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Russians Against Putin are waving a new flag without the red stripe (Original Post)
L. Coyote
Mar 2022
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Fla Dem
(23,668 posts)1. Russians have been awaken. Soon this will be a movement too big to control unless...
Putin brings out the big guns and sends everyone to gulags. At some point though there may very well be a rebellion in the military.
More than 1,300 Russian troops have been killed during what Russian President Vladimir Putin insists on calling a special military operation in Ukraine that began on Feb. 24, according to Col. Gen. Sergei Rudskoy, first deputy chief of the general staff at the Russian Ministry of Defense. He said the state would take over supporting these soldiers families, including paying for higher education, loan forgiveness and housing stipends.
NATO this week estimated that 7,000 to 15,000 Russians have died this month from fighting. Kyiv on Friday said its accounting puts that number in excess of 16,000. Russian state news deleted a post earlier this week suggesting troop deaths at roughly 10,000 with officials claiming the articles publication originated from a cyberattack. Reports of at least a half-dozen deaths among Russian general officers have also wrought widespread attention and criticism over tactics.
Regardless of the disparity, even the Russian accounting presents a staggering acknowledgement of battlefield carnage for a supposedly contemporary military. The U.S., by contrast, lost 7,000 troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan across two decades of at-times intense, grinding combat.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2022-03-25/russia-releases-its-forces-death-toll-in-ukraine-revealing-staggering-losses
NATO this week estimated that 7,000 to 15,000 Russians have died this month from fighting. Kyiv on Friday said its accounting puts that number in excess of 16,000. Russian state news deleted a post earlier this week suggesting troop deaths at roughly 10,000 with officials claiming the articles publication originated from a cyberattack. Reports of at least a half-dozen deaths among Russian general officers have also wrought widespread attention and criticism over tactics.
Regardless of the disparity, even the Russian accounting presents a staggering acknowledgement of battlefield carnage for a supposedly contemporary military. The U.S., by contrast, lost 7,000 troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan across two decades of at-times intense, grinding combat.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2022-03-25/russia-releases-its-forces-death-toll-in-ukraine-revealing-staggering-losses
70sEraVet
(3,501 posts)2. Are we seeing the beginnings of a 2022 Russian Revolution?
MyMission
(1,850 posts)4. Good question. Since 1917, 105 years, the country
Hasn't been stable or unified. The powers that enabled the original revolution were corrupt, and the people were never allowed to form a democratic society.
Perhaps now, the will of the people will bring about a true revolution. Once putin is gone.
TeamProg
(6,129 posts)3. Listen! Wake up! Get up! Move ! As if your life depends on it! n/t
TomWilm
(1,832 posts)6. New Russian flag evolving ...
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)5. I like how this is a woman's hand wiping "blood" off the flag
Maybe this symbolizes the wife (or widow) of a Russian soldier?
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)7. Symbols work. Nt
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)8. Get up! Stand up!