces back but increasing activities in the east were he wanted in the first place he's still,trying to make this a win for himself by trying to force the Ukraine to accept his terms but the Ukraine has already said they will not surrender any part of Ukraine. I hope they are able to counter attack and destroy Russian forces and take back all their land and put Putin in a really bad state. The Russians trying to say they lost hardly any men but all intelligence groups in the west are saying the Ukraine numbers may be a bit high but the losses are far greater than Russia is reporting. This is just another big bunch of lies and just helps to undermine the Russians position. Most countries now see rusdian armies as just large numbers of I'll trained rable. Not well trained not well disciplined poorly lead and poorly supplied. The west has always said the Russians logistics are one of the worst and this war has proven a lot of western analyst have said about the Russian army are true and rusdian tanks are also not as great as the Russians have said I wonder if this will affect their world wide arms sales. Many countries are trying to redesign the old soviet tanks most keeping the chassis and modifying or replacing the old turrets. It's terrible the things their finding out about the murders of unarmed civilians it will probably hard to identify many as the Russians have been burning the bodies to try to hide what they have done. I hope they keep the trade sanctions on Russia for decades to punish them for the things they have done killing children pregnate women. When the Soviet Union fell and east Germany was free a man who keep a journal of what the Russians did had his journal made into a book titled the rape of Germany. I read a few paragraphs and it was really terrible any men they suspected of serving in the German army they shot whether true or not. They raped ever female from ten years old and up many young boys trying to defend their mothers and sisters were killed many young girls not women girls were tortured and killed for sport. The Russians are liars and despicable people. They did so much killing civilians in just about every place they have been they are every bit as bad as the nazis they say they are trying to make sure do not resurface like hell we don't need the nazis when the Russians are around. Poor children that have survived this are going to probably be traumatized by the violent loss of their parents some even having witnessed their family being gunned down while trying to surrender. I hope the Ukraine really punishes the rusdian army in the east and completely destroy Putins attempted of stealing the eastern lands. I wonder if the military is planning a coup as Russia has a long history of military changes of government. Putin has lost a lot of face to the Russian people and the growing number of protest and arrests can't be good like how many people have they imprisoned and what charges have they been given. It was weired seeing the correspondents talking to people and then police show up and escort the people away like wow are they back to the soviet days. Then people knew you did say anything against the government or you just disappeared. That was the case in nazi held lands Soviet and even Japan anyone that said anything negative was suddenly recruited for special work detail and usually never seen again. This thing still pisses me off I hope the Ukraine can counter attack and push the rusdian completely out of Ukraine and what's going on with all the Ukrainians the rusdians have under guard are those guys safe or will the rusdians shoot them out of spite they have done so in many other conflicts shooting prisoners durning afganistan operations two million civilians. Even after that they ended up losing. It's going to take a lot of help to get the ukrain put back together the Russians having destroyed or damaged lots of factories and other businesses. Their saying ukraine will need lots of help with food water and other basic needs with water systems down and power out every where. It will take an army of construction workers years to put everyting back together I wonder if it will be like Kuwait when thousands of construction workers from all over the world went there to piece things back together. Let's all hope this ends soon with a Ukraine victory screw Russia, though I'm a little sorry for the general population as many didn't like the war as well and even were arrested try to protest and stop the war. Rusdia is going to be pretty messed up too for a while. I wonder if we'll really find out the real casualties for rusdian forces the number killed and wounded.
     
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    Its strange the Ukraine saying they have found many burned bodies of both civilians and Ukrainian soldiers. Why would the Russians burn bodies unless they are trying to hide things like maybe they executed those soldiers and civilians.
     
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    Russia is always capable of everything. Whatever Putin says is the law. He is the
    cancer.
     
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    Finland is only lakes and forests. We have narrow roads. We have 200,000 dead Russian soldiers in our lakes. Wanna try again? While other EU countries got rid of tanks etc we were wiser and kept the mines in storage. We have air-to-land missiles. We are at least as willing to protect our country as the Ukrainians. Welcome to death Mr P. If your sick mind wants to vitsit us. From grandma to teenager we are armed. You are lucky there is not 40 million Finns.
     
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    Things in Russia is really going nuts. Bank runs people hord buying idk what the sugar runs are about. Sugar is needed for cooking and preserves just seems crazy that sugar is scarce and the runs of other items. It's sad they say it's impacting the elderly the most
     
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    Just watched an austrailian production Occupation alien invasion not bad my fav Aussie production are the deep and mccloeds daughters. Australia has been trying to increase their share of the world film market ad well as the phillipeans, Korea and china.
     
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    Alright guys, Keep the Ukraine/Russia war talk out of here and confined to The Stump.
     
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    Watched this vid about Finland recovering several t38 soviets tanks and restored them they are used for war reenactments. They also recovered a small attack boat from the river. Strange looking boat looks more like a sub. Seems a lot of countries are recovering and restoring WWII vehicles and aircraft. Russia has been recovering s lot of stuff, t,34, KVs, m4 Sherman's, IL2s, and other projects
     

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