ChrisO_wiki
1/ A training centre in Tambov, Russia, has hung a banner showing a 'new Russian empire' comprising all of central and eastern Europe, a re-divided Germany, Finland, central Asia, Mongolia and Alaska, with the slogan "We will teach you to love the Motherland". ⬇️
Aug 15, 2023 at 8:15amWeb
Show threadChrisO_wikiAug 15, 2023
2/ The banner has been displayed at Tambov's Training Centre no. 266, which trains tractor, forklift and truck drivers. It shows the old Soviet Union plus the former Warsaw Pact countries, the former Yugoslavia, Greece, Finland, the Caucasus, the Central Asian states, Mongolia and Alaska as part of a unified 'Russian world'.
Show threadChrisO_wikiAug 15, 2023
3/ The map combines the old USSR plus the old Russian empire, which included Alaska until 1867. However, it's quite unhistorical – Greece and the former Yugoslavia were never under Russian or Soviet rule, though they were claimed by 'pan-Slavists' in the 19th century.
Show threadChrisO_wikiAug 15, 2023
4/ As the 'Horizontal Russia' Telegram channel notes, "Russian patriots are increasingly turning to ancient maps." In May, the head of the Constututional Court, Valery Zorkin, presented Putin with an old map claiming (incorrectly) that it had no Ukraine on it. /end
https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1661104957422968847
Kevin Rothrock on Twitter

“More than a year of getting his ass kicked on the battlefield hasn’t softened Vladimir Putin’s 17th-century-era views on Ukrainian nationhood. Here he is with Constitutional Court Chairman Valery Zorkin standing over some French imperial maps.”

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Show threadChrisO_wikiAug 15, 2023
Sources:
🔹 https://t.me/znakcity/2398
🔹 https://t.me/horizontal_russia/26275
Твердый знак Тамбов

В Тамбове установили рекламный баннер Учебного центра №266 с картой, похожей на Российскую империю середины XIX века и слоганом «Мы Вас научим Родину любить». В центре готовят трактористов, водителей погрузчиков и автомобильных кранов, а также машинистов бульдозеров, экскаваторов и дорожных катков @znakcity

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Show threadMiha MarkičAug 15, 2023
@ChrisO_wiki Yep, yep, Yugoslavia navigated between the USSR and NATO. Tito was even a target for Stalin's assassins. But we managed to stay neutral, heck, even lead the non-aligned block.
Show threadusrAug 15, 2023
@mihamarkic @ChrisO_wiki Makes me wonder how much of the tragic nature of Yugoslavia's dissolution might have been caused by dissent deliberately seeded by an envious Russia. Seeding dissent abroad seems to be their "every problem looks like a nail" ever since they dropped out of a world war following the clandestine repatriation of a Zurich exile by the opposing side...
Show threadMiha MarkičAug 15, 2023
@usr @ChrisO_wiki Well, they are and were traditional allies of Serbs, who instigated and were the main evil of all the clusterfuck that happened. How much dirt Russia had beyond that, one can only imagine.
Show threadTea time.Aug 15, 2023
@ChrisO_wiki Hitler's aspirations.
Mussolini's military.
Show threadsynijlymon🇫🇷🇪🇺🇺🇦Aug 15, 2023
@ChrisO_wiki « Nous vous apprendrons à aimer la patrie ! » Dans son délire impérialiste, la Russie revendique non seulement l'ex-URSS, mais aussi l'Europe de l'est, l'Alaska, l'ex-Yougoslavie, la Grèce, la Mongolie...