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❗Russians dismantled and stole the largest solar power plant in Ukraine It is located near the city of Tokmak, Zaporozhye region. According to the townspeople, solar panels were dismantled, packed and taken out for a long time. SES Tokmak Solar Energy is the largest solar power plant in Ukraine News
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u/Obj_071 14d ago
they stealing everything from us..
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u/Stewpidley 14d ago •
Everything but your ethics.
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u/Psychological-Sale64 14d ago
Yay that's everything given time the ethics.
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u/Eastern_Mist Ukraine 13d ago
As this war shows, ethics, morals and faith are surprisingly everything you need to be successful in life
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u/chris-za 14d ago
This one makes me think: They don't actually expect to hold on to that territory, do they? Because if they did, why bother to dismantle it and take it away?
This is basically the Russian military already and publicly accepting defeat and the fact that they will have to withdraw from Ukraine.
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u/GaryDWilliams_ 14d ago
because they don't care about the people they are going in to Ukraine to "protect". This was never about Donbas or anything like that. It's about russia being russia - they are locusts, they don't have the ability to produce much so they invade a successful neighbour and steal everything of value.
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u/Daffeenaut 13d ago
in 8 years Russia did not fix and did no build anything in Donbass, not even a dog house.
in 8 years NOT EVEN A FUCKING DOG HOUSE. Russia just leeching from Ukraine
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u/the_first_brovenger 13d ago
Little history lesson needed.
The Soviet Union did the exact same thing with conquered territory. They moved a shitton of industrial equipment to Russia.
That's what's happening here as well. Consolidation of industry. They'll (try to) install it in Russia and create jobs for Russians. The people who "matter".
It's not about their projected performance in the war, it's all about The Grift.
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u/chris-za 13d ago
They'll (try to) install it in Russia
I remember a old German lady telling me that they had to house Russian soldiers after the war. The loved the concept of having running water in the house snd not having to fetch it from a well. When they eventually left, they took all the taps so that they would have this feature at home as well in future.....
Not a lot has changed in 77 years, has it? (I hear they are selling toilets in Ukraine as well? Indoor plumbing still seems to be out of reach for the average Russian?)
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u/JPR_FI 14d ago
Seriously WTF; the sanctions need to be in place until all regions are free and all damage compensated.
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u/droolingdonkey 14d ago
Put a punishment clause on all international trade Russia does. An as % as possible should go to rebuilding Ukraine until all debt is settled. All international goods private and goverment should be taken to pay for their debt.
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u/Eastern-Sea-1466 14d ago
Sanctions should stay there for good so next generations can suffer for their parents outrageous “work”. Those who join Russia in war will probably brainwash their kids to do the same, and teach hatred towards west and Ukraine. Nothing will change, Russia (their government and followers in specific) have proven all over again that they only want war and chaos, not peace
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u/Cyclonit 14d ago
Sanctions must remain in place until all damages plus additional compensation are payed and all involved in these crimes have been brought to justice.
But punishing children for crimes their parents committed is nonsense. If the children aren't responsible for the crime, they should not be punished. Obviously we can't avoid them being impacted by sanctions, but targeting them directly is counter productive. We want future grnerations of Russians to see the faults in their ancestors ways. Like Germans todsy learn about and from the Nazis crimes.
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u/SlantViews 14d ago
There is no switch that you flick from one generation to the next. Generations are a concept that only exists in human discussions. The reality is there are millions of "generations" happening in Russia right now. It's a fluid process of society ageing.
And when do you "stop punishing children for their parents" when the current children keep doing what their parents started? But then their children are innocent. Oh, until they grow up and do the same shit over and over again.
It's a cultural problem and the sanctions should stay in place until the damage that Russia (the country) inflicted is repaired/compensated.
Sanctions don't just exist to "teach them a lesson". For all we care they can remain the dumb fucks they are. The only thing that we care about is having Ukraine compensated. After that, they can die stupid as we say here. Nobody cares. Lost cause anyway.
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u/BollockSnot 13d ago
You literally live in a country that has military propaganda awash many aspects of daily life. A country that has invaded many other countries.
It is not the childrens fault they are indoctrinated. Every country is guilty of perverting easily misguided minds.
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u/ImperialArmorBrigade 14d ago edited 14d ago
Well… generational punishments aren’t really effective, let alone ethical. Don’t stoop to Russian levels. Granted, no matter what, their economy will take decades to recover from this war already…
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u/cubedCheddar 14d ago
If the next Russian generation benefits from this power plant, they should be compensating Ukraine for it, nothing unethical about that.
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u/Adorable_Raccoon 13d ago
Making children suffer alwasys works so well. That worked really well in the middle east! There are definitely no extremist groups that hate the US!
You’re ignoring the systemic effects of your actions to fulfill base desires. The reason people are “babaric” like you called them in another comment is because they are raised in poor conditions. If you have 2 puppies & treat one kindly and kick the other one every day, which puppy do you think will be the nice dog when they’re grown?
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u/Leeysa 13d ago
Sanctions should stay there for good so next generations can suffer for their parents outrageous “work”.
That's exactly what they did to Germany after WW1 and see how good that plan worked out for us.
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u/ApocDream 13d ago
"Let's implement generational punishment to show these savages how civilized humans act."
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u/StringGlittering7692 14d ago
Vile robbing scumbags. Good luck maintaining that orcs. Its back to wooden dolls and fur hats for you.
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u/Heradon89 14d ago
Solarpanels generally wont need much maintenance. You just need to brush of some dust if necessary. When the war end they should pay for it among everything else that they've stolen and destroyed.
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u/redmadog 14d ago
Do you believe they’ll pay anything?? The seized assets may cover tiny fraction, but willingly they wont pay a dime. They know that and feels like kings of the world.
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u/ThanklessTask 14d ago
I'm hoping they lose big and are required to pay for all the equipment being given to Ukraine at the moment. That should screw them for the rest of the century nicely.
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u/gesocks 14d ago
the problem is there are 2 possibilitys.
option 1, Russia is 100% fucked , falling apart, after it all and a total shithole even more then already now that nobody wants to have any relation to. Then they might be ready to pay smth, but absolutely nto able to.
Option 2, they get out of it before they completely fall apart and before the current gouvernment is overthrown. Then they maybe woudl eb able to pay for stuff, but absolutely not going to
I dotn see any scenario in which they will lose in a way, that makes them both, willign and able to pay
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u/dlec1 13d ago
They can afford to pay, look at all the oil profits. If the west had spent the last 20 years addressing climate change Russia wouldn’t have any money. Oil producing countries governments are the drug dealers of the world thanks to the old farts who have led the west for so long. Look at the Saudi’s. Their crown Prince had a journalist killed & dismembered because he was critical of him & absolutely no consequences. We’re in a global recession because the oil & gas drug dealers have control
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u/ThanklessTask 14d ago
Sadly I agree.
And I do wonder if Ukraine is running up some massive debt too. :(
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u/lowlightliving 13d ago
Debt that is very likely to be cancelled when they win and get this shit over with, at least a reasonable percentage. It’s been done for countries with fewer assets or ability to repay or repay the debt in other ways.
It’s better to have Ukraine as a European bulwark with a modern, equipped military, and reestablished business opportunity and success. I think the problem of corruption has had fresh eyes observing. All the population trampled and those who’ve lost family and those who’ve fought for every inch of Ukraine territory are unlikely to go back to the old ways. Ukraine has enormous potential, they’ll just need help to restructure and rebuild.
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u/Samus10011 13d ago
The US wrote off a little over 90% of the debt the USSR owed from lend lease. The key difference is that the USSR never really tried to pay it off.
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u/IgnoranceIsAVirus 13d ago
Debt that only gets paid with a win, if there's no Ukraine, there's no debt.
Ukraine has lots of value , is good.
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u/RedDino2004 13d ago
They would have to pay in that Case it doesnt matter If they can or Not If they cant pay Land will be given to the other Site via treatys Germany Last WW2 Reparations we're Just paid Back in 2010
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u/billFoldDog 13d ago
Option 3: Putler thinks Option 1 is going to happen, but a cabal of oligarchs prefers option 2, so they overthrow Putler and offer concessions to Ukraine as a way of reintegrating with the world and kickstarting their wealth generation anew.
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u/nidorancxo 13d ago
There is another scenario where after the war they sign treaties with the international communities where the sanctions drop as long as a plan for reparations to Ukraine is also included. This way, they can have the ability to repay.
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u/muntaxitome 14d ago
There's a lot of possible scenarios ranging from full on nuclear war to Putins successor being pro western and wanting to end crippling sanctions. I don't think it's that far fetched to contemplate a future Russian leader agreeing to some form of payments.
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u/heliamphore 14d ago
I think it's very unlikely because in practice, most Russians alive today think that they were humiliated by the West in the 90s and this will just be a repeat of the same thing. Basically for a politician to change that you'd need to change the Russian mentality, not just Putin.
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u/GraceChamber 13d ago
Mentality is nothing but a convenient narrative explaining the material conditions. Change the conditions, and you change the mentality.
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u/silveira_lucas 13d ago
The seized assets are small, the frozen assets are huge though, around 350 billion dollars. Maybe not enough to cover everything, but it's a lot nonetheless.
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u/downvotesStag 13d ago
And those fucking Swiss scum are already dealing russian gold. Unfortunately nothing will be done, makes me sick.
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u/roeder 14d ago
I hope Russians like eating stale bread - more than they're used to - because that's the future for them, when accountability knocks on the door.
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u/kennmac 14d ago
Not if Asia keeps chugging cheap Russian oil at the current rate.
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u/Neville_Lynwood 13d ago
That's not enough to keep Russia afloat. Their country was already failing in every metric even when the entire world was buying their resources. Now imagine how much worse it is when they're only getting a few buyers and have to sell it even cheaper.
Together with the sanctions and military expenses, Russia is 100% heading for full national bankruptcy and poverty. No amount of resource selling will stop that when Asian countries can essentially dictate the prices because if they don't buy it, nobody else will.
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u/nescaff 14d ago
This - and all those euro countries who cannot live without ruski gas ..... - and india and pakistan who refused to comdemn the ' special operation' - they should have their any aid canceled as a driver to get on the right side of history - china ? Yeh but no
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u/cateowl 13d ago
European nations are working to get rid of russian gas as fast as we can, even turning on coal plants to reduce the need for gas so we can stockpile it. And started fracking in unstable areas exposing our own populations to probable future earthquakes.
y es we still buy reduced gas from russia, but Russia knows this won't keep happening for very long. The bigger problem is that since we need to switch over to gas from elsewhere, we have to out-bid other countries and such which is helping raise the price of russian gas on the international market too. We could try imposing secondary sanctions on the countries that still buy russian gas to scare of others, but the sad reality is the rets of the world needs gas too.
Western europe should have switched over to nuclear energy long ago, should have safe modern reactors running. Uranium is trivially easy to stockpile in massive quantities compared to gas, so much so that many nuclear plants have their entire lifetime fuel supply delivered to them upon start up and never need new fuel.
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u/Oivaras 14d ago
US has already called China out on it.
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u/jaybee1669 13d ago
Chinas reply: You mad, bro?
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u/Oivaras 13d ago
It'll be interesting to see how this pans out. China would much rather be friends with EU and US than with bankrupt russia.
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u/ThanklessTask 14d ago
Cept they've already stolen the door.
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u/2FalseSteps 14d ago
But they didn't know what to do with it, so they cut a hole in it and installed it in their outhouse.
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u/gH0st_in_th3_Machin3 14d ago
Yes, but imagine they will build that powerplant back again somewhere in Russia only to some time in future see it catch fire...
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u/zerovian 14d ago
unfortunately hard to burn a solar panel farm.
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u/c0brachicken 13d ago
Go look up Walmart and Musk.. they were having Musks solar panels installed on the tops of Walmarts all over the place, and some of the installations caught fire.
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u/A_spiny_meercat 13d ago
Not if you whack it together without knowing what you are doing
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u/Oivaras 14d ago
Having just the panels is not enough, there's a fair bit of additional hardware to turn all that DC voltage into something useful. Inverters don't last anywhere near as long as the panels themselves, and russians clearly can't afford them either.
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u/potatopierogie 13d ago
Solar panels for your house? No.
But most power is generated as AC, synchronous AC if possible. Not much is generated as DC, like the solar panels will make. This requires a synchronous inverter or "tie in" inverter. For your house that's easy enough, there's a ready supply of mass produced small inverters. But Russia would likely need to purchase a massive inverter to run their "new" solar farm from another country if they have any issues.
It's not that they couldn't figure it out, but I honestly don't know how long they'll be able to keep it running.
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u/Outrageous_Garlic306 13d ago
Ruzzians, you wouldn’t be stealing another country’s valuable infrastructure (while wantonly obliterating the rest) if your own dear ‘leader’ (leading you by the nose, that is) and his suck-ass cronies hadn’t been ripping you off for decades. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, you worshippers of sociopathic shit bags.
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u/Jericho_Heart 14d ago
You mean how they dismantled every piece of machinery in East Germany after WWII and sent it back to Russia on trains, only when they got it there they had no idea how to reassemble it, let alone use it. Or if and/or what pieces were missing and it just sat rusting in warehouses for decades? Guaranteed that's how this will play out. There's gonna be a warehouse somewhere on the outside of Moscow that'll have 10,000 solar panels sitting in it until someone decides to sell them.
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u/Iantrigue 14d ago
”…until someone decides to
sellsteal them.”FTFY
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u/EarlySetter 14d ago
They did the same in 2014 Donbass, they sent a bunch of empty trucks allegedly carrying humanitarian aid but actually they were empty. Then they left with loads of industrial machinery.
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u/GaryDWilliams_ 14d ago
True and today the people who do have those skills have likely already left. Russia is suffering a brain drain. The invasion of Ukraine has hurt Ukraine but it's destroyed russia.
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u/OmuraisuBento 14d ago
The Soviet also looted every single piece of factory in Manchuria when it invaded the region in WW2. There were also mass raping of Japanese civilians in Manchuria, and the Japanese and North Korean civilians in North Korea during the Soviet occupation. It’s just business as usual for their military.
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u/Graenflautt 14d ago
I mean the Japanese were only in Manchuria because they raped the native population to oblivion...
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u/Cornfapper 13d ago
History is just a never ending cycle of powerful people raping the rest of us
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u/Oivaras 14d ago edited 14d ago
They did the same in the Baltics in 1990, just packed up entire factories and offices, and took them away.
Shitty, outdated, inefficient machinery was apparently very valuable to them. My mother worked in one of those "calculation centres", they were still using punch cards in 1988.
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u/12345623567 13d ago
Theres a thing in economics called "creative destruction", meaning old technology is replaced by new one. This creates short-term losses but long-term profits, and it doesnt just extend to physical hardware. Entire job fields can become obsolete (e.g. coal miners), but when you retrain people for something useful the overall economy vastly profits.
I wonder if that is part of the reason why the baltics are pretty well off today. Russia took everything not nailed down, so the people had no choice but to modernize.
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u/branzalia 13d ago
My university still had punch cards in 1988 although they were mostly a relic by that time. There were a few faculty who couldn't adapt and demanded they keep the cards. I wrote a several hundred line program using cards and the card machine editor just to see what it was like. It's not something to be done twice.
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u/EagleOfMay 13d ago
You mean how they dismantled every piece of machinery in East Germany
It wasn't just East Germany, they did the same to much of Eastern Europe. While the US was busy with the Marshal Plan the Soviets were busy looting.
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u/waitihaveaface 13d ago
To be completely fair, in WW2 the soviets didn't have the internet or commercial air travel, so nowadays it is exponentially easier to figure this shit out. You are right though, there's like a 99% chance this just ends up in a scrap heap in 6 months.
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u/MagikGuard 13d ago
You're absolutely wrong, equipment from world war 2 was assembled fine and it's still used to this day instead of modern equipment that should've been acquired, but money were accidentally put in offshore bank, after being accidentally pocketed, easy mistake
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u/shibiwan 14d ago
Russia is nothing but a country of thieves.
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u/Bitmap901 14d ago
That's what they've always been but people kept kissing their ass in the west. My great-grandmother was born in USSR Ukraine and she had to flee to Romania to escape the Russians, that's how bad they were. Their army raped girls everywhere they went and stole everything. People like to demonize nazi germany but forget that the Russians were much greater murderers and criminals than the nazis, and this can be verified historically.
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u/german_european 13d ago
Chaotic evil Russians and the daemonic evil Germans. Germans got better Russians didn't.
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u/Telefone_529 13d ago
Let's also be fair. The Germans were really known for being exceptionally cruel for like 2 wars.
Russia has more or less ALWAYS been like this.
Bullying neighbors, not taking care of their own people, leaving their soldiers to die, horrible atrocities being committed at war.
This is Russia through most of written history. Germany was fairly normal for most of history, then the 2 exceptionally brutal ones, then they cleaned their act up.
Russia just loves brutality and sacrificing their own people in the pursuit of more land with more people to neglect and use as cannon fodder.
There's some lovely people born out of Russia. But damn Russia fucking sucks and always has more or less.
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u/Hank3hellbilly 13d ago
Was the Jerry's really that cruel in WWI? Comparatively speaking I mean.
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u/Telefone_529 13d ago
I think with it being the first "modern" war it was considerably more brutal than previous ones but i don't even think they were that much worse than any other military in WW1.
But as far as I know they weren't torturing people in unimaginably horrible ways in WW1 like they were in ww2
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u/Roger-the-Zombie 13d ago
Yeah, the Germans get a bad wrap in WW1 because they lost and people don't realize WW2 was a different Germany. The Allies committed equivalent atrocities and can't be placed on a pedestal. Matter of factly that war started the end of the old world order for all.
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u/HolyCarp12 13d ago
Pretty much, yeah. I've known people who don't know the difference between WW1 and WW2, or the Nazi Regime vs. the Kaiser's.
The Kaiser wasn't a nice guy by any stretch of the imagination, but the WW1 Germans weren't operating literal torture factories.
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u/Cavemanner Glory to the Heroes 13d ago
They used a lot of mustard gas, but I don't think they were the wanton marauders like the SS later and the Russians in general.
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u/Yah-Nkha 13d ago
There's an old saying in Eastern Poland that goes more or less like this: Germans (Nazzis) are better than Russians because they will just shoot you.
I always seen it as little insensitive to the suffering of all victims of the ghettos and death camps, but I think I understand where it's coming from now.
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u/Arkon_Meyer 14d ago
They truly want everyone staying on coal, oil and gas.
Best way to kick out Russia is to switch to renewables quick. The one thing they cannot provide without shredding their state budget.
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u/ex_warrior 14d ago
They are marauders, what do you expect?
I think the world needs to wake the fuck up.
Im starting to blame us more for the inaction...
At what point do we say enough is enough, get back in your box........
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u/ImperialArmorBrigade 14d ago
Oh we know they’re doing every inhumane thing possible, but it’s still surprising how petty they can be. I mean I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much spite from an entire country before.
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u/Selahadin 14d ago
I agree.... I feel we should have rolled out all our toys from the get go.... as soon as pootin said he's alerting his nukes, we should have rolled our racks out, and said 'feeling froggy? JUMP Motherfucker' ......
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u/Asleep-Somewhere-404 14d ago
I was thinking that maybe Europe should “help” Russia to expel the nazis in Ukraine.
Let’s say Macron: we the people of France and collectively the EU would like to apologise to russia for not realising the existential threat posed by the neo nazis in Ukraine. We unanoumously condemn nazis and fascism and will mobilise our defence forces for a special military operation to eradicate the nazis in Ukraine and bring peace back to the russian peoples.
We will eradicate any all all murderers rapists and thieves who have taken the peace from Russians and innocent Ukrainians alike.
Then. Move into Ukraine with 20% of europes forces.
Nazi fascists are a threat. And Europe needs to defend itself against an immenent attack by nazi forces based in Ukraine.
(Don’t tell the Russians. But they are the nazis).
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u/PirateHuge9680 14d ago
They probably thought it was a giant tv screens. "Olga, look what I brought from Ukraine!"
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u/mir_platzt_der_Sack 14d ago
"Western TV Programm is boring" (after watching a solar panel for a week while drinking to much alcohol everyday).
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u/My_Aim_Is_Potato 14d ago
And yet, somehow many imbeciles still support this absolutely thievery ruzzia.
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u/ybmg73 14d ago
Dont worry ukraine we have hundreds of billions of dollars in frozen russian foreign currency and assets
These will not be returned to russia and will be provided to you to repair anything the genocide committing facist russian scum have done.
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u/AngryCockOfJustice Finland 14d ago
unfortunately, this is going to be a long struggle of decades and high lawyers fees, and of course Kremlin-friendly politicians amongst us enjoying benefits and perks paid by us.
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u/ybmg73 14d ago
Very true but at least russia can foot the bill for that, globally we have more than 750 billion in frozen russian foreign currency and assets :) it might take years but justice for ukraine will be served. Served cold too! 😈
We cant let them get away with there actions any more! Even to threaten you and my friends and colleagues in finland is a step too far in my books.
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u/VintageHacker 14d ago
Seems there a quite of few of them on all sides of politics, going to be hard to weed them out.
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u/sposterig 14d ago
which shows that they have no hope to keep the occupied territory, and are getting prepared to flee.
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u/chris-za 14d ago
Exactly. It's the Russian military publicly admitting that they will have to withdraw from Ukraine and have no chance on holding that territory.
Because if they did, why steal it if it already comes "in a bundle" with the land you successfully stole?
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u/Why_Teach 14d ago
My guess would be someone wants too sell it, plus it is also a way to show their power. I agree that if they weren’t concerned that they won’t keep the territory they might not have stolen it now.
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u/chris-za 13d ago
Sell t to whom? Syria might be an option. Or North Korea? Probably the only options.
Who else would risk buying stolen goods and probably having to reimburse the Ukrainian owner or return them? Even if you are "safe" in your neutral home country, you probably have assets abroad or would like to travel some time?
Alternatively they could try selling individual panels on eBay. But that will hardly be worth the effort.
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u/Willing-Donut6834 14d ago
Ukrainians will compensate the loss by turning many Russians into sunflowers. Go Ukraine! 🌻
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u/Count_Mordicus 14d ago
for the moment on planet imagery from 21 June solar panels are still in place. https://twitter.com/N_Waters89/status/1539883864352595968.
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u/pkx616 Poland 14d ago
It seems it's not true.
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1539837134323863555
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u/pampic7 14d ago
Why are locals reporting it though
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u/GarnerYurr 13d ago
same website in the OP has an article from 24hours later saying its not true.
They may well have looted something but it wasnt the entire plant
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u/BeatClear949 14d ago
The crazy part about this is that now that they have disassembled them, they'll have no idea how to put it back together and even make it work. So this thing is going to be reduced to scrap simply because those clowns have no idea what they're even looking at.
They did this with the Germans in WW2, and all of Eastern Europe during the Cold War, where they stole literally everything, but had to abandon their loot because they had no idea how it worked.
We've already seen this with the toilets and taps.
It'd be absolutely hilarious, if they weren't destroying an entire nation in the process.
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u/akyriacou92 14d ago
The Russians haven’t changed. In WW2 they dismantled entire factories and took them back to the USSR
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u/chately Ukraine 14d ago
When russia annexed Crimea they stole all the green energy stations including the Perovo Solar Park which as of January 2012 was the second most powerful solar power plant in the world.
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u/StratosAlpha 14d ago
Criminals…. Special Operation to steal and destroy… coward… its just pisses me so much…
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u/elderrion 14d ago
And for what? I guarantee you they wouldn't even have been able to get everything necessary over to Russia and even if they did, they wouldn't be able to maintain it because of sanctions.
They can't even make cars with airbags, but you think they'll be capable of running a stolen solar power plant?
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u/gooferpubs 14d ago
Add it to the reparations bill.
Putin, his cronies, and every Russian citizen, should be getting an updated figure showing what the owe (an estimate will do) weekly.
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u/L0tt1ce 14d ago
Images for verification?
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u/Titanium-Snowflake 13d ago
Multiple posts here with links to satellite images showing the solar farm intact in the last 48hours. So it appears this is not correct reporting.
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u/L0tt1ce 13d ago
Yeah, what I thought. Agitative propaganda. Goes both ways. People want to believe whatever fits what they already wanted to believe. Simple confirmation bias.
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u/Titanium-Snowflake 13d ago
From what I understand it began with locals reporting the theft, and then it was reported on social media. And so it goes on and on. Then someone double checks and realises “oh! Ooops!” But by then, as you say, the confirmation bias has got everyone expressing outrage, and it’s almost impossible to correct. But not entirely!
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u/vert1s 13d ago
As others have mentioned, this doesn't appear to be true.
Leaving that aside, I thought I would share how people have researched this. You can look at something recent (20th June) and then go back in time.
To my (untrained) eye it doesn't look like there has been significant changes.
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u/uvfknctkxf 14d ago
They probably didn’t know what is was and had to take so their top scientists can try to figure it out
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u/UpperCardiologist523 Norway 14d ago edited 14d ago
This is not by far the worst thing they've done, but i just woke up and saw this. Holy shit, what a gang of immoral thieves.
Were these nazi solar panels? Wouldn't this count as another war crime since it hurts civilians?
Edited: NOT by far.
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u/Boing_A_172 14d ago
Everything that generates electricity without burning ruSSian gas is obviously nazi
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u/charmbrood UK 14d ago
How is this worse than raping babies
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u/UpperCardiologist523 Norway 14d ago
Woah, thanks for replying. I obviously ment to put a "not" there. I'll correct it. As i said, just woke up. :-D
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u/charmbrood UK 14d ago
You need coffee and stugna p videos dude
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u/UpperCardiologist523 Norway 14d ago
I'm on it. And a few drone grenade burger meat videos with "Welcome to Ukraine!" mixed in, loud! Again, thanks.
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u/AugustPopper 14d ago
This is insane, all anyone will see from this is that the Russia state is a cancer that will suck the life of of any area they have the slightest bit of influence over.
The really do seem more like orcs everyday, how sad that they can’t conceive an idea as to why they are so despised.
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u/Altruistic-Break3868 14d ago
Hmm, I wonder, why would they be rushing to move it somewhere? I thought all captured territories are under full control of Russian army and will become part of Russia soon. Are there any problems with this brilliant plan? 🤔
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This won’t save their economy, nothing will until they get rid of dictators and spread wealth and stop trying to be Soviet
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u/easyfeel 14d ago
Sanctions until they return it and pay for any damages including the lost energy production.
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u/UKTrojan 14d ago
orcz are like the aliens from "Independence Day."
Zooming around the galaxy snatching up all the resources.
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u/Comprehensive_Idea98 14d ago
They are supposedly only 140k soldiers. How do they have the time?
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u/Dark__Thoughts Germany 14d ago
On the bright side: At least they finally do something against their emissions.
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u/Breech_Loader 14d ago
They take it not because they can use it, but so that Ukraine need s more oil.
It's probably gathering dust somewhere in a warehouse.
As it's stolen, it can reasonably be claimed back.
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u/Drunk_General 14d ago
As soon as you think russians can't go any lower, they always find new and intuitive ways to impress you with now disgusting they really are.
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u/GweiLondon101 13d ago
We studied this stuff in my history classes about the Nazis and WWII. When they invaded France, they stripped factories and took the machinery back to Germany.
However, efficient production was all about the whole process. So the machinery they stole wasn't particularly useful.
The whole Russian operation is literally the Nazis in WWII and Adolf Hitler. It's literally history repeating.
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u/juicepants 13d ago
They know they will lose. If they thought Ukraine was to become all of Russia why would they steal it? They're just trying to take everything their tiny hands can carry before they go back to their shit hole and remember the good old days of looting houses with toilets and washing machines.
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u/BrownEggs93 13d ago
And russia calls this progress, no doubt.
What the fuck does that county's future hold for its citizens? Or for the next asshole that replaces putin?
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u/BrutusTheKat 13d ago
So I guess the title is incorrect, SES Tokmak was the largest solar power plant in Ukraine
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u/itshonestwork 13d ago
They’ll be found. They’ll pay. The fascists will be paying for a long time after the war is over.
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