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Spans down on road section of the Kerch bridge.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What I can't believe is that there are actually people in Russia that think that Crimea is the vacation spot they want to go to right now.

There were even traffic jams on the Russian side a while back.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

It's not really surprising. One of the trends consistent for how many centuries is a combination of three things: IDGAF\fatalism attitude or похуй, strong belief in randomness of most things you'd think are pretty clear cause and effect or авось, isolationism\egocentrism\self-distancing from everything not directly concerning their daily life.

Not caring much for it's out of their power + chances are it won't happen so no need to think of it's consequencies + and if it'd happen why would it necessary happen to Them of all people?

It's mentality of people who have never got free from serfdom, but adapted to it's rules. With how corrupted were tsarist regime and then soviet union, that's how laws are usually applied: their harshness is compensated by how rarely they are followed through (waa it coined by Dostoevsky?), and it's not a responsibility but bad luck to be caught. This logic gets so ingrained the life itself is seen through this lense. My fellow russians and ukrainians I know call people with this mindset 'совок', sovokh, a short and humiliating word for soviet sympathisers, also meaning 'shovel' in both languages – that equals 'tаnкiе' but for those living in ex-ussr.

It was documented by many writers and philosophers of the past, and actually became a point of national pride, the unique way things are done there. You are kind of seeing that with everything surrounding current events. The conflict itself couldn't happen like that if government hasn't found the key to support and abuse this line of thought, but it's also why it has these performance and choice of tactics.

I shit on people who talks about a slave gene in ex-soviet people as it sound like some nazi bullshit, but social traditions and material conditions do form this very mentality. Being determines consciousness. And also causes meme absurdities like vacationing three steps from the frontline.

Sorry for being that verbose. All pieces fell into places for me while I was writing this comment. It's rare for a comment to trigger me into reflecting on information and thinking about it for this long, so kudos to you for bringing not only a laughter, but also some food for thoughts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

crimea was (well connected) tourist paradise in soviet times, actually all of black sea coast, but crimea specifically. it probably still rides on that reputation

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

New explosion or the pillars giving up?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There were a lot of explosions reported in crimea during the last night.

This doesn't look like the last time the bridge got damaged though. The rail isn't bend outward.

There were pictures of the pillars showing cracks. Just wierd that they would give up right when ukriane strikes a lot of targets in the hinterland.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

both ru and ua tell about 2 explosive boats as a cause

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Serves them right to lose their shitty bridge. They should fuck off from Ukraine! Slava Ukraini!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

To shreds you say?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does anyone know how I can get Britney out of my head?

...it's OPs fault.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

How about some Dance Music?

Kerch Bridge on Fire, your defence is terrified!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqKe_T3gbVo

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Lol it's funnier the second time!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, I thought that bridge got destroyed last year or something?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They finished the repair on the Kerch bridge a few month ago.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I see...

And now... it's down again!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Kerch Bridge is falling down,
Falling down, falling down,
Kerch Bridge is falling down,
Slava Ukraini

Occupiers should get the hell outta town
Outta town, outta town,
Occupiers should get the hell outta town
or they'll be fini

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

but only half, and road part only. dropping rail link would be much more valuable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but think about how many ruzzian summer vacations just got ruined.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

won't somebody think of the occupiers 😭😭

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

IIRC, the rail section was never destroyed, but it was sufficiently weakened they can't run heavy trains over it. Not sure if that is still the case or not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

at any rate ukrainian intelligence will know if heavy equipment goes through kerch bridge from satellite photos and other sources

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

they got lots of time to repair it, i'd guess it can take heavy trains now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Nothing a little Russian elbow grease can't fix

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Yeah, In russia that’s very typical, I’d like to make that point.

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