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[DKM]

Gotta train the new batch of conscripts somehow...

[Maksim_Frolov]

Originally Posted by Scrat335

I think there was a little hubris mixed in also. Did they think they even had to prepare better?

The same attitude permeated a lot of thinking in the German high command. "Kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will collapse". We know how that turned out.

Stalin spent a serious purge of commanders for a couple of years before that. I think that this seriously affected the preparation of the war. But he had reasons for this.

[Maksim_Frolov]

Originally Posted by DKM

Which is why Stalin insisted his fake people's republic (sound familiar?) was the only legitimate government to negotiate with? Only after losing a few hundred thousand soldiers and getting booted from the League of Nations did he admit that maybe the legal head of Finland could represent it. Finland was one of 6 nations invaded in 1939 by the USSR while Stalin shipped materials to Hitler to finish off the capitalist West.

Stalin was preparing for a great war. He understood that Finland would be quickly occupied by Germans and Germans would strike from the territory of Finland.

[lchoro]

Clinton-Yeltsin papers declassified: fixing votes American-style, fixing Yeltsin's heart American-style, Yeltsin acquiescence to NATO encroachment in E. Europe, and disarming of Serbia's military during NATO invasion

THE LOVE THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME

[Scrat335]

Originally Posted by Maksim_Frolov

Stalin spent a serious purge of commanders for a couple of years before that. I think that this seriously affected the preparation of the war. But he had reasons for this.

I agree. The purges left the Red Army with a largely decimated officer corp with a huge army those remaining had to manage. This dogged them well into the war with Germany.

Finland was very chummy with the nazis. They hopes that if war came they couuld expand with the crumbs the Germans would allow them to have. Make no mistake, they were going to seize any opportunities that came their way. Stalin was prudent in pushing them back to a safer distance.

[DKM]

In the summer of 1941 Finland reclaimed its territory lost and then went further than that in the fall taking parts of Russia that were never Finnish. Interesting fun fact, the day before Pearl Harbor, Britain declared war on Finland for doing this.

[Scrat335]

Originally Posted by DKM

In the summer of 1941 Finland reclaimed its territory lost and then went further than that in the fall taking parts of Russia that were never Finnish. Interesting fun fact, the day before Pearl Harbor, Britain declared war on Finland for doing this.

True. So what? It seems to me to be the manifestation of the opportunistic nature of the Finnish Nazi bootlickers at the time.

[Maksim_Frolov]

Interesting:

Посмотрела Симоньян с двумя чуваками.
Смеялась от души.
Что скажу.
Таких в ГРУ не держат, тем более на сложных операциях.
Таких - это не про ориентацию, хотя силовики как бы традиционно ортодокасльно гетеросексуальны. Но речь не об этом. Как правильно сказала Рита, какая была кровать в их номере, совсем не интересно.
Таких - это про умственные способности.
Солсберецкий собор, ага
Я так поняла, что пацаны торгуют всякой спортивно-питательной хренью, которую мелкими партиями тащат из Европы.
Может, и не вполне легально, может, на грани легального, но без серьёзного криминала.
Вот это пренебрежительное Путина: "мы посмотрели этих людей, никакого криминала там нет" - это скорее всего про то самое.
И вот это - не то что, мы их в сумках возим - с точностью до наоборот, именно, что в сумках, именно что возим.
Я бы на месте интернет-расследователей порылась на форумах качков в поисках и самих пацанов, и их клиентов, и товара, который возят из Британии и в частности из Солсбери.
Попали пацаны конечно круто, как миниму - бизнес накрылся медным тазом, как максимум даже в Турцию не слетать.
Но ведь на их месте может оказать каждый.
Вот буквально.
Так вижу.
(c)М.Юденич

It seems that "GRU agents from Salisbury" are engaged in small smuggling of sports nutrition from England to Russia (possibly quite legitimately or on the verge of law).

[Maksim_Frolov]

It seems the British came out to smugglers in this case.

[DKM]

Poor Russian guys. Just fly to the UK and want to see nothing there but the cathedral in Salisbury. Do two very quick trips there and then immediately fly back to Moscow. By sheer coincidence Skripal was poisoned when they did their cathedral sightseeing....