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The unmanned craft was due to make a soft landing on the Moon's south pole, but failed after encountering problems as it moved into its pre-landing orbit.

It was Russia's first Moon mission in almost 50 years.

Russia has been racing to the Moon's south pole against India, whose Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is scheduled to land on there next week.

No country has ever landed on the south pole before, although both the US and China have landed softly on the Moon's surface.

No report on whether or not Russia was attempting to use repurposed anti-ship missiles like the ones they use to attack schools and hospitals here on Earth.

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[–] Surface_Detail@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Ah yes, well known liberal checks notes George Bush.

Russia cannibalised itself after the Soviet Union fell, didn't need any Western help there.

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please lookup the Shock Doctrine and educate yourself

[–] Surface_Detail@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm not reading a pop politics book for you. Go read The Gulag Archipelago.

[–] h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I have. But unlike a book about Boris Yeltsin's systemic hollowing out of the russian economy and the facilitation of this by the Americans, its hardly relevant.

Although if we are bringing up the gulag archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is not on your side on the issues. Especially not issues like the yeltsin government, the west's influence on Russia and Russian sovereignty.

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[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

lol fuck you I'm not eating vegitables. you go eat a pop tart

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“Excuse me but my book was spawned at the beginning of time with no creator and thus no bias or agenda, and is a crystal of pure truth, and yours is poopy tankie peepee”

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I don't care about antisemitic noblemen. His book is fake, and he's lucky he wasn't killed.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

"I'm not reading pop politics, go read literal fiction"

[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

The one written literally decades before the events in question?

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (38 children)

The USA was attempting to destroy the USSR from day one. Despite being an extremely intelligent and educated person, you were never told that the USA actually invaded Russia within months of the October Revolution. Liberals are such a fucking joke.

“The USSR destroyed itself.” Give me a break. The USA’s entire existence derives from stealing land from indigenous people and enslaving and exterminating them. Because the USSR dared to declare that it was an anti-colonial, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist project, the USA dedicated everything to its annihilation. But thankfully the story isn’t over. China never broke with Stalin.

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[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Political Liberal not “social liberal”

Bush was a capital L Liberal Capitalist

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[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

The bourgeoisie cannibalised Russia. Liberals from the west insisted that Russia and the rest of the Soviet republics would be ruled by the bourgeoisie. This was the whole point of the Cold War. At huge expense to its own citizenry the west conducted a series of proxy wars and led an arms race to make it as difficult as possible for workers to control their own destiny.

As expected, false scarcity and extreme inequality followed, and to justify or explain this inequality, the bourgeoisie used from the usual ethnic and sexual minority scapegoats. With your weird understanding of history, you're obviously American, so none of this should be hard to understand. You have people dying on the streets, the government won't even raise the minimum wage, but the news about the evils of Mexicans, blacks, trans people, etc. never stops.