Russian general killed by car bomb in Moscow, officials say
  • 1346 points NotTheRocketman

    This guy had been avoiding windows for months, thinking he was so smart.

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    462 points KathyJaneway

    Cars have windows too. That was his mistake.

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    98 points chantsnone

    Should’ve been a submarine general. No windows.

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    28 points Foraminiferal

    Russian subs can sink and get stuck at the bottom of the ocean

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    56 points chantsnone

    Super safe from windows down there

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    28 points ______deleted__

    r/Linux gang where u at

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    8 points bufordt

    Still fighting the GNU wars.

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    3 points aramis34143

    Bill Gates has left the chat

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    5 points johnnybiggles

    Submersible: "Would you like to chat with Copilot about this?"

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    3 points WhatWouldBobbyDo

    Oceangate thought the same thing!

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    3 points Yardsale420

    In fact, it’s kind of what they are known for.

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    8 points Ha-Ha-CharadeYouAre

    Just throw the submarine out a window duh

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    4 points callumjones

    Submarines can fall off ledges though.

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    2 points DickieMcBalls

    I hear the Russian's have screen doors on theirs

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    1 points DavidELD

    Russian Arctic subs have windows.

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    1 points chantsnone

    Shhh that ruins my joke

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    2 points GoofAckYoorsElf

    I picture a car, USSR brand. Driver window open. A man in a military uniform lying under it, flat on his stomach, face on the tarmac. Inside the car, a black clothed, masked FSB agent. The man on the ground, face still in the dirt, lifts his finger and mumbles into the ground (in Russian): "Booooring!"

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    1 points corpsie666

    Today I Realized why Russians use Linux

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    13 points kinglouie493

    He now has his own window

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    3 points ptau217

    And a widow.

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    11 points ChemsAndCutthroats

    I have nothing good to say about the Russian petro oligarchy but at least in Russia even the higher ups can get touched. Whether it's falling out of windows, or a billionaire oil oligarch deciding to kill his family and commit suicide with multiple gunshots to the head while on vacation. Anyone aside from Putin can be touched. In US or gulf states the oligarchs seem to be nearly immune. Imagine Trump and Elon fallout would have been like Russia. Elon and his many children and baby mamas would have all of a sudden been very clumsy around heights.

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    3 points I_AmA_Zebra

    In Gulf states they are almost one and the same.

    MBS showed the Oliglarchs can be touched though when he rounded people up, put them in the ritz, and stole their business

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    3 points PerryGrinFalcon-554

    Stairs too

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    1 points yarash

    Michael Peterson liked this

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    2 points staphzilla

    Should have switched to Linux much earlier

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    1 points johnnybiggles

    But he could not avoid that delicious spicy tea.

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    1 points TheTresStateArea

    Bro never left the first floor.

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    1 points StarFirezzz

    Right is defenestration too much to ask for Russia? It’s been your bread and butter for years, stick to it dammit, why take a leap of faith on an untested method?

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  • 431 points piratecheese13

    Generals will continue to be killed until morale improves

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    263 points Consistent-Throat130

    Imagine achieving the rank of general, and still having to ride in a fucking Kia Sorento. 

    This was an act of mercy on Ukraine's part, if you ask me.

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    53 points Ascomae

    Are you sure it wasn't Putin?

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    48 points endless_-_nameless

    I think this looks bad for Russia, they would probably off a general more discreetly rather than make it look like their enemy did it.

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    18 points ThepalehorseRiderr

    That's a valid point. He'd just be summoned to a meeting that he wouldn't return from.

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    7 points patriots1057

    If its is crazy, stupid and inefficient, it was probably done by the Russian government.

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    4 points Eastern_Hornet_6432

    It could even have been internal Russian partisans. Not all Russians are placidly letting Putin's reign happen to them.

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    8 points StormyPassages

    That particular general failed to fulfill Putin's war quotas for men and material, so yeah... sounds like it was Putin.

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    7 points ArthurMidian

    Comrades do not let comrades drive Kias

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    6 points LystAP

    Putin's more of a window guy. This was IN Moscow. If it was Putin, sending him out a window would have been easier than setting up a bomb.

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    1 points Darth-Lazea

    He wasn't defenestrated so it can't be putin

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    3 points sys_adm_

    And in a plain white colour too, you know he didn't buy any of the optional extras

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    2 points pmmemilftiddiez

    Imagine if you got a juke ?

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    2 points Darksmithe

    At least it wasn’t a Russian car. Those are real pieces of shit.

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  • 443 points poukai

    Good to see that the Russians are still working on their space program

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    7 points strikes30

    Two days ago was the anniversary of the first Spanish "astronaut", they wanted to celebrate it too. A little bit late, but better than nothing

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    19 points SomeGuyNamedPaul

    It's otherwise shut with the destruction of their only human rated launch facility and the extinction of tanks equipped with an exposed autoloader.

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  • 232 points Khankili

    Russia seems to have killed more Russians than any other country 🤔

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    50 points witecat1

    It has always been a Russian tradition!

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    9 points warcl0wn

    As is tradition.

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    1 points Fearless_Cream8710

    Yeag I don’t think this was Russia..

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  • 258 points BalanceEarly

    He probably didn't follow Putins instructions!

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    157 points pivovy

    Hard to tell with those high ranking officials... Basically everyone is your enemy - Ukrainian operatives, Russian partisan groups, your own superiors and even just regular Russians who probably hate you for being a corrupt thieving asshole (since that's the only way to become a high ranking official in putin's government).

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    40 points Corronchilejano

    "Command and Conquer: Red Alert"s soviet storyline is a lot closer to reality than what I imagined.

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    7 points _Panacea_

    "This guy made it to sPaaAAaCcE" - Tim Curry, probably

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    5 points SomeGuyNamedPaul

    He's Russian, could just be natural causes.

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    4 points HumanWithComputer

    Seasonal car bombing. It's that time of the war.

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    79 points fnordal

    or an Ukrainian operation. But let's not question the how, let's just be happy it happened!

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    49 points Own-Swan2646

    I like your style, results only. This kids got upper management written all over them.

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    18 points NateShaw92

    He beat Putin at monopoly.

    So this is in fact on the low end of responses

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    4 points Nenor

    Putin's squads make use of windows and Novichok. Probably Ukraine.

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    5 points Disastrous-Cellist62

    Those people usually fall out of windows. Just saying

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    1 points VerticalYea

    Really hard to fit a car through a regular window.

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    4 points Nenor

    Das war ein Befehl!

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    1 points dmuppet

    He probably didn't say "gesundheit" after Putin sneezed.

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  • 120 points CrimsonAntifascist

    So happy for him. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving person.

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    38 points ithinkitslupis

    Just in time for Christmas too.

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    7 points FingerSalamanca41

    Russians celebrate Christmas on January 7th

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    0 points Ar_Ciel

    Eh, close enough.

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    0 points StatisticallySoap

    “You’ve been promoted… to hell”

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  • 14 points wyenotry

    I’m picturing a Ukrainian operative and Putin’s lackey locking eyes as they reach under the same car, from opposite sides, to place separate bombs…

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  • 43 points BigBlackHungGuy

    Russia has to be running out of russians by now.

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    18 points phroug2

    Turns out there's so many of them, it's Russian tradition to just send them out onto the battlefield without rifles as cannon fodder

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    0 points ChemsAndCutthroats

    Apparently that part of Enemy at The Gates scene was mostly fictional. The Russians that did not get rifles were handed out PPSh sub machine guns.

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    8 points phroug2

    You know how many Russians died in the battle of stalingrad? 1.2 MILLION. Whether that scene in the movie is historically accurate or not, if 1.2 million people die in a single battle, I'd say that qualifies them as cannon fodder.

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    1 points Cooolgibbon

    Maybe read a book or two about that “single battle” that was one probably one of the top 10 important moments of the twentieth century.

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    1 points Honest-Head7257

    More than a million German and Axis soldiers combined also died in the battle of Stalingrad, yet nobody said German are using human waves or using cannon fodder.

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    2 points Eastern_Hornet_6432

    Russia has apparently suffered a million casualties in the war so far (or more if you ask the Ukrainians) and although those obviously aren't all deaths, TBH I'm genuinely curious how many casualties it would take before Russian society fails to compensate. I mean, even last year the birth rate was dangerously low, and since then the Kremlin has started scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas. At what point does it start turning into a visible humanitarian crisis in Russia?

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    2 points red_sutter

    They’ve got plenty of North Koreans and braindead Americans to pick up the slack

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  • 18 points ManchuKenny

    Usually they just accidentally fall out of windows

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    2 points KaptainKardboard

    Accidental car bombs can be just as dangerous!

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    1 points RockNRoll1979

    After shooting themselves in the back of the head with their hands tied behind their backs.

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  • 18 points SenatorPencilFace

    Wonder which side got him?

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    21 points generally_unsuitable

    Isn't it wild that you see a story like this and you really don't know?

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  • 5 points NickOulet

    Who is claiming responsibility Russia or Ukraine?

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  • 3 points Tweed_Man

    That car was just 2 days away from retirement.

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  • 6 points statslady23

    Didn't some damning data recently drop on Russian troop losses? 

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  • 7 points theknyte

    Russian officials really need to invest in garages with locks. This happens way too often.

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  • 2 points Multicultural_Potato

    They send normal soldiers to their deaths all the time, only fair they get hit too

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  • 2 points FarmingGeeks

    He told him "he can go have sex with himself"

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  • 4 points sulphra_

    The world is truly healing after taint and paul got their heads bashed in

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  • 2 points Osiris32

    Oh no! Anyway, good news about the Dacia Sandero!

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  • 2 points Lettuce_bee_free_end

    The higher your rank, the higher your chances of death in the workplace. 

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  • 2 points USDXBS

    On a positive note, someone just got promoted.

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  • 2 points lanth1990

    Badaboom motherfucker!

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  • 3 points eco_illusion

    Suicide by car bomb. For good measure he probably also shot himself in the back of the head several times after the explosion to make sure.

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  • 1 points flargenhargen

    It's not unreasonable to assume this means someone higher up was not happy with his performance.

    falling out of windows isn't the only performance review russian officials receive.

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  • 1 points TheStrayCatapult

    Imagine being a general and driving a Kia.

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  • 1 points brokeboipobre

    Car bomb, Must have been bored of throwing people out of windows.

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  • 1 points Fine-Button-5642

    Must have been the wind...

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  • 1 points argama87

    He failed Putty for the last time.

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  • 1 points Darth19Vader77

    Who possibly could have done this?

    What a mystery!

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  • 1 points DTFlash

    Clearly a suicide - Putin.

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  • 1 points Raining_Flamingos

    Веселого Різдва, відпочивай у сечі

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  • 1 points Jrippan

    It’s either a window or car bomb, pick your choice

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  • 1 points Lord-Sandwich_

    Who has killed more Russian generals, Putin or Ukraine?

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  • 1 points Ethereal_Nutsack

    A car bomb? Was that before or after he fell out of a window?

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  • 1 points Salmivalli

    It’s this or jumping out from window. He chose KIA

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  • 1 points O-parker

    In the Russian government it’s called retirement

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  • 1 points namotous

    Tough to be the insurers in Russia these days lol

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  • 0 points Kaml0

    Bro didn't have can-do attitude

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  • 0 points pat-ience-4385

    He must've gone against Voldemort. I'd love to know what drugs he and american Mussolini are being given because neither should still be alive and kicking.

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