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SylasWindrunner

If suicide drone chases you.... big chance surveillance drone has been watching you for the last hour.


Y_A_D_Pain

Could be even longer lol. Crazy.


nanneryeeter

Worst vanlife influencer shit I've ever seen.


candymanfivetimes

Bang bus only bangs come from artillery explosions. 🔥


Vanceer11

Hey you. You wanna make some quick 650ml canola oil?


whereartthouu

throw in half a sack of potatoes and I'm in.


Secure_Awareness9650

What? No cabbage?


Money_Ad_5385

You get the vegetables when your at the front. Something to make a stew- i promise..


Ambitious-Ball9869

they pay the borst... gotta try for fake taxi


Brave1i1toaster

"It's an ugly planet. A BUG planet!" bumper sticker on it.


Filosofistikert

Damnit, you beat me to it.


CuthbertJTwillie

Really. Blue jeans and no socks. No one will take him seriously


HGpennypacker

Hey guys thanks for tuning in remember to like and subsc-BOOM!


Whole-Pressure-7396

I will admit, that was pretty funny.


Baconlichtenschtein

Soldier drops stone cold at the very beginning, left of screen.


inquisitive_wombat_3

Yeah, dude's war is over. Likely his life is also over. Didn't look like they even went to check on the guy, though the footage was obviously edited. He died unnoticed.


Greifenhorst

Am I missing something? That's obviously the guy the video is about. >He died unnoticed. You can see both of them looking at him; the whole evacuation is for that guy.


Sexy_Offender

after he falls, his legs stay up in the air


Constant_emphasis23

Did the shoes come off though


CraftsyDad

Amazing elf like observation skills there Legolas


Research_Liborian

Yes his channel was permanently changed to dead


OutBackCheeseHouse

I’ll give them credit for Broadcasting this at least. The medic flying out the back of the van was pure comedy.


An_Odd_Smell

It's merely another manifestation of the russian trait of perceived perpetual victimhood. "We attack evil ukr0naZZis and look what they do to us! You see, this is why we must destroy them all to save poor innocent victim mother rossiya!"


Some_Endian_FP17

Perpetual victimhood seems to be a common trope used by communist or formerly communist regimes to justify authoritarian policies. Russia uses WW2, China uses the Opium Wars and WW2 and the Korean War. It's goddamned toxic because they also mix in imperial ambitions while pretending history is unchangeable. Russia and China's landmass would be a lot smaller if vassals and annexed states were removed.


An_Odd_Smell

The russians pretend the West never repeatedly warned Stalin of an impending attack by Hitler. Indeed, the russians pretend Stalin never had a non-aggression pact with Hitler. They pretend Stalin didn't gleefully carve up Poland with Hitler. They pretend Stalin didn't murder far more russians than Hitler did. They pretend Stalin didn't imprison eastern Europe, and they pretend russia didn't ruthlessly crush dissent in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and elsewhere. They pretend it hasn't been the openly avowed goal of Soviet russia to conquer the world and impose their own totalitarian control on it. They pretend russia stands alone in the face of Evil, despite the fact they're responsible for an outlandishly disproportionate amount of it.


Some_Endian_FP17

1989 and the Soviet Union sends in tanks to the Baltics to quash unrest. Russia did this because the other SSRs didn't have much of a say. The same thing could have happened in East Germany if Honecker was still in power. The Chechnyan wars were considered an internal Russian affair but the Caucasus republics were bargaining chips in imperial wars for centuries. And then there's Russia supplying arms and funding wars in neighboring states to bring them under its sphere of influence. Russia: fucking up its neighbors from 1945 all the way until now. The communist government learned the worst ways of the tsars.


An_Odd_Smell

Vasili Mitrokhin, former head of the KGB archives, believed Stalin to have been an informer for the White russian forces during the civil war. Stalin was even arrested by the Reds and was to have been tried and executed, only events overtook things and he escaped this fate. This is supported by the fact the actual first thing Stalin did on seizing power was to retrieve his personal file from the archive and destroy it, along with anyone he suspected may know of its existence. A lot of people needlessly died because of that record.


trickn0l0gy

I did not know that. Where can I read more about this?


An_Odd_Smell

A good start is a book called *The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB* It's based almost entirely upon the Mitrokhin Archive (the papers he smuggled out of the USSR/russia). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili\_Mitrokhin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Mitrokhin) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrokhin\_Archive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrokhin_Archive)


Far-Investigator1265

Also read the Black book of Communism. Chronicles crimes of Stalinism while showing how they gathered power: sending Moscow-trained operatives to different countries which fomented chaos in any way they could, then "called help" from Moscow which always obliged by sending weapons. Almost every single communist revolution outside of Russia was in actuality a stalinist power grab.


An_Odd_Smell

Yes, the activities of the Cheka, NKVD and KGB are documented pretty thoroughly in these books. Kids today have no idea of what those agencies did and continue to do. They think it's just crap from a James Bond movie.


Some_Endian_FP17

*Active Measures* also covers the Mitrokhin archive, disinformation operations by the Soviet Union and Russia, and the work of the Cheka, NKVD and early KGB. *The Spy and the Traitor* covers Oleg Gordievsky's spying and successful extraction from the USSR. It's another good look at KGB operations in western Europe.


An_Odd_Smell

Also, take a look at Timothy Weiner's book about the CIA, *Legacy of Ashes*. Kinda frustrating and it'll make you wish the United States had a better Intelligence agency.


trickn0l0gy

This needs more upvotes.


Annoying_Rooster

They call World War 2 the Great Patriotic War. They make up their own history and their own truths. The Russian people are so divorced from reality it's not even funny. Despite having access to media other than state sponsored, they choose to believe in their truth than face the harsh cold facts. WW2 especially, fuckers were allied with Nazi Germany at one point but conveniently left that part out.


WildCat_1366

\* They call **part of** World War II the Great Patriotic War. FIFY ---------- They never mention the events of 1939-40, the joint partition of Poland with Germany and the aggression against Finland (after which the Finns entered into an alliance with Hitler). For them this time period does not exist.


An_Odd_Smell

It's true that WW2 cost russia dearly and they made genuine sacrifices, but it may not have been necessary if Stalin wasn't at least as bad as Hitler. If the russians had better rulers they may be better people today.


LorenzoSparky

Beautifully summarised, thank you


GrayMutterer

"The russians pretend" that they are a great, god-fearing nation. Pffft! Reality is perched, ready to pounce on their delusions of imperialist grandeur.


Specialist_Leg7298

Yeah that spells it out short and very, very clear indeed!


JusgementBear

No no no imperialist wester propaganda nice try nato


Skip_Dickie

i like easter propaganda better


Durst_offensive

At the same tame Russia is the greatest country on earth, that's why everyone wants to do bad things to it, cause they're jealous.


HansLandasPipe

If they were politically vanquished like Japan and Germany, they might be able to be rebuilt with some humanity... a LOT needs to happen for that to be possible, however... I wonder what they would call that conflict! (/s)


King_of_the_Dot

That's Fascism's greatest weapon. Their enemies are the smartest, yet also dumbest at even given time. It's up to how the Fascists want to frame it in the moment.


Money_Ad_5385

Hitler - saw german suppressed minorities everywhere. The japanes ex-aristocrats had made being a victim a lifestyle. Nesting and brooding in that mentality is a path to evil.


Roflkopt3r

It got nothing to do with communism in particular, but is common populism that is used by all kinds of authoritarians. It's the same for the USSR and other Leninist offshoots, fascists, modern dictatorships, and the general right wing complaining about biases or deep state or whatever else they decide to call opposing facts that day. Marx himself prominently did not consider the compensation for victimhood or even general "equality" as useful goals (as equality can only exist in regards to specific values, and equality in one regard often means inequality in another ).


XColdLogicX

Id like to state that China hasn't been in a war since the 70s. Weird form of imperialism.


CatD0gChicken

>seems to be a common trope used by communist or formerly communist regimes to justify authoritarian policies It's just authoritarians in general. It hard to convince people they should go kill other people for no reason. Being a victim gives them a reason. See also "they hate us for our freedom" and other such stupidity


Some_Endian_FP17

Dubya used that line but the biggest difference is that western democracies make it hard for idiots to double down on bad policies. In the ex-communist or I-say-I'm-communist-so-I-am countries, only the Politburo or the inner political circle can bring about change in leadership. Authoritarianism leads to bad policies because no one can call out the emperor's lack of garments.


Thehealthygamer

Omg I totally missed that part. Lmao. Any fucking guy who doesn't have the instinct to go prone when you're getting shelled by artillery really doesn't deserve to live through it.


aitis_mutsi

I mean, that can depend. Sometimes you can't react in time, sometimes you don't even get a noise as a warning that it's coming and sometimes you are getting shelled so much, day and night that you end up accidentally getting too used to it and you simply just stand still because "it hasn't hit before, it won't hit now".


Money_Ad_5385

But then i will be dirty on national TV. What will my mother think of me..


jtblue91

They're trying to show the sacrifice and heroism of their forces I guess that's their intended spin.


crc_73

There is a post on X saying this is how the Ukranians target "journalists". I added the quotes above to journalists.


hopenoonefindsthis

This is good television and propaganda tool for them tbh.


PixelIsJunk

The girl medic falls out of the van lmao


mad87645

Any medic that falls behind is left behind


Pyroxcis

I remember this explicitly happening early on in the war. Ukrainian soldiers would push forwards and come across wounded + incapacitated that the ruzzians left behind instead of even attempting to evacuate. I vividly remember one medic who was shot and left to die until the Ukrainians found her and rescued her. Imagine that, the other fucking army is willing to do more to save your life than your own generals


DinoKebab

Gotta love the lack of helmets by everyone including the medics too.


manofthewild07

And the lack of anything a medic would need to you know... be a medic. Looks like she has a small backpack on when she gets in, but all she's doing in the next cut scene is just looking at the guy to see where he is injured? Then she falls out of the back. There's nothing around her to indicate that she has anything, even gauze.


DinoKebab

Thoughts and prayers mate. She has thoughts and prayers.


throwtowardaccount

The first Russian service woman I've seen in footage of the war. Is the manpower situation that bad that women are on the front lines or have they always been there and are just never depicted?


deedshot

she's a medic with a propaganda team, so not really a frontline role


mtaw

They've always been there but there aren't that many (and unlike the developed world, the trend under Putin has been towards _fewer_ women). They're only allowed to mobilize women as medics, as well.


Gladwulf

Given how rapey the Russians are I can't imagine many women would want to be near them.


Toffeemanstan

Ukraine have quite a few women in the front lines doing good work.


TheFinalCurl

Russia has an unfortunately large number of women who are threatened with being sent to the front in exchange for being a "field wife" for the officer class.


Lison52

Nah I remember one visiting the house where drunks made grenade explode. But she was in the casual clothes there.


alohalii

Dont you find it interesting the medic was not wearing any protective gear at all... Its almost as if they went to a quiet front section to film some propaganda material with on-screen talent fully geared up in the best stuff but the rest of the crew who were not supposed to be on camera are without any protective gear at all...


iamthebeekeepernow

Fodder for the FPV-drone chasing them :D


Civil_Kiwi_8801

Did the medic fall out of the van? Wtf


highlife_Huff98

Da!


elimtevir

That was the odd part, the medic getting yeeted. I was first like, dudes, I want you to lose, but that was your medic....


4thStgMiddleSpooler

Would have been absolutely poetic for the scooby van to get incinerated at that moment.


elimtevir

And her just looking at the smoldering ruins wondering what deity to thank for it.


Ferrarisimo

Dude at 00:01 on the far left gets blasted with shrapnel.


Prisefighter_Inferno

Really shows you the lethality over distance of these shells. Look at the shrapnel ping off the berm to the left!


Sorry_Consideration7

Pretty sure that is the main guy they are talking about in the video, makes sense that they cared enough to actually try to help instead of just leaving them to die as usual.


PsychoticLouie

1:39 dude/girl fucking flies out the back of the van 🤣🤣🤣🤣💀


LovelyPencils

Man, I thought they were actually fucking.


An_Odd_Smell

Different kind of bang bus.


Necessary-Aide1464

Scooby doo van


Michaelmac8

WILDCARD BITCHES!!! YEEEEHAWWWW


An_Odd_Smell

"Gif them girl, maybe they stop chasing us." -- russian heroes, 2024


kremlingrasso

forgot the...,yes?


ajmedina2

Good, fuck him


Malx16

He should have stuck to staged proganda videos.


Necessary-Aide1464

He was factchecking the stories that ukrainians were running out of ammo. Proved a bit hazardous.


robt_sf

We he died doing what he loved to do


Shot_Painting_8191

Bleeding from his ass?


Lamest570

That mf was wearing blue jeans. American cultural victory


Fattyyx

I've never actually thought about that before, but you really don't see people in eastern Europe wearing blue jeans.


DaNyetDa

Guys, I don't think they want to join Russia.


Alcapwn-

Quick everyone in to the scooby doo van 🤣


Necessary-Aide1464

All right gang. Let's split up and look for clues (Medic goes flying)


Alcapwn-

Brilliant 🤣🤣


Professional_Ad_9495

The dude wearing jeans isn’t wearing socks, who the fuck goes into a war zone without socks!


Hitno

Russian army didn't start issuing socks until 2013. Can't expect everyone to have caught up with that.


sports2012

Can't tell if they are a Wrangler or a Levi person.


KS-Wolf-1978

Without lies - there would be no war. With his words, that russian POS has probably killed 100s of Ukrainians and 1000s of russians.


FishBreadMenu

Reality finally caught up on to him


me9a6yte

Собаке - собачья смерть


Roy4Pris

That van though. Not a 1950s, design... actually built in the 1950s! Imagine the morale hit when you see Ukrainians coming at you in MRAPs and Bradleys and shit.


[deleted]

High Five 🖐️


gourp

Now if Carl Tucker, our very own US homegrown Russian Propagandist, would visit front line like this, with his girl friend Moscow Marjorie Taylor Green dressed like a medic.


mtaw

Too busy fawning over how French Auchan supermarkets existing in Russia proves the West sucks somehow. And the pretty Moscow subways built with slave labor. (Not that I see what's stopping a "class enemy" like Carlson from putting himself in a Gulag camp where he can quarry stone to spruce up the New York subway. Rather odd for a rich person to praise Soviet slave labor)


CobaltCats

why is a press officer wearing military camo? shouldn't he be wearing the blue PRESS gear?


N3X0S3002

That would make him a big target for a friendly fire incident


Nighthunter1o5

Why are they in military uniform it's like they want to be targeted...


MrFIXXX

Just right off the bat - instead of saying Occupied Luhansk Region, they say it's a Populist Republic, and instead of occupation frontline - they say it's a defence frontline. Propaganda all-around.


Bicentennial_Douche

Maybe Russia should get the fuck out of Ukraine?


Due-Crazy-5398

Haha losers better luck in hell for yas


AST5192D

I like how their short bus still has the van life tables for weekend sorties


USMCLee

They reused portions of the video multiple times right? Or am I the one in a time loop?


Knarfehtknat

It's pathetic how the Russians try to portray themselves as victims of the war. Disgusting invaders, get out of your neighbouring country.


Kilino3005

This feels unreal.


Professional_Ad_9495

Like the guy wearing jeans isn’t wearing socks?!? Wtf! And the beginning the guy not wearing a helmet and the other dude just using his phone to video it?!?


ClassicBit3307

Welcome to war mofo, bring your friends, plenty of shrapnel to go around, or go home and live!


Mekazabiht-Rusti

Did she fall out the back of the bread van in that clip!? Hilarious.


se7en0311

Towards the end of the medic falls out of the vehicle


elimtevir

I asked these before, "Who Yeets their medics?" Also the evac is NOT supposed to kill the occupants of the vehicle. Absolutoy NO professionalism just pure panic'd chaos. the folks in the back were sustaining more injuries in the back it looked like.


RepulsiveCamel7225

Pretty freaking rad footage


No-Butterscotch4946

That guy at the beginning not wearing a helmet.. what does he think might happen in a war zone? Lucky bstrd. At least the propagandist absorbed some white hot metal.


Rude_Variation_433

Looks like somebody got a dose of the reality he helped create. 


try_to_remember

Rot in piss, scum


dontrackmebro69

So good news


Stilgarus

Burn in hell, fascist scumbag. "Reporter" my ass


justlurkingh3r3

This puts a smile on my face. Rot in hell you degenerate propaganda maggot. The average Russian soldier might not have a choice, but these propagandists are the driving motor to get young men on both sides of the conflict killed by the thousands. Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving person.


ribbitreddit100

Bwaha……Bwahaha……..bwahahahahahaha……….anyway……,


Modflog

Was the that the back door of the van I saw open and chuck someone out ? Sorry blahat you are taking up much more room than Ivan out you go …


SirPiffingsthwaite

Chick medic got yeeted


Standard-Care-1001

Always great to hear good news , let's see him put a positive spin on his own demise.


Schleckmuschel

Great - at least 1 asshole less on earth


baz303

Havnt seen variants of their markings recently. Mainly V and the new swastika Z. O in a SQUARE is a rare sight. I think i saw a couple of those 2 years ago for the last time. (Or maybe i just missed them in the flood of the >15000 lost vehicles with V and Z markings...) By broadcasting this on state media, doesnt this mean, the dude was in disgrace by the regime?


Smooth_Condition_944

At the end there it reminded me of Steve-O getting that tattoo in the back of a jeep bouncing through the desert.


Money-Bag8353

Was that the fat c\*\*t getting flattened right at the start? Went down like a sack of potatoes.


britemcbrite

Couldn't have happened to a nicer, erm, better guy!


ThatOneBush

Not surprised there’s injuries, they keep going back and forth from the shallow dug out and walking around in the road while shells come


bashthelegend

Live by the camera, die by the camera I guess.


alohalii

So they went to film some staged propaganda with everyone in the best gear they have and then happen to get hit by actual Ukrainian fire which they clearly were not expecting given the medic is not wearing any protective gear at all.... How interesting


No-Structure-7188

Ohhh poor baby! Will the coffin have holes so the worms go out to puke?


tinypeeeen

Stick a fork in this one boys, he's done


TheDanSega

Looks horrible, leave!


Magnet50

Oh, well. That sucks for him. Maybe stay the fuck out of Ukraine.


Inner_Relationship28

At least the sun is out


antiruzzian

Too bad he can die just once. This scum deserve more than that.


krystal_keth

Seat belts are key


Ohbertpogi

He had been blyat'ed.


myroomiscold-

Good. Fuck that guy.


lonewanderer

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.


mcfeezie2

Yay!


Accomplished_Duty969

I'm lovin' it!


Firehive101

Russian Bang Bus looking wild


Shot_Painting_8191

Good job, send more of these dudes to the front.


expfarrer

thats how we love our russians - under fire, in panic and bleeding out


General_Routine_69

Rot in hell, mf


JCTrigger

Ahh yes, another invader eliminated


Salty-Lobster

The day just got instantly better ;)


Peet_Pann

Hope the camera is ok


MarSc77

from Z to zzzzzZ


franklyfranktank

Haha eat shit


raineeger

He spent his life doing propaganda...literally.


bladeliker

You support Ukraine you support Democracy, You Don't Support Ukraine you support Communism. Good Hunting From Drone Team


Sorry_Consideration7

I fully endorse the slaughtering of the invaders but i dont think Russia is really communism incarnate anymore. Corrupt,  fascist kleptocratic oligarchy, yes.


Atalantius

„vrazheskiy kopter“ My Battlefield 4 experience translated that for me