Working Brother is right - a MUST SEE and a master class in cinematography. Also THE greatest war film ever made, and IMO, one of the top ten movies of any genre ever made. If you haven't seen it, here it is for free. You owe it to yourself, to history and to the future to see it. "Come and See"...

🧿 A history lesson, a masterclass in cinematography, a different perspective of the story of World War Two, a good refresher for anyone who thinks they know the Russian mentality and their sacrifices.

https://youtu.be/zjIiApN6cfg

This Movie is a lot of things, it was also highly recommended by Russell Bentley.

Come and See (Russian: Иди и смотри, Idi i smotri; Belarusian: Ідзі і глядзі, Idzi i hliadzi) is a 1985 Soviet anti-war film directed by Elem Klimov -

The film's plot focuses on the Nazi German occupation of Belarus, and the events as witnessed by a young Belarusian partisan teenager named Flyora, who—against his mother's wishes—joins the Belarusian resistance movement, and thereafter depicts the Nazi atrocities and human suffering inflicted upon the Eastern European villages' populace. The film mixes hyper-realism with an underlying surrealism, and philosophical existentialism with poetical, psychological, political and apocalyptic themes. - Wiki

- less woke than the IMDB blurb about the film

And now for something on the lighter side, from the channel of my friend and comrade Working Brother's cool and growing channel. Check it out!

🧿 Let's recall this brilliant clip from 28/04/22 which became a GIF. 😅 ⬆️

🧿 Morning mood.

That's some legendary flying! We actually had a couple of SU-25's fly directly over our house this morning. And I mean DIRECTLY over, and less than 100 meters above our roof. I thought it was really cool, but then I looked at my wife, and she was so scared she was crying. She thought it was ukrop Grads coming in. If it had been, we would have been toast.
(PS - the F-18/SU-30 vid was fake, so I took it down on this chan, but left it on my chat chan with a warning.)
This video is REAL.
https://youtu.be/s4-oY7AGUoU

Странно, что для осознания того, что Минские соглашения были ошибкой, понадобилось заявление Меркель. По-моему, все и так было понятно.

Oleg Tsarev today -
"It is strange that it took a statement from Merkel to realize that the Minsk agreements were a mistake. In my opinion, everything was clear."

Indeed, it was clear to almost all of us in the Republics for years. Seems like the only ones who were fooled were the fools who kept insisting on implementing them...

Massacre in Donetsk by Denis Gregoryuk

The capital of the DPR experienced one of the worst days in its history

December 6 became one of the most terrible days for Donetsk. Today, the Armed Forces of Ukraine "celebrated" their professional holiday with a powerful shelling of the central districts of the capital of the DPR. But in addition to the Voroshilovsky and Kyiv regions, the Kuibyshev and Petrovsky front-line regions suffered. Makeevka was also under fire from Ukrainian militants.

The shells again fell on the Covered Market, a direct hit was on the Centaurus Plaza business center, Ukrainian missiles fell into the Kalmius River, the area of the Green Plaza shopping center got hit, and deadly "gifts" from the Ukrainian army exploded near the Central Department Store. In total, 8 people died in Donetsk today, and 11 more were injured of varying severity.

According to the DPR representative office in the JCCC, the BM-21 Grad MLRS was again used in the city center. According to the agency, the shelling in the Voroshilovsky district was carried out from the settlement of Tonenkoye. This information is important, but we will return to it a little later, when we turn to how, immediately after the shelling, they try to shift the blame for the attack on the center of Donetsk to Makeevka.

"(This is) the area of responsibility of the 110th separate mechanized brigade (commander - Colonel Kurash Yevgeny Yuryevich, head of artillery - Lieutenant Colonel Tsiganyuk Dmitry Vasilyevich)," the JCCC said.

One of the first blows fell on the Covered Market. The Armed Forces of Ukraine were already beaten here on the eve of the referendum on the entry of the DPR into the Russian Federation. Then a direct hit fell on a bus where civilians were traveling. Five people died that day. Then the Ukrainian soldiers used Western high-precision weapons, and on December 6, less accurate Grads went into action.

Civilian cars, flower shops, confectionery stalls were on fire. The spread of the shells was several hundred meters. It fell next to administrative buildings, the Academy of Public Administration under the Head of the DPR, the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic, and the court. The Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral was also damaged, the building also had a direct hit. But the APU did not stop there.

During the attack on the Central Department Store, a deputy of the People's Council of the DPR, volunteer and public figure Maria Pirogova was near the youth center. Shells of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fell in the immediate vicinity of the building. The girl died on the spot.

I have personally known Masha since the military year of 2014. Then a very young girl was collecting humanitarian aid, taking it around the frontline areas of Donetsk, and after the end of the Debaltsevo campaign, we went to the liberated small villages where civilians continued to live, delivered the necessary assistance: medicines, clothes, food, and brought toys for kids . Maria continued to collect humanitarian aid for those in need, and since 2018 she has become a member of the republican parliament. On December 6, she died while performing her professional duties.

In addition, musician Vadim Lobuzov was there at the time of the “arrivals”. He helped young musicians with recording and producing tracks, provided a studio for rehearsals, he himself was an iconic figure in the Donetsk rock underground.

“On August 27, he left the recreation center of the Donetsk City Youth Center for lunch. Heard a whistle. The shell fell 30 meters away. Then there was a tree between him and death. He was thrown back by the blast. Vadim crawled into the building, came to his senses and began to help evacuate people to the basement. Already there he found blood on himself. There were shell fragments in the stomach and arms. Well, later the doctors also made a diagnosis of "contusion". Vadim's eyesight fell, problems with pressure began. Today, Vadim died, being near the youth center of Donetsk, where he worked at a rehearsal base, ”wrote the military commander Stanislav Obishchenko, who was friends with the guitarist.

Against the backdrop of multiple facts that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been shelling the center of Donetsk for far from the first day, reports of “self-shelling” appear on the Web. Remarkably, a similar thesis, which is typical of the Ukrainian training manual, is spread by Russian liberals. In particular, one of them was Leonid Nevzlin. In his opinion, Donetsk was shot from Makeevka. The same Ukrainian resources were thrown in when in spring and summer they flew to peaceful houses on Shkolny Boulevard next to the Donbass Arena. Allegedly, civilians in Donetsk confirm this, although the liberals do not cite a single source.

“RosSMI has already accused the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but the arrivals to some buildings were apparently made from the occupied Makeevka. Even the locals already understand that the Russians are shelling them, ”writes Nevzlin.

A liberal from Israel, according to the information indicated in his profile, determined the direction of the shelling and spreads information that whitewashes the Ukrainian military with absolutely no evidence. And who, in this case, hit Makeevka? Donetsk? Or some other locality in the DNR? What are they doing at the front of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, if the cities of the Republic are at war with themselves? You should not look for logic in the statements of Russian liberals. They need to throw in information that is beneficial to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Kyiv and other interested parties. We cannot allow anyone to think that Ukraine is the aggressor in this conflict, and the Ukrainian military are war criminals. This does not fit into the line of the West. It may turn out that the entire "civilized world" supports terrorists who kill civilians.

I don’t know who else such stuffing works for, since the DPR regularly publishes information indicating the direction from which the shelling was carried out. Specialists always work on the spot, using the appropriate equipment to record the consequences of the shelling, and do not talk about the shelling based on their own ideas about where and who is firing at Donetsk.

It is noteworthy that at the time of the attack on Donetsk, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was in Slavyanka, which was captured by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. There he again promised that he would “return” Donetsk, Lugansk and Crimea. It is obvious that today's strike on civilians was a kind of demonstration of exactly how the Ukrainian militants plan to "return" Zelensky the recalcitrant cities that are already part of the Russian Federation.

Shelling of Donetsk in the Absence of Counter-Battery Fire
by War Correspondent Yuri Kotenok

1. The enemy deliberately irons the very center of Donetsk, its heart is the Voroshilovsky district: st. Artem, Universitetskaya, Pushkin Boulevard. Yesterday, the Grad MLRS was hit at intervals of several hours. A couple of days ago, when our artillery was actively working, the enemy fell silent. As it turned out, not for long.

This indicates poor counter-battery work, or rather, its absence in the western Avdeevsky direction, which is where the arrivals come from, where hostilities are currently taking place. There is no counter-battery fight going on there, it is not physically there, which the enemy takes advantage of, delivering blows with impunity. If anyone says that this struggle is ongoing, then it is in an unsatisfactory, terrible state, because not once in eight years has the enemy hit the center of the city like that, because it immediately flew hard in response. And now it's the norm. And it started about a couple of weeks ago.

2. Why is this happening? The site on the Front in question is assigned (mostly) to the 1st Slavic Omsbr. This illustrious formation is exhausted and bled dry over the years and months of fighting, has heavy losses and shortages. How this affects, to put it mildly, combat capability, I will not explain. But the impunity of the enemy, who strikes from the west at the center of Donetsk, which leads to destruction and human casualties on the territory of the Russian Federation, is evident. This is a direct question to the command of not only the brigade.

3. Why is there no counter-battery combat at the level of formation-unit-subunit?

a) Artillerymen do not have full-fledged reconnaissance platoons, i.e. normal artillery reconnaissance;

b) In fact, there are no reconnaissance platoons in battalions. Formally, there is, in fact - "hodgepodge" or fiction;

c) In fact, the reconnaissance company does not work, the same one that was once created "brick by brick" by its commander - Vsevolod Kasharin, who died heroically near Mariupol (call sign "Pecheneg"). The Cossack, who passed through Chechnya, nurtured, trained scouts, personally led them on reconnaissance exits. He was transferred to another unit, the created backlog was preserved. By the fall of 2022, at the height of the SVO, the reconnaissance company was completely destroyed, valuable personnel were killed / dispersed to other military units;

d) There is no (does not work) reconnaissance department of the formation, which must interact with neighbors, with units and subunits, process and issue information.

4. All this together leads to impunity for the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donetsk. If we approach the situation formally and bureaucratically, then on paper and in reports there will be "good work" and self-satisfaction. If necessary, the bureaucrats will provide a photo report on the work done.

The enemy does not believe the photo and video reports. He spat on the papers of impudent military bureaucrats in the field and higher up the career ladder and shoots when he wants and where he wants, while somewhere a speech is being prepared for an on-duty briefing with a running line ...

More proof that what we told is true - NATO nazis DO weld ukrop conscripts inside armored vehicles and force them to drive towards our positions. A lot of dipshits said it was "fake news". SEE FOR YOURSELF. If you don't know who's the good guys and who's the bad guys by now, you're too stupid to even talk to...

The goddamned UN not only didn't do anything (AT ALL) about the ukrop nazi Miratvorets kill list, now there's one in Latvia as well...

◾A Latvian woman is outraged at the fact that there is a Myrotvorets (kill list) in Latvia where they target alleged " pro-Russian" Latvian citizens:

- Hello friends, I have urgent news
A friend of my acquaintances from Riga just happened to visit me and told me that she was brought into the Latvian "Myrotvorets" ("Peacemaker").

- It doesn't surprise me that I haven't found my name there yet, but it will definitely appear there soon
To say that there is no fascism in Latvia... after that, we need to speak loudly that there is fascism in Latvia.

◾Here are the web and telegram channel of this kill list, that everyone should report:

https://myrotvorets.team/

https://t.me/myrotvorets_eu

◾Follow: @UkraineHumanRightsAbuses

Russian rockets can reach Paris too. So can the Russian Army. We've been there before. Apparently, France needs some de-nazification as well...

French General Michel Yakovleff live on the French channel LCI suggested that Ukrainians bomb Russian military parades, including the Victory Parade.

"Dear" Michel, I want to remind you that the Victory Parade is not only columns of equipment and rows of soldiers, but first of all tens of thousands of civilians who came to honor the memory of their old men who shed blood for the Motherland.

Such a provocation, or to be more precise, the firing of NATO weapons at a festive event attended by tens of thousands of civilians, is a war crime.

Such radical speeches can be found on Western television, apparently they are also part of the famous "European" values.

@ukr_leaks_eng

88 = "Heil Hitler". 100%. But "no nazis in Ukraine, right?