Ukrainian Hackers Claim To Have Destroyed Major Russian Drone Maker's Entire Network (theregister.com) 177
Ukrainian hacker group BO Team, with help from the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance and possibly Ukraine's military, claims to have wiped out one of Russia's largest military drone manufacturers, destroying 47TB of production data and even disabling the doors in the facility. "Or, as described by the hacking collective (per Google translate), they 'deeply penetrated' the drone manufacturer 'to the very tonsils of demilitarization and denazification,'" reports The Register. From the report: BO Team (also known as Black Owl) announced the breach on its Telegram channel, and claimed to have carried out the operation alongside fellow hackers the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance "and one very well-known organization, the mention of which makes Vanya's bottle receivers explode," according to a Google translation of the Russian text. While the "very well-known organization" isn't named, BO Team included a link to Ukraine's Ministry of Defence.
The military intelligence agency, working alongside the attackers, "carried out large-scale work to capture the entire network and server infrastructure of Gaskar Group, collect valuable information about the UAVs being produced and prospective, and then destroy the information and disable this infrastructure," the Telegram post continued. This reportedly included 47TB of technical information about the production of Russian drones, and BO Team claims to have destroyed all of the information on Gaskar's servers, including 10TB of backup files. "By the way, from the information we received, China is providing assistance in the production and training of specialists of Gaskar Group," the hackers added via Telegram. BO Team also posted what they claim to be confidential employee questionnaires [PDF].
On their own Telegram channel, the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance said they also stole "all the source code" before destroying everything. "The network went down so thoroughly that the doors in the building were blocked," the pro-Ukraine crew wrote, per Google translate. "To open them, the administration had to turn on the fire alarm. Most likely, the defense order is on the verge of failure, and thousands of drones will not get to the front in the near future."
The military intelligence agency, working alongside the attackers, "carried out large-scale work to capture the entire network and server infrastructure of Gaskar Group, collect valuable information about the UAVs being produced and prospective, and then destroy the information and disable this infrastructure," the Telegram post continued. This reportedly included 47TB of technical information about the production of Russian drones, and BO Team claims to have destroyed all of the information on Gaskar's servers, including 10TB of backup files. "By the way, from the information we received, China is providing assistance in the production and training of specialists of Gaskar Group," the hackers added via Telegram. BO Team also posted what they claim to be confidential employee questionnaires [PDF].
On their own Telegram channel, the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance said they also stole "all the source code" before destroying everything. "The network went down so thoroughly that the doors in the building were blocked," the pro-Ukraine crew wrote, per Google translate. "To open them, the administration had to turn on the fire alarm. Most likely, the defense order is on the verge of failure, and thousands of drones will not get to the front in the near future."
Bottle receivers... (Score:5, Interesting)
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Also cute to say "denazification" since that is one of the potpourri of justifications the Kremlin has used for the war.
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It was a bizarely hypocritical claim from the Kremlin since their previouslty favorite mercenary group was literally run by a neo-nazi. And pretty much any military anywhere in the world is going to have members of pretty much any political affiliation you could imagine, so yeah, that was a stupid accusation.
Azov Brigade (Score:5, Interesting)
Yeah, let's give "removing Nazis" as the reason to invade a country that just elected a Jewish president, while having the Wagner group(named after Hitler's favorite composer) play a leading role in the operation.
The Azov Brigade/Regiment, based in Mariupol, was indeed a far-right group, nationalist, that seemed to like Nazi symbology. To be fair, liking Nazi symbols isn't unusual, the Nazis themselves stole most of them because they looked cool.
Seemed to substitute hating Russians for hating jews. To be fair, Russians actually pulled a lot of shit with Ukraine and the region (See Holodomor, and more)
Anyways, Ukraine was presented with a dilemma with their politics being problematic but being a dedicated fighting force in a time when Ukraine needed just that. Reading between the lines they came up with a very interesting and useful solution for it.
They integrated the Brigade, and promoted it to being a Regiment.
By being made officially part of the government, Azov obviously got a lot more support - resources, manpower, and such. But by being part of the government, they had to accept government rules for things like recruitment. Even the wiki notes this: [wikipedia.org] observers noted a government strategy of integrating far-right militias into the regular military while attempting to limit ideological influence.
And Ukraine promptly expanded it from a few hundred to a couple thousand. Which with the new rules on joining, meant that a lot of non-hardline right wingers joined up, diluting the hard-right nature of the Brigade way down in the new Regiment.
As in, Ukraine through a "absorb and dilute" strategy had taken care of the problem already when Russia invaded.
And the Azov proceeded to sell themselves incredibly dearly in fighting against the Russians, leading to memes similar to the Spartan 300. There aren't many of the hardliners left, they died fighting against their favored enemy. Fairly gloriously, I'd argue.
Meanwhile, The Wagner group ended up revolting against Russia and Putin. Oops.
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the Wagner group(named after Hitler's favorite composer)
Wagner was a raging anti-jew. He wrote pages and pages about why he hated Jewish music (mostly because Mendelssohn was better than him).
Re:Azov Brigade (Score:5, Interesting)
I already addressed the Nazi symbology:
The Azov Brigade/Regiment, based in Mariupol, was indeed a far-right group, nationalist, that seemed to like Nazi symbology. To be fair, liking Nazi symbols isn't unusual, the Nazis themselves stole most of them because they looked cool.
For example, take the picture, which your video isn't actually a video of the patch, but a talk radio guy talking about the patch.
The Totenkopf actually predates the Nazis almost as much as the swastika does.
I mean, remember the skull and crossbones of Pirate fame?
Hussars were running around with it in the 1700s.
It's cool.
Obviously, they aren't very Nazi-like if Zelensky feels safe hanging around with them as bodyguards.
As for Wagnar: The difference here is that The Wagner group was named that by Prigozhin because he admired Hitler, but obviously couldn't name his mercenary group the "Hitler Group" so kind of like how 88 is special to neo-nazis, he went with Wagner.
It's the difference between naming your sports team the "German Shepards" because you like the breed and because Hitler owned a bunch.
And the wagner group didn't get folded into the military until AFTER the little revolt by its leader. Who everybody figures Putin had killed.
In either case, like I said, Ukraine had the group under control and was busily, if quietly and gradually, de-naziing them. Russia didn't need to invade.
Holodomor is a fairy tale for capitalist children you should have outgrown before Santa.
Ah, here we go, Genocide denial. [wikipedia.org]
And you can't even keep your arguments focused. I listed it as a reason why Ukrainians might hate Russians. It isn't a reason for me to hate Russians, but I recognize that it might be a bit more personal to them. Why the heck would the Ukrainians care about a famine in a different country half a century earlier? It was their own people that starved because of the Russians.
1M Irish is a bit less than the 3.5-5M Ukrainions estimated to have starved to death during the Holodomor famine. 1932-1933 is a lot more recent than the Irish potato famine of 1845-1852.
While still exporting food is a problem, at least there was actually crop failures for the potato famine, while Holodomor was deliberate government action.
Basically, you're engaging in Whataboutism.
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100% nonsense from you Russian propagandists.
Ukraine was moving towards Europe. Trying to rid itself of Russian corruption and influence.
Russia invaded to stop it
And it's now dragged on for a decade and turned into a full on war.
No need to pretend. Russia is bad. Always has been. No country wants to be near them by choice. Their despised by all their neighbors for good reason. Countries can't wait to join alliances to protect themselves from Russia.
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When Russia invades and takes over Crimea and no one does anything, it makes a lot of sense that Ukraine would try to become friendly with the EU and the USA. If Trump wasn't a puppet for Putin, including cutting off supplies of military supplies prior to Russia invading Ukraine, then Russia wouldn't have felt emboldened enough to invade.
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But that all got memory holed to pretend Russia bad, by the same western media that was awash in reports on Ukraine's Nazi problem.
Russia is a sovereign nation. Ukraine is a sovereign nation. What possible reason would Russia have to invade Ukraine? I generally think that the entity which strike first and invades another nation's territories has more explaining to do than the entity which did not attack and invade.
It was a lot of words about Ukraine's Nazi problem without dealing with the fact they have a real Nazi problem.
If Russia invaded because they think the Ukrainian government was mistreating their own people, then why not invasions all over the world, including the USA and North Korea? Why not fix how they treat their own population before invading another country to tell them how to treat their population?
Your implication that Russia isn't bad does not hold up to any sort of scrutiny.
the British killed 165 million Indians in 40 years but again you don't hate them
Speak for yourself moron. The Crown is still hated by millions, if not billions. The entire royal family should get the French treatment.
Re:Azov Brigade (Score:5, Interesting)
I think it says something that despite the US invasion of Afghanistan, all the destruction and death of that, by reports most Afghanis still hate Russians more.
The US is "the assholes who don't understand us." Russia is "those fuckers"
If Russia invaded because they think the Ukrainian government was mistreating their own people, then why not invasions all over the world, including the USA and North Korea? Why not fix how they treat their own population before invading another country to tell them how to treat their population?
Don't forget that one of the first actions after the failed lightening strike was to conscript pretty much every man they could out of the Donbass region (where the mistreatment was supposedly occurring) and send them to the front lines to largely get killed.
If Ukraine had been mistreating them at anything near that level, the region would have been depopulated long ago. Russia managed to kill more in the area in a year or so than Ukraine would have managed with its supposed "mistreatment" in centuries.
Re:Azov Brigade (Score:4)
Restoring relations with Russia was Petro Poroshenko's platform, the incumbent that Zelensky beat.
That said, as a powerful neighbor, militarily and economically, good relations with Russia is a good thing, remember?
The invasion was triggered by Zelensky getting too close to the west.
If he was so for Russia, why would Russia need to invade?
The patch is in the video.
Yes, a blurry version of it that we can't see the details of, such as his blown up version that doesn't necessarily contain the stuff he said.
Besides, I already acknowledge the Nazi link, while pointing out that the Totenkopf has an extensive non-nazi history in the area
If that's all you have to go on, it's not much.
It'd be like insisting the Nazis were nice people because they used the Swastika as a symbol, because it was traditionally a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
And Saddam threw babies out of incubators. Bad western propaganda is bad.
You know that comparing him to Saddam isn't doing you any favors, right? Saddam is widely held as evil in the West, right along with Hitler, Stalin, and such.
Snort. Yeah, because rewarding and promoting them is bringing them "under control". The Feds broke the Klan in the US, they didn't nominate their leaders to positions of power.
The Klan were already in positions of power. My understanding is that while heavily right-wing and nationalist, Ukraine felt they could be contained and channeled. It's a different strategy, but it seemed to be working.
FTFY. Famines happened on the regular under the Tsars but you DGAF about that because you weren't propagandized from childhood to hate it.
Well, if you're going to admit to being gullible, I'm not going to argue with you about that.
Again, why would I care about the Tsars? They're gone. Who are you going to pull out next, the Mongols under Ghengis Khan? This is what I mean about "whataboutism" - You keep pulling up other examples of bad things, as though that excuses Russia's actions.
Was England (and most of Europe) evil during colonialism? Yes. On the other hand, given that the 40 year period you mention ended in 1920, IE "over a century ago", that means that everybody responsible for that tragedy is already long dead.
That said, if India still had a policy of hostility against England for it, I'd completely understand, I might even bring it up as an example.
But England isn't the topic here - Ukraine and Russia are, because Russia is actively invading the Ukraine.
Heck, after Maripul, if it was really about Azov, Russia could have declared it "mission accomplished" and gone home. Instead, Putin's terms of surrender are basically "Ukraine becomes Russian again." It's blatantly obvious what his goals are, and it isn't "denazification." That's just one of a long line of excuses used to obfuscate the goal, and only the gullible (which you admitted being) believe it.
Assasination threat? (Score:5, Informative)
I went ahead and looked, but could not find any credible evidence of anybody associated with Azov threatening to assassinate Zelensky, who ran more on normalizing and expanding relations with the west, while relations with Russia was more a thing for his political opponent.
IE Zelensky was the more "anti-Russia" candidate available. Even then, of course, he didn't run on having any hostilities with Russia. That's a bit like a Mexican or Canadian politician running on being hostile with the USA.
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Given the trajectory of the current u.s. administration, that's a distinct possibility.
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Holodomor is a fairy tale for capitalist children you should have outgrown before Santa
I must have missed that bit in "The wealth of nations". History doesn't just not exist because you agree with the politics of the perpetrators.
Anyway, maybe try deproramming yourself and not hating people based on lists? Not everyone has to blindly hate people from a country because their leader is bad.
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I wasn't raised to despise "the Soviets", not as individual people. I didn't even know about Holodomor until relatively recently.
I wasn't even raised to despise the Germans, even though the attitude of my grandmother was "the only good German is a dead German". American History wasn't really covered much anyway, and for done inexplicable reason British history sorry of skipped from Henry VIII to world war 2. Can't imagine way. Can't say the British have a great reputation during them empire days but then a
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Pro tip: don't take any information from Jimmy Dore, you're already in a bad spot my friend.
I notice you didn't say Trump's secret service. Why does Pete Hegseth have "deus vult" tattoo?
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Holodomor is a fairy tale for capitalist children you should have outgrown before Santa.
Interesting. So you are saying millions of people in Ukraine did not die in 1932-1933? It seems impossible that a lie of such magnitude would go unquestioned until now. A million+ people dying is hard to fake. Or are you saying they died for other reasons? I heard they starved to death... which is very weird for such a fertile region. Were there plagues of locusts?
I dunno man, you sound weird. I feel far more certain that millions died of starvation due to government intervention than whatever it is that yo
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You think... people have an allotted number of posts they can make on slashdot?
Ummm, not to rain on your parade, but there is an allotted number of posts. You can only make 40 posts in a 4 hour period.
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The words do not mean here anything, what means is what those people do. In this context, for example, "Azov" did a lot of good in protecting the freedom of Ukraine. "Wagner" did a lot of bad by killing a lot of Syrians, Ukrainians, and even russians. There are no literal "Evil" and "Good", but I can c
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Re:Bottle receivers... (Score:5, Insightful)
Ukraine's far-right unified in the last election under the Svoboda party. They won 2,16% of the vote [wikipedia.org], putting Ukraine the weakest electoral performance by the far right [lemde.fr] in all of Europe.
Re:Bottle receivers... (Score:5, Insightful)
From the Wikipedia article on Utkin:
And why stop at Wagner? Let's take another example: Rusych. They have been heavily used since 2014, and their leader - the infamous puppy-eater Alexey Milchakov - is a proud and unabashed Nazi, who openly marches with a Nazi flag and openly declares himself to be a Nazi in interviews, and nonetheless, has received awards from multiple high-ranking Russian government officials for his brigade's successes in Ukraine.
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Wagner was hItLerS faVoRitE coMPoseR.
He wasn't. Hitler liked Beethoven. Wagner was just the German nationalist composer (whereas Beethoven was Flemish, a fact conveniently ignored).
Dmitry Utkin admired Nazi Germany and that's why he used the name "Wagner."
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That's the Godwin point for you.
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This references the tradition of russian police to sit people they do not like on empty bottles to make them uncomfortable.
That is *so* much better than where I thought you were going. Apologies to Russian police.
All your base^H^H^H^Hdrones ... (Score:2)
... are belong to us
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Somebody set up us the bomb.
Uh oh (Score:3, Informative)
Sounds like we should expect news about yet another senior Russian official "committing suicide" soon... or accidentally falling out a window.
Cyber warfare (Score:3)
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if the destruction is what they claim to be, that is. so they pwn a drone factory, acces 47tb of data, including sensible communications, steal "all the source" and all they show is a couple of totally uninteresting job application forms from 2023 that don't even have the company name on them? mkay ...
i guess cyberwar operations are indeed at play, but both sides will want to be very discreet and we don't get to know about them. this is probably just a group bragging for lulz, or propaganda, or both.
Re:Cyber warfare (Score:5, Interesting)
The West should be providing them with help here. Instead of just trashing all the computers at the factory, they could have introduced subtle errors into the drone's flight control systems, damaged the batteries, made them randomly explode when turned on. More like what was done to Iran's centrifuges.
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Better to nuke from orbit than to risk some clever scheme that could be detected and countered
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It's harder to engage in real cyberwarfare when each country's infrastructure wouldn't look that out of place in the previous world war. I suspect the discussion would be very different if it were e.g. America / Europe engaged. The scope to royally screw things up is much larger there. You think Putin launching some missiles at a few substations is bad, imagine the damage you could do with remote access to a high tech centrally operated electricity grid.
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I have worked on airgapped systems, this is annoying, and generally only done in a classified environment.
Almost all desktop OSes, development environments, etc... expect an internet connection nowadays. For updates, package management, etc... It includes security software. Some systems work well with local mirrors, others, not so much. You can't even do things as simple as an web search. And no remote work, obviously.
Usually, on the side, you have a second computer that is connected to the internet and use
Would secret sabotage be better? (Score:2, Insightful)
Imagine if instead of doing something so noticeable, you secretly modified the drone firmware etc so that they do stuff like malfunction or blow up on launch if it's X days after the manufacture date or after a particular date, whichever is later.
That way the Russians might not know better and ship out pwned drones to their frontlines.
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Right, clandestine sabotage would have been far better: explode N seconds after launch, or explode N seconds after its neighbor launches, or just brick itself.
That would be the difference between a group looking for fame, and a group looking for results.
I'm inclined to think the hackers are using the word "destroyed" in the contemporary, overblown 1337 sense, and that no actual damage was caused. But I hope the retrieved records prove useful in future counter-ops.
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Even better: when launch is initiated, disarm weapons, disable remote command, and land gently at intended target, so as to provide materiel to the Ukranians.
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Actual damage? (Score:2)
It's one thing to delete a bunch of technical information that, if the organization is half-competent has an off-site backup. It's another thing entirely to get into the actual machines and put them in a state outside the normal envelope of operation to cause physical damage, such as with Stuxnet.
This event sounds more like the former, and less like the latter. Unless, of course, triggering the fire alarms engaged sprinkler systems and flooded the place. That might have caused some physical damage.
The bi
Drone manufacturer website (Score:2)
In case you're curious: https://gaskar.group/en/drones [gaskar.group]
These drones are used for reconnaissance and surveillance.
Backups? (Score:2)
I'm curious if they had backups or if they were able to corrupt and destroy the backups too.
Backups? (Score:3)
Am I the only person on Slashdot who knows what backups, disaster recovery, colocation, real time replication, and business continuity are? Just wondering. It should take them what, better part of a week, to get back to full production.
Re:Calling it "denazification" makes no sense (Score:5, Insightful)
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Did Ukraine invade russia to stop russians from using their language?
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Did Ukraine invade Russia??? I see no evidence of that.
Putin believes that Ukraine is "Russian" territory, that it always has been. So modern Ukrainians that want to integrate with the west, rather than Moscow, are in Putin's eyes, rebels trying to secede from "Russia", hostile forces on "Russian" soil, "invaders" of a sort.
Recently a part of the Soviet empire, a part of the Czarist empire before that, etc. He's just trying to reestablish the empire that is the "natural" way of things in his mind.
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... Pro-Russian people (MAGA's) ....
Wow, you are such an idiot. That is about as accurate as Putin's nazi claims. Could he find a Neo nazi in Ukraine? Sure. Could we find a pro-Riussian in the US? Sure. Both are extremely rare outliers. Even among MAGA. Believing otherwise is just propaganda. Some people like such propaganda, it's so much easier to demonize and dismiss a political opponent than to come up with rational arguments against.
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It does seem like Trump is turning a corner now. But many lives have already been lost and it's confusing and threatening that Trump has acted this way.
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The problem is the man of MAGA himself has made so many pro-putin and pro-russia statements.
One, that is an exaggeration. Two, that is a negotiating style. Yes, the orange dude likes to talk friendly, butter up the other side in a negotiation. Yes he avoided calling Putin a dictator, Russia the invader, etc ... as he was truing to get Putin to the negotiating table. Simultaneously name calling someone, no matter how accurate, and wanting them to show up for negotiations might not be the best combination.
Regarding Pro-Russian.
Who was the first President to authorize lethal aid for Ukraine, ie t
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Pro-Russian people (MAGA's) insist that Ukraine invaded Russia somehow.
MAGAs started opposing Ukraine because they wanted Biden to look bad. It's definitely a case of motivated reasoning (to the extent that there is any logic at all).
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The USSR fought the Nazis to the last Ukrainian.
The highest price in that war was paid by Ukrainians and Belarusians.
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I think Russia started the Nazi talk and Ukraine is bouncing it back at them - because as you said it's the biggest insult they could hurl at each other. They are justly proud of the high price paid to defeat Hitler. But it also turns into propaganda.
It's also straight from the far-right playbook going back beyond when Hitler was a lad.
Poisoning the well. Accuse the other side of doing what you're doing (or being what you're being) so that when you do it, it's less of a shock and you can claim it's just in self defence. It also tends to take the sting out of the other side pointing out that you're actually the Nazi like ones.
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In fact one of their justifications for invading Ukraine was "denazification".
So you're a Putin-Dicksucking little bitch who's too fucking stupid to understand that Putin the Nazi Shitbag's "denazification" claims were a smokescreen. Fucking kill yourself you disgusting Putin-Dicksucking Genocidal Little Nazi Bitch.
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Hitler wasn't exactly a fan of any Slavic people so pretty much all of Eastern Europe is fiercely anti-Nazi if that's what we are calling Russia still, including Ukraine who lost like 8 million themselves in WWII.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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Every nation has it's problematic fascists sometimes. Ukrainians get Bandera and the USA get Stephen Miller, what a world eh?
Turns out too much nationalism is a bad thing usually.
Russia partnered with Hitler and started WW2 (Score:2)
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Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (Score:2)
Time to open some ww2 history books on, say, Croatia and Ukraine...
How about reading up on the secret portion of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact [wikipedia.org] where Stalin and Hitler agreed to split up Eastern Europe into Nazi and Communist spheres of influence. The jointly invaded Poland, starting WW2. Germany first, followed soon by Russia pretending to come to Poland's defense. Oddly they only killed Poles, not Germans, until much later when Germany violated the Pact first and invaded Russia.
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I live in Eastern Europe and all the old people I talked with and lived in that times, they agree Russian occupation was much worse than Nazi occupation.
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I guess it depends on who you were. If you were Jewish, the Nazi occupation was definitely worse. Stalin was more of an equal-opportunity atrocity-committer.
It is kind of darkly funny how similarly Hitler and Stalin thought, though. For example, Hitler cited positively the Holodomor and the collectivization of Ukraine, and planned to use the Holodomor as a role model for resource extraction during scarcity, and to maintain the collectivization of Ukrainians set in place by the Soviets. He likewise viewed Uk
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Russian/Soviets murdered many millions too (Score:2)
Hitler wasn't exactly a fan of any Slavic people so pretty much all of Eastern Europe is fiercely anti-Nazi if that's what we are calling Russia still, including Ukraine who lost like 8 million themselves in WWII.
And before WW2 the "Russians" (Soviets actually but they were basically Russian led) killed anywhere between 4 and 10 million Ukrainians depending on the estimates used. Either way, there was quite a bit of hatred towards the Russians/Soviets over this. Later Nazi atrocities put this hatred on hold, and Ukraine became a significant part of the WW2 Soviet force, but Ukraine never forgot the Russian/Soviet mass murders.
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Stalin was perfectly happy to ally with Hitler for the conquest of eastern Europe. The USSR only turned "anti-Nazi", not for ideological reasons, but because the Nazis betrayed them. Today in Russia, "Nazi" is used as a general insult for any external perceived enemy of the state, with any actual connection to Nazism not being at all required. Yet actual support for the actual principles of fascism within Russia is well tolerated. For example, Putin's good friend Dmitri Rogozin, now governor of occupied
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Yes, the Russians are anti-Nazi which is why calling them is that is such an insult. Of course, the fact that Putin is a classic fascist makes it hit even harder, since it is almost true.
It's more recent history. They have an even bigger dislike of the Nazis (I mean the actual ones, they seem to be fine with the concepts and tenets of fascism) because of the Great Patriotic War (WWII) is such a huge and well respected symbol in living Russian Memory, even more so than the earlier revolutions against the Imperialists. As the enemy of the Great Patriotic War were the Nazis, Nazi is a particularly bad insult. Putin calling Ukraine "Nazis" is more for the benefit of controlling Russia than infl
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Yes, the Russians are anti-Nazi which is why calling them is that is such an insult. Of course, the fact that Putin is a classic fascist makes it hit even harder, since it is almost true.
This falls into the game of "If I say that I'm X does that really mean I'm X, or does it mean I'm just using the name."
The National Socialist Workers Party was neither Socialist nor pro-worker. I would also hesitate to call the Democratic People's Republic of Korea either Democratic or a Republic. All of it is just performative crap designed to be public justification in a broad sense, but even the public knows that it is crap.
Putin and the Russian government just bleated about Nazis to make it more
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WHAT is right there on video? That is NOT one of Zelensky's bodyguards. That's a random soldier from the 25th Separate Secheslav Airborne Brigade, which recaptured Izyum, during Zelensky's visit to celebrate the victory. Do you think bodyguards spend all their time taking selfies with the person they're protecting? Grow some common sense circuits in your brain. And it's not like Zelensky was handing the man an award with the patch prominently featured in front of the camera while he received it [romea.cz] or anyt
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What, you mean like the Russian governor of occupied Donetsk outright giving an award [romea.cz] to a guy with a Totenkopf patch? Or all of the numerous Russian officials who have praised or given awards to the puppy-eating, unabashed Nazi, Milchakov [google.is]?
Also, contrary to the misinfo sites you read, that was not a photo of "one of Zelensky's bodyguards". That was from his visit to Izyum where he was posing with random soldiers from the 25th Separate Secheslav Airborne Brigade to celebrate the retaking of the city from th
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"saying police broke the law makes no sense. They enforce the law, so they can't possibly have ever broken a law".
Are you sure you don't want to maybe think about this idea a bit...?
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Maybe Russians aren't Nazi, but they definitely are fascist. And "denazification" wasn't a justification for invading Ukraine, it was a pretense.
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Calling it "denazification" makes no sense. The Russians are fiercely anti-Nazi.
So they say, but how do they (Putin, Stalin) act?
WW2 started with Stalin partnering with Hitler to invade Poland. They had a secret treaty to split up Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe into Nazi and Communist zones of influence. Hitler happened to break this secret treaty and invade the other first.
In fact one of their justifications for invading Ukraine was "denazification".
Have you considered that they might have lied? Like Hitler and Stalin at the beginning of WW2?
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Calling it "denazification" makes no sense. The Russians are fiercely anti-Nazi.
Is that why the former deputy prime minister of Russia Dmitry Rogozin is on video doing Hitler salutes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Who can forget the fine people of Rusich and Wagner?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Or my personal favorite a lynch mob of hundreds in a Dagestan airport looking for Jews to kill.
https://www.theguardian.com/wo... [theguardian.com]
"Ukraine's Nazi problem is real, even if Putin's 'denazification' claim isn't"
In the latest round of parliamentary elections in 2019 the far right won a whopping 2% of the vote. I think they even managed win a single seat.
Meanwhile here in
Orcs.... (Score:2)
I liked it better when the Ukrainians referred to the Russian invaders as Orcs...
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Wonder how possible it would be to hack the drones to turn against them. I know that both sides like to keep their best drone pilots back from the front line and use a link to the actual drone deployment point. Imagine if they could turn around 500 or 1000 drones to attack the owners all at once.
The current state of the art drones in the ware are using a trailing fiber optic link with direct control (so limited ability to remotely hack the drones).
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Why couldn't they use radio to a base station where the cable is?
In fact the necessity of running a cable from a base station to a drone makes it seem to mean repeater would be even more important.
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They use so many western chips, if we knew what the programming was, and actually cared to, we could contaminate the smuggling routes with compromised chips to do exactly that.
Heck, we could probably do it with rough guess work if we actually cared. For GPS receivers it's obvious how to manipulate them, but even in CPUs, if you see e.g.: two floating point registers with values that look reasonable for latitude/longitude coordinates in a non-occupied part of Ukraine, and another two registers that look reas
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Really, computer chips are the *hardest* thing we could compromise. It's way easier to e.g. compromise mechanical or electrical parts so that they fail under stress.