Although, one could amend the dates here. The center was actually finished in 2020, and the last verifiable #Rheinmetall shipments to Garnison date by 2019. But let's not be too pedantical: it's a meme and not an indictment after all
This one is nice! But I would say that signing a deal is parallel to signing a Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, so it might be appropriate to use that photo with this headline. This photo may look better with the news about the fall of Mariupol, etc
Deal - Deal
Action - Action
Also good and laconic (that's important), but somehow lacks dynamism
This is good template, but now one needs to add some details for people to get what it all is about. For example a trolley could be a Russian train brining tanks to Ukraine. Also one absolutely needs a logo
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I would say that upper classes are more culturalist and being Christian/ancient civilisation plays a big role for them. Working classes' perspective tends to be purely anthropological. They don't care about "ancient culture", "Christian" crap, they just see you as an ape
That's why Karabakh war was a huge thing for intelligentsia but not for masses. Intelligentsia saw it as a conflict of Muslim barbarians vs Christian civilisation and called for a crusade. Masses didn't give a damn though. Neither Armenians and Azeri were seen as fully human
Gorbachov's funerals dilemma. Gorbachov allegedly destroyed the USSR. Still, he is an ex-Tsar which is super important in Russian quasi-monarchy. Disrespecting him would undermine the awe before the institution of Tsar's power. So Putin's private farewells were still broadcasted
Many things about Gorbachov would be counterintuitive for the American public. First, few things undermined his reputation in Russia more than his relationship with his wife. They were very close, he took her everywhere and she tried to play a figure of her own. People hated that
In America being a "good family man" is usually considered a prerequisite for the high political career. You must be one, or at least persuade enough voters that you are. So Americans casually assume Russian politics work just like this. But they don't
Not quite. In Stalin's era engineers indeed could enjoy royal lifestyle compared with working masses. You could realistically hope to get Your 👏 own 👏 apartment 👏 one day 👏, while others would live in barracks forever. Absolute kings
Since 1960s however system of incentives gradually changed. First, engineers were simply overproduced. Second, Soviet village with its seemingly infinite human resources was dying out. Third, Soviet government got wary of too many engineering grads. Are they even proletarian?
By the 1970s it was absolutely normal for industrial workers to earn more than engineers, way more. Hence jokes "The more you study, the less you earn". Sounds strange, but in the late USSR it was very real. Tons of engineers took workers' jobs to earn more cash
Yes, of course. Actually this year fates of Russian material producers diverged. Titanium producers are doing fine, as they're irreplaceable and thus pulled out of sanctions lists. Russian ferrous metals producers are replaceable -> sanctioned -> being obliterated
If you look at the recent ЦСР report on the Russian narrowly specialised industrial cities (monotowns), you see that maximum risk category mostly consists of two types:
For anyone interested in the Russian regional economy, I strongly recommend digging in into the Central Bank or CSR (ЦСР) reports. They're very informative
Actually the Russian metallurgy has been doing ok in post-Soviet period. Production of ferrous metals (left graph) bounced back after the initial contraction of the late 1980s-1990s. Production of non-ferrous metals (right graph) even exceeded Soviet figures in the Putin's era
It is the machinery that never recovered after the post-Soviet collapse. I will give you just four examples: production of tractors, сombine harvester, bulldozers, excavators. You can find many, many more. Soviet machinery pretty much died and never recovered
I believe this graph: production of friction bearings may illustrate the history of Soviet/Russian machinery well. As you see, it quickly collapsed in the 1990s and then continued to contract through the Putin's era. Russian metallurgy recovered, but machinery never did
Let's start a meme contest about the @RheinmetallAG. I will give some examples and material that may be useful. Make your own memes and post them. Don't forget to mention @RheinmetallAG in your posts. In a week we'll choose the best ones and I will ask the authors to work with me
Key materials:
1) Rheinmetall press release, 2011 2) Their statement with awkward misinformation "we didn't supply any simulation technology!" (I've a proof you did), 2022 3) DW report on Serdyukov's visit to Letzlingen to sign contract with Rheinmetall dw.com/ru/партнеры-по…
Key facts:
1) In 2011 Rheinmetall started to build Mulino training center for Russian army with JSC Oboronservis 2) After the corruption scandal (Oboronservis case), it was renamed to JSC Garnison 3) After Crimea Rheinmetall "left" the project, but continued to supply Garnison