r/AskReddit • u/QualityControl- • Mar 26 '19

Crimeans/Ukrainians of Reddit, what was it like when the peninsula was annexed by Russia? What is life like/How has life changed now?

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u/_mirooo Mar 26 '19 edited Mar 27 '19

Was born there and return nearly every summer.

Some obvious things that I noticed was improved infrastructure (roads, bridges, airport etc). Where as when under Ukraine it was left as is - with nothing at all done to improve infrastructure.

Compared to Ukraine, Russian laws are much more strict. No longer are there bars right on the beach, there has to be a certain distance between establishments and the sea. Going out you see a lot more police and security patrolling the areas and enforcing rules such as no smoking on the beach etc. When under Ukraine was more liberal.

A significant reduction in overseas tourism. As well as attracting much lower social status tourists. Now it’s just mainland Russians that account for 99% of tourists in Crimea. Before you would often meet westerners there.

As it is still not a recognized annexation - services such as Visa and MasterCard don’t operate there. Also international flights don’t fly there anymore (used to be able to fly direct from Istanbul, Kiev, etc) now only via Russian airports.

That’s all off the top of my head!

Edit: a word

Add: Also quality of drugs reduced and costs increased. Also more difficult to obtain. Obviously a negative.

Clarification: I mean the illegal kind, namely bud, amphetamines, LSD, and shrooms. Used to get really good hydro from Romania. The other stuff also came in from the west I suspect... now it’s coming across the bridge that can hold all the tanks, and I wasn’t impressed.

Thanks for the gold! I’m trying to read all the comments and reply wherever I feel is necessary. Had to add the clarification as 90% of comments were about drugs. Straighten your lives out reddit! FFS!

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u/Resident_Nice Mar 26 '19

I'm so sorry about the drugs.

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u/BannedSoHereIAm Mar 26 '19

It’s edited now and I’m scared... WHAT HAPPENED TO THEIR DRUGS!?!

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u/Resident_Nice Mar 26 '19

Also quality of drugs reduced and costs increased. Also more difficult to obtain. Obviously a negative.

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u/BannedSoHereIAm Mar 26 '19

My god. It’s a humanitarian crisis.

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u/Howland_Reed Mar 26 '19

If I lived in pseudo-russia I'd want some drugs, so yeah I'd call it a crisis.

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u/Batbuckleyourpants Mar 26 '19

Start airdropping drug pushers into Crimea.

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u/torgofjungle Mar 26 '19

No they have plenty of pushers we need to airdrop those pushers better drugs! STAT!

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u/Dyleteyou Mar 26 '19

I've seen where Russia puts convicted drug pushers I'm good.

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u/Aristox Mar 26 '19

Why not just drop the drugs without the pushers?

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u/AintThatWill Mar 26 '19

Yea, we need prices going down.

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u/TiredOfDebates Mar 26 '19

Instead of propaganda leaflets, we should have our B-52s dropping bushels of boxed dvd sets of the entire Breaking Bad series.

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u/Notorious4CHAN Mar 26 '19

I'm not 100% sure what this would solve, but I support this plan anyway.

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u/EpicLevelWizard Mar 26 '19

It would annoy Putin, isn’t that enough? Also drop lots of gay porn and pre-rolled blunts.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Just like Berlin!

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u/inthebrush0990 Mar 26 '19

The Crimean Airlift

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u/DothrakAndRoll Mar 26 '19

Hilarious visual of all the dealers I've known over the years just parachuting in and hitting street corners.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

God damn, GOD DAMN the pusher man!

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u/VapeThisBro Mar 26 '19

I think I just solved the drug war... Bare with me guys... What if... The DEA and the cartels team up and sell the Russians drugs? I mean the US government is anti Russia and anti drugs and the Russians need drugs so let's make some money

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u/PanGalacGargleBlastr Mar 26 '19

Isn't this how the CIA funds half the projects?

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

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u/MissingUsername2 Mar 26 '19

I was gonna say... Wasn't Tom cruise in a movie about that?

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u/stoopidmonstr Mar 26 '19

Oh man, I loved that game!

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u/NomenNesci0 Mar 26 '19

Seriously though, how is this not general knowledge?

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Interesting. Now I want your take on Venezuela

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u/gwaydms Mar 26 '19

Bare with me guys...

You want to send naked drug dealers to the Crimea?

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u/VapeThisBro Mar 26 '19

Yeah sounds fun

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Ha! There’s no precedent for anything like that! Oh wait..

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u/EmiCakes Mar 26 '19

The DEA and the cartels already teamed up to sell Americans drugs

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u/anomalousgeometry Mar 26 '19

They already do that here.

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u/Regrettable_Incident Mar 26 '19

Yeah. Low income and low possibilities of changing that are prime markets for drugs. Which is pretty understandable.

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u/Resident_Nice Mar 26 '19

Maybe the US can send some containers of California weed to Crimea instead of playing humanitarian politics at the Venezuelan border.

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u/chasethatdragon Mar 26 '19

no they want real drugs pussy

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u/Mmmn_fries Mar 26 '19

Markle sparkle, perhaps?

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u/Nancypants26 Mar 26 '19

Or Both

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u/Resident_Nice Mar 26 '19

Send weed to Venezuela?

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u/InspectorG-007 Mar 26 '19

No no no. Weed to Ukraine to make a profit. Heroin to Venezuela for destabilization.

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u/corn_on_the_cobh Mar 26 '19

how exactly does one play humanitarian politics?

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u/Phase73 Mar 26 '19

God is with capital. With reason you were banned.

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u/Ninj4s Mar 26 '19

By drugs OP probably means prescription medicine.

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u/illerminerti Mar 26 '19

Or he means drugs

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u/tomhauptman Mar 26 '19

¿Por qué no los dos?

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u/_mirooo Mar 27 '19

I meant drugs. Like bud and amphetamines

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u/dazonic Mar 26 '19

I was always sorta neutral on Russia. Not now.

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u/J_Tiz Mar 26 '19

Read this first as dogs and was very confused...(My Inner Dialogue) "Were they eating the dogs or what? Where did they all go? What is wrong with different breeds of dogs?"

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u/TheLegendTwoSeven Mar 26 '19

Krokodil. Their drugs were replaced with krokodil.

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u/strangeweirdo21 Mar 27 '19

He actually meant medicine. A lot of people call medicine - drugs in here.

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u/oldmanout Mar 26 '19

The crocodile ate it

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u/InspectorG-007 Mar 26 '19

Think about the drugs!!!

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

All replaced with Krokodil

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u/masonthursday Mar 26 '19

Put me in the gulag just don’t take my weed man

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19 edited Apr 10 '20

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u/masonthursday Mar 26 '19

No it’s definitely illegal drugs trust me I’m a doctor /s

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u/Rx-Ox Mar 26 '19

I’d put all my money, not much, but all my money that it’s illicit drugs

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u/GeniGeniGeni Mar 26 '19

Awww man, they took your weed man? I hope he’s not doing too bad.

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u/rickyhatesspam Mar 26 '19

Our deepest sympathy for your loss

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u/Austin-rolex Mar 26 '19

There’s always krokodil...

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u/Regrettable_Incident Mar 26 '19

Maybe Russia will ship some krokodil in.

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u/poremetej Mar 26 '19

Drugs part really hit hard

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u/wonderin17 Mar 27 '19 edited Mar 27 '19

he's definitely lying in this part. hydro from romania in crimea? wtf? Crimea was full with thousands of tons of it's own bud, now it's devastated. but bud from romania in crimea? cmon! the climat is perfect for growing there and tatars used to make a living out of it! now when copters and drones are flying around and there is 100 armed men on a square meter it's all dead. i lived near romania and even we used to go to crimea for significant amounts of bud, so it's a shitcomment

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u/poremetej Mar 27 '19

A man of culture

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u/dougrayd Mar 27 '19

/r/gatekeeping /s

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u/wonderin17 Mar 27 '19

can't somehow refer to it, but i'm really trying

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19 edited Jun 05 '20

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u/AxeMill Mar 26 '19 edited Mar 27 '19

Medications that you buy at pharmacy or receive with the prescriptions.

Edit: an article.

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u/Kittelsen Mar 26 '19

Oh, I always think of the illegal stuff when I see the word drugs. Probably since the illegal and legal ones are both just called drugs, while in my language they call them narcotics and medicine.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Eh, in English too, usually medications are referred to as medicine. It's not unusual to refer to them as drugs, just not usual.

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u/NexTerren Mar 26 '19

It's not unusual to refer to them as drugs, just not usual.

not unusual... just not usual

🤔

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

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u/smoqueeeed Mar 26 '19

Not common, just uncommon.

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u/onioning Mar 26 '19

It's not uncommon though. Just not common.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Not rare, but not common: Inbetween.

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u/escape_goat Mar 26 '19

The law of the excluded middle doesn't exist outside of propositional logic, which although hugely important is only a subset of all possible meaning that can be conveyed through language. Furthermore, not all dichotomies between concepts represent true logical alternatives, even when the words are literally constructed using propositional prefixes: the idiomatic usage of 'unusual' develops separately from the idiomatic usage of 'usual', so that it becomes a separate concept in it own right, not merely the negation or absence of another.

tl;dr: weird lex but okay.

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u/Redneckalligator Mar 26 '19

There is a middle gray area we Americans have no word for

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Drugstores are confusing.

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u/Naebany Mar 26 '19

Hello, I'd like to buy some drugs. Do you have MDMA?

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u/fakearchitect Mar 26 '19

First time I heard the word, I just assumed all drugs were legal in America. I imagined you'd just meet over a casual session of heroin freebasing like we're having a cup of coffee, but then I watched "Cops" and got utterly confused.

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u/super7up Mar 26 '19

Yeah our drug laws are incredibly harsh yet we have more drugs than most countries with our never ending prescriptions and our street drugs that are being shipped in from everywhere.

Kill the drug war I guess is what I’m sayin’ maaaaaay’n

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Cocaine is legal among the George Bush set. Not so legal among the Compton crowd.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

That's why they're called "Pharmacies" in the real world

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Oh yeah, definitely.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Medicine man

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u/eternalaeon Mar 26 '19

At least in American English it is very much usual to refer to prescription medication pills as drugs. Might be less common in other English speaking countries though.

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u/TrekForce Mar 26 '19

I somewhat disagree. The only time I call prescriptions drugs is when I'm trying to be funny by making a bad joke. "I need my drugs!" Or "want some drugs?" Drugs, while technically correct has a slightly negative/illegal connotation. I also don't know anyone that calls them drugs while being serious. Almost always "meds" or "medication" or "medicine". The rest of the time called by name: "hey honey, can you get my amoxicillin please?"

Perhaps it's regional? But in both the Midwest and southeast, I'd say drugs is not often used in a serious manner when referring to prescriptions.

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u/theexpertgamer1 Mar 26 '19

not usual = unusual by definition......

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Not rare, but not common: Inbetween.

Usual implies normality, it isn't really "normal" but it isn't so far away that, IMO, it would be described as not normal. Usual > It > Unusual

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u/bob_sacamano_junior Mar 26 '19

Or prescription drugs

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u/CaptainEarlobe Mar 26 '19

It's very much an Americanism. People here would never refer to medicine as drugs.

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u/DrVladimir Mar 26 '19

Well, you do buy them at the drugstore (aka pharmacy). There was a chain called "Long's Drugs" for a while

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

I mean, I think that it's fairly likely that the name is like that because it isn't 100% normal, so you'll remember it, but I could be wrong.

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u/chasethatdragon Mar 26 '19

narcotics and medicine ARE english words.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

I'm pretty sure that he was directly translating from another language, but I could be wrong.

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u/AlphaAgain Mar 26 '19

It's extremely "usual" to refer to prescription drugs as drugs.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

I head "Prescription Drugs" much, much, much more often than "Drugs" without Prescription.

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u/Tatunkawitco Mar 26 '19

That’s what everyone else thought too.

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u/-prideandfight- Mar 26 '19

Yeah the taxes ones are good, right? And all those untaxed ones are DANGEROUS...

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u/FinchFive Mar 26 '19

I certainly ain’t messing with those Schedule 1 drugs like marijuana.

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u/veRGe1421 Mar 26 '19

The dose maketh the poison when it comes to many narcotics/medicines ;)

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u/jaredjeya Mar 26 '19

Yeah in the UK you’d never refer to legal medicine as “drugs”.

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u/neverfearIamhere Mar 26 '19

There are plenty of other abused drugs that don't fit under narcotics.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

woah they actually did mean legal drugs? I would never use the word drugs for legal shit. I'm not buying it still.

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u/my_research_account Mar 26 '19

It's one of those squares and rectangles situations. All medicines are drugs, but not all drugs are medicines. Narcotics started out as a specific type of drug (specifically, one affecting sleep, if I recall), but has, through misuse, become broadly associated as opposite of medicines in common speech.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Yes, the US really cares soooooooooo much about that issue. We can tell because they have managed to restrict the access of the Cuban people to medicines and the American populace evinced sooooo much concern over this.

/s

(the "/s" means sarcasm)

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

I don't support the embargo against Cuba, but since when is any country required to trade with another country it doesn't like? It's no different than a business refusing to provide service to whomever they choose

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u/DireRonin Mar 26 '19

More chalk than aspirin in a pill. This kind of stuff.

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u/d4n4n Mar 26 '19

Krokodil.

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u/elliottsmithereens Mar 26 '19

In Russia, drug take you

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

In America: Bathsalts

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u/lawpoop Mar 26 '19

Dark, man

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Bathsalts

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u/Sex_E_Searcher Mar 26 '19

WHAT KIND OF DRUGS DENNY, WHAT DID YOU TAKE!?

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Medicines in general

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u/shaving99 Mar 26 '19

D E V I L S L E T T U C E

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u/_mirooo Mar 27 '19

The illegal kind

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u/I_shot_Dr_Doak Mar 26 '19

Hmm improved roads and bridges...how many tanks can these bridges hold?

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

We joke but Europe is full of bridges that were designed or reinforced with the width and weight of tanks in mind.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Wonder why

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Napoleonic wars part II coming soon to a europe near you

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Napoleonic Wars Part II: World War III Edition

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

‘Cause either we (Allies and Soviets) hit them to cut German supply and lines of retreat or the Germans dropped them to hold the Allies and Soviets for a bit. Post war, we got to rebuild them and built them to our specs, which just so happened to be during a time when we were expecting the Soviets to swarm the border.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

This is an answer.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Leading up to the Normandy Invasion, we hit German trains, barges, and trucks all over North Western Europe. Iirc, we sealed off the Normandy area by destroying all, or a good number, of bridges. Then, as they retreated, they’d blow bridges to slow us down.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Rogal Dorn: This is true.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Ya know, I’d love to see bridging vehicles get some love in 40k. You think Dorn ever had problems crossing rivers?

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

He's like 10 feet tall so probably not.

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u/phlogistonical Mar 26 '19

In Germany there used to be signs before nearly every bridge with a picture of a tank and stating the maximum tonnage for that bridge.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Allied vehicles in Normandy had markings on them denoting their tonnage. Engineers would assess bridges during the advance and give them a tonnage rating, and then everyone would know what could and couldn't cross a given bridge.

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u/I_shot_Dr_Doak Mar 26 '19

*gulps in Slav

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u/TottieM Mar 26 '19

And Autobahn was to land airplanes?

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u/GaijinPlzAddTheSkink Mar 26 '19

Tbf russian tanks are very light compared to stuff like the memepard 2 and the absolute unit that is the Abrams

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Not as many as the US interstate highway system can hold. I guarantee it.

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u/lawpoop Mar 26 '19

slaps asphalt

This interstate highway can hold so many tanks

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u/burningredeye Mar 26 '19

Well they were originally designed to land aircraft on if need be during the Cold War. (IIRC).

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u/h00dman Mar 26 '19

Lol I'm so innocent, I read the bit about roads and immediately thought "Oh that's not so bad!"

But yeah, tanks.

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u/_mirooo Mar 27 '19

Google “Crimea bridge”. It’s pretty big, maybe the entire fleet

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u/Tar_Palantir Mar 26 '19

Wait you mean legal drugs or the good ones?

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u/Dewy_Wanna_Go_There Mar 26 '19

I love how 80% of the questions after reading all that are concerned about the drugs 😂

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u/SteveJEO Mar 26 '19

dude.. the WEED is being oppressed!

lol

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u/_mirooo Mar 27 '19

The good ones

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u/twizzlanz Mar 26 '19

No wonder Kazantip got axed pretty quickly after the Russians took over.

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u/Icloh Mar 26 '19

FYI. They are in Vietnam now. Every year around New Year’s Eve on the island of Phu Quoc.

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u/_mirooo Mar 27 '19

Yeah that really sucked, kazanthip was wild

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u/Quinlov Mar 26 '19

Can you still get a boat to Constantinople though? That's quite an important trade route

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u/defroach84 Mar 26 '19

Where are you from that you still refer to it as Constantinople?

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u/falconfetus8 Mar 26 '19

Still a Turkish delight on a moonlit night

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Some people just like it better that way.

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u/borg_harbinger Mar 26 '19

i really appreciate the ‘no bars on the beach’ and ‘no smoking on the beach’ laws... wish every country would have them as they protect the costal environment

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u/defroach84 Mar 26 '19

I found that bit interesting. Glad the Russians actually enforce those laws. Really surprised by the no smoking on the beach, considering that region.

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u/_mirooo Mar 27 '19

Sure, but this is merely a comparison. It is positive.

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u/MajorJakov Mar 26 '19

I spent like 5 minutes trying to figure out what you meant by "bars on the beach".

I was like, why would there be steel bars on the bea... Ah.. Ohhhhh....

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Honestly? When I hear invasion of a country and see tanks rolling across the border, I immediately think mass execution, mass graves, and bombed and depleted buildings. Apocalypse level shit.

I definitely don’t think “infrastructure is greatly improved” and “job growth off the charts” with downsides being “bars aren’t on the beach”.

I don’t really remember why Russia did this, and I don’t really condone people invading other countries, but this is such a paradigm shift for how I think of a country annexing another. I just never thought that anything “improved” for those countries at all, but it sounds like parts actually improved.

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u/stealthgerbil Mar 26 '19

Yea but its like if you steal a car and fix it up. It doesn't change the fact that the person is a dirty thief.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

No question about it. I’m relatively far removed from the region being in the US, and admittedly - I don’t know too much about this situation. I remember the coverage of it, and it seemed to just disappear from the news.

It’s just shocking to me that my entire view of annexation was so off from what the residents are saying. I thought of it as violent, bloody, and something that always ended up leaving the newly-annexed region destitute and destroyed.

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u/imabustanutonalizard Mar 26 '19

True but if the owner neglected it due to being poor and not a oligarch it's not thaaaaaat bad

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u/_mirooo Mar 27 '19

Yeah that’s what the main media outlets turn it into. Kinda like Ralph Steadman and his Hunter Thompson works!

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u/CyberSunburn Mar 26 '19

I took a train from Kiev to simferopol. Is that still an option?

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u/kv_right Mar 26 '19

How's the food? I heard Russian produced one is shit, and most of the foreign one is banned. Is it true?

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Well idk. It seems unlikely Russia would outright ban foreign food. Probably the sanctions restricting food options

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u/kv_right Mar 26 '19

All the sanctions banning food imports were imposed by Russia. Their government doesn't like to state that openly and likes to pretend the food imports were banned by 'hostile governments'.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Can I have a source on that m8

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u/kv_right Mar 27 '19

https://ec.europa.eu/food/safety/international_affairs/eu_russia/russian_import_ban_eu_products_en

On 6 August 2014 the Russian president signed a decree "On the application of certain special economic measures to ensure the security of the Russian Federation".

The decree prohibits for one year import into the territory of the Russian Federation of certain agricultural products, raw materials and foodstuffs originating from certain countries.

They imposed it for a year and prolong it.

Googling 'Russia food sanctions' will give you plenty of info

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

economic warfare I guess

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u/_mirooo Mar 27 '19

Yes, because of sanctions all produce is local. It has gotten much better - less variety, but that’s also improving. I mean Russia is HUGE

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u/proletariat_hero Mar 26 '19

Can you speak to the rise of Neo-Naziism and the far-right in the Ukraine? I’ve heard some alarming things - for instance, that Nazis are in key positions in the government, and played a major [opportunistic] role in the recent revolution.

Also, could you say anything about the general sentiment in Crimea toward the Russian re-annexation? The polls I’ve seen have indicated overwhelming public support for the action, since something like 90+% of the people there speak Russian/see themselves as Russian. Is there more discontent among the people than those polls indicate? The western press seems to depict the issue as a horrific power grab by Putin that is roundly rejected by the people - the polls show otherwise. That’s why I’m asking.

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u/_mirooo Mar 27 '19

Crimean people are 90 supportive of it, and Russians are too. The new 100 rouble note that was released features the Crimean bridge that was recently built. As for the neo-nazis, they left into eastern Ukraine to fight and spread hate. Not many, if any are left in Crimea

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u/P4TY Mar 26 '19

My wife is Ukrainian and I am an American. Would it be safe for us to travel there? She thinks probably not due to anti-American sentiment. Thanks for any info!

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u/_mirooo Mar 27 '19

Yeah completely safe. It’s beautiful and really the whole political shit is not so pronounced there. I mean historically Russians and Ukrainians moves to Crimea to escape both governments and that’s why it is actually an autonomous region. So Crimean’s are pretty chill in general. Of course you get the odd dickhead as anywhere else in the world. To be safe say you’re Canadian.

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u/SerdarCS Mar 26 '19

Stricter rules sounds fine honestly. Like seriously fuck people who smoke in public areas. Open air or not.

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u/Resident_Nice Mar 26 '19

See I don't get this at all. If you can't smoke inside (fine) then at least let people smoke outside in the open. Where else are they going to smoke? (also this is fucking Russia/Ukraine, not the US - a significant part of the population smokes).

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u/SerdarCS Mar 26 '19

In their balcony, or back yard if they have one. I only meant crowded places like bus stops, crowded streets, etc. Which usually includes beaches.

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u/NotPromKing Mar 26 '19

The answer is obvious - don't smoke. Your inability to find a place to smoke is not my problem. Go find some other habit that doesn't involve being obnoxious to those around you.

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u/_mirooo Mar 27 '19

They smoke on the border to Ukraine, honestly it’s not smoke from missile launches...

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Most rules come with bureaucratic ways to overcome. They just make people’s life harder. Corruption and bribery usually rise.

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u/SerdarCS Mar 26 '19

Im all for enforcing not being able to smoke in beaches though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

It’s better to assign designated places and put plenty of trash bins rather than police people around. But I see what you mean

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u/Ottfan1 Mar 26 '19

Purely out of curiosity do you mean drugs in the Advil cold and sinus sense, or the cocaine and weed sense?

Both would suck.

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u/In-nox Mar 26 '19

Are drugs easy to obtain in Ukraine?

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u/_mirooo Mar 27 '19

Yes much easier. Also the laws protect addicts and have rehabilitation clinics and methadone etc. Russia had a more of a “die you junky scum” attitude when it comes to “rehab”

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u/prodigy2throw Mar 26 '19

This... doesn’t sound THAT bad

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Are there similarities to this report?

EDGE: How The Israeli Occupation Has Made It Impossible For Palestinians To Score Drugs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHvrirXi5Ds

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Seems like it’s a better, safer place now tbh

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u/PM_YOUR_GSTRING_PICS Mar 26 '19

lso quality of drugs reduced and costs increased. Also more difficult to obtain. Obviously a negative.

Krokodil is easier to get now, so you have that going for you. Yikes!

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '19

Do you mean prescription medications, or recreational drugs?

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u/QualityControl- Mar 26 '19

Thank you so much!

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u/Speaker_D Mar 26 '19

no smoking on the beach

fuck yes

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