Jesus this book is brutal. Why cant you Slavs ever be normal in war? Is there any other?

Jesus this book is brutal. Why can’t you Slavs ever be normal in war? Is there any other /k/ recommend PrepHoleerature? This was recommended to me by a /k/ommando.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    pure fantasy by a hohol fraud

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      good morning sirs

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Good morning sir. Good do see other Indians here. We are taking over /k/

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I read the book at the start of the war and it was interesting to see pretty much everything that he described in the book unfold in real life at the same time

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >fantasy news are based on fantasy
        fascinating

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Kiev in 2 weeks?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I re-read pic related back in February and saw everything Suvorov wrote about unfold in real life at the same time
        >troops only given insufficient food and expected to fend for themselves
        >nobody below battalion level commander allowed to call for artillery
        >casevac ????
        >dedovshchina
        and so on. Disturbingly, this was written in '82

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I was just about to post about this

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            The aquarium was a good read

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          https://i.imgur.com/M1pq6Dl.jpg

          I was just about to post about this

          >Suvorov, born Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun, comes from a military family of mixed Ukrainian-Russian descent; his father, Bogdan Vasilyevich Rezun, was a veteran of WWII and a Ukrainian, while his mother Vera Spiridonovna Rezun (Gorevalova) is Russian. According to his own statements, Suvorov considers himself, his wife and children to be Ukrainians. He was born in the village of Barabash, Primorsky Krai; raised in Ukraine's Cherkasy, where his father served. The family subsequently settled in Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic after his father's retirement.

          The one commie disturbed enough by dedovshchina to bother write an entire book exposing it and of course he's a fricking Ukrainian.

          • 1 year ago
            Guy Person

            >Someone in the USSR created something of value
            >they’re Ukrainian/baltic/-istanian

            Every fricking time

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Russians have always been like this. Even before communism. Read tolstoy, dostoevsky, lermontov, etc.
          The exact same scenes you see today on youtube and liveleak described 100 years ago about comically embarrassing and violent peasant drunks going about their daily lives.

          Even the military stories are near identical about soldiers being abandoned in the caucasus and soldiers being bullied/killed by superiors.

          They have always been a horde.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Finished Hadji Murad the other day. Pretty good for tolstoy. It lacked his usual moralizing bullshit and was some chechen kino. Attempting to read cossacks now but might abandon it as he has a self insert so probably will be full of wank

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Ya, I'm currently learning about the Russo-Jap war and damn there are alot of similarities between then and now

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          https://i.imgur.com/M1pq6Dl.jpg

          I was just about to post about this

          my /k/ommandos of culture

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Suvorov
          fake, gay, muh ruzzzia greatest army on earth. Yet he shits all over the actual men he commanded
          >soviet defectors: everything they every wrote was hyperbole

          Slav comes from Slovan, which is what Slavs call themselves. And Slovan comes from slovo, which means word. Slovan could be roughly translated word-er (as in runner, climber, etc). On the other hand, Germans are called Němci/Niemci, which pretty much means mutes, or "the mute ones". So Slav means "one who speaks words", IE someone who speaks the same language as me.

          Slave is a derivative of Slav, all you need to know. Also real men do Turbofolk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN1oZifRv28

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >muh ruzzzia greatest army on earth.
            lol wut?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              inside the soviet army builds them up as the greatest fighting force of that generation basically

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Strange, I've read his other books and the red army comes over as anything but the greatest army on earth
                If anything it looked like he was using it sarcastically when he wrote about the various frickups, mishaps and corruption there

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Slave is a derivative of Slav
            read this out loud and realise that you are a fricking moron

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              From Middle English, from Old French sclave, from Medieval Latin sclāvus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclāvus (“Slav”), because Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages. The Latin word is from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos), see that entry and Slav for more.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Marko Perković
            >Croatia
            >turbofolk
            Get Storm'd, you dumb Black person

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            The great musician and Philosopher Rambo Amadeus explained turbofolk :

            >folk is The people, and turbo is a process of injecting gasoline under preassure into an internal combustion engine cilindre. Turbofolk is the combustion of people and every process that aids such combustion is turbofolk. Sparking the most primal passions of homosexual Sapiens.

            He was an author of magnificent musical albums such as:
            >Titanic
            >Titanik
            >microorgasms
            and his magnum opus
            > wiener, Pussy, Turd, Breast
            If it is still not clear I do not blame you
            Themes of turbofolk: sex, cuckholdry, cheating, young old relationships, simping, booze, more booze, even more alchohol, broken livers, gambling , cigarettes , hangovers

            All in cringey lyrics with hopefully an acordion and synthisizer

            The screaming man in the video is , i do not know what.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          https://i.imgur.com/M1pq6Dl.jpg

          I was just about to post about this

          Russians have always been like this. Even before communism. Read tolstoy, dostoevsky, lermontov, etc.
          The exact same scenes you see today on youtube and liveleak described 100 years ago about comically embarrassing and violent peasant drunks going about their daily lives.

          Even the military stories are near identical about soldiers being abandoned in the caucasus and soldiers being bullied/killed by superiors.

          They have always been a horde.

          >Read tolstoy, dostoevsky, lermontov, etc.
          Even better: read "Russia in 1839" by Marquis de Custine.
          Especially funny since he originally thought the west became a bunch of degenerate liberal homosexuals, went to Russia to get material to remind Europe how proper aristocracy needs to work, then hit the wall of Russian corruption and general shitshow and got heavily disillusioned.
          Book available in all the usual sources for old books.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >there is someone else on this board who read Custine
            My homie.
            Everyone should read him. The first actual travel book about Russia and it is spot on. Especially the part about Russian culture of lies. It is identical to what later authors said, including Solzhenitsyn, and it is identical to how they act today.
            Nearly 200 years old book.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Some quotations from the book in question. It's fricking hilarious how Russia has remained exactly the same for centuries on end.
            >"In Russia, everything you notice, and everything that happens around you, has a terrifying uniformity; and the first thought that comes into the traveler's mind, as he contemplates this symmetry, is that such entire consistency and regularity, so contrary to the natural inclination of mankind, cannot have been achieved and could not survive without violence."
            >"The nature of its Government is interference, negligence and corruption. You rebel against the notion that you could become accustomed to all this, yet you do become accustomed to it. In that country, a sincere man would be taken for an idiot."
            >"A wealth of unnecessary and petty precautions here engenders a whole army of clerks, each of whom carries out his task with a degree of pedantry and inflexibility, and a self-important air solely designed to add significance to the least significant employment."
            >"The profession of misleading foreigners is one known only in Russia ... everyone disguises what is bad and shows what is good before the master's eyes."

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              More
              >"An immense and inordinate ambition, one of those that can take seed only in the souls of the oppressed and be nourished by the misfortune of a whole nation, seethes in the breast of the Russian people. Essentially a nation of conquerors, made greedy by privation, its debasing submission expiates, in advance and at home, the hope of exercising dominion over others. The glory and riches it expects are compensation for the shame it endures and, to cleanse himself from the impious sacrifice of all public and individual liberty, the slave dreams, on his knees, that he will dominate the world."

              >"Russia sees in Europe a prey which will sooner or later be delivered to it by our dissensions. It foments anarchy among us, in the hope that it may take advantage of the corruption it has furthered, in the furtherance of its own ends: this is the history of Poland replayed on a larger scale. For many years Paris has been reading revolutionary newspapers - revolutionary in every sense - financed by Russia. `Europe,' they say in Petersburg, `is following the same path as Poland. It is agitated by empty ideas of liberalism, while we remain powerful, precisely because we have no liberty. Let us be patient in our chains, for we will make others pay the price of our humiliation.'"

              >"Imagine the craft of Western governments, tested in lengthy exercise, put to the service of a society that is still young and savage; the departments of our civil service assisting an Oriental despotism with all the experience of modern times; European discipline supporting Asiatic tyranny; the police dedicated to concealing barbarism in order to perpetuate, instead of eradicating it; disciplined brutality and cruelty, and European military tactics serving to fortify the policies of Oriental courts. Imagine a half-savage people who have been regimented, without being civilized: then you will understand the moral and social state of the Russians. "

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Frick me, it's really been like this for fricking centuries hasn't it.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >It foments anarchy among us, in the hope that it may take advantage of the corruption it has furthered, in the furtherance of its own ends: this is the history of Poland replayed on a larger scale. For many years Paris has been reading revolutionary newspapers - revolutionary in every sense - financed by Russia.

                Jesus fricking Christ, just how long have these people been trying to subvert us?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                forever. Every meme and quip about "da juice" is true abour r*ssoids. Russians are the nonhuman vermin that need to be exterminated to the last toddler and babushka.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Rooskies are seditious motherfrickers to the core. Subversion is a state-approved outlet for their own frustrations. A sort of ongoing two-minute hate, any qualms they have regarding their own government is projected onto an outside force, and the crab in the bucket syndrome that is prevalent in Russian society means that they are only happy when others are reduced to their level, IE, that of a slave.
                The Russians simply love their chains because it makes their environment predictable, or in other words, ordered. For your average Ivan, to live in a damp cell for an entire lifetime with regular bread and vodka gibs, is deemed preferable to having to fend for yourself in a scary and chaotic world. And thus, Russia is the autocrat's paradise. The Mongols managed to scar an entire bloodline and made Russians pathologically terrified of any hint of disorder and thus innovation.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                For about as long as they've had contact with the outside world. IIRC, shit like the sacking of Novgorod was already done by that playbook.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >the slave dreams, on his knees, that he will dominate the world

                Perhaps the most accurate description of the Russian condition.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Not just the Russian condition. The condition of all slavery and poverty. It isn't some big evil oppressor class who wants to keep others in poverty and chains, its the other slaves.

                t. third worldie Latin American.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Nah, what you're describing is just crab mentality. Russian variation is that plus the delusion of being the superpower, plus another layer of said mentality on a global scale.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >The profession of misleading foreigners is one known only in Russia
              >*and Australia

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >In that country, a sincere man would be taken for an idiot.
              >"The Idiot"
              Kek, i guess Dostoyevsky really was one of the few self-aware Russians

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                What I thought of too. Goddamn it puts The Idiot in an entirely new light.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              https://i.imgur.com/UWllcuH.jpg

              More
              >"An immense and inordinate ambition, one of those that can take seed only in the souls of the oppressed and be nourished by the misfortune of a whole nation, seethes in the breast of the Russian people. Essentially a nation of conquerors, made greedy by privation, its debasing submission expiates, in advance and at home, the hope of exercising dominion over others. The glory and riches it expects are compensation for the shame it endures and, to cleanse himself from the impious sacrifice of all public and individual liberty, the slave dreams, on his knees, that he will dominate the world."

              >"Russia sees in Europe a prey which will sooner or later be delivered to it by our dissensions. It foments anarchy among us, in the hope that it may take advantage of the corruption it has furthered, in the furtherance of its own ends: this is the history of Poland replayed on a larger scale. For many years Paris has been reading revolutionary newspapers - revolutionary in every sense - financed by Russia. `Europe,' they say in Petersburg, `is following the same path as Poland. It is agitated by empty ideas of liberalism, while we remain powerful, precisely because we have no liberty. Let us be patient in our chains, for we will make others pay the price of our humiliation.'"

              >"Imagine the craft of Western governments, tested in lengthy exercise, put to the service of a society that is still young and savage; the departments of our civil service assisting an Oriental despotism with all the experience of modern times; European discipline supporting Asiatic tyranny; the police dedicated to concealing barbarism in order to perpetuate, instead of eradicating it; disciplined brutality and cruelty, and European military tactics serving to fortify the policies of Oriental courts. Imagine a half-savage people who have been regimented, without being civilized: then you will understand the moral and social state of the Russians. "

              Brutal.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Suvorov also wrote Spetsnaz. Very interesting book about how those spetsnaz troops are made and conditioned.
          >trust noone
          >criminal traditions/dedovschina
          >psyop brainwashing
          >basically just deadly trained and controlled via slavery rabid animals
          Frick that shit, seriously.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          THE VENTURE BROS

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I haven’t read the book. Can you or someone do a summary?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >be young Russian during Chechen war
          >be enlisted and sent to Chechnya
          >everything is fricked
          >no food
          >everybody is drunk
          >Chechens kill Russian recruits
          >older Russian soldiers kill Russian recruits
          >Russian mercenaries kill Russian recruits
          >no one knows and cares what is happening in the war
          >somehow war ends and I survive but fricked for life

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >guy gets mobilized for the first Chechen war
            >talks about the terrible hazing during training and time sitting around waiting to be sent out
            >mobiks routinely brutalized to the point where they're coughing up blood
            >little to no food or water for mobiks, older recruits hoarding everything for themselves
            >after one particularly brutal beating, he bunkers himself into a room for a few days until they break it down and beat him some more
            >beating so bad that he and a few others just leave the base and go into nearby town to hide out and recuperate in abandoned buildings and go to a hospital
            >best night for him is after he gets out of the hospital he goes into an abandoned building for the night and some kittens find him and sleep with him
            >goes back to base and witnesses some officer beat the living shit out of the guy that had been beating him before all while in front of the entire unit
            >goes to war
            >still lacking food and water
            >end up having to forage for food and water when they're not being shot at
            >lots of people getting diseases for drinking creek water without boiling it
            >talks about how local commanders that are good get hamstrung by their higher ups and lack of supplies while others use their men in suicidal manner because they don't give a frick about the men they command
            >talks about various things that would be war crimes and how brutal the Chechens are
            >goes home
            >years later thinks he owes it to the new guys being sent to Chechen Boogaloo 2.0 to be there so they don't go through the shit he did and he can help them out
            >ends up going through the exact same shit as before until higher ups decide to just bomb and artillery everything
            >comes home completely disillusioned about destroying the place they were sent in to save and how the military hasn't changed at all despite constant propaganda about reforms

            Typical Russian depression kino

            The most tragic part of all of that is that Chechnya is currently ruled by the son of one of the islamist rebels that tried to seceded, which runs the place like a islamist african warlord.
            The whole thing was literally for nothing.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >The whole thing was literally for nothing.

              The whole thing, that is the Second Chechen War, was to put Putin firmly on the throne with a reputation of a strongman.
              Therefore, it worked as intended.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Kadyrov is less of an islamist and more of a cult of personality autocrat puppet. He’s under the facade of a devout Muslim to satisfy the very conservative Islamic Chechen republic. Much of the Chechen opposition against kadyrov and his boss Putin are in fact Islamists and other Jihadi types. Unlike other post-Soviet states and republics, places like Chechnya and Dagestan dropped secular ism and doubled down on Islam but some might say they never fully adopted secular Soviet rule in the first place.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >guy gets mobilized for the first Chechen war
            >talks about the terrible hazing during training and time sitting around waiting to be sent out
            >mobiks routinely brutalized to the point where they're coughing up blood
            >little to no food or water for mobiks, older recruits hoarding everything for themselves
            >after one particularly brutal beating, he bunkers himself into a room for a few days until they break it down and beat him some more
            >beating so bad that he and a few others just leave the base and go into nearby town to hide out and recuperate in abandoned buildings and go to a hospital
            >best night for him is after he gets out of the hospital he goes into an abandoned building for the night and some kittens find him and sleep with him
            >goes back to base and witnesses some officer beat the living shit out of the guy that had been beating him before all while in front of the entire unit
            >goes to war
            >still lacking food and water
            >end up having to forage for food and water when they're not being shot at
            >lots of people getting diseases for drinking creek water without boiling it
            >talks about how local commanders that are good get hamstrung by their higher ups and lack of supplies while others use their men in suicidal manner because they don't give a frick about the men they command
            >talks about various things that would be war crimes and how brutal the Chechens are
            >goes home
            >years later thinks he owes it to the new guys being sent to Chechen Boogaloo 2.0 to be there so they don't go through the shit he did and he can help them out
            >ends up going through the exact same shit as before until higher ups decide to just bomb and artillery everything
            >comes home completely disillusioned about destroying the place they were sent in to save and how the military hasn't changed at all despite constant propaganda about reforms

            Typical Russian depression kino

            I haven’t read the book. Can you or someone do a summary?

            It is legitimately one of the most depressing things I've ever read and that's saying something
            I think the highlight for me was when Y.H.N found an abandoned apartment he basically 'played house' in for a few days, pretending like he was back in the civilian world, had a stable job and a wife and a lovely apartment to come home to, and eventually had to abandon it when his unit got moved around again. Very poignant.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >guy gets mobilized for the first Chechen war
          >talks about the terrible hazing during training and time sitting around waiting to be sent out
          >mobiks routinely brutalized to the point where they're coughing up blood
          >little to no food or water for mobiks, older recruits hoarding everything for themselves
          >after one particularly brutal beating, he bunkers himself into a room for a few days until they break it down and beat him some more
          >beating so bad that he and a few others just leave the base and go into nearby town to hide out and recuperate in abandoned buildings and go to a hospital
          >best night for him is after he gets out of the hospital he goes into an abandoned building for the night and some kittens find him and sleep with him
          >goes back to base and witnesses some officer beat the living shit out of the guy that had been beating him before all while in front of the entire unit
          >goes to war
          >still lacking food and water
          >end up having to forage for food and water when they're not being shot at
          >lots of people getting diseases for drinking creek water without boiling it
          >talks about how local commanders that are good get hamstrung by their higher ups and lack of supplies while others use their men in suicidal manner because they don't give a frick about the men they command
          >talks about various things that would be war crimes and how brutal the Chechens are
          >goes home
          >years later thinks he owes it to the new guys being sent to Chechen Boogaloo 2.0 to be there so they don't go through the shit he did and he can help them out
          >ends up going through the exact same shit as before until higher ups decide to just bomb and artillery everything
          >comes home completely disillusioned about destroying the place they were sent in to save and how the military hasn't changed at all despite constant propaganda about reforms

          Typical Russian depression kino

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Thanks for succinct summary anon.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              One of the big take aways from it is that there's very little unit discipline and everybody is more or less looking out for themselves, even to the point where a water truck has to be guarded by another unit because the older mobiks hoard all the water for themselves and sell it to others. Ammo routinely goes missing, was sold to Chechens, etc. Just general crazy shit or things that would make sense if they were isolated incidents but instead are endemic to every day life.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Babchenko was born in 1977 in Moscow, Russian SSR. One of his grandfathers was born in Henichesk, Ukrainian SSR. His maternal grandmother is israeli.

            Fricking again? I'm starting to think that the only people worth a shit in Russia at all are non-Russians. Seeing as the only people who ever bother even trying to actually improve life or speak out against injustice in that miserable excuse for a place are israelites, Balts, Ukrainians, Belarussians, Germans, Georgians, Chechens, or Asians.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >I'm starting to think that the only people worth a shit in Russia at all are non-Russians.
              You didn't know already?
              Russia's explorers, diplomats, engineers and scientists were all either Baltic Germans or Ukrainians.
              It's been like this for over half a millenium.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >the only people worth a shit in Russia at all are non-Russians
              And the only functional version of Russia exists only outside of Russia. The Russian expat communities aren't the degenerate fricks that we see inside Russia. They had enough civilization in them to leave.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >The Russian expat communities aren't the degenerate fricks that we see inside Russia.
                ask the latvians about that

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Russians are indeed Black folk. Individually they might be fine - like, if you have a couple of Russians in a mostly Latvian class, or at a mostly Latvian office, or a mostly Latvian friend group, more than likely they'll adapt and act civilized. But any Russian dominated space is a degenerate shithole. Russian schools are where pretty much all of the teenage gangs reside, Russian-dominated districts have pretty much all the crime and urban decay, if you see a group of people chimping out on the street it will invariably be composed of Russians and Russian-adjacents (churkas)

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I remember having a conversation with an expat who left when they were young, and i asked her what she missed. And she basically said nothing, and that russians are buttholes to each other, especially strangers, and it's fricking miserable to live there

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I dunno about that, we've seen a lot of zigger chest-thumping in Russian enclaves since Feb last year.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Eastern Euro Russian enclaves aren't really made of people who left Russia, they're made of Russians who think that there are a bunch of Baltics/Poles/Germans/etc squatting on Russian territory.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              There are only three types of Russian rulers that the country has actually improved under.
              >Isn't actually Russian and wants the nation to be more civilized like home. (Catherine the Great)
              >Married to the first kind. (Alexander II)
              >Has beaten the odds and has become self-aware. Realizes what an irredeemable shithole Russia is and determined to either educate or beat the Russian "culture" out of his people like a bad habit. (Peter the Great)

              There are actual Russians that can be worth a shit, but they first have to realize just how shit the rest of the Russians are.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >>Has beaten the odds and has become self-aware. Realizes what an irredeemable shithole Russia is and determined to either educate or beat the Russian "culture" out of his people like a bad habit. (Peter the Great)

                Alexander III did this as well. He was an undereducated reactionary who was keen on secret police but even HE looked around, said "blyat, Europe and the nips are going to eat us alive if we keep wallowing in shit" and oversaw the expansion of the trend of improvement and investment that his father had kicked off and which were leading to Russia having double-digit annual GDP growth throughout the back half of the 19th century, lessening corruption, great strides in industry, urbanization, infrastructure and literacy, improving trade relations, etc.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                The Golden Horseshoe: The Wartime Career of Otto Kretschmer, U-Boat Ace by Terence Robertson
                Good book for everyone interested in early WWII Uboot history

                >and determined to either educate or beat the Russian "culture" out of his people like a bad habit. (Peter the Great)
                There are unironically conspiracy theories in Russia that shit on Peter the Great for bringing western degeneracy to the motherland
                Some go even as far as claiming that he was replaced by a british pirate during his Netherlands journey

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Ethnic Russians themselves have lived under mentally moronic, brutal and authoritarian leadership for such a long time that I'm beginning to theorize that the yearning for freedom and desire to improve's one life, instead of miserably resigning one's self to his doomed existence, is a genetic component. Thus the Russians have, through artificial selection, "evolved" into the most servile, brutal and uncaring people you can possibly have.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous
              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Exactly. They're perpetually trapped in this state of violence and have no desire to escape from it because their culture has never really tasted any sort of freedom whatsoever.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                AKHTSUALLY they have. Trick is when they are granted it usually happens with the implosion of the iron fisted central government. What follows is their shitbird nature takes over and the sparesly populated clay is rapidly divided between gangster-bandit/marauder groups prying upon each other and everybody else. So far until one of these mobster groups emerges supreme as the new king shit. Most infamous of these episodes was the last russian civil war which ended up with the bolsheviks gangsters securing power with all of the pain and terror that followed.

                Thus for a zigger slave freedom=chaos=better have a stronk king then freedom

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                The fundamental problem with russia is that their history has essentially landed them in an inescapable hole. It's a gigantic country, most of which is relatively sparsely populated and severely underdeveloped, leading to extreme dysfunction and internal strife. But those far flung regions wouldn't be functioning states on their own, because they have no economic potential to speak of and they would be double or triple landlocked with only the trans-siberian railway acting as their lifeline. Russia is essentially an empire in perpetual collapse that can never actually collapse

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Sounds like the Spanish Empire just before the Peninsular War tbh

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Pryviet Vsauce. Mikhail here.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I've seen a Ukrainian talking about a Russian POW that went like:
                - I'd rather suck Putin's wiener than have the hohols suck NATO's!
                - Have you ever thought about living without sucking a wiener, you homosexual?

                If anyone has a version with sound, I'd appreciate a file or link.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Here you go.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Where is the sound?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Only the GIF boards can host sound. K strips it out.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Na, why risk your life trying to reform Russia when everything you want is just a hop skip and jump to Europe or America. Same thing happened to Germany in the 1800s, all the liberty minded Germans gave up on the dream of a constitutional German republic and immigrated to the US. Basically any non-slave Russia who wanted freedom has it, just not in Russia.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Russia murders their intelligentsia and there is nothing in Russia worthy of personal sacrifice. It is better let revert to Vatfrica.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Human behaviour legitimately has a proven genetic component to it.
                Russia has been the perfect breeding ground for the most servile, apathetic, sacrificial slaves for almost a thousand years, ever since the Mongols first started raiding. With anyone actually having the guts to try and improve things either being hopelessly overwhelmed, or being smart and realizing the futility of it and either fricking of entirely or trying to live peacefully in some small village in Siberia.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              and yet these various ethnics tried their best to LARP as russians. Curious.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                homie literally nobody has ever tried to LARP as russians. russians have to fricking enforce their culture at gunpoint because people will rather die than having to live with that shit

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Keep seeing this sentiment anon.

              Fyi, there are almost no “Russian” Russians anymore, from an ethnic standpoint - only varying ethnic mixes. Even if they present themselves as Russian (notice how most patriots from Russia tend to be asiatic, turkic, etc in origin), in actuality, their ethnic background is dotted from all over Europe and Asia. Russia has been multiethnic for a damn while, and with the USSR, it only made mixing easier. This might be obvious to some, but its moronic to see people looking for “Russian” Russians when there are almost none. Every Russian is some kind of *insert ethnicity*-Russian. Similar to the US ig…

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Aren't proper ethnic Russians just Germans, Finns and Scandinavians mixed with the natives of Western Russia anyway.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                If we go back all the way to the start, they were settlers from Bulgaria who ended up in a swamp because they couldn't compete with the Scandis further North or the Steppe hordes further south.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >some kittens find him and sleep with him

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            That guy ('Said' maybe?) getting his ass beat by the sargeant major part made me have fricking goose bumps, holy frick that was a relief from all the shit going on.
            The only part that made me slightly emotional was the starving cow getting executed and accepting her fate, and in the end when the hobo vet and babchenko says "I'm a reminder."

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >basically communism again

            I might be missing something extremely obvious, but... Why couldn't he/they just shoot their superiors? I get deserting/surrendering to the Chechens was not an option back then, but how can they be in the exact same situation again now? Do they never learn, do they actually enjoy being goycattle?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I'm wondering about this too.
              I know in Ukraine officers were getting fragged all over the place during the opening days/months of the war. There was a vid posted here not too long ago of a vatnik officer beating the mobiks for carrying wounded back from the front, he had his bodyguards hold them at gunpoint while he beat them. I bet officers in the Chechen war did the same thing, there's always that one guy who might pull a knife or a grenade when his boss gets in his face for not dying horribly so Putin can bump up his net worth.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >here was a vid posted here not too long ago of a vatnik officer beating the mobiks for carrying wounded back from the front, he had his bodyguards hold them at gunpoint while he beat them.

                I have that video. It wasn't just any officer, it was a division commander. Imagine watching Band of Brothers and during Bastogne, General Anthony McAuliffe starts belting members of Easy Company because Captain Winters told them to take the wounded back to the aid station.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                What
                The
                Frick

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                why are they like this?

                It's a SOVL thing, you wouldn't understand, troony

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                why are they like this?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I wonder - what would happen to a division commander in the US Army if he tried this shit, realistically? Would he get beat up in return? Shot? Hung? Skinned? Quartered? Court-martialed and dishonorably discharged? Or would a race riot in the barracks break out?
                I have no idea, tbh.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >I wonder - what would happen to a division commander in the US Army if he tried this shit, realistically?

                Patton committed a dramatically lesser offense of slapping a pair of soldiers who were hospitalized for illness that he mistook for malingerers and when this came to light, there were calls by a number of number of Congressmen and US Army officers to have him immediately removed from command. While Patton's career was not immediately threatened (both Eisenhower and Marshall agreed that his talents were too indispensable for him to be fired over what was essentially a PR scandal), it, along with his involvement in the Biscari massacre (which was honestly a far more disturbing lapse in judgement), did contribute to his being passed over for Omar Bradley as commander of Operation Overlord and he spent most of the next year in command of a phony army as part of pre-Normandy ruses. It also caused a rift between Patton and his mentor John Pershing that effectively ended their decades-long friendship. The Slappening was nonetheless a demonstration of Patton's impulsivity and occasional but shockingly poor judgement that arguably made him unfit for any higher levels of command such as the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Patton slapped a pair of PTSD guys and his career never recovered.

                It probably didn't help that he went on a /misc/ rant after one of them and claimed that PTSD ("shell shock" or "battle fatigue" in those days) was a israeli trick, or that one of the guns he smacked around actually turned out to have malaria.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Immediate court martial for everybody involved, and probably a prison sentence to boot. That's aggravated assault plus whatever charges they can slap on for the holding them at gunpoint part

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Patton slapped a pair of PTSD guys and his career never recovered.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >things would be good if they were not as bad

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >best night for him is after he gets out of the hospital he goes into an abandoned building for the night and some kittens find him and sleep with him

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          "RECON could be here" he thought, "I've never been in this part of Grozny before. There could be RECON anywhere." The cool wind felt good against his bare chest. "I HATE RECON" he thought. Gruppa Krovi reverberated his entire BMP, making it pulsate even as the 200 ruble vodka circulated through his powerful thick veins and washed away his (merited) fear of reconnaissance personnel after dark. "When the BMP's fuel pump was sold to Chechens, you can't go anywhere" he said to himself, out loud.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Masterful

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            fricking kek
            batman boys were truly buttholes of inhuman dimensions

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Shorn-headed boys, sometimes morose, sometimes laughing, beaten up in our barracks, with broken jaws and ruptured lungs, we were herded into this war and killed by the hundred. We didn’t even know how to shoot; we couldn’t kill anyone, we didn’t know how. All that we were capable of was crying and dying. And die we did.

          >We called the rebels ‘uncle’, and when our boys’ throats were cut at the block posts, they’d beg the rebels, ‘Please, uncle, don’t kill me, what did I ever do to you?’ We so wanted to live. Get that into your heads, you fat, smug generals who sent us off to this slaughter. We hadn’t yet seen life or even tasted its scent, but we had already seen death. We knew the smell of congealed blood on the floor of a helicopter in a forty-degree heat, knew that the flesh of a torn-off leg turns black, and that a person can burn up entirely in lit petrol, leaving just the bones. We knew that bodies swell up in the heat and we listened every night to the crazed dogs howling in the ruins. Then we started to howl ourselves, because to die at the age of eighteen is a terrifying prospect. We were betrayed by everyone and we died in a manner befitting real cannon fodder - silently and unfairly.

          plus ça change as they say

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Same

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        This also happens to me, but with red storm rising. Albeit the soviets there were far more competent than reality.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Same

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >hohol fraud
      still mad about the dude faked his own death?
      >hohol
      he's a russian dissident btw

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >he's a russian dissident btw
        >-enko
        Obviously a hohol who let his true loyalty be shown, you disingenuous homosexual.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          the true loyalty of any sane russian lies with ukraine, Black person

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >the true loyalty of any sane american lies with alabama

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              russias entire history is a we wuz kangz interpretation of the kyivan rus, followed by enslavement

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              true statement unless your pro lincoln the original obama, a dick sucking yankee allied with british protestant and french liberal revolutionary homosexuals

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Roll Tide and War Eagle, motherfricker.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Why can’t you Slavs ever be normal in war?
    Motherfricker don't associate the rest of us with R*ssia

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      But you're the same people?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        no

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yes, cope you share the same blood

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            no

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Russians lack neuronal capacity and have no morals, thats why they are subhumans and all invaders should be shot.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Sure and you share blood with everyone from Quebec to Mexico. What are you, some third-gen Amerimutt who's a third Irish and a third polish or some vague nonsense? Get fricked with your lack of identity.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Nta but what is your blood, oh mr pure aryan gigachad?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            There's a world of difference between Slavs and generic off-brand mongol mystery meat. If you can't see it, you're probably just as mystery meat yourself and subconsciously try to deflect.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            And who the frick do you share your blood with? You're a mutt, yet that has nothing to do with how you behave. Fricking racialist homosexuals. Do you realize how far Slavic inhabited lands stretch anyway? How many different peoples were assimilated and synthetsized into current ethnic geoups. Russians are a mix of previously Finnic, Turkic and Iranic groups and yet look at them now.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          no

          Based no poster

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Kek

          no

          Russians lack neuronal capacity and have no morals, thats why they are subhumans and all invaders should be shot.

          Sure and you share blood with everyone from Quebec to Mexico. What are you, some third-gen Amerimutt who's a third Irish and a third polish or some vague nonsense? Get fricked with your lack of identity.

          https://i.imgur.com/2yUWFC8.png

          There's a world of difference between Slavs and generic off-brand mongol mystery meat. If you can't see it, you're probably just as mystery meat yourself and subconsciously try to deflect.

          And who the frick do you share your blood with? You're a mutt, yet that has nothing to do with how you behave. Fricking racialist homosexuals. Do you realize how far Slavic inhabited lands stretch anyway? How many different peoples were assimilated and synthetsized into current ethnic geoups. Russians are a mix of previously Finnic, Turkic and Iranic groups and yet look at them now.

          Top kek. Seethe harder, it's funny

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        *your

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Russians are Asiatic you can tell by their weird hybrid eyes

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          That's just FAS.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Slavs, is in fact, Wends and Slavs, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Cultured Europeans and Asiatic Barbarians. Slavs are not an ethnic group unto itself, but merely a linguistic group made somewhat useful to humanity through Wends, a vital group thanks to which Europe exists.

      Many in the uninformed public users mistake Wends for Slavs every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the Wendish peoples are often called "Western Slavs", and many are not aware that those are the Wends, a Central European core people. There really are Slavs, but Wends are no part of it. Wends are different, much more civilized, individualistic and ingenious. This is essential for you to realize. Slavs are often thought to include Wends, but basically it's Slavs with Wends added. All the so called "Western Slavs" are really Wends.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous
      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        what about southern slavs?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >what about southern slavs?
          I read in some genetic study that Slovenes, Croatians and Bosnians originate from modern day Poland/Slovakia; Serbs, Macedonians and Bulgarians originate mostly from modern day Ukraine. IDK if that's bullshit or not, but it would explain a lot.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >t.croat, guy who asked the question and talking now
            yeah, that explains a lot!

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Thank you Stalinman

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Wends, a vital group thanks to which Europe exists.
        thank you for your insight, mr kowalski

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >He doesn't know about Serbia

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The scene about drinking from puddles of scummy water or the proper way to prepare dogs or "their" cow slowly dying. Fricked up Slav kino.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That guy ('Said' maybe?) getting his ass beat by the sargeant major part made me have fricking goose bumps, holy frick that was a relief from all the shit going on.
      The only part that made me slightly emotional was the starving cow getting executed and accepting her fate, and in the end when the hobo vet and babchenko says "I'm a reminder."

      The fricking cow still haunts me. Rest in peace moo-friend

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The scene about drinking from puddles of scummy water or the proper way to prepare dogs or "their" cow slowly dying. Fricked up Slav kino.

        what happened to the cow? 🙁

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          They took over this little barn in the mountains from another, more fricked up group of vatniks, and there was a badly neglected cow there. They tried to feed it and nurse it back to health but it wasn't working and the cow was clearly suffering and sick so they took it to the edge of a cliff and shot it, and felt really bad about it.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Sounds really mooving

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            And that's sugar coating it. One of the vatniks tried to shoot the cow when she wasn't looking as to minimize her suffering, but she was still alive even after getting headshot'd. So when she realized what was going on, she closed her eyes and turned her head down to her shooters as if she was accepting her fate. Fricking brutal.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

    ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They weren't called Slav(e)s by accident. Literally centuries of dysgenics, where only the cowardly and the meek were selected for.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Slav comes from Slovan, which is what Slavs call themselves. And Slovan comes from slovo, which means word. Slovan could be roughly translated word-er (as in runner, climber, etc). On the other hand, Germans are called Němci/Niemci, which pretty much means mutes, or "the mute ones". So Slav means "one who speaks words", IE someone who speaks the same language as me.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          russians call germany germany if I recall correctly

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            They call Germany "Nemets"

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              The other anon is right, Russians call Germany "Germaniya", though the rest of Slavs call it some variation of "Nemets", as you said

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              russians call germany germany if I recall correctly

              As far as I'm aware, Niemci only applies to Poles, since Germany in Polish is Niemcy.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                No it doesn't, Russia is the only odd one out. Both south and west slavs call Germany some variation of Niemci.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                South and West Slavs are also an entirely different thing to the East, anon.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous
        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Ask your clown college for your money back. I'm a native Ukrainian and don't recognize any of the shit your wrote.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            in case some anon believes this totally ukie moron

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Any uke or pole or Latvian or even romainian can easily explain why russians are not slavs. Anyone from anywhere else seems to be surprised to hear this.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            there words originate from 7th century, you moron.
            Go dig trenches

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          This.

          russians call germany germany if I recall correctly

          Nope. They call germany "germania", but germans "niemtsy". Ukrainians call germany "nimechchyna" and germans "nimtsi".

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          filthy czech hands have written thsi

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I guess Ukraines are not Slavs then

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        So basically if in my language "brit" coincidentally means "dogshite" I can shit out a theory like yours and pretend I am correct in saying brits evolved from dogshite. What reason would literally every slav nation, including half of europe and half of Asia have to call themselves "we are slaves lol". Anon

        Slav comes from Slovan, which is what Slavs call themselves. And Slovan comes from slovo, which means word. Slovan could be roughly translated word-er (as in runner, climber, etc). On the other hand, Germans are called Němci/Niemci, which pretty much means mutes, or "the mute ones". So Slav means "one who speaks words", IE someone who speaks the same language as me.

        is probably close to the truth.

        No beef with brits here but for some reason I always see brits and mutts post the slav(e) meme on pol, no idea what their obsession with that is.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It was also recently in the Northmen, which was a reasonably popular movie

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It was also recently in the Northmen, which was a reasonably popular movie

          Slave comes from Slav, not the other way around. The word slave is derived from the notion that Roman and Muslim rulers would mostly take Eastern Europeans as slaves and bring them around their empires, so those Slavs got changed to slave through slang and shit.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Lesley Blanch, "The Sabres of Paradise", about the Russian conquest of the Caucasus and the Chechens. Life in the Russian Army was a brutal, bleak hellhole of cold, deathmarches, mud, sickness, violence and getting bullied and tortured by everyone

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      frank herbert plagiarized that book for dune

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The book even mentioned Dvornikov as being a criminal

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >you Slavs
    Only russians, and they're not real Slavs, it's like calling Americans white.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The Bodyguard or something by someone named Alexander. As the thread theme goes, it's also about the chechen wars. Summary is the russian army was corrupt, they were selling ammo to anyone and would fire at their own positions to give the impression of activity and secure funding.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Boys In Zinc by SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH. About soviet Afghanistan war. Business as usual, corruption, dedovshina, all the good stuff.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH
      >Belarusian
      lol

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Let me double that lol for yah

        >born in Stanislav, Ukrainian SSR

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Remember that when this picture was taken in in 2008, the US military was blowing billions of dollars on ACU, dragonskin armor, and the XM8

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >the US military was blowing billions of dollars on ACU

            And that's supposed to better?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Oh its you.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    so how many one soldiers wars and maniac-depressive doomer novelists will be born from the Ukraine war?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      we probably wont get many novels its a lot of zoomers fighting especially for ukraine so more youtube videos, combat footage with edits etc
      but we will get some very based slav doomer war music as always

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >slav doomer war music
        How good is that?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Depends on your tastes, you've got more traditional folk stuff like this:

          Then you've got stuff like this:

          And I'm also going to throw in some Kino because I really like Kino and you can't stop me.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Blyat vadim there is a huge purple robot that is eating our BMD's what do we do ?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            have a nice day you filthy russiaboo degenerate

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Be salty all you like Anon, but the Russians make the best doomer music, just as the Germans are good at punk

              The Japanese are good at catchy theme songs

              And the israelites are inexplicably good at reggae.

              https://youtu.be/ChV5BZ8SmS0

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                you won't soften me up, homosexual
                death to russia
                kill all russian toddlers
                erase every trace of so-called russian ""culture"""
                russians are metastatic cancer and when fighting cancer there is no room for compromise, only total irradiation, chemotherapy, gas chambers, burning crosses and bonfires
                >bbuuut
                we should execute every russiaboo too but the fricking moderates will never allow it

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You have a hard heart Anon, but is it hard enough not to soften from a song by the Hungarian Beatles?

                I have also included an image that will send a surprisingly large amount of Russians into a fit of despair that you can use at a later date.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You people who talk like this are just Black folk. You want to kill all the women and kids, you go join the fight you pussy

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Why spare them when their culture is only capable of producing vermin? They defiled /k/ after all.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                As a fellow moderate I will allow your request to execute everyone, and anyone, who has any kind of affiliation with puccia. Murder of toddlers is not mandatory, but strongly encouraged.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Same energy.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Is the movie actually good?
              I am very wary of anything with Netflix on its name.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Is the movie actually good?

                Frick no lol. I saw it in theaters and it's basically a fricking cartoon. It only got its accolades because modern cinema (especially adapted works) is almost universally garbage and it bothered to remain marginally true to its source material rather than mocking it.

                Watch the original 1930 or 1979 version if you want /k/ino.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah it’s cool. What more do you want from a movie?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                yeah its an excellent film.

                anyone who says otherwise is a homosexual who has unprotected raw dog anal sex with HIV positive troonys

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Depends. It's over the top, misses the book themes and points so hard that it can be considered a satire and is packed with pointless Hollywood action and cheap tension building. I has to rage-watch the whole thing, and it took me four sittings.
                On another hand a friends of mine who never read the book enjoyed it, and their impressions weren't that far from what the book tried to convey.

                Personally I would suggest watching the old adaptation from the 70s.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Any movie that does fake CGI gunshots is not good.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                worse than the 1930 version but still alright

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It's okay, I rolled my eyes a few times though

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            lacks the classic "just don't tell mom i'm in chechnya"

            For me it's in the top5 war songs ever

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              That's because it's actually a cover of "Don't tell Mum I'm in Afghan", also known as "Hello Sister" but I don't blame you because they made it much better when they increased the pace of the song.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Oh i know, and supposedly it's been sung by soldiers even before but as you said the Chechnya version nails it better (probably partly because of the Chechen wars being an even bigger clownshow than Afghanistan)

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            For me its Caravan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urwR-cIPvlU
            Also my favorite Kino songs are a tie between Sledi Za Saboy and Legenda. Honorable mentions to Bezdelnik and Skazka.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Not optimistic, the Ukrainian music put over montages this war has been horrible. Maybe the Russian spirit encapsulates them and they make the Afghani or Chechen tier songs, but I'm not optimistic. Probably some twchno house remix with "slava ukraini" right before the bass drop

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Sauce on your webm? Holy shit that was... I don't have the words.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >I don't have the words
        It was called the good old times, and it was the same in Romania by the way.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        This is what always happens to orphaned or otherwise separated kids when the economy goes to shit and social program funding dries up. It was the norm before the 20th century, even in the west. The church would funnel up some of the street kids but never all of them.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Sauce on your webm?
        r*ssa

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      There were several such documentaries in 1990s. I believe

      Sauce on your webm? Holy shit that was... I don't have the words.

      is from this one, titled "Children of Leningradsky". But I won't go through every scene to check whether it's actually from this film.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        https://i.imgur.com/L1vVaHj.jpg

        Depends on your tastes, you've got more traditional folk stuff like this:

        Then you've got stuff like this:

        And I'm also going to throw in some Kino because I really like Kino and you can't stop me.

        Thanks for the links, anons.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I just watched "Children of Liningradsky". That was a horrible fricking blackpill. It's like Russians hate themselves so much that they destroy themselves from their youth.

        But the webm in

        so how many one soldiers wars and maniac-depressive doomer novelists will be born from the Ukraine war?

        is from a different documentary. Any idea what the name is?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Whenever you watch something like this, it juts hits you like a brick. You have this normal life, the people around you have normal lives, all you see everyday is normality. You almost forget that unimaginable darkness still exists below society's mask. That life is still as savage, as brutal and as merciless as it ever has been.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Sauce on your webm? Holy shit that was... I don't have the words.

      There were several such documentaries in 1990s. I believe [...] is from this one, titled "Children of Leningradsky". But I won't go through every scene to check whether it's actually from this film.

      Ukraine itself actually had a fairly serious problem with street children up until the 2010s, but even then it seems they at least tried to address the problem with social welfare and charity rather than just ignoring or exploiting them as the Russians did.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm tired of seeing russia's evil and degeneracy all the time. I just want it to stop existing

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >there is gena, he takes it in the ass
      Fricking hell girl, why'd you have to destroy the lad like that?

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I haven't read it but there's a book called Traces on the Road by Valerii Markus written about his experiences fighitng in 2014-15. He was in the Ukrainian VDV, has a ton of videos from the war and after on Youtube too, and he's the chief sergeant of the new 47th Independent Assault Brigade.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Red Road from Stalingrad and For volk and fuhrer. The Big Show is good if you’re a plane gay.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Does dedovshchina vary between branches? I'd imagine that guys in the Air Force have it a lot better but I couldn't even guess about what goes on in the navy

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I think the guys in the Navy are too busy fighting the mutated demons that emerge from the bowels of their ships to have enough time for that.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      My mom's cousin got beaten to death for no reason and he was in the navy. This was in the 80s. So at least the navy is no better.

      One thing I know for sure is that officers and people who did reserve officer training after university got treated somewhat better since all our male teachers said that's how they avoided most of the bullshit.

      t. ex-USSR (Latvia)

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      OP's book actually kinda covers that, he's posted next to an airfield for a bunch of it (before he actually goes into Chechnya) and says there's none among the pilots and other aircrew at least, and that they live in much nicer conditions with good food etc. He basically goes AWOL for a while because he's the last guy in his unit (the rest either went downrange or deserted) so nobody cares and the recon guys next door are gonna beat him to death if he hangs around his own barracks so he spends a while sleeping locked up in his unit's car at night and hanging around near the pilot barracks during the day because nobody will frick with him there.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Guess even Russian know it's a bad idea to give your pilots a concussion.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, plus pilots are expensive and time-consuming to retain so the service wants to retain them so it'll do what it can to prevent conditions that will make them want to quit. The author actually mentions dedo being a big problem among officers as well, and the main reason the Russian military is fricked, it's not quite as bad as among conscripts but bad enough that it drives any decent officers out of the service before they get to any kind of senior ranks and it results in a whole military where everybody above Captain or maybe the occasional Major is a total piece of shit, but even they realize that you can't afford to have people like them flying your expensive and tactically/strategically important airplanes.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, plus pilots are expensive and time-consuming to retain so the service wants to retain them so it'll do what it can to prevent conditions that will make them want to quit. The author actually mentions dedo being a big problem among officers as well, and the main reason the Russian military is fricked, it's not quite as bad as among conscripts but bad enough that it drives any decent officers out of the service before they get to any kind of senior ranks and it results in a whole military where everybody above Captain or maybe the occasional Major is a total piece of shit, but even they realize that you can't afford to have people like them flying your expensive and tactically/strategically important airplanes.

          Another reason might be that treating soldiers like shit when they have the means to frick off to another country is a proven bad idea
          Just look at the Belenko MiG-25 incident for example

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The navy and the cavalry used to be the worst ones. There's a reason the navy revolted first in 1917

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >itt people who are wrong about slavs
    All slavs are the same, and hitler was right in wanting to exterminate them.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I dunno how this turned into a Russia thread, but I’m bumping for /k/ literature and recommend books. Not Vatniks being orcs.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Ok, Anon, I'll share some books I like with you.
      One of my all time favourite war memoirs is "Quartered Safe Out Here" by George MacDonald Fraser.
      At times poignant, and at other times quite funny, it is one of the best accounts of the Burma Campaign from the point of view of the ordinary soldier that I have yet to read.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        If you want a detailed rundown of a modernish battle, I would highly recommend "We Were Soldiers Once...And Young" by Lt. Gen. Howard Moore which gives the overall commanders understanding of the battle from both the perspective of the US soldiers and their NVA opponents; as well as accounts from the grunts and the support staff as well.
        It's a lengthy read, but if you want a real in-depth analysis of what it is like to conduct a modernish battle, I can't think of any better books.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          If you want something more academic, then I would suggest "Armies of Sand" by Kenneth Pollack which goes into detail about why Arab armies struggle to compete against everyone in the modern world and looks at their performance from 1945-2018.
          NGL, it's a bit of a slog in places, but if you stick with it, you'll have a much better understanding of why the Middle East always seems to be one giant clusterfrick where no one really has a firm grasp on anything.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Afghanistan
            I read
            >Danger Close: Tactical Air Controllers in Afghanistan and Iraq
            >Level Zero Heroes and Dagger 22 - M.Golembesky
            >Alone at Dawn - D. Schilling
            >Unholy War - Terror in the Name of Islam (highly recommended - good starter book for islam terrorism)
            >The Hidden War - Artyom Borovik (for OP)
            >Ghost War - Steve Coll
            >Directorate S - Steve Coll
            >The Hardest Place - Wesley Morgan (good overall book)

            Next on my list Afghanistan related
            >To the Mountains: My Life in Jihad, from Algeria to Afghanistan
            >The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War

            If I have time maybe
            >Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command
            >The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan
            >Warrior Diplomat: A Green Beret's Battles from Washington to Afghanistan
            but Im still looking for a good book who ends up the entire War in 2020-2021, Afghanistan Paper seems like a scam

            Later I want to move to Iran & Iraq etc, books I already have and soon read
            >Hezbollah - A short History
            >Revolutionary Iran
            What is on my list
            >The Iran-Iraq War Pierre Razoux
            >Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness
            >Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya
            >Jihad and Death: The Global Appeal of Islamic State
            >Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the Caliphate

            Another books I already read
            Asia
            >Stopping a Taiwan Invasion
            >Ghost Flames - C. Hanley
            >Mao and his lost children / Cultural Revolution - F. Dikötter (how to hate chinese, children, communism & socalism)
            >This Time we Win - The Tet Offensive - J. Robbins

            Some other /k/ books
            >Dancing in the glory of Monsters
            >Black Days - Roms War against Carthago (only available in German)
            Spanish CW & WW2
            >Otto Skorzeny - Kommandounternehmen
            >Mine Were of Troube
            >Rot schien die Sonne (only available in German)
            >Deutsche Kommandotripps 1939-1945 - Brandenburger (only available in German)
            >Until The Eyes Shut
            2000/2000shit

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I quite liked violence of action, but it's far less academic than the rest of your list.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              You need to read Zinky Boys. The history of the Soviet Afghan war told by various low level soviet grunts

              It’s incredibly grim and makes both the Ukraine war and the us invasion and occupation of Afghanistan look temperate

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >Dancing in the glory of monsters
              Surprised it isnt mentioned more often, that book is fricking amazing. While the yugo wars were happening the africans were basically in the midst of their version of a world war.
              There were drunk crazy mercs, massive battles with tanks and aircraft, radio wars between stations on different sides roasting each other, genocide everywhere e.t.c.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I'll finish this with perhaps a quite controversial opinion: With The Old Breed had a terrible editor that ruined the trustworthiness of the book.
          After having this book hyped up for me for years, I was really disappointed that it was written in such a way that it made Sledge seem like a unreliable narrator; especially towards the end of the book.
          It's full of moments where something terrible happens, like a sentry falling asleep which leads to a couple of marines getting killed or a wounded civilian being mercy-killed and the way it has been edited makes it seem that Sledge was the one responsible for it, but he passed the blame onto someone else to avoid being punished for it.
          Also the numbers given for casualties or the numbers of tanks involved in a particular engagement will change, sometimes even on the same page, despite Sledge continually writing throughout the book that he has studied the records extensively and gone over the numbers involved multiple times.
          It's a shame, because for a book written from half-remembered memories and diary scraps from 36 years ago, it's a really solid tale and I believe that the man himself is being honest and truthful about what he experienced. It was just poorly handled by whoever had the job of reading through the final draft to make sure it was ready for print.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Lt. Gen. Howard Moore
          Hal Moore dipship
          I agree with the book tho, definitely one of the better pieces of writing about the war and I appreciated the perspectives of NVA generals and senior officers juxtaposed with some FO that just saw his whole squad burn to death via blue-on-blue napalm

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >by George MacDonald Fraser.
        Is that the same guy who has written the amazing "Flashman" books? In that case I gotta read that book.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The very same. He also wrote a book called MacAuslan, which is a fictionalised version of his time in the Seaforth Highlanders in North Africa in the early 1950’s

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Storm of Steel by Jünger. The Chad response to the virgin all quiet on the western front.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      why tf does this "le based pro war Junger" meme keep persisting? Do any of these homosexuals actually read the book?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Jünger himself said that all in all he enjoyed the war very much and found it quite entertaining.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >that scene where his officer orders him to check the vehicles to see if there's anything missing
    >fricking everything inside has been removed and sold off, making the vehicle inoperable

    Alternatively
    >officer giving a token speech about the hazing culture in the military and telling them that they're against it
    >a dude gets defenestrated / jumps out of a window behind them and runs off
    >dude inside the building yells after him to get back and that he was going to kill him
    >officer tells the soldiers he gathered to stand down and go back to their duties

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Samurai by Saburo Sakai
    Stuka Pilot by Hans Ulrich Rudel
    War as I knew it by George Patton
    The Right Stuff by Chuck Jeager

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The worst part was at the beginning where he frickin VOLUNTEERS for the second chechen war

    second worst was the guy who got gutted by the allahu ackbars

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Here are a few
    >Vietnam
    I've read several, but Chickenhawk (nonfiction) is by far the best. It's an account from a helicopter pilot, and hence fragmentory, but really good. Apparently beloved by all US helicopter pilots, but great even if you don't care about helicopters.

    >Pacific front of WWII
    Fires on the Plain (fiction). A starving soldier wonders around the jungles of the Philippines near the end of WWII. Great if you like suffering. His nonfiction Prison Diary (nonfiction) is also good, but it's mostly about how 'hey, why are Americans this nice to their PoWs?' It's an account of the authors experiences as a PoW (captured during the retaking of the Philippines), and about how well Americans treat their prisoners for some reason and his coming to terms with the war ending. Both from a private's perspective.

    >Spanish Civil War
    Mine Were of Trouble (nonfiction). A British volunteer on the Nationalist side. Not /misc/wank, since it's pretty clear that Franco's side aren't very pleasant (e.g. the author has to execute a PoW). The author is an officer, so small unit tactics are described.

    >Syria
    Desert Sniper (nonfiction). British volunteer helping the Kurds. Mostly deals with how incompetent yet passionate they are. Also a small segment showing how unlike the US, Russia does not care about civilian casualties.

    >Other
    Beasts, Men and Gods (mixture of fiction & nonfiction). Recount of the authors escape from Russia during the Russian Civil War. More of an adventure novel, but very engaging. Encounters 'the Mad Baron' Roman von Ungern-Sternberg who sees himself as the reincarnation of Genghis Khan and thus is leading an army to liberate Mongolia from both the Bolsheviks and the Chinese.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Encounters 'the Mad Baron' Roman von Ungern-Sternberg who sees himself as the reincarnation of Genghis Khan and thus is leading an army to liberate Mongolia from both the Bolsheviks and the Chinese.
      Daily reminder that this Chad did nothing wrong.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Encounters 'the Mad Baron' Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
        that dude was some madlad for sure, there's a great bio, but it's in Russian only as far as I know.

        He's the highlight of the book
        >Fifteen miles further on we crossed a battlefield, where the third great battle for the independence of Mongolia had been fought. Here the troops of Baron Ungern clashed with six thousand Chinese moving down from Kiakhta to the aid of Urga. The Chinese were completely defeated and four thousand prisoners taken. However, these surrendered Chinese tried to escape during the night. Baron Ungern sent the Transbaikal Cossacks and Tibetans in pursuit of them and it was their work which we saw on this field of death. There were still about fifteen hundred unburied and as many more interred, according to the statements of our Cossacks, who had participated in this battle. The killed showed terrible sword wounds; everywhere equipment and other debris were scattered about. The Mongols with their herds moved away from the neighborhood and their place was taken by the wolves which hid behind every stone and in every ditch as we passed. Packs of dogs that had become wild fought with the wolves over the prey.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Encounters 'the Mad Baron' Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
      that dude was some madlad for sure, there's a great bio, but it's in Russian only as far as I know.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Really great book recommendations ITT.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    OPs book was great to read/listen too. It gives a ton of perspective on the super fricked up stuff that happened in Chechnya. Chechens cutting POW's throats at night so the soldiers had to listen to them bleed out. He also killed that little girl because he thought she was a fighter in a distant building that got BTFO from artillery I think after he reported it.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Read Picrel (Chickenhawk - Robert Mason) or your mother will die in her sleep tonight (in Minecraft)

    I'd recommend to both military history types, as well as anyone with an interest in rotary wing aviation.
    Excellent account of what it was like to fly Huey ass-and-trash missions in 1966 Vietnam.
    Stories include hunter/killer missions, acting as a command ship during Linebacker II, flying in a state of near-delirium due to back to back missions.

    Towards the end Mason discusses his struggle with PTSD. He elaborates on this in the follow-up Chickenhawk - Back In The World, which I would also recommend.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      dangerously based book, would also recommend. among other fun things is stealing choppers to go on beer runs, landing on a minefield, and witnessing a huey disintegrate while towing rotorblades while the dude is chilling on the beach.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Why can’t you Slavs ever be normal in war?
    khazar blood

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Why can’t you Slavs ever be normal in war?
    Russians are not Slavs, they got mind broken into Orcs by the Mongols

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The Centurions and The Praetorians by Jean Larteguy
    Fictional account of the French wars in Vietnam and Algeria written by a combat correspondent who was embedded with the Paratroopers.
    It's not super heavy on actual combat for the most part but is a fantastic story of the soldiers having to fight for a country that they feel is degenerating heavily.
    The part that stuck with me the most is one officer talks about the recurring dream he's having where he's a soldier in a dystopian future for a walled city where the only two types of civilians it has are those who do nothing but have drug fueled orgies and those who are hermits who never leave their house and contribute nothing to society. The city is besieged by barbarians and he constantly wonders why he even bothers fighting to defend it but he can't get rid of his sense of duty to fight for it.
    They also made a movie of it and it looks pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVr-Fjef8wo

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >a dystopian future for a walled city where the only two types of civilians it has are those who do nothing but have drug fueled orgies and those who are hermits who never leave their house and contribute nothing to society. The city is besieged by barbarians and he constantly wonders why he even bothers fighting to defend it but he can't get rid of his sense of duty to fight for it.
      That sounds a bit too relatable.

  29. 1 year ago
    ChaosCustoms

    Might is right is a good piece

    https://t.me/Guerrillaclub

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Why can’t you moskovites ever be normal in war?
    fixed it for you.
    Answer: because they are inhuman mongrels conditioned for excess of 1000 years to be the very definition of vile.
    As the quote goes "no nation, no people carry chains of slavery as a symbol of pride". Thats russians (moskovites) for you.
    Also, cult of death and misery (that is perverted and twisted Orthodox Christianity, to which they are apostates).

    if you want a TLDR: russians are reprobates, in the very meaning/context of Calvinism.

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I recently finished "The Forgotten Soldier" after it was recommended in another /k/ book thread a coupe of months ago and I thought it was really excellent. It showed the horrors and the hardships of fighting on the German Eastern Front in WW2 like nothing I had ever read before.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      btw the name of the author was Guy Sajer.

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I liked this one and it covers a subject otherwise little discussed (the Freikorps). The last quarter is basically just a prison narrative, though.

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    With how much hype it gets here I was expecting something far more brutal, it had it’s moments though. Mainly it just gives good insight into the absolute state of the Russian military.

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Bought the book after seeing this thread and just finished it last night. (Actually stayed up all night before last reading it and almost finished before passing out at like 9AM.) Fricking bleak and depressing as frick, man, goes along with a lot of what we've heard about the state of Russian forces since Ukraine kicked off but made me feel pretty bad for the poor mobik fricks being forced into it, especially after reading the way the Chechens treated any Russians they got their hands on when they were enemies.

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why the frick did this guy VOLUNTEER to join the second chechen war?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's hard to explain, even having just read the book, but I think it was basically PTSD mindfrickery. He had a hard time adapting back to civilian life, felt like everything was pointless compared to war, felt like everybody was fake as frick, etc., and wanted to be back in the shit with the bros where shit made sense to him despite being completely nonsensical and miserable most of the time. Seems like the second time around was enough for him, though he did go on to be a journalist covering stuff that put him back into dangerous situations.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I think it was a mix of survivor's guilt mixed with the idea that since he had been through that shitshow before somehow he could make it better for the guys he was with that go-around.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      see song related

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Armies of Sand is pretty legit. Analyses why Arab armies are consistently so shit. The gist of it is pretty similar to the Russians, nobody wants to take the initiative because anything outside of total subordination to the state/local warlord is taboo and gets you punished. Everything has to be directed upwards to the one guy in charge, and by the time the artillery pieces get their orders they're firing at empty fields miles away from the front.
    The Butcher's Trail is pretty interesting. It's about the hunt for war criminals after the breakup of Yugoslavia. At one point in the story most of who they're going to capture are behind bars and awaiting trial. Some high ranking Croats, Serbs and Bosnians are all stored in the same facility and share the common areas. Most of them got on really well. They had football teams, cooked together etc etc. It really drove home how little most of the people orchestrating the massacres really cared. I also liked a story in the book where some Bosnian says "frick it" and moves back to his border village after the war. He was taken from it and placed in a camp while his property was burned down, so he built a new home in the same spot as a big middle finger. The guy he bought the steel from building his new house was an ex-camp commandant, while his new postman was one of his camp guards
    At the moment I'm listening to Dead in the Water and Chip Wars. Tl;dr Dead in the Water is a Somali pirate insurance scam murder mystery, Chip Wars is Taiwan = computer chips = China want

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >test

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >He gives us another triumphant look and no one challenges him. This sort of conversation is typical for the army. No one, from the regimental commander to the rank-and-file soldier, understands why he is here. No one sees any sense in this war; all they see is that this war has been bought off from start to finish. It has been waged incompetently from the very beginning, and all those mistakes by the general staff, the defense minister and the supreme command have to be paid for with the lives of soldiers. For what purpose are these lives being laid down? The ‘restoration of constitutional order,’ the ‘counter-terrorist operation’ are nothing but meaningless words that are cited to justify the murder of thousands of people

    anyone got any articles about more modern mobliks? Is it still like the book?

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I know nothing about naval or air combat, any book recommendations for that?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I recall enjoying "Ace of Aces" by Teddy Suhren, but the last time I read it was about three years ago.
      It follows the rise of a U-Boot captain, from the start of the war until the very end and gradually becomes grimmer throughout as the allies get better at sinking U-Boots and the chances of them dying whenever they set out gets higher and higher.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Not a memoir but "the first and the last" by adolf galland is good start to learn some concepts in air warfare

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The Things They Carried is a sick book m8

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That was an awful book

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    All of these horrible accounts of Russian brutality will be regarded as Western propaganda by the "based Russia" crowd anyway. I'm from a country where a good amount of people think being patriotic means anti-Western and pro-Russia so I know too well how deluded pro-Russia people can be. Not that the West isn't full of cancer nowadays but I would still rather pic them over Russia.

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    you know what? its an anonymous board. i haven't seen people mention this either.

    Did the author get raped or do any raping? some accounts make it seem like literally EVERYONE gets raped or does it, other accounts suggest its only the truly weakest and/or more of a punishment than people just randomly doing it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      He completely avoids talking about the rape side of things. He also makes a point that he never does any form of dedovschina himself and mostly associates with other soldiers who think it's moronic as well, especially in the second war where he's a contract soldier and has the clout and legal ability (since he can cancel his contract and go home at any time he wants) to avoid the guys who do it and squad up with other guys like him. He could of course just be lying but his disgust with the practice is really the theme of the whole book so I kind of believe it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        There's a scene where he almost gets raped in the bathroom, but picks up a shard of broken glass to fight back.
        He is later beaten for this show of defiance, but not raped. He says.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Oh yeah, that's right. The book was such a whirlwind of fricked up bullshit that I lost a lot of the details by the time I'd finished it.

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That one's very iffy, Shakespeare was often doomposting.

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    where can i find this book as a PDF?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      libgen dot is

  45. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Das Boot
    The Naked and the Dead
    Tuntematon sotilas

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Das Boot

      Isn't that a movie?

  46. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Is there any other /k/ recommend PrepHoleerature?

    looking at my book case:

    Reality (or claimed to be):
    Dear Mom: A sniper's Vietnam - Good
    Chickenhawk (slick pilot) - Very good & sad
    Making a killing (awesome PMC adventures) - Extremely recommended
    Escape from Baghdad (PMC adventures the sequel) - Decent, not special
    A long way gone (child soldierin') - Decent
    The forgotten soldier - Timeless operator classic, must read
    Storm of steel - Timeless operator classic, must read
    SOG (americans owning & getting owned) - Educational
    Acceptable loss (more Vietnam LRRP & Blue Apaches) - Good
    Shake hands with the devil (UN ROE suck balls) - Educational
    On war - Educational but overhyped
    War is a racket - Interesting
    The art of war - Classic, but mostly blatantly obvious
    Happy Odyssey: The Memoirs of Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart V.C., K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. ; with a Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill O.M. - Amazing (auto)biography that fails to mention the writer for the Victoria Cross...

    Fiction:
    The dogs of war - Timeless classic, must read
    Catch-22 - Timeless operator classic, must read

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >The dogs of war - Timeless classic, must read
      I read that a while ago and it felt like 95% of that book were about traveling all over Europe while opening and closing various bank accounts and transferring money. And the last bits of genuine mercenary action at the very end were disappointing.

      That book should be called The Dogshit of War.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >I read that a while ago and it felt like 95% of that book were about traveling all over Europe while opening and closing various bank accounts and transferring money. And the last bits of genuine mercenary action at the very end were disappointing.
        >That book should be called The Dogshit of War.
        Just like finding out fighting a war is mostly sitting on your ass, or traveling, rather than fighting?

  47. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    /k/ lit Top Tier:

    1. Blood Meridian
    2. Moby Dick

    Read these two. They're the great american novels. And both are plenty bloody and /k/

    pic related isnt really /k/ but it is the only "funny" novel

  48. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Semi /k/ books request. Maybe here have some books for spy?I mean how recruit people. May be books about approach to investigate something?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Can't go wrong with Le Carre. The Spy who Came in From the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy are excellent, but all his books are heavily immersed in the espionage world. Watch the Tinker Tailor and Smiley's People tv series too, starring Alec Guinness. Those two are among the best there is.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Seconding

      https://i.imgur.com/sdXlLbE.jpg

      Can't go wrong with Le Carre. The Spy who Came in From the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy are excellent, but all his books are heavily immersed in the espionage world. Watch the Tinker Tailor and Smiley's People tv series too, starring Alec Guinness. Those two are among the best there is.

      with Le Carre
      Also the aforementioned Suvorov with "GRU" and "Aquarium"
      and maybe "Comrade J" by Pete Earley

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Suvorov with "GRU"
        Soviet Military Intelligence? GRU is the polish book title right?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          GRU is also how it sounds in Russian.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews. The guy was a genuine CIA operative who was trained in and did all the things he writes about in his book.

  49. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    as real as any marine/delta force memoirs.

  50. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Castles of Steel by the same author too.

  51. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Makes you wonder what similar books russians will write about the current war and what stories they will tell.

  52. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Read pic related recently.

    Started off really fascinating, but the last 4th of the book or so he became a fricking boomer blaming violent media as the reason for why there's so many school shootings and shit.

    Once you get to the ptsd parts stop reading.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >~~*Grossman*~~

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      His furry novel was fricking hilarious.
      >You can barely make out his name at the bottom

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >someone knocks at her door
        >she reaches for a gun
        she lives in los angeles doesnt she?

  53. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I see this book often. This is something like a "Blood Meridian" but in reality?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah, absolutely inconceivable (to the average westerner) squalor, depravity, violence, cruelty and despair throughout the whole book. I read it once but I cant bring myself to read it again because I know it wont do my depression the least bit of good.

  54. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is there an audio book in either English or Russian? Obviously for free

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I couldn't find the book in pdf for free without creating an account on some shit website. Fricking israelitegle.
      I wish anons here posted PDFs instead of bookcovers, but whatever.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >I couldn't find the book in pdf for free without creating an account on some shit website.
        Bugmenot?

        Also try searching for an epub version, often much easier to find without false positives than a PDF.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >he doesn't know about libgen

  55. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Why can’t you Slavs ever be normal in war?
    That implies that they're normal outside of war.

  56. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is his new Z book worth reading?

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