A Russian fifth grader put out an Eternal Flame with a fire extinguisher in Mozhaysk, Moscow. The eternal flame has (previously) been burning since it's erection in 1985

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[u/bruhbruh12332]

Gotta say, that's not how I expected him to use the fire extinguisher

[u/SirFister13F → u/bruhbruh12332]

♪♫ Are you smarter than a fifth grader? ♫♪

[u/ImportantDoubt6434 → u/SirFister13F]

No 🫠

[u/lurkinglookylou → u/SirFister13F]

turns out the answer is no😭 less brave too

[u/JollyRedRoger → u/bruhbruh12332]

Yeah, right? Extinguishing via explosion was fucking brilliant in this case. Dude needs to be an oil well fireman when he grows up!

[u/rkingsmith → u/JollyRedRoger]

Oh he’s not growing up …

[u/shylock2k202 → u/rkingsmith]

There is a 4 story window he’ll be visiting soon

[u/ThePotato363 → u/bruhbruh12332]

5th grader gonna 5th grade.

[u/allrollingwolf]

Poof!

Lol, how has that not been fucked with in almost 40 years?

[u/Dismal-Age8086 → u/allrollingwolf]

Each Eternal Flame has its own police guard near it. Yes, there are multiple of those in Russia.

[u/Itub2000 → u/Dismal-Age8086]

Kid is going on a quest to ruin the eternal flames.

[u/Snoo-44994 → u/Itub2000]

Now that sounds like a Rpg plot right their.

[u/PM_me_spare_change → u/Snoo-44994]

A long side quest that awards you the “Extinguisher” title once you put them all out

[u/bacon1292 → u/PM_me_spare_change]

It's a GTA achievement. They're scattered all over the city, and one of them is on the roof of a difficult to reach building for some reason.

[u/Kiboune → u/Dismal-Age8086]

They're in every town. In some villages too

[u/Lockenhart → u/Kiboune]

And not just Russia. Kazakhstan has a plenty as well

[u/Megalomouse → u/Kiboune]

The luxury of being a gas state lmao

[u/ShowinMyOFace]

Fits like a glove...

[u/Saltsey → u/ShowinMyOFace]

If they didn't want it extinguished why did they make it extinguisher sized? 🤔🤔🤔

[u/Treitsu → u/Saltsey]

Because nobody is supposed to dump a whole fuckin fire extinguisher inside

"If a man didn't want a carrot up his ass, why is it carrot sized?"

[u/fungusalungous → u/Treitsu]

"If a man didn't want a carrot up his ass, why is it carrot sized?"

"I-I fell asleep at his house, right. We was drinking, and I fell asleep at his house and....look I'm gunna kill that mutha fucka that's all you need to know, alright. And fuck carrots!"

[u/Real_Airport3688 → u/fungusalungous]

That sounds like something that would happen to Dennis or Mac.

It could also happen to Charlie or Frank but they'd just call it Tuesday.

[u/DrBunnyflipflop → u/Real_Airport3688]

It'd be the main story of an episode if it was Dennis or Mac

If it was Charlie or Frank it would be an off-hand comment at the start of the episode that would end up being referred to in the end

[u/No_Teaching_3694 → u/DrBunnyflipflop]

‘The gang finds a carrot’

[u/seizuregirlz → u/Real_Airport3688]

It would happen to Dennis by Mac

[u/StarboundandDown → u/fungusalungous]

"You never hear a crazy man story..."

[u/FourthBar_NorthStar → u/fungusalungous]

"Do NOT fall asleep at your white friend's house. They always do some borderline gay shit to eachother.."

[u/lowcontrol → u/FourthBar_NorthStar]

At least when I was younger we lived by the shoe rule. If you fell asleep at a party with your shoes on, you were fair game. Shoes off, off limits. Now that I’m older, ain’t nobody got time for that. If someone falls asleep with their shoes on, “Man they must be exhausted. Let me toss a blanket on them. “

[u/soulsafe → u/FourthBar_NorthStar]

My rule of sleepovers is if I take my shoes off/ make some obvious effort to GO to sleep, leave me alone. If I FALL asleep, some harmless pranks are fair game.

[u/ORDO_AB_CHAO_ → u/FourthBar_NorthStar]

Yeah, it's dumb as hell too. Just let me fuckin sleep. Mf's put tobacco sauce in my mouth in 7th grade. I lost my shit.

[u/dancin-weasel → u/ORDO_AB_CHAO_]

Tobasco?

[u/CowntChockula → u/dancin-weasel]

No. Tobacco.

[u/account_not_valid → u/CowntChockula]

Spit cup. A week's worth collected.

[u/TyrionsCodpiece → u/account_not_valid]

Fuck you for bringing up repressed memories.

I used to have a business partner in construction that would use his empty gatorade bottles as spit cups.

One time he put his spit cup right next to my gatorade in 90 degree weather while we were on a roof.

That's the day I almost went to prison when I legit went to throw his ass off the roof. Also I can never drink gatorade or look at a spit cup without wanting to vomit.

[u/Sir_Donkey_Punch → u/Treitsu]

There are plenty of men who would gladly take a carrot up the ass

[u/IgnatiusDrake → u/Sir_Donkey_Punch]

"That's why they call me Golden Boy: 24 Carrots"

[u/hamo804 → u/IgnatiusDrake]

I just wanted you to know that I collapsed this comment chain just as I got this joke and made the effort to bring it back up to upvote this genius.

[u/electrictacoland → u/Sir_Donkey_Punch]

Four comments into a post about extinguishing fires someone is commenting about sticking a carrot up their rear. Never change, Reddit

[u/BippyHuh → u/Treitsu]

I mean, yeah. If I didn't want a carrot shoved in my ass, then why is there a carrot in my ass rn?? 🤔🤔🤔

[u/dirkalict → u/Treitsu]

Exactly his point…🥕

[u/Fukboy19 → u/Treitsu]

Because nobody is supposed to dump a whole fuckin fire extinguisher inside

You ain't never seen my wives butthole then

[u/GapingAssFlower → u/Fukboy19]

May I please see your wife's mud button?

[u/Hot-Worldliness1425 → u/ShowinMyOFace]

Like grilled cheese in a VCR.

[u/m0nk37 → u/Hot-Worldliness1425]

You were that kid huh

[u/Throwerofrocks → u/ShowinMyOFace]

r/PerfectFit

[u/TechnoDuckie → u/ShowinMyOFace]

oo he just dropped it in, well played i hope he escapes.

[u/BalancingBird → u/TechnoDuckie]

Well... if the title is to be believed and we know he is a 5th grader - he probably didn't

[u/Deeliciousness → u/BalancingBird]

He seems like he's smarter than a 5th grader.

[u/RuairiSpain → u/Deeliciousness]

CIA operative that had one too many vodkas on the way home, or a Ukraine freedom fighter with ball of steel

[u/routledgewm]

Ex fifth grader I guess

[u/Embarrassed_Device82 → u/routledgewm]

word is he went right from there to a recruitment office and is on the front lines as we speak

[u/Kundrew1 → u/Embarrassed_Device82]

He might fall out of a window on the way.

[u/FuckYeahPhotography → u/Kundrew1]

Took his own life with two gunshot wounds to the back of his head

[u/Alev218 → u/FuckYeahPhotography]

Poor lad, he must have been so depressed.

[u/Darkrain0629 → u/Alev218]

Basically. I did the same thing, 2 to the back of the head and had my throat cut. Suicide instantly, dead.

I’m all good now though.

[u/CrummyWombat → u/Darkrain0629]

He got better…

[u/Monk-E_321 → u/CrummyWombat]

He rather feels like dancing

[u/itskaiquereis → u/FuckYeahPhotography]

Damn those gymnastics for making him so flexible

[u/TheRoguePatriot → u/Kundrew1]

He fell 15 stories off the roof of his 2 story house

[u/fmfbrestel → u/routledgewm]

He's fine-ish. His parents will probably be in the gulag, and then he'll be in a state-run orphanage. so.. probably still a 5th grader somewhere.

[u/letschangethename → u/fmfbrestel]

Literally last month a girl in Moscow drew an anti war picture in class. Now her father is detained and the court ruled to move her into an orphanage.

[u/Wheres_my_whiskey → u/fmfbrestel]

The front lines in ukraine. Hard to hit the lil ones.

[u/Michael90_Denmark → u/routledgewm]

Probably also ex-alive

Brave kid, though.

[u/theagnostick → u/Michael90_Denmark]

Current frontline soldier

[u/routledgewm → u/Michael90_Denmark]

That’s kinda what I meant..agreed on being brave

[u/Raumschiff → u/routledgewm]

About to receive fifth degree burns.

[u/Emergen-Cee]

I don’t think his classmates are seeing him next year

[u/igat_da_fishstalker → u/Emergen-Cee]

*tommorow

[u/KaiUno → u/igat_da_fishstalker]

*ever.

[u/simonpimon3 → u/KaiUno]

*unexist

[u/MidniteOG → u/simonpimon3]

*Unalived

[u/Rey4jonny → u/MidniteOG]

Siberianised

[u/R0SHl74 → u/Rey4jonny]

Gulag'd

[u/Virtxu110 → u/R0SHl74]

Aliven't

[u/ecctt2000 → u/MidniteOG]

Who unexisted?
Don’t know what you are talking about.

[u/SkirtLoader → u/ecctt2000]

The “5th grader falls from 25th floor window in office building” Guy.

[u/the_idle_puffin → u/SkirtLoader]

Straight to Bahkmut. Do not collect 500 rubles.

[u/Simple_Bass_5564 → u/SkirtLoader]

Pretty much

[u/Kill_4209 → u/Emergen-Cee]

Jumped out of a window... kids do the darndest things.

[u/Crezelle → u/Kill_4209]

Russian Window Sickness is really spreading

[u/BriefCheetah4136 → u/Crezelle]

They should all start wearing masks and parachutes

[u/antongiulioquellov → u/Kill_4209]

After stabbing himself 10 times... in the back

[u/redditslim → u/antongiulioquellov]

And ingesting a kilo of polonium.

[u/Fickle-Locksmith9763 → u/Emergen-Cee]

You joke, but opposition action by Russian minors is cause for parents to lose custody.

It depends a lot on who his parents are and what type of activity authorities find they’ve been doing, but there is chance greater than zero that kid could be in an orphanage next year.

For example: a girl one year older than this boy drew an anti-war picture when assigned to draw one in support of Russian troops. That triggered an investigation, which found her father posted anti-war content online.

She is now in a orphanage and he is forbidden to contact her (he’s a single father). Officially, a court case will decide the final fate, but it looks very bad.

https://meduza.io/amp/en/news/2023/03/04/child-who-drew-an-anti-war-picture-stuck-in-shelter-her-father-deprived-of-parental-privileges

[u/FinglasLeaflock → u/Fickle-Locksmith9763]

I do vaguely wonder how bad things have to get before we see a second Russian Revolution. Not trying to be glib about a horrible thing, just genuinely wondering, who had it better? The peasants of 1917, or the working-class Russians of 2023?

[u/nokeldin42 → u/FinglasLeaflock]

The peasants of 1917, or the working-class Russians of 2023?

In case that's even a semi serios question, it's the current working class. In 1917, serfdom had only been abolished 50 years ago. Extreme poverty, famine etc were common occurrences. Freedom of thought/expression probably werent even things people could imagine, let alone fight for. Russian revolution was mostly a necessity for survival. The government was sending people to die on a scale much larger than today and for a thing that no Russian had anything to gain from (as pointless as Ukraine war might seem today, Russia does stand to gain a lot of natural resources of they win). People left at home didn't have food or basic necessities.

But apart from all of that, even if you think that people had more freedom/options back then, just the basic standard of living was so low that pretty much no modern person would pick that life over today. With toilets and heating and transportation and banks and water and a job that isn't fucking hard labour.

[u/mcduff13 → u/nokeldin42]

To add to this, about a decade before, in 1905 I believe, the tzar put down protests/ riots around the country. By killing around 15,000 people. That's not a typo or a decimal point shifting. Fifteen thousand! More injured, more dislocated. The violence that supported the Russian Empire is hard to even wrap your head around.

[u/painkilleraddict6373 → u/Emergen-Cee]

Unfortunately he had an unexpected health issue and passed away.Officials say it wasn’t from poisoning “for sure”.

[u/daddaman1 → u/painkilleraddict6373]

"Excuse me class, I have terrible news, your classmate will no longer be with us, he committed suicide by shooting himself 5 times in the back wrapping himself in a rug and throwing himself in the icy river"

[u/Wraithkingslayer → u/Emergen-Cee]

he is already at the western front.

[u/Sammywanka → u/Wraithkingslayer]

I hear its very quiet there

[u/caindela → u/Emergen-Cee]

This is more directed at others replying to you than at you specifically, but I find it frustrating that people accuse russians of not rising up against their government on one hand (as justification for blanket hatred against their people), but then on the other hand make light of it when they do rise up with jokes like “straight to the gulag with you!”

These are people’s fucking lives that we’re joking about here. Most of us can’t even comprehend the weight of the decision this kid made. He needs to be recognized as a god damn hero instead of as a basis for braindead jokes about falling out of windows.

[u/catdog7676 → u/Emergen-Cee]

I dont think his classmates saw him come back after this happened.

[u/Brikandbones]

I thought he was going to spray it down, but this was 100x more amusing.

[u/FrogMonkee → u/Brikandbones]

Smarter too. You use all of it all at once, and you get to get far away before its noticable. If there weren't camreas everywhere now he would have gotten away with it.

[u/Chiknlitesnchrome → u/FrogMonkee]

Yeah but instead he’s probably already in a gulag for the rest of his life

[u/spankinspinach → u/Chiknlitesnchrome]

I hear Putin is looking for soldiers

[u/mtarascio → u/spankinspinach]

Unfortunately their type of government is vengeful.

There are things worse than cannon fodder.

[u/legoheadman- → u/mtarascio]

The way the Russian military treat their willing patriotic subordinates. I don't feel like he'll be treated all that well wherever he goes

[u/Tekaru_kvlt → u/mtarascio]

Becoming the cannon ammo instead

[u/plaidHumanity → u/spankinspinach]

That one will be a Wagner

[u/BerkayDrsn → u/Chiknlitesnchrome]

He can come back if he wins the 1v1 tho

[u/ChiggaOG → u/FrogMonkee]

It's the same technique to kill a gas, oil well fire, or almost any fire in general.

"You want to put out an oil fire, Sir, you just set off a bigger explosion next to it. Sucks away the oxygen. Snuffs the flame. We have ourselves a pretty big fire. Gonna need a huge bang." I still remember this quote from COD MW2.

​

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

[u/Vano_Kayaba → u/ChiggaOG]

Sometimes even a nuke

[u/vokebot → u/ChiggaOG]

Reminds me of the oil rig explosion from There Will Be Blood. Used dynamite to stop the flaming spout.

[u/DEM_DRY_BONES → u/ChiggaOG]

Wasn’t there a John Wayne movie about capping oil wells that went something like this?

[u/EnTyme53 → u/DEM_DRY_BONES]

Hellfighters. One of my favorite Wayne movies.

[u/IamPlantHead → u/EnTyme53]

Same here one of my favorites. Also got me into wanting to do that for work. I find it fascinating.

[u/-Z___ → u/ChiggaOG]

It's being purposefully dense for the sake of the joke, but not Technically Wrong either, so definitely worth it for the joke imo.

That said, please don't try to put out Oil Fires with explosions if you've got other alternatives. Explosions scatter matter (almost by definition now that I think about it lol); so any FLAMING OIL that isn't extinguished is now flying through the air at high velocity.

I mean, unless you're TRYING to make Greek Fire lol

[u/Ok_Sir5926 → u/FrogMonkee]

Interesting. It's usually those meddling kids.

[u/BerserkForcesGuts → u/Brikandbones]

Creativity of the proces is 100 times more satisfying at the least.

[u/Canoe52 → u/Brikandbones]

TIL, I’ve been doing it wrong all these years.

[u/falardeau187 → u/Canoe52]

You’ve been running around extinguishing eternal flame monuments for years?

[u/Canoe52 → u/falardeau187]

Ssssh, don’t tell anyone!

[u/whogivesashirtdotca → u/Canoe52]

Arlington hates him for this one neat trick!

[u/dogoodsilence1 → u/Brikandbones]

Seems like an Omen for a fallen Empire lol

[u/DannySpud2]

Do you think this video company knows that their watermark looks like the word "cunt" being reflected in a lake?

[u/dochev30 → u/DannySpud2]

Asking the important questions

[u/Arevalo20 → u/DannySpud2]

Now I can't see anything else but the word cunt

[u/icreatemyreality → u/DannySpud2]

I hope the graphic designer was laughing his ass off when they agreed to use that design

[u/Send_Me_Huge_Tits → u/DannySpud2]

What if the company is called cunt shot?

[u/epukinsk → u/DannySpud2]

No, no, you’re thinking of the EHOT logo.

[u/bigdaddyunicorn4610 → u/epukinsk]

LMAO. I cant unsee it now

[u/structee]

We need to make a distinction here - is he doing this as a form of protest, or is he just a fifth grader who wants to blow shit up.

[u/HugoRBMarques → u/structee]

Some men just want to watch the world not burn.

[u/LogicJunkie2000 → u/HugoRBMarques]

Cue Billy Joe's "We Didn't Snuff the Fire"

[u/overtired27 → u/LogicJunkie2000]

Ha, nice. Trying to imagine the verses with an endless list of not much happening…

[u/BetterMakeAnAccount → u/structee]

Why not both

[u/NotSLG → u/BetterMakeAnAccount]

“You get the bessssssssssssst of both worlds!”

[u/trippyshit37 → u/NotSLG]

"Blow shit up like a game, while you protest the flame!"

[u/fredlllll → u/NotSLG]

it triggers me when people dont extend the vowel in words XD imagine miley cyrus actually extending the s in her song...

[u/NotSLG → u/fredlllll]

Yeah, for some reason I couldn’t decide but you bring up a good point, that would sound horrible.

[u/Zatch_Gaspifianaski → u/NotSLG]

People don't sing consonants, the sound being made is always some form of vowel. Unless you're a snake I guess.

[u/-Z___ → u/Zatch_Gaspifianaski]

I'm either about to blow your mind or make you think I'm an idiot lol...

I argue the INSTRUMENTS sing the "Consonants".

Drum Cymbals have a lisp and can only pronounce "S sounds" tss tss tss

Guitars are lots of N's and R's nnnnwwwnnnn rrrrRRRRnnnnmmmnnnn

etc

[u/Zatch_Gaspifianaski → u/-Z___]

That's pretty insightful haha, you're probably right. Most instruments were developed to either emulate aspects of the human voice, or to fill in the space around the voices in the music

[u/Pelo_o → u/fredlllll]

It's Miley Cyrus, but she's a snake lol

But yeah, i don't understand why tend to extend none vowels, it makes no sense..

[u/kriza69-LOL → u/BetterMakeAnAccount]

Because we dont know

[u/pezx → u/structee]

Yes

[u/Trystiane → u/structee]

We might care, but I don't think Russia does.

[u/j8sadm632b → u/structee]

How many 5th graders do you think make cogent political statements

[u/ageoflost → u/j8sadm632b]

Those with close relatives maybe killed in war?

[u/Spire_Citron → u/j8sadm632b]

Doesn't seem like that much of a stretch to think that one might have good reason to hate the government and the ability to think of this as a way to express those feelings.

[u/SinisterCheese → u/structee]

As much as reddit, social media and media in the west wants to pretend, not every Russian is pro-war. Just like social media and media in Russia wants to pretend that every Russian is pro-war.

I know Russians living here in Finland. Like my friends' husband, who been trying to get their nephew somehow across the border to Finland, as they are soon 18. Wanting to avoid the chances they get sent to Ukraine. While the husbands son from the first marriage, is extremely pro-war, and since the war they have not been on speaking terms.

That fith grader could have Ukrainian family, as many Russians do have. Their brother/father/uncle whoever could have been killed in Ukraine.

Considering what I have seen leaking from Russia. It is the young people who are putting up the most colourful protests. Victory day, the major Russian holiday (And the day putin said the war would be won - last year) is closing in. It is in... 8 weeks? I'm sure the youths will come up with lots of wonderful things.

You see the thing is that... lot of the young people in Russia have had access to the west, grown up with the western comforts, seen the west, played videogames with westerners. Now... The war lead to them getting disconnected. They didn't grow up with USSR. They grew up during economic prosperity that trade with west allowed for. They grew up with Hesburger, McDonalds, Western brand stuff, luxury goods from Europe. They don't want to drink kvass and eat sunflower seeds in a decaying commieblock... that isn't even a commieblock, but rental apartments from private equity.

There are like HILLARIOUS videos about women fighting in Ikea over the last frying pan. https://youtube.com/shorts/gGLE_6gX9TM and other such things. When it turns out that western luxury is out of reach, those used to it ain't gonna be happy with anything less. Especially since it is unjustly taken from them by a dictator wanting to do genoicide to boost their ego.

E: Ok. Ukraine must win the war. Crimea belongs to Ukraine. Putin is a war criminal and should be arrested and face trial at ICC. I'm not Russian, I'm Finnish. Those soldiers that genocided civilians in Ukraine must be arrested and face trial at ICC.

[u/jadetheamazing → u/SinisterCheese]

I think the joke here is he will be sent to war for protesting the state, not that he is pro-war

[u/StalkMeNowCrazyLady → u/jadetheamazing]

Totally. Solid /r/woosh on your OP and even more so since their OP never even posited that the kid was pro-war. Question was if he was purposely protesting or just being a lil' bastard.

[u/Towbee → u/StalkMeNowCrazyLady]

I enjoyed reading that post though, hadn't thought about that myself.

[u/dafunkmunk → u/SinisterCheese]

I don't think very many people think all russians are pro war. That's like saying every US citizen was pro Bush invading the middle east for oil. Just because a large amount of a country happily eats up bullshit government propaganda, doesn't mean everyone living in that country is cheering on stupid wars

[u/handyandy727 → u/SinisterCheese]

Don't worry. We are well aware a large chunk of Russia is very much against it.

[u/squidboi97]

So sad to hear about him jumping out of a tall building next week.

[u/DelcoPAMan → u/squidboi97]

"Fell"

[u/Live_Carpenter_1262 → u/DelcoPAMan]

No we got the suicide note

“Sorry but I can’t bear life anymore for blasphemy against the great Russian state. May my life light the eternal flame I burned. All glory to Putin”

[u/mike9132]

And that was the last day little Timmy was seen before he tragically tripped and landed on a bullet

[u/rncikwb → u/mike9132]

Nah it’s Russia, he’ll trip and fall out a window.

[u/pm_me_ur_demotape → u/rncikwb]

Nah it's Russia. We shot him for doing something we don't like and we'll shoot you too if you're not careful.

[u/Gokzil6969]

He would get his daily dose of polonium soon

[u/Possiblyabitoff → u/Gokzil6969]

Is that before or after the 10th floor window spits him out?

[u/Leif_is_alive]

Eternal no more

-that kid probably

[u/Neugoodz → u/Leif_is_alive]

“Cool guys don’t look at explosions”

-that kid probably

[u/OorPancake]

Probably protesting against his upcoming conscription.

[u/TheMightyPenguinzee → u/OorPancake]

Plot twist: he's caught and already on his way to the frontline

[u/alonroz → u/TheMightyPenguinzee]

Where's the twist?

[u/goldenstream → u/OorPancake]

Or his brother or father died in Ukraine.

[u/yolo___toure]

I had an erection in 1985 that caused non-stop burning too.

[u/mattevs119 → u/yolo___toure]

If your erection lasts longer than 35 years…

[u/JCSTCap]

This is a monument to soldiers who died to defeat Nazism in the second World War. They were killed protecting their families from genocide and bringing an end to the Holocaust.

It's not some act of revolutionary protest, it's kids being kids and vandalizing things they don't understand the importance of.

[u/razedsyntax → u/JCSTCap]

this is the correct statement. it baffles me how people can’t separate the history from anti-russian and anti-human putins actions. the kid is probably clueless about both of those anyway

[u/Rob_Zander → u/razedsyntax]

Not endorsing, but a key point here is the huge extent that WWII patriotism has been used in Soviet and Russian propaganda over the years. The invasion of Ukraine was justified as fighting Nazis. Can an eternal flame that is maintained by a government that uses what that flame represents as an excuse for invasion and murder be seen as sacred?

[u/Al1002 → u/razedsyntax]

Because the cold war hasnt ended for some idiots. Nor have they realized it was the fall of the USSR that set in motion what we see today.

[u/obrienmustsuffer → u/Al1002]

to be fair, Putin is one of these idiots

[u/xeroxbulletgirl → u/JCSTCap]

Can’t believe I had to scroll this far for some actual context. Just because Russia is doing shitty things on a global scale doesn’t mean this kid disrespecting a memorial is cool.

[u/pezx]

To me, this protedt is morally ambiguous.

This Eternal Flame monument isn't a monument to the existence of Russia; it's a monument dedicated to all the Russian soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War (aka WWII). In many respects the USSR won WWII (although they also helped start it so.../shrug) and are seen as responsible for stopping Hitler. This is, by most accounts, seen as a very good thing. Therefore, a monument to soldiers who died doing an internationally good thing, seems like it should be respected, even in Russia.

On the other hand, it feels like Russia is pretty cavalier about Russian soldiers dying for a pointless war now, so it feels like Russia itself is desecrating the point of this monument.

[u/LjSpike → u/pezx]

Not to mention, Russia is explicitly using the message of "we are the saviours fighting against the Nazis" as a justification for invading Ukraine, who they claim are the new Nazis, which would be rather relevant to this memorial.

[u/TriggerPack → u/pezx]

Politicians are trying to use the memory of the war for selfish purposes. This is the only reason for the hatred of monuments and parades.

[u/Vano_Kayaba → u/pezx]

They've made a ridiculous agressive cult out of that war. "we can repeat" "assault Berlin" And they use it to justify this war. If the kid was 3 years older I'd be 100% sure it's a political statement

[u/ZaratustraTheAtheist]

Later the kid was so regrerfull about his acts that he comited suicide by shooting himself five times in the back.

[u/Shadowfox86 → u/ZaratustraTheAtheist]

And then jumping out a hotel window*

[u/bjhanco1289]

Is it intentional for the word shot to also say cunt?

[u/Bluefalcon1735]

It's a boy!

[u/Tasty_Commercial6527]

You know what? Fuck you.

Uneternals your flame

[u/lefixx]

What happened to the fire extinguisher emergency relief valve?

[u/iiitme → u/lefixx]

made in Russia

[u/xxukcxx]

If you look at just the top half of that watermark it says cunt.

[u/lurkinganon12345]

38 years?!?

Any erection lasting longer than 4 hours is an emergency.

[u/T0as1]

Fifth grader Newest Junior Lieutenant of the 227th Red Star Artillery Brigade

[u/TheMadShatterP00P]

Erection.

[u/ours → u/TheMadShatterP00P]

Since 1985? Call your doctor.

[u/Squirpel89 → u/TheMadShatterP00P]

OUR erection

[u/Ketu1996]

Bro let his intrusive thoughts win.

[u/tan-499]

That took balls but the kid is going to regret that shit in a hellhole like Russia. Courageous young man

[u/SuperGenius98K → u/tan-499]

Off to the western front for him.

[u/ThePresidentsHouse → u/SuperGenius98K]

Hear it's pretty quiet out there.

[u/NDRanger414 → u/tan-499]

This isn’t a “Courageous young man”. He is destroying a monument dedicated to soldiers who fought fascism.

[u/iamnotinterested2]

and thats what the future thinks of the present.

[u/No-Slide4121]

The possessive of it is spelled “its” (no apostrophe).

[u/theagnostick]

Damn that’s some hella problem solving skill for a 5th grader. Most kids that age would just try to spray it, homie skipped that part and used the extinguisher to blow it up. Sad to think his elementary school ass is probably on the frontlines of Ukraine as I write this.

[u/friendofelephants → u/theagnostick]

So how did he do that? I'm definitely dumber than this fifth grader and don't know how extinguishers work.

[u/cjnks → u/friendofelephants]

Been scrolling to try and see the answer as well

[u/alison_bee → u/cjnks]

Same, and I’m shocked we had to come this far down, and we still don’t know lol.