Stop the SS!!!!

The "SS" people here type. RuSSian PoliSSh etc. Why? Just please STOP it. It's pointless, idiot like, childlike. Or maybe it's pointleSS.

Ssang Yong - Korean car manufacturer.

Did you mean by any chance, "Stop the $$!!!" instead?

That one is justified if you are able in Russia to see what they are doing in Ukraine.
I very much doubt that you can get honest news reporting in Russia.

I don't know. I see Russian news, I don't take it as fact. I've heard Russian news is propaganda, US news is propaganda, German news is propaganda, etc., etc. I hear small parts of other news online, it's extremely different.

That is not the point. SS is SStupid and pointleSS.

It's not.
Trust me, if you really knew what your countrymen were doing in Ukraine, you would use the term too.
I excuse you because, in Russia, you remain ignorant.

No, it's not and the reason is buried in your own sentence above - if you can detect the contradiction.

I am not going to count on it so I will explain.

If Russia is doing all that "barbaric" stuff, it should be self-evident by now. Spicing up posts with that moronic SS that man-child-clown-moron introduced here subtracts from the gravity of the alleged facts. Just as calling Szopen "a famous composer" subtracts from his status as a musical genius. It was composed by Szopen. Full stop.

The problem is that man-child-clown-morons are not capable of this kind of sophistication. They just blurt out the first mental crap that comes to their primitive minds and giggle ...hahahahahahaha...content and happy.

Last point: insulting the bad guys who can kill you in the next ten minutes is stupid. Polak stupid.

@MiloSSlaw
It's irrelevent. SS iSS juSSt SStupid and doeSS nothing. It only iSS annoying.
But if others uSSe it, I will, just different way. Like thiSS, on every word with S.

MiSSion accompliSShed by the idiot who SStarted it and the meetoo morons who lowercaSe "russia" or replace "u" with "*".
And then the imbeciles who claim it makes sense...

Chevrolet SS - another car with "SS". ( SS means Super Sport)

For sale: 2017 Chevrolet $$.
$45,998, 72K miles

SS - Steamship or Sailing ship⛴⛵

@Alien
That's better! Not so... what to say... nasty towards Russians.

Sorry, but Russians deserve all the nastiness they get right now, whilst that moronic retard, Putin, is still in charge.
Russians?What are you thinking of?
He has to go.
He is destroying the world and Russia will be the first to go.

@Miloslaw
I don't like him either, but he doesn't represent all of Russians.


Appropriate, you're talking to a Russian. Rudely. What if I said (I think you're Polish?) Poles deserve insults like that (Novichok's poliSSh?). Just nasty, and not needed.


We've even lost most of the foreign ballet dancers :(

I am sure that is true.
But the Russian people have proven over and over how weak they are.
They are too scared to stand up to him!
Russia will never be free unless Russians are brave enough to perform a proper Russiian Revolution!

@Miloslaw
There will be no revolution unless the majority are actually starving to death, and then success will not be likely. Those in comfortable positions whether or not they like Putin generally don't want to risk losing those positions.

And there will be nothing without a leader who has ideas, appealing ideas that the majority will be happy about.
You must remember that the revolution brought the Soviet Union, which was in some ways worse than the empire, but in hindsight of its existence brought about something in the last few decades very good, only that will probably be ruined by Putin's war with Ukraine, and maybe there will be another Soviet Union of sorts.

That is a very sad description of your pathetic nation.
Too weak, too scared,too ambivalent.

You need to change.
Or nothing will change.

@Miloslaw
Don't say "pathetic". Think whatever about Russia but it's not "pathetic".
It might be sad but it's true. Why would people risk good or even liveable lives? For morals, their own views and opinions.... but those for most Russians come second. If morals are chosen, the results aren't so good even if it's something passive and harmless. I'll give you an example. There is a prima ballerina in the Mariinsky, Olesya Novikova. Very talented, one of best in the world. She wasn't made prima until 37, when she had deserved 15 years before, but she didn't have sex with anyone who could bribe or influence, she preferred her own decency over promotions, and there was as well an issue with her husband, very political type, he was chased out of the Mariinsky because the directors (mainly Fateyev) didn't like him (personally) and Fateyev gave everything to Shklyarov (who he liked... personally). If she hadn't valued morals, she would have been a prima 15 years before.

Why would most people choose morals and opinions, etc., considering the bad effects?

Because you are too weak and too scared......pathetic is the right word.......You need to get some "Get up and go" which the West have and you lack.

This is what has held Russia back for centuries....You can do it,but you have no faith in yourselves.
It is very sad.

No, it just doesn't work that way. The people in power will always be stronger and more effective, and so even the people who don't like them have to live under their rule. It's just what life in Russia is.

And I would have never heard of her. Judging by what you wrote about her, she's not only a great ballet dancer, but also a great human being and should be shown as a role model. She can be proud of herself.


Having sex to get a promotion is pathetic. Very sad, pathetic and disgusting :(

I've got to say that I won't look at Russian ballet in the same way ever again...


For the good of their society and their country? For the good of their own mental health?
You can see by the example of Russian ballet what corruption is leading to. Corruption promotes mediocrity. It elevates not people who are the most talented, the most intelligent, the best in what they do, but those who will either have sex for a promotion, or will bribe someone or will be loyal to the ruling political party. If corruption, lack of integrity and moral decay is so ingrained into all aspects of the society, as it seems to be in the case of the Russian society, it holds back the development of the country immensely. As result the society is poorer not only financially, economically, but also intellectually, culturally, socially and morally.


Ah, судба! Nothing can be done! This Russian/Eastern European mentality is really getting on Polish nerves... *heavy sigh* :(

Russia is what you make it to be. As we say in Polish: "Jak sobie pościelesz, tak się wyśpisz."

Having met her many times, I can confidently say she is, and very beautiful too.


It's pretty much the only way. Everyone wants a promotion, almost everyone is good enough, it's down to who has the better patron and/or social media, even if they're less talented. It's not fair, of course, but it's just how it is. Traditionally even, for centuries, although less frequent in the 1930s-1960s, which was interestingly one of the best times of ballet.


Not always. Many smarter more talented people use the corruption, although it's generally true.


True, that's undeniable


That's unfair. It isn't like it doesn't happen abroad, though definitely much rarer.

Told you are very naive in some ways.

You can say the same about the atrocities being committed by ruSSians in the name of ruSSia right now in Ukraine.


Most people don't, at least outside ruSSia.


I wonder why, orc...

@jon357
Did I ever say the Ukraine war is right? Of course it isn't, but that doesn't make other bad things, even if not equal, fine.

Do you think every Russian is alike? Like that idiot online who said Russian people have long limbs just because the ballet dancers do.

That is so obvious it doesn't need to be said.


I hope not. I hope that most dancers do not prostitute themselves as you have described.

I also hope that not everyone can or does "bribe and influence" it must be strange to live in a country where bribery and corruption are so normal. It took me years to get used to low level corruption in Poland. In ruSSia it must be much worse.

They do! It's worst in the Bolshoi though.

That is really sad.

It's reasonable to expect some "hypersexualised" behaviour among professional dancers (being very physically healthy and the right age) however going with old men for personal or professional advantage is just so sad.

@jon357
Can you imagine spending 8-10 years of your life (average) working extremely hard on something, in every little detail, only to not be as successful as your talent would suggest simply because of personal or political reasons? Ballet dancers in Russia normally enter a ballet academy between 8-10 and often live away from family to study ballet, for hours per day 6 days every week normally to enter a corps de ballet.

Russian ballet has always had political motives. For example Plisetskaya's career was never as good as she deserved until she was 31 because she was Jewish and her parents had been persecuted.