[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Equipment of a modern militiaman fighting in UA civil war [updated 3/22, link in OP] (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 1/27/2016 10:15:36 PM EDT
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Just my translation of a blog post by a republican militiaman from Donbass. Looks to be from one of the better equipped units, maybe the ones who used SF "sabotage-reconnaissance" tactics (although were less trained than actual SF).
Not particularly useful for anything since a lot of the gear he uses is either unobtainable stateside, or better alternatives exist. But cool to see, still. 3/22/16 Added a documentary/propaganda video with lots of training footage. IMO it's very interesting how they basically shoot at recruits with live ammo during training. LINK EDIT: Added two "content" posts within the discussion below - About militia gear in general (hobby drones, PTRS rifles, 7.62 vs 5.45, etc.) About using enemy-controlled cell phone networks The most famous example of militia maneuver using cell phones and mis-information to confuse the nationalist army Feb-15-2016 Posted links to a lot of stories about practical aspects of a UA civil war, more stories about the tragedy of it, and three movies with of good first-hand footage. Most of it biased, but IMO worth watching === First level 
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Detailed description Under-armor LBV. First level 
1. "Splav" balaclava. Cut out a hole for the nose and installed mesh 2. Electrical tape on the empty sling mount - against rattling 3. Dolg 2M sling. Best one I've ever had 4. 30-rounders with an "ammo check" window cut and covered with transparent plastic 5. Flashlight - common chinese Z lite bought at flea market. Good for inspections at the checkpoint. Really helped when they tried to IED us 6. GP-25 underbarrel. Had it for ages. Wouldn't trade it for anything 7. 2*Army-tex pouches. Crap, but didn't have anything else. 2 Makarov mags in each, Swiss army knife, spoon. 8. SSO double AK mag pouches. Can fit up to 4 mags with creative positioning. One mag had tracers 9. "Octava" one-ear earpiece. Good thing for police, but not for war. I would normally move it back so that my ears are open. It's much more important to hear what's going on around, and the important [screams] you'll hear anyway 10. Kenwood th k8. Long antenna. 5 km range in forest, 2-3 in city. Favorite of the self-defense militia. Still considered a "commander's radio". 2-channel. Quality, reliability, good signal, low cost. Ukies [nationalists] use the same, BTW. Some of the time I've spent being a medic and radioman at once, since I was the only guy out of all the cool "spetsnaz operators" in my group who knew how to run communications. Communicated with other militias, and Icoms were used as group radios. So I had to drag around two radios, and constantly deal with extremely crappy Icom multichannel radios. 11. 5 VOG underbarrel grenades. Two VOG-P, 3 regular. Old model VOGs. 12. Big dump pouch made by Karbidych. My choice. I seriously advise this, spent the whole war with it. The best. The only ones that compare are the US Marine ones. 13. Dual grenade pouch by SSO. Noiseless. RGN/RGD5. The best. No FasTex, only metal. Saved me more than once. Don't recommend the Splav ones. Plastic clips break. Armor. Tac-Tec. 5.11. Second level. SVPME Plates. Mile Dragich. Aramide. A very good friend from Rostov got this for me. 
1. Dual AK pouches. Don't remember the brand. Used last, after I ran though the chest ones. Closed-top to avoid chafing. 2. RDG pouch. We had RDG-B (Soviet-era smoke grenade) 3. 15 feet of kelvar rope. For evac. Petzl carbines. One attached to evac handle, one can be taken off and thrown. 4. SSO pouch for VOG UBGL grenades, cut down to 4 slots. I had all VOGs in one line from armor to LBV(?). Which made it easier to lauch 10 in a row if needed. 5. Med pouch. Karbidych med pack as base. It wasn't enough, so I used FLYYE med pack, compacted. 6. CAT tourniquet. 7. Splav radio pouch. 8. Small unility pouch. Forgot brand. Batteries, compass, a whistle in case you're heavily wounded and can't shout, map. Anti-shock bundle(?), butrafanol. 9. Big zip-ties. For tripwires and POWs. 10. Army-tex dual pistol mag pouch. Balaclava and PM mags. 11. Utility pouch. Tourniquet, bandages. 12. Ak mag. AP ammo. Marked with black tape. 13. Ak mag. Green tape means tracers. 14. Dual grenade pouch. Fas-Tex - didn't have more SSO pouches. FLYYE (med pack?). F1 / RGD 5 [grenades]. 15. Magpul. I had two, they helped figure out which mag is which by touch. 3rd level. 3-day pack with heavy weapons. 
1. RPG-26 "Aglen'". My choice. The most accurate out of the ones I've used, the most convenient and reliable. [RPG] 22 "Tavolga" is also decent, but after you ready it, it's no longer airtight, may get damp and fail if you don't fire it. "Muha" 18 can't be made safe once readied. It's also heavy and low-powered. [Let hajis use em]. 2. MON 50 [~Claymore]. My choice. Best thing for a quick ambush. Light, hard-hitting, easy to deploy. 3. SSO ruck. Forgot the model, someone comment. Standard 3-day pack. Zippers are civvy crap, I suggest you change them. They break in a week. Or soap them up, they'll last a bit longer. Standard field kit. Army ration, couple bandage packs, (shooting?) glasses, half a tin of 5.45 ammo, couple grenades, ten VOGs, 3 liter (Camelbak knockoff), change of clothes, 80mm mortar battery(??) changed to power USB for phones, 10 pairs of socks, seal skinz socks, poncho, Gore-tex Arktika civilian jacket - chinese but good, gore tex paclite. A carton of cigs, not for myself but for the guys in my group. Sleeping bag with primalloft, very light and compresses into 3-fists size - I won't tell you the brand, some guy had enough war and gave it to me together with SSO pants and Berezka camo. Huge thanks to him, by the way. And other small stuff - soap, toothbursh, engineer stuff - wires, battteries, detonators, activator for the MON mine. And that's most of my gear. |
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Just my translation of a blog post by a republican militiaman from Donbass. Looks to be from one of the better equipped units, maybe the ones who used SF "sabotage-reconnaissance" tactics (although were less trained than actual SF). Not particularly useful for anything since a lot of the gear he uses is either unobtainable stateside, or better alternatives exist. But cool to see, still. === First level http://s020.radikal.ru/i701/1511/4d/166d723aac49.jpg Second level http://s019.radikal.ru/i618/1511/3b/3d47a94588a5.jpg Third level http://s020.radikal.ru/i705/1511/5a/0e7228334298.jpg Detailed description Under-armor LBV. First level [url=http://Just my translation of a blog post by a republican militiaman from Donbass. Not particularly useful for anything since a lot of the gear he uses is either unobtainable stateside, or better alternatives exist. But cool to see, still. === First level Second level Third level Detailed description Under-armor LBV. First level 1. 'Splav' balaclava. Cut out a hole for the nose and installed mesh 2. Electrical tape on the empty sling mount - against rattling 3. Dolg 2M sling. Best one I've ever had 4. 30-rounders with an 'ammo check' window cut and covered with transparent plastic 5. Flashlight - common chinese Z lite bought at flea market. Good for inspections at the checkpoint. Really helped when they tried to IED us 6. GP-25 underbarrel. Had it for ages. Wouldn't trade it for anything 7. 2*Army-tex pouches. Crap, but didn't have anything else. 2 Makarov mags in each, Swiss army knife, spoon. 8. SSO double AK mag pouches. Can fit up to 4 mags with creative positioning. One mag had tracers 9. 'Octava' one-ear earpiece. Good thing for police, but not for war. I would normally move it back so that my ears are open. It's much more important to hear what's going on around, and the important [screams]http://] you'll hear anyway 10. Ð?енвÑ?д th k8. Long antenna. 5 km range in forest, 2-3 in city. Favorite of the self-defense militia. Still considered a 'commander's radio'. 2-channel. Quality, reliability, good signal, low cost. Ukies [nationalists] use the same, BTW. Some of the time I've spent being a medic and radioman at once, since I was the only guy out of all the cool 'spetsnaz operators' in my group who knew how to run communications. Communicated with other militias, and Icoms were used as group radios. So I had to drag around two radios, and constantly deal with extremely crappy Icom multichannel radios. 11. 5 VOG underbarrel grenades. Two VOG-P, 3 regular. Old model VOGs. 12. Big dump pouch made by Karbidych. My choice. I seriously advise this, spent the whole war with it. The best. The only ones that compare are the US Marine ones. 13. Dual grenade pouch by SSO. Noiseless. RGN/RGD5. The best. No FasTex, only metal. Saved me more than once. Don't recommend the Splav ones. Plastic clips break. Armor. Tac-Tec. 5.11. Second level. SVPME Plates. Mile Dragich. Aramide. A very good friend from Rostov got this for me. 1. Dual AK pouches. Don't remember the brand. Used last, after I ran though the chest ones. Closed-top to avoid chafing. 2. RDG pouch. We had RDG-B (Soviet-era smoke grenade) 3. 15 feet of kelvar rope. For evac. Petzl carbines. One attached to evac handle, one can be taken off and thrown. 4. SSO pouch for VOG UBGL grenades, cut down to 4 slots. I had all VOGs in one line from armor to LBV(?). Which made it easier to lauch 10 in a row if needed. 5. Med pouch. Karbidych med pack as base. It wasn't enough, so I used FLYYE med pack, compacted. 6. CAT tourniquet. 7. Splav radio pouch. 8. Small unility pouch. Forgot brand. Batteries, compass, a whistle in case you're heavily wounded and can't shout, map. Anti-shock bundle(?), butrafanol. 9. Big zip-ties. For tripwires and POWs. 10. Army-tex dual pistol mag pouch. Balaclava and PM mags. 11. Utility pouch. Tourniquet, bandages. 12. Ak mag. AP ammo. Marked with black tape. 13. Ak mag. Green tape means tracers. 14. Dual grenade pouch. Fas-Tex - didn't have more SSO pouches. FLYYE (med pack?). F1 / RGD 5 [grenades]. 15. Magpul. I had two, they helped figure out which mag is which by touch. 3rd level. 3-day pack with heavy weapons. 1. RPG-26 'Aglen''. My choice. The most accurate out of the ones I've used, the most convenient and reliable. [RPG] 22 'Tavolga' is also decent, but after you ready it, it's no longer airtight, may get damp and fail if you don't fire it. 'Muha' 18 can't be made safe once readied. It's also heavy and low-powered. [Let hajis use em]. 2. MON 50 [~Claymore]. My choice. Best thing for a quick ambush. Light, hard-hitting, easy to deploy. 3. SSO ruck. Forgot the model, someone comment. Standard 3-day pack. Zippers are civvy crap, I suggest you change them. They break in a week. Or soap them up, they'll last a bit longer. Standard field kit. Army ration, couple bandage packs, (shooting?) glasses, half a tin of 5.45 ammo, couple grenades, ten VOGs, 3 liter (Camelbak knockoff), change of clothes, 80mm mortar battery(??) changed to power USB for phones, 10 pairs of socks, seal skinz socks, poncho, Gore-tex Arktika civilian jacket - chinese but good, gore tex paclite. A carton of cigs, not for myself but for the guys in my group. Sleeping bag with primalloft, very light and compresses into 3-fists size - I won't tell you the brand, some guy had enough war and gave it to me together with SSO pants and Berezka camo. Huge thanks to him, by the way. And other small stuff - soap, toothbursh, engineer stuff - wires, battteries, detonators, activator for the MON mine. And that's most of my gear.[/url]http://i056.radikal.ru/1511/0a/08fba1c45533.jpg 1. "Splav" balaclava. Cut out a hole for the nose and installed mesh 2. Electrical tape on the empty sling mount - against rattling 3. Dolg 2M sling. Best one I've ever had 4. 30-rounders with an "ammo check" window cut and covered with transparent plastic 5. Flashlight - common chinese Z lite bought at flea market. Good for inspections at the checkpoint. Really helped when they tried to IED us 6. GP-25 underbarrel. Had it for ages. Wouldn't trade it for anything 7. 2*Army-tex pouches. Crap, but didn't have anything else. 2 Makarov mags in each, Swiss army knife, spoon. 8. SSO double AK mag pouches. Can fit up to 4 mags with creative positioning. One mag had tracers 9. "Octava" one-ear earpiece. Good thing for police, but not for war. I would normally move it back so that my ears are open. It's much more important to hear what's going on around, and the important [screams] you'll hear anyway 10. ?????? th k8. Long antenna. 5 km range in forest, 2-3 in city. Favorite of the self-defense militia. Still considered a "commander's radio". 2-channel. Quality, reliability, good signal, low cost. Ukies [nationalists] use the same, BTW. Some of the time I've spent being a medic and radioman at once, since I was the only guy out of all the cool "spetsnaz operators" in my group who knew how to run communications. Communicated with other militias, and Icoms were used as group radios. So I had to drag around two radios, and constantly deal with extremely crappy Icom multichannel radios. 11. 5 VOG underbarrel grenades. Two VOG-P, 3 regular. Old model VOGs. 12. Big dump pouch made by Karbidych. My choice. I seriously advise this, spent the whole war with it. The best. The only ones that compare are the US Marine ones. 13. Dual grenade pouch by SSO. Noiseless. RGN/RGD5. The best. No FasTex, only metal. Saved me more than once. Don't recommend the Splav ones. Plastic clips break. Armor. Tac-Tec. 5.11. Second level. SVPME Plates. Mile Dragich. Aramide. A very good friend from Rostov got this for me. http://s018.radikal.ru/i509/1511/8c/d3c98150c2e3.jpg 1. Dual AK pouches. Don't remember the brand. Used last, after I ran though the chest ones. Closed-top to avoid chafing. 2. RDG pouch. We had RDG-B (Soviet-era smoke grenade) 3. 15 feet of kelvar rope. For evac. Petzl carbines. One attached to evac handle, one can be taken off and thrown. 4. SSO pouch for VOG UBGL grenades, cut down to 4 slots. I had all VOGs in one line from armor to LBV(?). Which made it easier to lauch 10 in a row if needed. 5. Med pouch. Karbidych med pack as base. It wasn't enough, so I used FLYYE med pack, compacted. 6. CAT tourniquet. 7. Splav radio pouch. 8. Small unility pouch. Forgot brand. Batteries, compass, a whistle in case you're heavily wounded and can't shout, map. Anti-shock bundle(?), butrafanol. 9. Big zip-ties. For tripwires and POWs. 10. Army-tex dual pistol mag pouch. Balaclava and PM mags. 11. Utility pouch. Tourniquet, bandages. 12. Ak mag. AP ammo. Marked with black tape. 13. Ak mag. Green tape means tracers. 14. Dual grenade pouch. Fas-Tex - didn't have more SSO pouches. FLYYE (med pack?). F1 / RGD 5 [grenades]. 15. Magpul. I had two, they helped figure out which mag is which by touch. 3rd level. 3-day pack with heavy weapons. http://s016.radikal.ru/i335/1511/58/8a2eea308505.jpg 1. RPG-26 "Aglen'". My choice. The most accurate out of the ones I've used, the most convenient and reliable. [RPG] 22 "Tavolga" is also decent, but after you ready it, it's no longer airtight, may get damp and fail if you don't fire it. "Muha" 18 can't be made safe once readied. It's also heavy and low-powered. [Let hajis use em]. 2. MON 50 [~Claymore]. My choice. Best thing for a quick ambush. Light, hard-hitting, easy to deploy. 3. SSO ruck. Forgot the model, someone comment. Standard 3-day pack. Zippers are civvy crap, I suggest you change them. They break in a week. Or soap them up, they'll last a bit longer. Standard field kit. Army ration, couple bandage packs, (shooting?) glasses, half a tin of 5.45 ammo, couple grenades, ten VOGs, 3 liter (Camelbak knockoff), change of clothes, 80mm mortar battery(??) changed to power USB for phones, 10 pairs of socks, seal skinz socks, poncho, Gore-tex Arktika civilian jacket - chinese but good, gore tex paclite. A carton of cigs, not for myself but for the guys in my group. Sleeping bag with primalloft, very light and compresses into 3-fists size - I won't tell you the brand, some guy had enough war and gave it to me together with SSO pants and Berezka camo. Huge thanks to him, by the way. And other small stuff - soap, toothbursh, engineer stuff - wires, battteries, detonators, activator for the MON mine. And that's most of my gear. |
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Just my translation of a blog post by a republican militiaman from Donbass. Looks to be from one of the better equipped units, maybe the ones who used SF "sabotage-reconnaissance" tactics (although were less trained than actual SF). Not particularly useful for anything since a lot of the gear he uses is either unobtainable stateside, or better alternatives exist. But cool to see, still. === First level http://s020.radikal.ru/i701/1511/4d/166d723aac49.jpg Second level http://s019.radikal.ru/i618/1511/3b/3d47a94588a5.jpg Third level http://s020.radikal.ru/i705/1511/5a/0e7228334298.jpg Detailed description Under-armor LBV. First level [url=http://Just my translation of a blog post by a republican militiaman from Donbass. Not particularly useful for anything since a lot of the gear he uses is either unobtainable stateside, or better alternatives exist. But cool to see, still. === First level Second level Third level Detailed description Under-armor LBV. First level 1. 'Splav' balaclava. Cut out a hole for the nose and installed mesh 2. Electrical tape on the empty sling mount - against rattling 3. Dolg 2M sling. Best one I've ever had 4. 30-rounders with an 'ammo check' window cut and covered with transparent plastic 5. Flashlight - common chinese Z lite bought at flea market. Good for inspections at the checkpoint. Really helped when they tried to IED us 6. GP-25 underbarrel. Had it for ages. Wouldn't trade it for anything 7. 2*Army-tex pouches. Crap, but didn't have anything else. 2 Makarov mags in each, Swiss army knife, spoon. 8. SSO double AK mag pouches. Can fit up to 4 mags with creative positioning. One mag had tracers 9. 'Octava' one-ear earpiece. Good thing for police, but not for war. I would normally move it back so that my ears are open. It's much more important to hear what's going on around, and the important [screams]http://] you'll hear anyway 10. Ð?енвÑ?д th k8. Long antenna. 5 km range in forest, 2-3 in city. Favorite of the self-defense militia. Still considered a 'commander's radio'. 2-channel. Quality, reliability, good signal, low cost. Ukies [nationalists] use the same, BTW. Some of the time I've spent being a medic and radioman at once, since I was the only guy out of all the cool 'spetsnaz operators' in my group who knew how to run communications. Communicated with other militias, and Icoms were used as group radios. So I had to drag around two radios, and constantly deal with extremely crappy Icom multichannel radios. 11. 5 VOG underbarrel grenades. Two VOG-P, 3 regular. Old model VOGs. 12. Big dump pouch made by Karbidych. My choice. I seriously advise this, spent the whole war with it. The best. The only ones that compare are the US Marine ones. 13. Dual grenade pouch by SSO. Noiseless. RGN/RGD5. The best. No FasTex, only metal. Saved me more than once. Don't recommend the Splav ones. Plastic clips break. Armor. Tac-Tec. 5.11. Second level. SVPME Plates. Mile Dragich. Aramide. A very good friend from Rostov got this for me. 1. Dual AK pouches. Don't remember the brand. Used last, after I ran though the chest ones. Closed-top to avoid chafing. 2. RDG pouch. We had RDG-B (Soviet-era smoke grenade) 3. 15 feet of kelvar rope. For evac. Petzl carbines. One attached to evac handle, one can be taken off and thrown. 4. SSO pouch for VOG UBGL grenades, cut down to 4 slots. I had all VOGs in one line from armor to LBV(?). Which made it easier to lauch 10 in a row if needed. 5. Med pouch. Karbidych med pack as base. It wasn't enough, so I used FLYYE med pack, compacted. 6. CAT tourniquet. 7. Splav radio pouch. 8. Small unility pouch. Forgot brand. Batteries, compass, a whistle in case you're heavily wounded and can't shout, map. Anti-shock bundle(?), butrafanol. 9. Big zip-ties. For tripwires and POWs. 10. Army-tex dual pistol mag pouch. Balaclava and PM mags. 11. Utility pouch. Tourniquet, bandages. 12. Ak mag. AP ammo. Marked with black tape. 13. Ak mag. Green tape means tracers. 14. Dual grenade pouch. Fas-Tex - didn't have more SSO pouches. FLYYE (med pack?). F1 / RGD 5 [grenades]. 15. Magpul. I had two, they helped figure out which mag is which by touch. 3rd level. 3-day pack with heavy weapons. 1. RPG-26 'Aglen''. My choice. The most accurate out of the ones I've used, the most convenient and reliable. [RPG] 22 'Tavolga' is also decent, but after you ready it, it's no longer airtight, may get damp and fail if you don't fire it. 'Muha' 18 can't be made safe once readied. It's also heavy and low-powered. [Let hajis use em]. 2. MON 50 [~Claymore]. My choice. Best thing for a quick ambush. Light, hard-hitting, easy to deploy. 3. SSO ruck. Forgot the model, someone comment. Standard 3-day pack. Zippers are civvy crap, I suggest you change them. They break in a week. Or soap them up, they'll last a bit longer. Standard field kit. Army ration, couple bandage packs, (shooting?) glasses, half a tin of 5.45 ammo, couple grenades, ten VOGs, 3 liter (Camelbak knockoff), change of clothes, 80mm mortar battery(??) changed to power USB for phones, 10 pairs of socks, seal skinz socks, poncho, Gore-tex Arktika civilian jacket - chinese but good, gore tex paclite. A carton of cigs, not for myself but for the guys in my group. Sleeping bag with primalloft, very light and compresses into 3-fists size - I won't tell you the brand, some guy had enough war and gave it to me together with SSO pants and Berezka camo. Huge thanks to him, by the way. And other small stuff - soap, toothbursh, engineer stuff - wires, battteries, detonators, activator for the MON mine. And that's most of my gear.[/url]http://i056.radikal.ru/1511/0a/08fba1c45533.jpg 1. "Splav" balaclava. Cut out a hole for the nose and installed mesh 2. Electrical tape on the empty sling mount - against rattling 3. Dolg 2M sling. Best one I've ever had 4. 30-rounders with an "ammo check" window cut and covered with transparent plastic 5. Flashlight - common chinese Z lite bought at flea market. Good for inspections at the checkpoint. Really helped when they tried to IED us 6. GP-25 underbarrel. Had it for ages. Wouldn't trade it for anything 7. 2*Army-tex pouches. Crap, but didn't have anything else. 2 Makarov mags in each, Swiss army knife, spoon. 8. SSO double AK mag pouches. Can fit up to 4 mags with creative positioning. One mag had tracers 9. "Octava" one-ear earpiece. Good thing for police, but not for war. I would normally move it back so that my ears are open. It's much more important to hear what's going on around, and the important [screams] you'll hear anyway 10. ?????? th k8. Long antenna. 5 km range in forest, 2-3 in city. Favorite of the self-defense militia. Still considered a "commander's radio". 2-channel. Quality, reliability, good signal, low cost. Ukies [nationalists] use the same, BTW. Some of the time I've spent being a medic and radioman at once, since I was the only guy out of all the cool "spetsnaz operators" in my group who knew how to run communications. Communicated with other militias, and Icoms were used as group radios. So I had to drag around two radios, and constantly deal with extremely crappy Icom multichannel radios. 11. 5 VOG underbarrel grenades. Two VOG-P, 3 regular. Old model VOGs. 12. Big dump pouch made by Karbidych. My choice. I seriously advise this, spent the whole war with it. The best. The only ones that compare are the US Marine ones. 13. Dual grenade pouch by SSO. Noiseless. RGN/RGD5. The best. No FasTex, only metal. Saved me more than once. Don't recommend the Splav ones. Plastic clips break. Armor. Tac-Tec. 5.11. Second level. SVPME Plates. Mile Dragich. Aramide. A very good friend from Rostov got this for me. http://s018.radikal.ru/i509/1511/8c/d3c98150c2e3.jpg 1. Dual AK pouches. Don't remember the brand. Used last, after I ran though the chest ones. Closed-top to avoid chafing. 2. RDG pouch. We had RDG-B (Soviet-era smoke grenade) 3. 15 feet of kelvar rope. For evac. Petzl carbines. One attached to evac handle, one can be taken off and thrown. 4. SSO pouch for VOG UBGL grenades, cut down to 4 slots. I had all VOGs in one line from armor to LBV(?). Which made it easier to lauch 10 in a row if needed. 5. Med pouch. Karbidych med pack as base. It wasn't enough, so I used FLYYE med pack, compacted. 6. CAT tourniquet. 7. Splav radio pouch. 8. Small unility pouch. Forgot brand. Batteries, compass, a whistle in case you're heavily wounded and can't shout, map. Anti-shock bundle(?), butrafanol. 9. Big zip-ties. For tripwires and POWs. 10. Army-tex dual pistol mag pouch. Balaclava and PM mags. 11. Utility pouch. Tourniquet, bandages. 12. Ak mag. AP ammo. Marked with black tape. 13. Ak mag. Green tape means tracers. 14. Dual grenade pouch. Fas-Tex - didn't have more SSO pouches. FLYYE (med pack?). F1 / RGD 5 [grenades]. 15. Magpul. I had two, they helped figure out which mag is which by touch. 3rd level. 3-day pack with heavy weapons. http://s016.radikal.ru/i335/1511/58/8a2eea308505.jpg 1. RPG-26 "Aglen'". My choice. The most accurate out of the ones I've used, the most convenient and reliable. [RPG] 22 "Tavolga" is also decent, but after you ready it, it's no longer airtight, may get damp and fail if you don't fire it. "Muha" 18 can't be made safe once readied. It's also heavy and low-powered. [Let hajis use em]. 2. MON 50 [~Claymore]. My choice. Best thing for a quick ambush. Light, hard-hitting, easy to deploy. 3. SSO ruck. Forgot the model, someone comment. Standard 3-day pack. Zippers are civvy crap, I suggest you change them. They break in a week. Or soap them up, they'll last a bit longer. Standard field kit. Army ration, couple bandage packs, (shooting?) glasses, half a tin of 5.45 ammo, couple grenades, ten VOGs, 3 liter (Camelbak knockoff), change of clothes, 80mm mortar battery(??) changed to power USB for phones, 10 pairs of socks, seal skinz socks, poncho, Gore-tex Arktika civilian jacket - chinese but good, gore tex paclite. A carton of cigs, not for myself but for the guys in my group. Sleeping bag with primalloft, very light and compresses into 3-fists size - I won't tell you the brand, some guy had enough war and gave it to me together with SSO pants and Berezka camo. Huge thanks to him, by the way. And other small stuff - soap, toothbursh, engineer stuff - wires, battteries, detonators, activator for the MON mine. And that's most of my gear. Quoting for gray boxes |
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Well, I didn't fight in the Ukraine, how would I know  My understanding is that there is a lot of urban fighting, and also a lot of fighting in snow / low vegetation. Maybe in those conditions it's easier to pull a wounded man out of the area under fire, rather than carry him. Also maybe tie him to the outside of a tank so he does not fall off, etc. |
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Well, I didn't fight in the Ukraine, how would I know
My understanding is that there is a lot of urban fighting, and also a lot of fighting in snow / low vegetation. Maybe in those conditions it's easier to pull a wounded man out of the area under fire, rather than carry him. Also maybe tie him to the outside of a tank so he does not fall off, etc. Quoted:
Well, I didn't fight in the Ukraine, how would I know
My understanding is that there is a lot of urban fighting, and also a lot of fighting in snow / low vegetation. Maybe in those conditions it's easier to pull a wounded man out of the area under fire, rather than carry him. Also maybe tie him to the outside of a tank so he does not fall off, etc. Lol its just the first thing I think of when I see rope in somebody's gear. Thanks for posting, it's interesting. |
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Quoted: Coming soon to a town near you. Good post. Hope it's still some distance away. Ukraine took 23 years to get there, and it started significantly worse off than US today. Still, if my interest in civil wars taught me anything, it's that shit can hit the fan really quick, and for the dumbest reasons. PS. Also, some time ago I translated a guy who spent a ~2 years studying the war in Syria first-hand. He said that another scenario where citizen militias become necessary, is if ISIS-style terrorist attacks start happening. |
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Quoted: Hope it's still some distance away. Ukraine took 23 years to get there, and it started significantly worse off than US today. Still, if my interest in civil wars taught me anything, it's that shit can hit the fan really quick, and for the dumbest reasons. PS. Also, some time ago I translated a guy who spent a ~2 years studying the war in Syria first-hand. He said that another scenario where citizen militias become necessary, is if ISIS-style terrorist attacks start happening. Quoted: Quoted: Coming soon to a town near you. Good post. Hope it's still some distance away. Ukraine took 23 years to get there, and it started significantly worse off than US today. Still, if my interest in civil wars taught me anything, it's that shit can hit the fan really quick, and for the dumbest reasons. PS. Also, some time ago I translated a guy who spent a ~2 years studying the war in Syria first-hand. He said that another scenario where citizen militias become necessary, is if ISIS-style terrorist attacks start happening. I think it's interesting he cut windows in his mags to check ammo levels. |
and better sh*t that I have. 
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Quoted: Republican militiaman? Is that what y'all call gangsters now? That war is very complex, and I don't think debating about it with people who (presumably) haven't studied it in depth would be useful to anyone involved. You do have a grain of truth, the war has been sometimes described as "Gangsters vs Nazis", but that's only one aspect. I can give a few links if you want: 1) Link explaining why I have an issue with "Pro-Russian vs Ukrainian" terminology. In short, it deliberately distorts the issue, like saying the American Civil War was fought between "Americans" and "Pro-Europeans". I think Republican vs Nationalist is a much more correct terminology. 2) (from an old post here) This is probably the most balanced source on the war you're gonna get => Ukrainian politician Tatiana Montyan: "All sides of the conflict suck" (this lady hates both Putin and the incompetents new Ukrainian government, so her viewpoint of the conflict is one of most balanced... even if she did try to ban Russian language schools in Kiev) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d03_1437695429 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=15f_1438999023 Murz about "Working Tanks" (a political activist who was jailed by Putin and later fought for Ukrainian rebels explains that the conflict is a lot less army-like than TV shows) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7ec_1435084693 "Confessions of a combatant" (a memoir of 50-something guy who joined the militias in East Ukraine - fairly common in summer 2014, less so now, because reasons). http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/07/confessions-of-combatant.html |
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Few more notes on the subject: 1. Drones were used heavily by both sides, usually - customized hobby drones in costing a few grand or less. Mostly - to provide recon and spotting for arty fire. Reportedly, with a drone above target, even untrained mortarmen could hit point targets after a few rounds. Drones were mostly shot down using massed rifle fire with tracers, sometimes AAA as well. Guided AA missiles don't lock on to targets that small, and cost more than a hobby drone, anyway. [Pic - republican drone shot down by nationalist rifle fire. Nationalist drones mostly look the same. Now the sides are transitioning to using fixed-wing drones for recon - covers greater area, can fly in high winds]  [Donetsk airport - picture taken off a nationalist drone shot down by republican rifle fire]  2. Republicans, for lack of other heavy weapons, used quite a few PTRS / PTRD AT rifles of the WWII era, my understanding they were simply bought from the gov't warehouses (which is small potatoes - one of the rebel commanders was saying he bought APCs from the nationalists using his contacts with Poroshenko's -that is, the nationalists president's - people). They also used some other antiques, like Maxim guns, DshK machineguns on WWII mounts, PPS submachineguns, SKS, restored IS3 / T34 / T55 monument tanks etc, but those were mostly traded for better weapons as soon as possible. On the other hand, 14.5 mm (".60 cal") rifles were shown to be highly effective both against light armor and enemy fortifications, and became a highly respected (if constantly jamming) weapon.    3. On the 7,62 vs 5,45 question - as in any post-Soviet war, the "cool guys" tend to prefer 7,62 for its superior ability to cut through brush and such. Also, up to a quarter of militiamen were armed with SKS rifles for the first few months, so that made 7,62 a lot more common. |
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Quoted: Great info. That guy in the OP fights on the Russian side? Yep. See 2 posts above, however - calling his side "Russian" is about as valid as calling the other side "European/American". Their story is a long one, but suffice to say that this a third war in a hundred years when "Easterners" fought "Westerners" (1918 and 1941 being the other ones), and it has both current geopolitical reasons, internal economic ones, and a history stretching back to the 11th century or so |
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Quoted: Where is his flag? http://www.kyivpost.com/media/images/2014/08/25/p1906dn71s30e16eodhk84p1m0l4/original_big.jpg It's a republican flag, so must be republican territory. Lugansk would be my guess, but just a guess. Interestingly, although it looks like the Confederate Flag, it's actually the old Russian naval flag with some changes. It is a symbol of Novorossia - the state republicans want to rebuild. Very roughly, it's Russian areas that were attached to Ukraine by the Communists in 1920s. |
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Quoted: Very neat thanks for posting. Sounds like a full on Ruskie gear queer - he probably learned some stuff from ARF... Russians have their own ARF - guns.ru ;) Pretty awesome forum, actually. I don't visit regularly, but if you google Russian gun stuff, it usually brings you back there for discussions of firearms, street crime, etc. |
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Dude's grinning in that pic. Guess who's gonna get targeted before even the radio dude or the commander with the whistle.... 
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Russians have their own ARF - guns.ru ;) Pretty awesome forum, actually. I don't visit regularly, but if you google Russian gun stuff, it usually brings you back there for discussions of firearms, street crime, etc. I go there periodically looking for nuke info. Sometimes, they can be.... interesting. |
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From tatzhit: This text about using enemy-controlled cell phone networks is from UA civil war, so it has its own peculiarities (nationalist army was impressively incompetent for the first few months, and most of their weapon systems were old and/or malfunctioning). Still, I suppose the SOPs of combatants in Iraq or Libya are not that different. This is intended for amusement only, of course, and not for any kind of nefarious activity. AFAIK everything here has long been common knowledge. ======= ATTENTION. The Nationalist Guard and the UAF have precision weapons! These systems consist of two parts: 1. Systems for finding, pin-pointing, and listening in to cell phones. Specifies the coordinates of cell phones with an accuracy of 50-300 m [depending on scenery - city, forest, etc. -ed] 2. Conventional weapons (artillery, mortars, aircraft, etc), which through the normal channels of military communication get the coordinates of cell phones found by the intelligence system above. Enemy has NO missiles or shells that home in on the cell phone directly [this implies that there is a "reaction time" between phonecall and arty strike - ed.] So: Turn off all the phones that were used more than 12 hours ago for discussions of military nature Do not turn off your phone. Pull out the battery from a WORKING phone. That way, time the enemy will not notice that you left the network. Use phones of RANDOM PEOPLE for military messages. For important negotiations: Every time, call from a new phone and SIM card USE "detected" PHONES TO CREATE decoys. Collect the "spotted" phones of your unit and put them in one spot, where you want to show a false base, defense line or assembly area. Do not forget to recharge phones and simulate comms on them. The fighters assigned for this task must have a safe shelter. If the situation demands using cell phones communicating with the troops - Observe CONDITIONS FOR OPENLY TALKING ON ENEMY-CONTROLLED NETWORK: 1 Never use text messages. The enemy can simultaneously detect thousands of phones. His computers analyze all texts on the network. But, the can only listen to a dozen or two phones simultaneously. They do not have more trained operators, and never will 2. Use the simplest methods of masking conversations. The enemy has a program of automatic semantic analysis of telephone conversations. If such a program finds a military term - it automatically marks the phone to control and records the conversation for analysis of the first available operator. But these programs are not perfect and are configured only on a few specific words and terms. Do not use military terms "commander", "tank", "attack", "coordinates" Say, "senior", "big box", "action forward", "place" Example 1: Instead of "Battery SP arty coordinates x = y = 67890 12345" Say: "Six pieces 6-in, self-mobile. Sitting on y twelve thirty-four-five Also, six seventy-eight and ninety " Example 2: Instead of "The enemy has two dead and five wounded" Say: "Assholes have couple cold and a fiver sick" Do not use the terms "KIA" and "WIA" [I would assume, they also asked the locals to actively use military terms in day-to-day convos - ed.] 3. In appointing callsigns, never call the commander "first" Change callsigns once a day. |
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Quoted: Hope the Ukrainians manage to push the Reds out. If you call one side "Red" (and they have plenty of red banners among them, because reasons), then you have to call other side "Blut-and-Boden" (because their flags are black-and-red).
The black-and-red flag is historically a flag on Nazi collaborators that first helped murder several million Jews (under Nazis orders, but they acted as muscle), then genocided some hundred thousand Poles. So, yeah, same story as Bosnia/Croatia, US backs the wrong assholes, again. Also, see links above. |
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Great info. That guy in the OP fights on the Russian side? Yes. OP is pro-Russian and is showing the viewpoint where the ethnic Russian Separtists in Ukraine are the good guys, and the pro Assad fighters in Syria are the good guys. "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" |
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If you call one side "Red" (and they have plenty of red banners among them, because reasons), then you have to call other side "Blut-and-Boden" (because their flags are black-and-red). The black-and-red flag is historically a flag on Nazi collaborators that first helped murder several million Jews (under Nazis orders, but they acted as muscle), then genocided some hundred thousand Poles. So, yeah, same story as Bosnia/Croatia, US backs the wrong assholes, again. Also, see links above. Quoted:
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Hope the Ukrainians manage to push the Reds out. If you call one side "Red" (and they have plenty of red banners among them, because reasons), then you have to call other side "Blut-and-Boden" (because their flags are black-and-red). The black-and-red flag is historically a flag on Nazi collaborators that first helped murder several million Jews (under Nazis orders, but they acted as muscle), then genocided some hundred thousand Poles. So, yeah, same story as Bosnia/Croatia, US backs the wrong assholes, again. Also, see links above. So it was the Ukrainians doing all the evil nazi stuff, not the Russians taking their crops and starving them while refusing international food aide! Holy shit. Just got back from the Internet. You really are a full circle propaganda machine. You do your own translations to English, do your own anti Ukraine analysis of piecemeal blurbs from bullshit around the Internet, and then cite your own YouTube/liveleak videos and other articles as supplementary evidence and pretend to push it out as a nicely wrapped up unbiased package. Give it up, it's well known outside of commieville that the Russian military is fighting Ukraine. The only thing that makes me happier than the idea of a bullet in the forehead of every Russian soldier outside of Russia is the idea that after someone worth a fuck kills them, their shitty country will pay their families exactly what they're worth. Nothing. |
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If you call one side "Red" (and they have plenty of red banners among them, because reasons), then you have to call other side "Blut-and-Boden" (because their flags are black-and-red). The black-and-red flag is historically a flag on Nazi collaborators that first helped murder several million Jews (under Nazis orders, but they acted as muscle), then genocided some hundred thousand Poles. So, yeah, same story as Bosnia/Croatia, US backs the wrong assholes, again. Also, see links above. Quoted:
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Hope the Ukrainians manage to push the Reds out. If you call one side "Red" (and they have plenty of red banners among them, because reasons), then you have to call other side "Blut-and-Boden" (because their flags are black-and-red). The black-and-red flag is historically a flag on Nazi collaborators that first helped murder several million Jews (under Nazis orders, but they acted as muscle), then genocided some hundred thousand Poles. So, yeah, same story as Bosnia/Croatia, US backs the wrong assholes, again. Also, see links above. You can't come into a website visited by the strategic enemies of Russia and not expect to read anti Russian comments. Feel free to express your views, but just like I'd get challenged on a pro-Russian gun forum, you're in enemy territory. Most people here don't believe any of that bullshit about Ukraine Nazis, they believe the videos of Russian Hinds and tanks invading Ukraine after the people tossed out the pro Putin govt. They believe picture footage of Russian army troops mascarading as "volunteers" with no rank insignia while Putin tells the world no Russians have invaded Ukraine. |
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Quoted: You can't come into a website visited by the strategic enemies of Russia and not expect to read anti Russian comments. Feel free to express your views, but just like I'd get challenged on a pro-Russian gun forum, you're in enemy territory. Most people here don't believe any of that bullshit about Ukraine Nazis, they believe the videos of Russian Hinds and tanks invading Ukraine after the people tossed out the pro Putin govt. They believe picture footage of Russian army troops mascarading as "volunteers" with no rank insignia while Putin tells the world no Russians have invaded Ukraine. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Hope the Ukrainians manage to push the Reds out. If you call one side "Red" (and they have plenty of red banners among them, because reasons), then you have to call other side "Blut-and-Boden" (because their flags are black-and-red). The black-and-red flag is historically a flag on Nazi collaborators that first helped murder several million Jews (under Nazis orders, but they acted as muscle), then genocided some hundred thousand Poles. So, yeah, same story as Bosnia/Croatia, US backs the wrong assholes, again. Also, see links above. You can't come into a website visited by the strategic enemies of Russia and not expect to read anti Russian comments. Feel free to express your views, but just like I'd get challenged on a pro-Russian gun forum, you're in enemy territory. Most people here don't believe any of that bullshit about Ukraine Nazis, they believe the videos of Russian Hinds and tanks invading Ukraine after the people tossed out the pro Putin govt. They believe picture footage of Russian army troops mascarading as "volunteers" with no rank insignia while Putin tells the world no Russians have invaded Ukraine. Oh, I understand that, and I'm actually amazed how rational many posters ARF are, all things considered. Also, I tend to go a little heavy on the "Russian" side in my comments, since everyone here knows the other side's propaganda well, and there is no need for me to show both viewpoints. But as I've said, I try to limit the whole political discussions, because I have neither the time nor good tools to explain the other side fully. As for Russian tanks in Ukraine - here ya go (I feel it's easier to give links than to re-write, or copy-paste, similar things onto the forum - even if my view of the conflict got more nuanced since those posts were written): Russian Army presence in the Donbass: What is its extent, what goals does it have, is it justified? Inside the mind of a nationalist leader... EDIT: Also this - |
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lol, you mean Russians? Quoted:
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The folks behind all these shit storms are a much greater threat to everyone on this board than Russia is. lol, you mean Russians? Russians ain't behind all this. Syria, Ukraine, Libya and so on. BTW you gotta get hip to the hip talk. Putin last week pissed all over Lenin and communism in his latest speech. Putin isn't interested in making the US the next USSR or flooding the West with Muslims. You should ask yourself why guys like Soros are. |
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Quoted: So it was the Ukrainians doing all the evil nazi stuff, not the Russians taking their crops and starving them while refusing international food aide! Holy shit. Just got back from the Internet. You really are a full circle propaganda machine. You do your own translations to English, do your own anti Ukraine analysis of piecemeal blurbs from bullshit around the Internet, and then cite your own YouTube/liveleak videos and other articles as supplementary evidence and pretend to push it out as a nicely wrapped up unbiased package. Give it up, it's well known outside of commieville that the Russian military is fighting Ukraine. The only thing that makes me happier than the idea of a bullet in the forehead of every Russian soldier outside of Russia is the idea that after someone worth a fuck kills them, their shitty country will pay their families exactly what they're worth. Nothing. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Hope the Ukrainians manage to push the Reds out. If you call one side "Red" (and they have plenty of red banners among them, because reasons), then you have to call other side "Blut-and-Boden" (because their flags are black-and-red). The black-and-red flag is historically a flag on Nazi collaborators that first helped murder several million Jews (under Nazis orders, but they acted as muscle), then genocided some hundred thousand Poles. So, yeah, same story as Bosnia/Croatia, US backs the wrong assholes, again. Also, see links above. So it was the Ukrainians doing all the evil nazi stuff, not the Russians taking their crops and starving them while refusing international food aide! Holy shit. Just got back from the Internet. You really are a full circle propaganda machine. You do your own translations to English, do your own anti Ukraine analysis of piecemeal blurbs from bullshit around the Internet, and then cite your own YouTube/liveleak videos and other articles as supplementary evidence and pretend to push it out as a nicely wrapped up unbiased package. Give it up, it's well known outside of commieville that the Russian military is fighting Ukraine. The only thing that makes me happier than the idea of a bullet in the forehead of every Russian soldier outside of Russia is the idea that after someone worth a fuck kills them, their shitty country will pay their families exactly what they're worth. Nothing. "Pretend to push it out unbiased"? WTF? I call myself a "Putin's troll" repeatedly in my posts on this board (even though I'm not a big fan of Putin), just so people know my views are somewhat at odds with the mainstream narrative. As for what I do, I'll post about it sometime. Note that most of the pieces I publish are TRANSLATIONS, meaning I tend to translate, say, a Ukrainian talk show where it comes out that nationalist militias torture people, then if I make a statement like "nationalists torture people", I back-link to it as one of the proofs. And I can't help you much with Holodomor - unfortunately, I never published or seen a good, all-encompassing article on it, maybe I'll get around to making one in the future. Let's just say the Goebbels/Bandera viewpoint on it (that's currently accepted in the West) isn't the whole story, although Reds certainly share a lot of the blame. |
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Russians ain't behind all this. Syria, Ukraine, Libya and so on. BTW you gotta get hip to the hip talk. Putin last week pissed all over Lenin and communism in his latest speech. Putin isn't interested in making the US the next USSR or flooding the West with Muslims. You should ask yourself why guys like Soros are. Quoted:
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The folks behind all these shit storms are a much greater threat to everyone on this board than Russia is. lol, you mean Russians? Russians ain't behind all this. Syria, Ukraine, Libya and so on. BTW you gotta get hip to the hip talk. Putin last week pissed all over Lenin and communism in his latest speech. Putin isn't interested in making the US the next USSR or flooding the West with Muslims. You should ask yourself why guys like Soros are. Every single evil clownshoe who has run that nation has publicly decried the politics and policies of their predecessors, despite all having comes from the same organizations that enforced the will of those leaders. Putin pissed on Lenin? Lol Putin kills his political rivals and his goons got caught blowing up Russian apartment buildings to justify invading another country. He was the disciple of kruschev, whose number one way of dealing with problems was killing them. Their leader literally got caught doing what 9/11 truthers claim happened in America, but hey if he says he hates communism, he must be good people. |
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Russians ain't behind all this. Syria, Ukraine, Libya and so on. BTW you gotta get hip to the hip talk. Putin last week pissed all over Lenin and communism in his latest speech. Putin isn't interested in making the US the next USSR or flooding the West with Muslims. You should ask yourself why guys like Soros are. Quoted:
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The folks behind all these shit storms are a much greater threat to everyone on this board than Russia is. lol, you mean Russians? Russians ain't behind all this. Syria, Ukraine, Libya and so on. BTW you gotta get hip to the hip talk. Putin last week pissed all over Lenin and communism in his latest speech. Putin isn't interested in making the US the next USSR or flooding the West with Muslims. You should ask yourself why guys like Soros are. Russians are in Syrian and Ukraine, so yeah, they are behind this. Remember when Russian invaded Ukraine? Because the rest of the world does. Remember when Putin propped up Assad in Syria? The rest of the world does. Russia is balls deep in quite a few conflicts and acting against the interests of the US, whether or not Obama or anyone else is prez. So fuck Russia and fuck Putin. Also, Khrushchev all over Stalin too, but he was till a dictator, as were his successors, as is Putin now. Dictators dictate, stooges stooge. |
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