And slowly cult of personality turned into real cult. I heared that some russians are worshiping Putin as a kinda saint.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putinism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putinism)
It's almost like Imperial Truth mixed with the Lectitio Divinitatus.
As a Russian I can say that I personally never encountered real worshipping of him, if it does exist it still is really rare, like you could imagine how many people would worship Trump to that degree in USA. However most elderly people still have a very good opinion of him, out of adults I only know one person who openly opposes him. Regarding teenagers, they generally don't get into politics except some, so the overall position is good-neutral.
Only superficially. At it's core China has more in common with the Imperium
* Utopian atheist experiment goes awry and results in a literal religion being formed around the atheist military dictator who started it
* Extremely decadent aristocracy supported by countless masses of peasants living in heavily contaminated areas
* Hyper xenophobic but still begrudgingly needs outside assistance to survive
* Had a civil war that destroyed most of the country, and the defeated faction was forced to flea to a tiny corner of the world, creating massive amounts of paranoia that they will one day return unless destroyed first
* Living in the ruins of a more cultured past
Fiction is slowly turning into real life there is even slannesh ak the woke but where malal ? He needs to come only him can save us from this nonsense 😂
Had to check, and not true. But there is a battery in the **116th Separate Mechanized Brigade** that is called "Khorne Group" ([Surveillance and Target Acquisition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_and_target_acquisition)) \[see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/116th\_Mechanized\_Brigade\_(Ukraine)\]
I get the joke, but its OMON (ОМОН in Crylic)
https://preview.redd.it/j9gjjpm3g7ad1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=fc6aec3e89989d257877b19c7ab32e1a595d7976
What's even crazier is they were the first wave to get sacrificed for Putin's mansion in the Ukraine invasion.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russian-riot-police-dismissed-krasnodar-b2045577.html
Dude, many of my firends tried to make me a xenophile. They failed.
But now you've done it. If Russia is supposed to be the Imperium, then so be it.
https://preview.redd.it/vwfdakam04ad1.png?width=1326&format=png&auto=webp&s=986b2500a8b1fbb95d7a51ab659be32d956ffc83
WE SHALL LET THE IMPERIUM BURN !
LUPERCAL ! LUPERCAL !
For the context: The face of the Horus in the edit is face of Marshall Piłsudski - a polish national hero, chief of polish army in 1920 and from 1926 to 1935 he was de facto leader of Poland. Amazing commander and tactician, passionate revolutionary and idealist, managed to bring Poland back on the maps after 123 years, along with the great people like Roman Dmowski, who secured the help of the Britain and France, and Ignacy Jan Paderewski - world famous pianist who helped convince President Wilson of USA to add independent Poland as one of the war goals of the allies.
Sadly he was kinda like the Sons of Horus of the interwar period - he was holding polish politicians togeather. After his death and later during the ww2 his party - Sanacja failed to gather the support of the Allies and faded into obscurity.
Not to mention commissars from the Soviet Union, and the fact that "regular" guard tactics are modeled 1 for 1 on Soviet doctrine.
Oh, and valkyries are Hinds.
As russian, agreed. Also, I think there was a photo of chaos sigil some ukrainian made in 2022, and i think I saw a couple of aquila patches on russian war-reports. Don't know if I'm completely correct on all that, but it is kinda funny
Edit: I also remembered that when Prigozhin coup happened there were a ton of memes with horus. And also putin face slapped on the emperor(also ironically calling him God-emperor or similar epithets) was a meme from 2016 or smth like that.
People here often lament how "stuff was built different back in the day", so that checks out. Also there is a lot of infrastructure/industry built on top of Soviet legacy. And should that legacy finally begin to collapse, we would be quite fucked.
Because USSR **WAS** a good thing.
Best thing that ever happened to this who were under soviets, best thing that happened to Europe, best thing that happened to the world.
And its collapse is the worst tragedy so far
Well you're clearly wrong, the Imperium is US, because ~~they're a gerontocratic hellscape that doesn't accept any other society that doesn't live according to their tenets~~
Also completely incapable of manufacturing new tech. Or even the tech they do use. Their E-3 Sentry equivalents are irreplaceable and they've already lost a couple.
Edit: oh and how could I forget the Kuznetsov
And how many do they have now?
According to this... not many.
https://breakingdefense.com/2024/01/after-historic-shoot-down-why-russia-will-struggle-to-replace-its-a-50-aewc-plane/
One may argue that orthodoxy as a whole is not Christian, due to idol worship.
But I'm in no place to decide and judge others, that's the right of God and nobody else.
Tbf commies are losers in that empires always have, and always will exist. You're much better off politically picking an empire and sticking with it. I prefer pikcing mine on polciy rather than 40k aesthetics, which why I like the US, but not everyone can be that intelligent I'm afraid.
Kind of a shitty meme, mainly because they literally known as Orcs
And they would be the meme of “we have the Imperium at home”
In other words, it would be funny if it wasn’t insulting to the Imperium lel
It is. Or, at the very least, it's the closest thing to Imperium we, the humanity, currently have. And it's doing about just as bad (or good, depending on your perspective). Source: am Russian.
Except that they could stop their bullshit tomorrow, go back to being a glorified gas-station and everyone would be happy.
The Imperium doesn't have to make shit up and invent threats, if anything they hide them and downplay them.
So, no in that sense they aren't the same. The IoM is much more justified in its existence within the universe of Warhammer 40k than the Russian Federation is irl.
no, the country that is historically known for invading, genociding, and partitioning neighboring soveriegn states is not the good guy. frankly, the kacap menace deserves non-stop orbital bombardment for at least two centuries straight.
Was a strong atheist state too.
And slowly cult of personality turned into real cult. I heared that some russians are worshiping Putin as a kinda saint. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putinism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putinism) It's almost like Imperial Truth mixed with the Lectitio Divinitatus.
As a Russian I can say that I personally never encountered real worshipping of him, if it does exist it still is really rare, like you could imagine how many people would worship Trump to that degree in USA. However most elderly people still have a very good opinion of him, out of adults I only know one person who openly opposes him. Regarding teenagers, they generally don't get into politics except some, so the overall position is good-neutral.
Only superficially. At it's core China has more in common with the Imperium * Utopian atheist experiment goes awry and results in a literal religion being formed around the atheist military dictator who started it * Extremely decadent aristocracy supported by countless masses of peasants living in heavily contaminated areas * Hyper xenophobic but still begrudgingly needs outside assistance to survive * Had a civil war that destroyed most of the country, and the defeated faction was forced to flea to a tiny corner of the world, creating massive amounts of paranoia that they will one day return unless destroyed first * Living in the ruins of a more cultured past
Tech is also of questionable quality.
Way too centralized to be anything near the imperium
Their military church built with melted german steel is peak 40k.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Cathedral_of_the_Russian_Armed_Forces You weren't kidding about this.
*the floor they walk over is melted German steel
I mean, Ukraine has a unit called Khorne brigade
Literally Chaos undivided
Fiction is slowly turning into real life there is even slannesh ak the woke but where malal ? He needs to come only him can save us from this nonsense 😂
Had to check, and not true. But there is a battery in the **116th Separate Mechanized Brigade** that is called "Khorne Group" ([Surveillance and Target Acquisition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_and_target_acquisition)) \[see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/116th\_Mechanized\_Brigade\_(Ukraine)\]
And Russia has a unit called HOMO
I get the joke, but its OMON (ОМОН in Crylic) https://preview.redd.it/j9gjjpm3g7ad1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=fc6aec3e89989d257877b19c7ab32e1a595d7976
What's even crazier is they were the first wave to get sacrificed for Putin's mansion in the Ukraine invasion. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russian-riot-police-dismissed-krasnodar-b2045577.html
We also have Inquisition unit though
Dude, many of my firends tried to make me a xenophile. They failed. But now you've done it. If Russia is supposed to be the Imperium, then so be it. https://preview.redd.it/vwfdakam04ad1.png?width=1326&format=png&auto=webp&s=986b2500a8b1fbb95d7a51ab659be32d956ffc83 WE SHALL LET THE IMPERIUM BURN ! LUPERCAL ! LUPERCAL !
For the context: The face of the Horus in the edit is face of Marshall Piłsudski - a polish national hero, chief of polish army in 1920 and from 1926 to 1935 he was de facto leader of Poland. Amazing commander and tactician, passionate revolutionary and idealist, managed to bring Poland back on the maps after 123 years, along with the great people like Roman Dmowski, who secured the help of the Britain and France, and Ignacy Jan Paderewski - world famous pianist who helped convince President Wilson of USA to add independent Poland as one of the war goals of the allies. Sadly he was kinda like the Sons of Horus of the interwar period - he was holding polish politicians togeather. After his death and later during the ww2 his party - Sanacja failed to gather the support of the Allies and faded into obscurity.
For years I wondered how Chaos always found fresh cultists to replenish its ranks. Now I understand. SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD !
Not to mention commissars from the Soviet Union, and the fact that "regular" guard tactics are modeled 1 for 1 on Soviet doctrine. Oh, and valkyries are Hinds.
As russian, agreed. Also, I think there was a photo of chaos sigil some ukrainian made in 2022, and i think I saw a couple of aquila patches on russian war-reports. Don't know if I'm completely correct on all that, but it is kinda funny Edit: I also remembered that when Prigozhin coup happened there were a ton of memes with horus. And also putin face slapped on the emperor(also ironically calling him God-emperor or similar epithets) was a meme from 2016 or smth like that.
Хороший мем, хоть и заезженный =) Good meme UPD: Also you forgot the Glorious Past (USSR)
Dark age of communism level technology
People here often lament how "stuff was built different back in the day", so that checks out. Also there is a lot of infrastructure/industry built on top of Soviet legacy. And should that legacy finally begin to collapse, we would be quite fucked.
Glorious ?
Glorious.
Not sure about that one mate
Your loss
Seems if you think the USSR was a good thing, then actually it’s your loss
Because USSR **WAS** a good thing. Best thing that ever happened to this who were under soviets, best thing that happened to Europe, best thing that happened to the world. And its collapse is the worst tragedy so far
Your loss
Yours too <3
Good riddance :)
Another decrepit and corrupt regime falling, nothing too special really.
Don't lie. USA didn't fell
The Imperium is far more competent
This is correct.
We just need the Kosmodesantniki, and we can cook.
Yay politics 🤗
It's only as political as people in the comments make it
People in the comments taking it a step too far it seems
As always
Well you're clearly wrong, the Imperium is US, because ~~they're a gerontocratic hellscape that doesn't accept any other society that doesn't live according to their tenets~~
Also completely incapable of manufacturing new tech. Or even the tech they do use. Their E-3 Sentry equivalents are irreplaceable and they've already lost a couple. Edit: oh and how could I forget the Kuznetsov
> Their E-3 Sentry equivalents are irreplaceable and they've already lost a couple. They literally received new A-50Us as recent as September 2023.
Didn't one of them get shot down in Ukraine lmao.
According to who, vatnik?
According to the people that build it. Imagine thinking you can spread misinformation about aircraft under a post of someone named "Aerospaceoomfie"
And how many do they have now? According to this... not many. https://breakingdefense.com/2024/01/after-historic-shoot-down-why-russia-will-struggle-to-replace-its-a-50-aewc-plane/
I can't wait to move to Russia, be forcibly conscripted at a farmers market, and get welded inside a T-54 by Chechens for the forever war.
Russia is the imperium insofar as sending hordes of conscripts to their deaths in a pointless forever war
Hope not.
One obscure thing is there is no Christianity here. Its cult of Moloch and Mammon that wears orthodox Christianity like a skinsuit
One may argue that orthodoxy as a whole is not Christian, due to idol worship. But I'm in no place to decide and judge others, that's the right of God and nobody else.
Without the cool parts yeah
I listed all the cool parts above
Kinda’ concering there are actual imperialists here
Tbf commies are losers in that empires always have, and always will exist. You're much better off politically picking an empire and sticking with it. I prefer pikcing mine on polciy rather than 40k aesthetics, which why I like the US, but not everyone can be that intelligent I'm afraid.
Kind of a shitty meme, mainly because they literally known as Orcs And they would be the meme of “we have the Imperium at home” In other words, it would be funny if it wasn’t insulting to the Imperium lel
It is. Or, at the very least, it's the closest thing to Imperium we, the humanity, currently have. And it's doing about just as bad (or good, depending on your perspective). Source: am Russian.
Are you the same guy who don’t want politics in their hobby?
WH40K isn't my hobby
Then why tf are you even here?
Because I like WH40K, it's just not my 'hobby'
Imperial Guardsmen have socks.
Except that they could stop their bullshit tomorrow, go back to being a glorified gas-station and everyone would be happy. The Imperium doesn't have to make shit up and invent threats, if anything they hide them and downplay them. So, no in that sense they aren't the same. The IoM is much more justified in its existence within the universe of Warhammer 40k than the Russian Federation is irl.
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no, because they're the bad guys, and the Imperium are the good guys. cased closed
They're the good guys though
Russia? Take your meds lol
You should go fight for the forever war so less mobiks get blown to bits for no reason. Chickenhawk
no, the country that is historically known for invading, genociding, and partitioning neighboring soveriegn states is not the good guy. frankly, the kacap menace deserves non-stop orbital bombardment for at least two centuries straight.
Yeah, fck this and r*zzia
I mean what about Israel?
We don't talk about the J\*ws. Are you trying to get the sub banned?