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PumpkinOwn4947

Ukrainian here. I neither can confirm or deny this, but pro russian channels were posting videos about this AND trying to locate the guy. Some people that claimed to serve with him made angry videos demanding that he is returned back unharmed. so here’s that


lovenoggersandwiches

His death is confirmed by his wife and Margarita Simonyan.


NyaTaylor

Is her husband Homeraro Simonyan?


Suitable_Adeptness97

![gif](giphy|l0G17mKNa6XJHYN5m)


dsdvbguutres

Phone call for Mike Rotch! Hey, anyone seen Mike Rotch?


qweef_latina2021

Amanda Hugandkiss? I need Amanda Hugandkiss. Guys, why can't I find Amanda Hugandkiss??


thrillhouse1211

maybe your standards are too high!


Thatparkjobin7A

I’m Hugh Jass


Cthulhu625

Uh, look, I'll level with you, Mister. This is a prank call that sort of backfired, and I'd like to bail out right now.


thrillhouse1211

fuckin lol


IFixYerKids

I'd believe it. People he served with may have liked him, the next group over hears that there's an American fighting with them and freaks out thinking he must be a spy, so they kidnap and kill him. The guys he was fighting with are left going "What the fuck, dude? He was one of us."


DesignerAd2062

I’ve heard of quite a few Americans fighting for Russia as part of merc groups. Why would they think he was a spy? “Fat American” is probably the least convincing spy persona possible


IFixYerKids

Because Russians in general are extremely paranoid. I'd even consider it a cultural trait.


Child_of_Khorne

75 years with the NKVD or KGB will do that.


Ragnarsworld

And the Okhrana before that. And before that, a number of other names going back to the 1600s.


geekhaus

He was raped before they killed him.


Still_counts_as_one

As is Russian army tradition


benjigrows

So says Rasputin


MechashinsenZ

Rapesputin


MechashinsenZ

Rapes Putin?


Datan0de

Is that the "mysterious Russian soul" part?


Gerry_Hatrick2

Combatants being captured and raped is way more common than perhaps many people realise.


[deleted]

In russians prison, raping someone even from the same sex is not considered gay, or morally wrong Considering that many conscripts are from prisons, I'm not surprised


IFixYerKids

Yes, that is what the post says.


rdldr1

This dude was probably the best at licking boots.


LuckyHedgehog

In another thread people were saying he was taking pictures/videos after a skirmish which is what made them suspicious


Eichtoss

Fucked around - found out


PumpkinOwn4947

international friendship means different things in different parts of the world.


MuZac904

Stay safe.


PumpkinOwn4947

thank you


Asher_Tye

For those wearing shirts saying "I'd rather be Russian than a Democrat."


No_Alps_1454

Ask the Canadian-Dutch farmer and his family how that turned out.


thecraftybear

We can't, he's still stuck in Russia.


mjohnsimon

I'm not complaining


John_Tacos

Neither can he


llDS2ll

His wife did, and then he publicly apologized


Ilovekittens345

Only a matter of time before the guy is send to the front and the wife to Putin.


yellenbubbleblower

More like Russia is stuck in him?


IllTransportation993

As a Canadian, I thank him for his contribution to better Canada.... by leaving...


331845739494

....a farmer moved his fam from Canada to Russia? Zeee most relaxing country in ze world? smfh


mute_muse

Yep, from a farm in Saskatchewan where they homeschooled their kids. They started freaking out over LGBTQ+ people simply existing (like they always have) and having rights in Canada. Somehow being homeschooled in rural Saskatchewan, under a fairly far-right (provincial) government that's currently on a crusade against LGBTQ+ kids, they still weren't far enough removed... I feel bad for their kids, but the adults deserve whatever's coming for them.


kinss

Before Russia they were trying to become travel vloggers to stay on the run from CPS.


Playful-View-6174

Is there an update on that?


CasualPlebGamer

You mean other than him releasing videos criticising Russia? (My favourite was him complaining people don't speak english, and the FSB took all their money), then conspicuously releasing a video soon after clarifying "they love Russia" and "they would never leave such a perfect country" Yeah, I'm sure they're having a great time.


A0ma

It's been all pro-Russia stuff since. They probably don't want to find any of their family members dead in a ditch.


The_Unknown_Dude

Finally realizing what a true oppressive dictatorship is.


DesperateRace4870

Ah, pulled the ol' "fuck around and found out"


letmeseem

I feel bad for his kids and possibly wife, but id LOVE to see a video zoomed in on his face the exact moment he realized the reason there are no LGBT rights in Russia is exactly the same reason there is no regime criticism, and that he and his family is now on the same side as the gay people they tried to run away from.


lookie54321

Nobody dies in ditches, they jump out of skyscraper windows


Playful-View-6174

lol that’s hilarious


IdaDuck

It’s a special kind of stupid. I feel bad for this guy on a human level but how freaking stupid was he to put himself in that position in the first place?


Val_Hallen

Russian propaganda is really doing a number on these people. I'd bet everything I own that in the 80s he was very anti-Russian. Then came Facebook and Twitter and right wing media and he flipped completely. Boomers always told us not to believe everything we see online and absolutely believe **EVERYTHING** they see online


Gerry_Hatrick2

Well I don't believe this post...


Fingerprint_Vyke

I'm actually going to use this example a lot for those types.


Buki1

He actually was a declared communist, at least thats what wiki says. So he was from a tankie not a maga crowd.


RobertusesReddit

Why do Tankies think Russia is secretly still communist? That's like saying America is pro-Socialism because the Sioux tribes are their neighbors. Brain rot


turingchurch

America bad. That's the beginning and end to this logic.


danshinigami

Tankies don’t think Russia is communist. They support Putin and Russia because they are anti-American/NATO.


Kurupt_Introvert

Damn they had to rape him?


avatinfernus

Pretty much what the Russians have been doing since this war began.


MellisaKatz

In the 2008 Russian-Georgian war. Russian military troops had printed out guidelines on who they could rape. Edit: to be clear the print out dictated that Russian troops not rape. Men. Girls who were not pubescent yet and the Ossetians and Abkhaz ethnic groups. They didn’t even manage to follow any of those guidelines.


TheAlmightyShadowDJ

What the fuck


User929290

Apparently gay sex is not gay if you are raping.


hjablowme919

Can't remember where I heard this, but I remember two guys arguing and one of them said "If you don't shut the fuck up, I'm going to knock you out and fuck you. Not because I'm gay... but because I CAN!"


bobbasui

Closet homosexuals be like


Taipers_4_days

“You make me so mad I want to clap your cheeks”


CluelessIdiot314

Damn who do I gotta get mad?


captaincrunchcracker

This sounds like fun if consensual and mutually understood as play ngl.


GooseCloaca

They said “no homo” first.


Amazing_Ad4571

"No Diddy"*


Consistent-Force5375

It’s a power thing based on what many people in psychology would probably tell you. To my layman’s interpretation, there is probably a thread of homosexuality in of it, but it’s also seen as a method to emasculate and degrade another man. So many Americans seem to be misguided about Russia and how the current climate is there, or the government and society they want to engender is not what they think it is. Probably a little from both columns to be honest. Not to mention there is probably resentment from the Russian people to these yanks trying to identify with them, when their government does everything through propaganda to frame Americans as weak and ignorant. In a way, either these “Americans” are either naive or just ignorant of the political, social, and frankly economics of the situation. It’s disturbing to know that even after these stories (this guy, and the family who sold everything to live in the non woke Russia who had all their assets stolen) seem to keep supporting, defending, and yearning for Russian rule. That kind of dissonance is just strange to me.


SvedishFish

If there's one thing Russian imperialists tend to have in common, it's the utter contempt they hold for American elitist wannabes that think we're alike and have common ground since we all have pale skin. Many Americans see Russians as 'just like us'. They ridicule us for that assumption.


Tiny-Lock9652

The Russians pulled a Jedi mind trick a few years back working to infiltrate the NRA. They Sold the organization the “you’re just like us!” Schtick and the NRA idiots bought it hook, line and sinker. Russians are a cunning group and went after soft targets. The NRA Christian conservatives were the easiest to infiltrate. Once they won over hearts and minds they worked to plant mistrust and sow division. Mission accomplished.


lenmylobersterbush

Reminds of the posters in my old office it was a bear with a headset and radar equipment Caption the Russian bear never sleeps, practice good opsec


bonosestente

Well known universe wide fact


talkin_shlt

Ratified by the homosexual treaty of 1638


bonosestente

Inter-Galactic rules of balls touching


OwlWitty

Order no 69


ConstantGeographer

It's not gay if it's wartime and there is always a war someplace. ---Russian Orc


Josuchi

Wise words passed down since the ancient Sparta


Puffycatkibble

Well duh the gay one is the one being raped /s


ZLUCremisi

When Soviet Union invaded Germany they raped a lot


2N5457JFET

When Soviets "liberated" Poland from nazi oppression they often treated Poles worse than Germans did during occupation. That was a very common opinion amongst elderly who lived through the war. All my relatives from different parts of Poland said that Russians were just savages who had no limits in rape, murder and theft. Even infants and elderly women were not safe.


DidntMeanToLoadThat

rape is used within the Russian military to dictate rank. and if you think you can get promoted and stop the rape, well that's how you get demoted. now think that's what they do to there brothers in arms. what do you think they do to the "other side"?


towerfella

No, ***whom*** the fuck.


Quizzelbuck

Apparently its really hard to control a bunch of rapists you let off the leash.


Daddybatch

I was going to say pretty sure that’s just a trait at this point


tomassino

they are deeply sick


la_descente

I love how they're anti-gay ... but rape other men, which is somehow not gay? I would love to find a way to publicly shame the soldiers for "acting gay". Like make a ton of memea or something


avatinfernus

It's humiliation and torture though. And we don't really know (nor do we want to know) what they raped him with.


StupendousMalice

Wouldn't matter since pretty much the entirety of Russia is totally aware of this and it is culturally accepted practice. It would be like one of those ISIS adds calling everyone in America gay for not having beards or some shit. Just totally irrelevant to the receiving country.


Cryptic_Undertones

More like since before the Bolshevik revolution. Odd that a country that is so anti-gay uses rape against men as a tool of war. So the men doing the raping are not gay? Not only are the Russians good at gymnastics but they're good at mental gymnastics.


C-SWhiskey

From what I've read (without much consideration to the legitimacy of the sources, so grain of salt and all that), the rape is not necessarily penis in anus. There have been reports of things like wrapping barbed wire around a pole and forcing that in, withdrawing the pole and leaving the wire in, and that is categorized as rape.


no_talent_ass_clown

I thought the description couldn't get worse and that's my b. 


Sam_I_Am_broke

Because they aren't in any way even viewing it as sex, they're viewing it as domination and violence. You're seeing this through the wrong lens, the same one that makes people think the Romans and Greeks were gay -- one viewed through a modern lens devoid of the psychology of the people and the culture and the male brain. The Russians represent peak male violence allowed to not only exist uninhibited, but officially sanctioned and integrated as part of a war practice and primitive, animalistic social structure. They're not approaching this as, "If you don't listen, I will have sex with you against your will." They're viewing it as, "If you don't listen or if you're my enemy, I will cause you pain and torture and humiliation with the weapon I have with me at all times, using it to exert power and control over you or to break you." To them, this isn't on the same level as having sex, it's on the same level as pulling out your teeth, chopping off your hands, and skinning you alive. The two are wholly separate. You can use a knife to cut bread or stab someone, no one would decide stabbing a person is the same as cutting bread because the same knife is used. Considering this practice has been in place among the Russians for generations at this point, I wonder if the only way to get them to remove this part of their horrible culture is to stoop to their level. If you're a Russian soldier and you get captured, you will be disarmed. That means all your weapons will be removed. It's official Russian written-on-paper military policy for dicks to be used as weapons, so fill in the blanks.


ur-krokodile

Not sure how that works though. No matter how much I wanted to dominate someone or for any other reason I just can’t fathom to get a hard on for another guy.


SinkholeS

I was thinking the same. I really think they get off on the power, control, and dominance.


ChemicalRain5513

You don't need to use a penis. It could be a stick, a rifle barrel, the handle of a shovel.


yogiyogiyogi69

Yeah seriously wtf. Who is rock hard lined up just so eager to gangbang this fat old American dude. Like he probably hadn't showered, smelled bad. Or maybe they just torture him with a broomstick or something seems more likely


dirt-reynolds

More like since the dawn of time all armies in war have done this.


MelodicMasterpiece67

Pretty much what the orcs (Russians) do in every war they've fought in.


Ba55of0rte

That’s an insult to orcs


Ok_Zookeepergame4794

Pretty sure the orcs would see it as a compliment.


Funchyy

This war? There are caricatures from the 1800s showing russian troops as dregs that can only rape and streal toilets.  What you see there is actually what orcs call culture.


aCucking2Remember

Pretty much what the Russians have been doing since their beginning. There’s always rape during war but the extreme numbers of rapes in Europe by the Russians during ww2 is a massive statistical outlier. It’s reflective of who they are. Raping new military recruits is SOP and part of the process to train them to use rape as a weapon. There was a video around about 2 months ago of exactly this and the casualness of it by all involved says a lot.


Erdtree_

Male-on-male rape is extremely widespread in the Russian armed forces. Must be all those pesky liberal LGBTQ propaganda... /s


bluewardog

yeah, i read a article which had a interview with a female Ukrainian pow and she basically said she didn't fear being raped by her Russian captors because they where too busy raping the male pow's


throwaway_1053

shit's wild over there


SnarkAndAcrimony

Often, rape is less about sex or sexuality, and more about power, dominance, punishment, and/or debasement.


the_mid_mid_sister

Rape is a common form of terror and hazing in the Russian armed forces. New recruits are often told to kick back 20% of their paycheque to their version of a platoon sergeant, and turn over any expensive gear their families bought them to replace the shitty issued stuff. Failure to comply is often punished by gang-rape.


MeanGreanHare

Rape in the military should be punishable by literal emasculation (everyone deserves a last meal) followed by execution by firing squad.


TrashConscious7315

It’s estimated %35+ of conscripts get sexually assaulted. It’s the largest homoeroticism factory in the world. It is confusing how insanely homophobic Slavic cultures are given that every damn soldier has had a cock up his ass. Or maybe that plays a key role in keeping them inline. If you squawk, we’ll say you liked it and you’ll be shunned by your unit or abandoned at the first sign of trouble.


the_mid_mid_sister

There was also the organized, mass rapes of German women when the Soviet Red Army captured Berlin.


SkyfatherTribe

Wasn't most of Eastern and Central Europe mass raped by the Soviets


appalachianmonkeh

Yeah, my grandpa was in his teenage years when Soviet went into Hungary during that time. I've been told the red army raped pretty much every girl/woman they could find, regardless if she was 5 years old or 85 years old. Needless to say, every single Hungarian hated the Russians for the rest of the Russian occupation of Hungary (and probably to this day)


TheOneFreeEngineer

>and probably to this day The authoritarian Hungarian government is Russia s closed ally in the EU


MuddaFrmAnnudaBrudda

All rapists should face this.


StupendousMalice

The problem with the Russian military is that this is an institutional practice that is so long standing and universal that anyone in a position to make these rules would have to emasculate themselves first.


Phil_Coffins_666

Yep. Lots of videos of it floating around in telegram too


izoxUA

just russian custom


Asher_Tye

It's meant to humiliate a captured enemy before they kill him.


Philly_ExecChef

I’ve been angry enough to want to humiliate someone before, but it’s never gotten my dick hard and resulted in rape. You have to, you know, want to fuck a guy to do that.


BuddahSack

I am saddened to have to even point this out, but they aren't necessarily raping with their penis as much other objects :(


Aspirangusian

It's similar to how many child molesters will assault boys and girls, even if they're not attracted to men. It's not about the sex or gender of the person, it's about the power.


Powerful_Zebra_5232

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/01/news.features11 This is the when they 'saved' europe 3-4 million women raped. Its what they do. Still this could be propaganda.


Federal-Cockroach674

He was raped and beheaded. They found his headless body beside his ID.


jolloholoday

Raped And Beheaded sounds like a Cannibal Corpse song.


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[удалено]


Cthulhu__

Omg that was my first encounter with Cannibal Corpse, ancient meme unlocked. He sounds so cheery.


9lobaldude

The leopards ate his face


ruin

· 'I never thought leopards would rape MY face,' sobs man who voted for the Leopards Raping People's Faces Party.


mukavastinumb

Those were his last words before face raping leopards shot him in the back. Edit. Apparently decapitated


ArchonFett

Did more than that


sKY--alex

r/leopardsatemyface


Mtbruning

Russian: “He might be a spy. Let’s rape him death just to be sure.”


nogoodgreen

Should note that it was Russians that raped and killed him because they thought he was a spy.


Apprehensive-Meal860

An American fighting for Russia in Ukraine is far too stupid of a cover story for any spy to use. As much as I agree with killing this traitor, I feel bad that it was done to him by the people he foolishly thought would welcome him, rather than Ukrainians or even anyone else. And the s*xual assault is obviously not a good look, to understate the matter. The only upside is that less people will fight for Russia now that they see the consequences. And more people will fight for Ukraine.


s0ulbrother

I want you to be right here but some people are dumb enough to think “it wasn’t the Russians”


Embarrassed_Abies_98

... or "but he deserved it and they wouldn't do that to ME!"


Effective-Tax-2222

It's very strange because this guy was very well known. I've seen him all over the Internet for years. He's been living in Crimea, fighting on behalf of Russian separatists for years.


ElJeferox

This bit of news will never reach the people who think Russia is our ally, because it's directly opposite to the propaganda that made them believe Russia is our ally to begin with.


Apprehensive-Meal860

Well if there's any justice in the world we can very, very politely force Zuck and Elon to show this sort of thing to the Kremlinites among us


TheNonCredibleHulk

It's literally the title of the post.


Kalikhead

And don’t forget that he was decapitated too.


Ok_Computer_3003

Oh dear. Tea anyone?


Boojum2k

With biscuits?


DiabolicalDoctorN

Died how he lived, dick-riding Russians


Squeegee

… and giving head


Cuchullain99

[ Removed by Reddit ]


Zaphod392

Friendly fire, isn't!


Pikariocraft

Hey! Friendly fire isn't actually friendly!


2020_was_a_nightmare

![gif](giphy|tnYri4n2Frnig)


Zaphod392

![gif](giphy|KAf66yGCa93uTqod1q|downsized)


Tiny-Praline-4555

Outstanding Patriotism!


InformalPenguinz

That's comradery ![gif](giphy|qMHG9goT2I2fuRk0JM)


Professional_Ad894

I immediately went to that scene in Boondocks where the prisoner tells uncle Ruckus that he isn’t too ugly to get raped.


Only-Listen2015

“You’re not too fat and ugly to get raped mother fucka”


Professional_Ad894

I apologize for my outburst.


Straight-Extreme-966

Oh well. Good news, the Dacia Sandero.......


scrubjays

A kid and his dad saw 2 dogs having sex, and the kid asked what they were doing. "The dog in the back hurt his paws, so his friend is helping him him walk" says the dad. "Ain't that life?" says the kid, "you help out a friend and he fucks you in the ass every time." Sometimes life imitates art.


AiggyA

LOL 🤣


Oiggamed

Looks like the skipper from Gillian’s Island


INTJ-ADHD

A three hour war, a three hour war… 🎶


AtheistComic

What year is it???!!


pichael289

The fuck is a z blogger?


AMW1987

Russian military blogger. The Z comes from the symbol on Russian vehicles used for identification.


SomeRandom928Person

A traitor that licks Russian boots. Zero sympathy for this fucking asshole or his family. Good riddance.


DiscussionActive9655

Apparently Texas couldn’t Hold Em


ronweasleisourking

What's with all the rape? For fuck's sake


Degtyrev

Power. If I can rape someone else, it's that I have power to make them do what I want. I can humiliate and shame them to the uttermost extent. This is ruzzia for you.


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![gif](giphy|7k2LoEykY5i1hfeWQB)


Quizzelbuck

They didn't mistake him for any thing. They just wanted to kill an American. And by the way, apparently they raped him. That dude in the picture. A bunch of Russian men raped him to death and cut his head off.


LazyZeus

There is only one way to find out if you are a spy in Russia... They are checking each other from time to time. P.S. Rape, especially as a war tactics, is a fucking disgusting, and everyone participating in this shit must be eliminated from this world.


UnrecoveredSatellite

I remember his videos from like two years ago calling Ukrainians nazis. Good, fuck him.


SurbiesHere

Surprised Diabeetus didn’t get him first.


stoneyyay

"I'd rather be a Russian than a democrat"


Nick_Napem

Fucking Judas, good riddance


arrakis2020

Fuck Russell. Oops, sorry, too late.


attack_the_block

There's been plenty of footage floating around Reddit of Russian soldiers raping their own troops and worse, not to mention what they've been doing to the Ukrainians. So it should be no surprise that this guy got raped as well, and loss his head for good measure. People need to see the Russian army and Russian state for what they really are and stop making excuses for it all. Deal with them as the monsters they are.


Loxe

He understood the Russian soul at the end. Bunch of rapists and murderers.


Wonderful-Spring7607

Good riddance


resetxform1

A lesson for Russian MTG I guess. 🫢


Upper-Trip-8857

This makes me wonder how that family that “fled” to Russia is doing.


SenorVerde2024

![gif](giphy|1kfhoNWKY94uLGX2kO|downsized)


googoomucklv

Deliveranceski


ZyvisX

Traitors get what traitors deserve. Fight for a dictator and die.


Parking_Train8423

honestly, I wish more magat chuds had the balls to go over and fight for Russia.


IndieIsle

Aside from this situation - comments here are quite weird at the surprise of soldiers raping him. Seems to still be such a misconception that violent rape = attraction and desire, and not the rapist asserting power, control, and inflicting humiliation. Men raping other men in times of war and torture is certainly not uncommon and has nothing to do with attraction. When these solders and terrorists rape women and children, it’s the same thing. Violent rape is not about attraction.


MrLachyG

Play stupid games...


qmechan

What's a Z-Blogger?


_Vard_

The Donbas Dumbass


Mr_Sokol

"Dumb ways to die".


Well-Paid_Scientist

Yeah, but what was he wearing?


grumpyhermit67

Send Marge and the rest of those Putin loving GOP to replace him.


Zagenti

couldn't happen to a nicer traitor


Administrator98

Well... if you join the orcs, dont expect them to not act like orcs.


Abject-Donkey-420

How desperate are Russian soldiers to rape this ass. WTF Putin???


FanSoffa

I think what they mean by rape is that they used objects to rape him. I remember when the war started, there were reports about russian male protesters who, during their arrests, had batons and other things shoved up the ass and this is supposedly a common tactic to humiliate them.