20,000 in 30 days. They expect the total force (French + allies) to equal 60,000 according to French General.

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4035254

I’ve heard many people say they’ll vote Putin till he’s gone and then vote KPRF. Rally around the flag effect seems huge at the moment. Still there was one good aspect that stood out to me:

Communists delivered 26 million copies of their program across the country (for the first time not skipping a single subject) which the other candidates severely lacked, a win regardless of the electoral result.

https://kprf.ru/activity/elections/225109.html

Machine translation of Kharitonov’s belief in its immediate implementation:

“Our program will make its way literally from tomorrow. In all regions, in all territories, it was received favorably, and people hope for its implementation. And we will implement it directly,” Kharitonov noted at a briefing on Sunday evening.

In his opinion, the current head of state, Vladimir Putin, has taken on enormous responsibility.

“If he wins, one can only wish for one thing: to justify the trust of his voters,” he emphasized, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports.

Let us remind you that Putin is in the lead with 87.26% in the presidential elections based on the results of processing 60% of the protocols. Second place goes to Kharitonov, who received 4.18% of the votes.

Yeah the first thing is a problem, but do we support Scottish independence?

A gusano?

There’s several people within a ~5 meter radius (as I showed in my reply above, they are barely cut off from the image in the post) and the UUF shown first in the banner is a banderite organizaton.

There’s another one in the same rally and the cry Heroaim Slava. They also want to disclude Russia from the olympics. Finally the first logo on the bottom left corner in the image provided by OP is of the UNION OF UKRAINIANS OF FRANCE which is sympathetic of Stephan Bandera https://uduf.fr/

A new thing was him talking about the entire left bank of the Dneiper being historically Russian, this includes Poltava, Chernihiv, Sumy and Kiev in the north. Recently before this he was talking about creating a buffer zone to prevent Ukrainian attacks on Russian cities.

Oh alr nice, I see how it fits in the broader context of your post.

As to the OP mentioning, “I like how Putin clarified that Soviet Ukrainianization and indigenization of other areas of the USSR was not a bad policy in principle” I think this is best read as reactionary nationalist stuff. Basically that people of a culture should stick together, that there’s a duty to blood there, to preserving culture, to a commonality. You hear the same stuff from many reactionary thinkers.

How is it reactionary and nationalist to have a shared Belarussian, Ukrainian and Russian space where each national identity flourishes but is also interconnected? If Putin wants to live in harmony with Belarus or pre-maidan and to some extent post-maidan Ukraine instead of devouring them, where’s the issue?

In the interview he also admitted the superiority of China and it’s economy to Russia. He said that Russia is not much of a threat to US hegemony but China is. Having a population of 1.4B to Russia’s 140m and growing at 5%, having the largest economy.

He said that it was a good idea in principle to promote the indigenous languages and culture of the Soviet Republics (Ukrainianization) around 18:55. Im not saying he’s a leftist, just that he’s abandoned the vocal anti-communism.

KPRF critiqued his speech of February 2022 saying that it was Lenin who united the territories of the empire which were divided by local nationalists. What he said is similar and clarifies whether he believes Lenin made a mistake in shaping Ukraine vs just how things played out in the long run.

He said this time that the Soviet Union lived as a unified state with harmony between Russians and Ukrainians and the fault lied to the governments of Yeltsin, Gorbachev and himself for tearing off Ukraine from this shared space.

I believe he’s a right-wing conservative, what in particular makes you say he’s a fascist?

Current polling of those intending to vote

https://kprf.ru/activity/elections/223825.html

Putin: 63-65% (low for him, 80% would be typical), most of the remaining should go to KPRF

Slutsky (nationalist/LDPR): 3-4% (usually compared to KPRF, only managed to get support from 1/3rd of his base)

Kharitonov (communist): “confidently ahead of Slutsky” and from the above post the sentiment is the same as in 1996 where Zyuganov won 32.49% in the first round . The percentage left when you subtract the other candidates from 100 is ~26%. So I would assume close to 20%.

Boris Nadezhdin (pro-west): 6-7%

Davankov: less than 1%

He tried once to give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. Obama too. Non-citizens can increasingly vote in local elections. And the more of them that come, the easier to pass this. Yes ik that Biden has deported more than Trump, that’s what I meant when I said that they haven’t been nice to migrants in the last few years. They are also definitely be exploited for cheap labour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Citizenship_Act_of_2021

I think the Democrats are unpopular so they’ve relaxed on migrants (as migrants are more democratic) which is good for migrants but also pretty opportunistic.

Even most democratic voters call the situation at the border “an invasion”, which I don’t agree with but the fact is Democrats are choosing to change course when it is unpopular in their own camp. Secondly, we all know it’s not cause of empathy with migrants, they clearly lack that.

Democrats are trying to maintain power even at the cost of destabilization, Republicans don’t want Texas, with it’s 38 electoral seats to turn blue. Biden only lost in 2020 by 5%.

“Moses” an experienced drone operator killed 500 Ukrainians himself before being struck by a drone.

There were 200 fired on Friday, but on Saturday the DPRK tricked the south into thinking they fired 60.

They aren’t even leftist though

Those are all ML parties:

Worker’s Party of Korea in the DPRK

Workers party of Bangladesh

Workers party of Belgium

Russian Communist WP

Workers party Ireland

They call themselves “communalist” ;) ;) and reject social democracy http://pdp21.kr/?p=116863

Communitarianism is the goal and democracy is the means and method. The goal of the People’s Democratic Party is a world of community where everyone lives equally well, and in order to realize this, the entire people, including the working class, must increase their role as owners. Human society progresses from a community society to a non-community society and then back to a community society. If a community society without military occupation, political domination, or economic exploitation is the first positive stage in a society that reflects the archetype of human independence, we are scientifically convinced of the dialectical process that goes through the negative stage and then again to the negative negative stage. In Choi Chi-won’s Nanrangmi Preface, “Gukukhyeonmyojidowalpungryu,” that is, “There is a mysterious way in this land, and it is called Pungryu,” we confirm that there is communality at the root of our nationality. . We oppose the social democratic concept of publicness and emphasize the communalistic concept of commonality

Literally describing the transition of humanity from primitive communism to communism with a lot of winking.