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[MaxTheFox]

Adam Delimchanov, right hand of Chechen leader Ramzam Kadyrov has been wounded or killed by a missile strike. Ukrainian forces stumbled upon his convoy and opened fire on it.
Ramzam Kadyrov writes on his Telegram channel that 'he is unable to contact his dear brother Delimchanov'.
Funnily enough, he asks the Ukrainian intelligence services to provide him with details and location of the attack.

L rip bozo

[King Zultan]

They seem to be dropping like flies all the sudden.

[Eric Blank]

It's open season again. Hopefully they drive the oligarchy extinct this year, as unlikely as that is.

[jipehog]

I like this story: Over 10K Russian Soldiers Earn Cash Payouts for Destroyed or Captured Equipment – Defense Ministry

Meanwhile: War and SPIEF: Russia's Flagship Economic Forum Flatlines
 * Apparently presentation of the new Russian LADA at the forum
 * Can't find a link but they also unveiled Russian AI Chatbot based on deceased far-right party leader.

[jipehog]

NYT version of the Dam destruction with illustrations:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/16/world/europe/ukraine-kakhovka-dam-collapse.html

[KittyTac]

Over the course of the war I have started becoming ashamed of even being Russian, culturally. I hate my country's culture, I mean most Soviet and some modern stuff is okay but I fucking despise just about anything from before 1914. I hate Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky's books for example. Even destroyed the few I still had.

[ChairmanPoo]

Crime and Punishment is bullshit tbh. If Raskolnikov had shut the fuck up it'd have been a surprisingly effective heist. The novel is not so much a refutation of Raskolnikov's fascistic ideas about "great men" as it is a demonstration that Raskolnikov himself is a pathethic individual prone to both panic and rash decisions.

[KittyTac]

All of it is overrated. Foreign classic literature is sometimes alright.

[Strongpoint]

Over the course of the war I have started becoming ashamed of even being Russian, culturally. I hate my country's culture, I mean most Soviet and some modern stuff is okay but I fucking despise just about anything from before 1914. I hate Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky's books for example. Even destroyed the few I still had.

A strange take. I can't find anything more bland than Soviet culture and art except what Russia produced between 1991 and now which is a mix of the worst elements of Soviet times and bad copies of Western stuff.

[Random_Dragon]

As far as soviet media is concerned, only stuff I've ever really stumbled into was the Roadside Picnic, the Stalker movie, and a band called Aria that came about when late soviet polices made it possible for rock and metal bands to go public.

[Strongpoint]

Note that USSR, a huge empire, a superpower with numerous allies and puppets, was unable to contribute to the world's mass culture in a meaningful way. Well, nothing is not exactly correct, there are minor things like Tetris (but is it a Soviet thing or a brilliant idea of one guy?) but there is nothing of the scale of, let's say, Japanese Anime.

You won't find any noticeable traces of Soviet culture in modern Poland or Vietnam or post-colonial Africa or Cuba. Why? Because it was bland and empty.

[KittyTac]

I like some Soviet movies, and Soviet sci-fi e.g Strugatsky Brothers books. They're not really world culture but the country was closed. They're certainly not dull to me. Sure a lot of it can be a bit bland but earlier Russian culture is outright garbage only worthy of obliteration, including the "great" novels. They were so bad that they convinced me to only ever read science fiction and fantasy just to not associate with them.

Current Russian mass culture is bad but some independent stuff is good. Soviet era was imo the golden age. The comedy movies are hilarious.

But nowadays as part of my cultural self-obliteration I am mostly consuming Western media anyways.

[Il Palazzo]

You won't find any noticeable traces of Soviet culture in modern Poland

The Palace of Culture and Science says hello.

[EuchreJack]

Over the course of the war I have started becoming ashamed of even being Russian, culturally. I hate my country's culture, I mean most Soviet and some modern stuff is okay but I fucking despise just about anything from before 1914. I hate Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky's books for example. Even destroyed the few I still had.

I sometimes have the same feelings about being a Republican in America, when I see Trumpers in action.  There are plenty of decent moderate Republicans, they just don't get a lot of air time.

[Il Palazzo]

Also, the Strugatskis are friggin' awesome. Soviet era S-F was generally excellent.
Goddamnit, I'mma gonna go and listen to some sovietwave now.