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TexasTowelie

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Wed Sep 3, 2025, 08:18 AM Wednesday

It Finally Happened! Russia's 'Disposable People' Speak Out. Propaganda Stunned - The Russian Dude



Russia’s propaganda machine just hit a breaking point, and this time it wasn’t the West that exposed it—it was their own soldiers and even their loyal propagandists. Operation Pipe, once glorified as a daring innovation, has now been revealed as one of the most grotesque and humiliating stunts in Putin’s war. Imagine soldiers forced to crawl 16 kilometers through a gas pipeline filled with toxic residue, only to emerge crippled, suffocating, and forgotten. At first, state TV turned the pipe into a national shrine with monuments, songs, and even a patriotic anthem. But as soon as the truth about permanent lung damage, chemical poisoning, and widows denied compensation came out, the narrative collapsed. The pipe stayed a symbol, the men became disposable.

Even regime insiders like Anastasia Kashevarova—normally a Kremlin megaphone—couldn’t stay silent after watching soldiers return home barely able to walk, denied payouts, and sent back to the front with destroyed lungs. Hospitals dismissed poisoning as “common cold,” generals shrugged off responsibility, and families were forced into humiliating survival strategies. Meanwhile, state media spun “Pipe Syndrome” into a story of medical breakthroughs and national pride, erasing the human cost behind the spectacle. The propaganda machine abandoned its own heroes the moment they became inconvenient.

This disaster reveals the core truth of Putin’s Russia: people are expendable, objects are sacred, and symbols always matter more than lives. Bonuses are stolen, compensation blocked, soldiers disguised as deserters to avoid paying salaries. Families now bribe officers just to keep their loved ones alive. But the reckoning is coming. When these broken veterans return home—betrayed, crippled, silenced—they will no longer be props in Kremlin fairy tales. They will demand answers the regime cannot give.

This is the untold story of Operation Pipe—how Russia turned its own soldiers into disposable people, sacrificed them for propaganda, and planted the seeds of its future rebellion. A chilling glimpse into the lies, betrayal, and collapse of a system built on symbols instead of human lives.
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It Finally Happened! Russia's 'Disposable People' Speak Out. Propaganda Stunned - The Russian Dude (Original Post) TexasTowelie Wednesday OP
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bdamomma

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Wed Sep 3, 2025, 09:26 AM
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We see how the felon is using our national guard and military has his guinea pigs when will it stop? when will our own military turn on him? hope it is soon.

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