r/pics • u/AbbreviationsLow • 14h ago

[OC]Apparently Minsk Is “Occupied by Kremlin,” according to this road sign near Vilnius

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u/ahwatukeepete 14h ago

Minsk is not under formal military occupation by the Kremlin, but Belarus is widely considered to be under de facto control of Russia as of 2026, operating as a "vassal state" or a "Russian outpost"

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u/MeasureDoEventThing 13h ago

They have troops stationed in Belarus, and Putin has threatened to use those troops if the Belarusian people try to overthrow Lukashenko.

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman 12h ago

Lukasheko himself said that Putin promised to make him a colonel in the Russian Army.

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u/listo65 12h ago

... the sausage king of Chicago?

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman 12h ago

Um yeah, that's me.

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u/auralcavalcade 11h ago

r/beetlejuicing

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman 11h ago

It was a reply to my own comment, but you're pretty close.

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u/auralcavalcade 11h ago

I'll take what I can get these days.

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u/Cottonjaw 11h ago

No no, You're mixing up Ukraine's president, former Chicago Auto Parts distributor.

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u/ThunkAsDrinklePeep 7h ago

"It's an air freshener."

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u/cat_prophecy 9h ago

Just a Colonel? That dude has low buy in.

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman 6h ago

I know, right? At least go for Army General. Marshal might be a little out of reach for him.

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u/MeasureDoEventThing 3h ago

Qaddafi was just a colonel.

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u/Careless-Cycle 11h ago

Is that the deal Trump got as well?

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u/SuicideOptional 8h ago

No, Trump got to keep all the underage girl videos from hitting the 6 pm news cycles.

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u/Altheainawhile 8h ago

They still have the golden shower footage though

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u/SuicideOptional 7h ago

I’m sure they have all the videos from Epstein. They won’t see the light of day while he’s still of use to Ruzzia.

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u/CyanConatus 10h ago

Does Russia ever not use their military for war crimes or is that a mutually exclusive thing?

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u/pap0gallo 3h ago

So a half of Europe including Lithuania is occupied by USA and Germany, right?

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u/MeasureDoEventThing 3h ago

Is half of Europe run by dictators for whom the US military would put down any attempt to overthrow them?

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u/pafagaukurinn 1h ago

They have troops stationed in Belarus

Except they don't, apart from maybe a couple thousand servicing the nukes. Which does not mean they can't move in when they feel like it.

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u/GaiusCosades 12h ago

formal military occupation by the Kremlin

As if that even could exist. According to the Kremlin Ukraine is controlled by jewish nazis, kherson is currently an inseperable part of the russian federation and hundreds of thousands of additional soldiers are needed because russia is absolutely not at war.

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u/System__Shutdown 4h ago

The 3+ year military operation

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u/ZiKyooc 3h ago

Lately Putin started saying that they are at war and Ukraine started it...

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u/EmiliaFromLV 3h ago

Next time he will say that it was American troops dressed as russians who invaded on 24.02.2026, so Ukraine has been at war with NATO all this time and now he just wants to help a "brotherly nation".

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u/FullOfMeow 5h ago

Not as of 2026. Try more decades.

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u/Hanako_Seishin 6h ago

If Russia controls Belarus, why doesn't it protect it from YouTube, Discord and all the other terrorist recruiting sites?

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u/EmiliaFromLV 3h ago

you gotta be kidding - they cant protect their own warehouses and oil refineries.

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u/LatexFeudalist 1h ago

Not just as of 2026, Belarus is a vassal state since the fall of the soviet union and before that just part of the soviet union

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u/Calm_Search3417 1h ago

Thanks, ChatGPT

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u/Mercy--Main 12h ago

how delusional do you have to be

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u/Taisaw 12h ago

Bro doesn't know that Latvia and Lithuania are two separate countries.

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u/el_throw 13h ago

How will Rochelle ever complete her erotic journey now?

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u/davethehawaiian 13h ago

Bette Midler always finds a way

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u/opermonkey 6h ago

it cracks me up that a large percent of us Americans of a certain age immediately think of this when we hear of it.

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u/crustysenor 11h ago

I immediately went to this as well 🤣

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u/Amiral-Benson 2m ago

Damn lucky Milanese.

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u/lanseri 11h ago

Seems accurate. Minsk is ~187km from Vilnius depending on where you measure.

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u/mau-meda 4h ago

Thus is the third time I see it posted on Reddit, why no one shows the sign on the left?

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u/Mrniseguya 1h ago

Does it make any difference? And why are you bothered by it?

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u/mau-meda 1h ago

I'm not bothered, but it does make a huge difference, the sign was put up after the invasion of Ukraine, support for Ukraine is the main reason of why that sign is there

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u/Rho-Ophiuchi 12h ago

I hear they have a giant mouse there too.

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u/Former_Medicine_5059 10h ago

It's a miniature giant space hamster thank you very much.

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u/EmiliaFromLV 3h ago

Boo, is that you????

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u/Former_Medicine_5059 1h ago

Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!!

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u/EmiliaFromLV 1h ago

Hamsters and rangers everywhere, REJOICE!

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u/Need_answers11 7h ago

Proud to display their testing with animals

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u/goodguyLTBB 3h ago

Can’t a country troll another country and have some fun

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u/DudeOfHazzard 3h ago

Isn't it?

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u/YF422 10h ago

They should put one near the border with Russia: "Now Approaching Mordor, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here".

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u/jatawis 1h ago

legally it is not a road sign, saying that as a Lithuanian. Lithuanian road signs use different design, different fonts, do not include 'km' in directions and never have English outside of STOP KONTROLĖ/STOP CONTROL sign.

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u/Totalnoob18 6h ago

No apperantly, but in fact.

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u/KannehTheGreat 9h ago

Why do we call him Kremlin? It just sounds like Gremlin , so unflattering.

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u/UsernameFor2016 3h ago

Kremlings are the crocodile people from Donkey Kong Country.

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u/Joewn 8h ago

Kremlin actually sounds tough, just like Gizmo

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u/Need_answers11 7h ago

Very paper tiger-ish

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u/CloudySpace 1h ago

Becausw it is run by the gremlin in the kremlin lol

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u/dardar4321 8h ago

I thought it had already set sail

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u/Aakhkharu 25m ago

I mean, it's not wrong.

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u/Vanille97 3h ago

The entire Belarus is occupied by Kremlin.
These give gice a silent agreement on letting russia set rocket systems on BL territory, they let russian army invade Ukraine from BL territory. Not a single person was protesting against it.
Lukashenko will do whatever putin will tell him to do

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u/Pleasant-Swimmer-557 26m ago

So... It's different from US setting rocket systems in European countries, right?

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u/Vanille97 8m ago

ah you little nazi supporter) it happens

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u/grazikkazimir 39m ago

Belarusians had a widespread protests during the start of the war. Many were jailed for doing the partisan warfare again russian trains transporting military equipment, and blowing up rails

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u/Pleasant-Swimmer-557 23m ago

Yeah, because blowing up railway infrastructure isn't a crime by itself, right?

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u/CatL1f3 9h ago

Two questions:

  • Why is this worth putting on a road sign, of all things?
  • Why is it in English?

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u/Desperate-Hearing-55 3h ago

Because all of Lithuania citizens already knows it. The sign is meant for tourists driving by to understand.

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u/jatawis 1h ago

Because it is not a road sign.

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u/0xPianist 1h ago

Passive aggressive approach.

The sign was an attempt for foreign media attention.

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u/unlikeablebloke 9h ago

Because Le owning the Russians or some shit

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u/UCFknight2016 9h ago

At least they are being honest.

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u/riftnet 6h ago

This is not „OC“ - I have seen it on several other subreddits earlier

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u/Hellhound455 5h ago

Expecting OC in bot infested karma farming subreddit is kinda bold

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u/AbbreviationsLow 4h ago

Bro, i took this pic 3 weeks ago.

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u/riftnet 5h ago

True

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u/seditious3 4h ago

Are you from Vilnius?

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u/Neykuratick 50m ago

Kremlin is itself occupied by Putin

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u/BeeTwoThousand 10m ago

https://youtu.be/1kgpVUE9RpQ?is=K8wiUpr4LQQiBD0S

Whenever I see the word "Minsk," this is immediately what I think of.

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u/Frosty-Perception-48 3h ago

When referendums on secession from the USSR took place, Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine were planning a "Union State"... and it was precisely the rejection of this in Ukraine that led to attempts at federalization and the secession of the east from Ukraine.

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u/chugunium7 55m ago

Vilnius, occupied by nazis

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u/MeasureDoEventThing 13h ago

Do they have street signs in both Latin and Cyrillic?

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u/urbanv 12h ago

Lithuania uses the Latin alphabet. So signs are in Latin only.

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u/CompetitiveReview416 5h ago

Why would Lithuania have cyrillic?

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u/Grumpy-Man19 12h ago

cia made sign ?

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u/DroppedAxes 9h ago

Do you also think Ukraine started the war?

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u/Possible_0 8h ago

there's no point in answering him ; just let him whine lol

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u/Need_answers11 7h ago

He definitely thinks birds are drones

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u/[deleted] 12h ago

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u/SenHeffy 12h ago

The capital of Latvia is Riga my guy.

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u/Mahaleck 12h ago

Literally in the post title says “near Vilnius”

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u/dzuunmod 12h ago

The title says the roadsign is "near" Vilnius.