DS Plastics is for Jumbo, Linde, Plasticraft and Thunderbirds - One Way or Another!

This is a post which has been 15-odd years in the gestation, and by way of correcting myself on this post . . .

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2022/01/1967-dutch-thunderbirds-game-by-jumbo.html

. . . and other people's utterances, elsewhere, they aren't Linde, they're DS Plastics (Dutch) copies of Austria's Linde coffee premium copies of the US Plasticraft spacemen, for a Jumbo (Hausmann & Hotte nv.) board game!

Which has cleared that up, so; what next? Some Spanish Romans I think, or more Historex wagons? What? You want more? Alright then, if I have to . . . but first go and read this;

https://www.lindefiguren.at/fotogalerie-linde/science-fiction/

For which link these are the English translations :-

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"Die Science Fiction Serie umfasst 6 Figuren in sechs verschiedenen Grundfarben (blau, grün, rot, gelb, silber und gold) - macht also 36 Variationen. Die Kennung befindet sich am Sockel und nur bei der Space-Woman (Nr. 5) und der knienden Figur (Nr. 2) auch am Rücken. Die Nummerierung (lt. Katalog Stukheil) entspricht den Figuren am linken Bild von unten nach oben".

The science fiction series includes 6 figures in six different basic colors (blue, green, red, yellow, silver and gold) - making 36 variations. The identifier is on the base and only on the space woman (no. 5) and the kneeling figure (No. 2) also on the back. The numbering (according to the Stukheil catalogue) corresponds to the figures on the left picture from bottom to top.

"Die Figuren dürften ohne Helm in den Kaffeepackungen gewesen sein. Originalverpackte, ungemarkte Figuren mit Helm im Blister sind mir bekannt und auch im Katalog von Peter Konrad, erschienen im Peko-Verlag, abgebildet".

The figures may have been in the coffee packs without a helmet. I am aware of unmarked figures with helmets in the blister in the original packaging and they are also shown in Peter Konrad's catalogue, published by Peko-Verlag.

"Die goldenen scheinen auch die seltensten zu sein".

The gold ones also seem to be the rarest.

"Noch ein paar Details: Es gibt diskrete Farbunterschiede: hellblau, hellgelb ..."

A few more details: There are subtle color differences: light blue, light yellow...

"Es gibt deutliche Unterschiede in der Gussqualität - siehe Oberkörper und Helm bei den Figuren links. Daneben ein typischer Gussfehler bei diesen Figuren: beidseits Einkerbungen am Sockel".

There are clear differences in the casting quality - see the torso and helmet in the figures on the left. In addition, a typical casting defect in these figures: notches on both sides of the base.

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Now, the rarity of the gold ones, seems to have been answered by Geoffrey Peeters, in part in his post here . . .

http://geoffstoys.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-plasticraft-mistere.html

. . . and I say 'in part' because while they come from Spain, there's no actual branding or brand-mark. Meanwhile to finish setting the scene, here's three of the Plasticraft originals with card;

https://vintagetoyarchive.tumblr.com/post/72606158389/plasticraft-1950s-space-expedition-spaceman/amp

They are a hard polystyrene polymer in the dime-store style, unlike the soft polyethylene of all the others.

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So, I had four, which I'd photographed as I was putting them away in the storage unit, in part for what - in my head - was an earlier and far simpler draft of this post, because I knew Theo Van de Weerden had sent me the answer in a catalogue illustration!

Here they are in the DS Plastics catalogue, clearly silver with blue helmets but rendered in watercolour sketch style rather that photographs, common in catalogues until at least the start of my childhood - the mid/late 1960's.

I first learnt about De Gruyter (a Dutch supermarket chain) in an informative article by Jan Boars in Plastic Warrior magazine about 25 years ago, although it was probably an even older back-issue? He told us expressly about their small-scale premiums, but in fact they were supplied by DS Plastics who had a wide range of 'dime-store', infant and rack toys, picnic ware, beach toys, construction bricks and other items, in the manor of Bell, Merit, Tudor Rose or Kleeware here in the UK, the German Manurba, or the US's Lido, Pyro, Empire or such like, with some of their tooling being bought from Siku.

Now I've had the image on the left since at least 2006 . . . 2007? Anyway, I had mentioned it in passing once or twice, but had forgotten I had the four loose ones, hence my photographing them against the side of a shipping container, when I realised I did have them, just has their box was going into 'the vault'! The thing was; I hadn't recognised the Jumbo logo, so have just referred to them as the/a 'Thunderbird's game' in past mentions.

While - following the post on Moonbase and the after-discussion, I managed to find a set on feebleBay for a reasonable amount (there were two at the time as well as the one on Marktplaats linked to by Paul), which I bought (image on the right), triggering this fuller post! There were none today when I checked, but they do turn-up reasonably regularly, if you keep an eye out, but you might be bidding against me as I still need two helmets!

The lack of a pair of helmets meaning I had to shoot these as two groups to do them full justice! Not Linde but DS Plastics for Jumbo, all after Plasticraft. Six poses, (as per Plasticraft and Linde) including one female who wouldn't look out of place with the Airfix space-lady, sartorially - and a comparison will appear on the Airfix page in the future. Three more casually posed; three apparently in combat and all betraying their 1950's pulp-matinee roots!

Looking at them here, I wonder if the same sculptor who produced the Lido 'Captain Video' figures didn't also have a hand in these?

So, having sorted them, we might as well cover the game, it's a funny thing really, obviously designed (cobbled-together is a better term) to tie-in with the Gerry Anderson TV series (which we can be sure the Dutch were mad-for, from the Xandria key-ring figures!), it's basically a glorified game of chase or a variant of the Snakes & Ladders mechanism, with added jeopardies on the asterix'ed squares. There is also some further trickery with the obtaining of a helmet before you can progress to the darker side of the board!

Note that snakes and ladders are footprints, dotted lines or rocket trails, and an attempt to please players either side of the board by having half the numbers upside-down only confuses everyone! And that's why it's a 'funny thing', and funny - peculiar, not funny - haha! But still; a fun item.

Jumbo are a huge (to this day, and now pan-national) jigsaw-puzzle manufacture, not a board-game maker per se, and it shows in this game which was obviously rushed together and rushed out, but lucky for us that it was, as it means sets of six DS Plastics' figures (less the odd helmet or two!) have survived, where the loose or bagged retail figure issues, whether De Gruyter premiums or DS Plastics direct, probably haven't, in the same way or numbers.

In order to further enhance the added-value of the set, the board rests on a raised card plinth which is a cut, fold & glue 'paper model' of Thunderbird 1, shorter than the folded board it creates a box or trench for the six figures and the oversized dice.

Someone has started cutting mine out, but not tried making it, nor - as far as I can tell - lost any pieces, so I will try finishing it sometime. Being silver-foil laminated, it was hard to photograph and may prove hard to glue to the facing surfaces?

Theo also kindly translated all the bumpf from the bi-lingual (Dutch/French) instruction sheet, and as this post has become a bit of an opus, we might as well have it all, these are the front and back covers.

While this is the six sheets inside, which translate as follows :-

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Board game for 2-6 people

Jeff Tracy lives on a deserted island in the Pacific with his sons Scott, Virgil, John, Gordon and Alan. Jeff Tracy is the founder of International Rescue, an organization that aims to preserve world peace and rescue people around the world, in sometimes the most impossible places and ways, at risk of accident.

For this they have at their disposal fantastic means of transport and communication, designed by the genius scientist Brains. Furthermore, International Rescue has a highly skilled secret agent, Lady Penelope who, along with her driver Parker, forms a dangerous duo for any criminal.

International Rescue's worst enemy is "The Hood", a very clever criminal who is always out to threaten humanity with new disasters.

The object of the game is to capture "The Hood". Each player chooses his own playing figure. Before starting the game, remove the space helmet from the head of the figure. One starts at the launch site for the Thunderbirds. Whoever throws the highest dice gets to start. One advances as many places as eyes are thrown. The first player to reach number 100 gets to capture "The Hood" and wins the game.

It is necessary to acquire a helmet while playing, otherwise you cannot get further than square 50, where the universe begins. You get a helmet when you land on one of the spaces marked with a helmet, i.e. 4,7,9, etc. If you arrive on space 50 without a space helmet, you go back the same number of spaces in the next turn or turns when one has thrown eyes, until one ends up on a square with a helmet. In the next turns, you move forward again. If you land on one of the following squares during the game, something special will happen!

No. 3 Thunderbird 1 makes an extra fast start to square 27.

No. 6 Thunderbird 3 rises almost perpendicular to square 44.

No. 8 Alan Tracy takes a little spacewalk and goes to square 16.

No. 10 Thunderbird 3 has to get to Thunderbird 5 on square 66 as quickly as possible to relieve Scott Tracy from his monthly watch. If you do not have a space helmet, you may not go into space and must continue your journey across the board.

No. 18 Jeff Tracy calls Thunderbird 2 back to square 1, to pick up another container.

No. 25 Lady Penelope takes her fast FAB 1 to square 49, her spacious country house.

No. 39 Gordon Tracy needs his spacesuit. However, this is on s square 67. Without possessing his space helmet, he is not allowed to do this and must continue his journey across the board.

No. 41 Thunderbird 2, attacked by enemy aircraft, moves to square 34.

No. 42 Thunderbird 1 searches for a suitable landing plate and finds it in square 45.

No. 50 John Tracy contacts Lady Penelope in square 77.

No. 55 An urgent message from Jeff Tracy, via Thunderbird 5: "Proceed to square 73"

No. 77 Lady Penelope has a code message from John Tracy, taking it to square 50.

No. 81 Thunderbird 3 goes off course and lands on square 71.

No. 83 Parker gets airsick and has to fly lower; goes to square 60.

No. 86 John Tracy digs into square 46 with the 'Mole'.

No. 93 Brains needs to pick up tools and goes to square 87.

No. 97 Thunderbird 3 has a malfunction in the nuclear reactor and has to go back to square 5.

No. 98 Scott Tracy sees Thunderbird 3 has a malfunction and guides it to square 74.

No. 100 THE HOOD. Whoever arrives here first gets to capture him and wins the game.

A build plate of the Thunderbird 1 is printed on the table in this box. It can be assembled as follows. Cut out all parts along the outer black lines. The dotted lines are fold lines. Always fold from the outside in, so that the metal-colored side forms the outside. Nose cone a is glued to the hull b; this hull is closed from below by circle c. The thickening of the hull, d, is pasted with the number 1 under the word Thunderbird. Round e closes the thickening. The narrow strip f is glued to the circle f in circle e. The top of the motor g is glued to f. The strip with the letters TB 1 (engine block) is indicated as in the figures g and i, folded and glued under g. Figure i closes the engine block from below. The wings k1 and k2 are folded, glued to the wing holders j1 and j2, and the whole applied to the stripes j of hull b. Finally, the stabilizer wings l are glued to the 4 protrusions of the engine block. In this manual you will find a drawing of the complete Thunderbird 1 after it has been assembled, to which the letters have been added according to the build plate. Good luck with this beautiful model!

Dutch Thunderbirds fans, ask your shopkeeper about the accurate Dinky Toys, scale models of the lightning-fast FAB 1, with its automatic rocket firing direction, with the imperturbable driver Parker behind the wheel and Lady Penelope in the evening toilet and the Thunderbird 2, the super-technical cargo plane of International Rescue.

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Note the advertisement for a Dinky toy; were Jumbo the agents for Dinky in Holland at the time?

To cover all the bases; this is my QA slip, the one in the Moonbase set was a yellow elephant, mine's dark blue-black, I suspect there were others (red, green . . . black?) and that they were randomly added to each box. Unlike the game instructions this is quadri-lingual, and presumably came with all the games, puzzles and any other products?

I would add that while there is a copyright date of 1967 on the lid, I suspect that's for the licensee (Century 21 Merchandising Ltd.), and is the date of registration of the TV series, rather than the game, which is probably later, the series was repeated several times in some territories, or when the Dutch got it . . . mid-late 1970's? Even as late as 1981, when it was resurrected in some areas? The game is quite common and the box and board quite glossy, while the whole thing is a bit glam-rock in it's look . . . maybe around 1974/5?

As you may recall from the Fireball XL5 post, I've been using an old Dr Who location for some of my space photography, or was it Blake's Seven? Not! The local gravel-extraction beds!

The figures are slightly to markedly poorer (my standing with two side-arms) quality that the Linde ones, and indeed, looking at the Linde ones makes you wonder if they weren't the first as the Plasticraft ones are of the same quality, maybe Linde (who were known for copying) actually got the old Plasticraft tool? But it's fair to say the DS Plastics are copies.

But, pulling everything together - it would seem that both the Plasticraft and Linde are sharper than the DS Plastics figures, the Spanish set may also have come from DS (same quality, also unmarked, but different colour figures and helmets), which would give us an origin, but we'd probably still be looking for a local [Spanish] brand-mark / importer.

Thanks to Theo, for the catalogue image and the translations/correspondence on this one, nods to Geoffrey Peeters and whomever (Herwig Oberlerchner?) is behind the excellent Linde site which I think I've used before, and a wave at Moonbase Central's post, which spurred me into snaffling a set and correcting my comment over there, fully, over here!

[Edited the same day to correct my confusion between DS Plastics and De Gruyter!]

P is for Pavilion - Toy Fair 2022

By way of a continuation of the previous post, Pavilion were a new name on me at this year's Toy Fair, a wholesaler, not a manufacturer, so they will only add to their tag-entry if they exhibit equally interesting stock in future years, but here's what they are offering this year!

Mostly handling clearance for 'big name' stuff, including the partwork issuer Eaglemoss and Dr Collector, a Spanish outfit concentrating on brand licences, they had an interesting array of stuff on display, but there are limits with clearance, and as a trade or B2B supplier, of little use to us beyond the images!

From their small catalogue, you can see Fallout, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Jurassic Park and ET merchandise on offer, with the ET stuff being the link with the previous post and on display at the show . . .

. . . where I photographed them (upper shot) against never seeing them again - which I haven't and I've tried Smyths and the local independent (but not The Entertainer yet?) - and I can report they are about the same size as the LJN and JAR Sales ones

There was also a bunch of ex-Partwork stuff, but the problem here is that the clearance tends to have limited scope, being those commoner figures (issues 1, 2 & 3, or the issue following a switch to subscription only, or a price-rise - with longer series) or side-issues; mail-away's and the like, separate to the actual partwork.

Anyway, that's more ET's and Pavilion in the tag-list!

T is for Two - Follow-up to Fingers of Fictional Fun

This is a follow-up to a rather bitty Sci-Fipost from January, but I said at the time there were more ET's in the post, while there were also developments on the Remco diver front - they are also spacemen!

Increasingly, it's hard to know with some things whether what you're buying is all original, in matters Corgi-Dinky-Lesney - for instance - there is a lot of reproduction stuff around, especially the accessories, while Tri-Ang Battle Space has repro' parts for all the little jigets, and some of the larger pieces; track-side and wagon-underside triggers, missiles etc . . . sometimes they are obvious (white-metal castings), sometimes not so, poured resin . . . painted . . . while 3D printing is only adding to the confusion/plethora of stuff offered.

One chap on eBay has an enterprising line in replacement figures for the Remco 3D board game 'Lost in Space', which uses the spear-gun figure from the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea sets (even further apart than my suggested one of 20,000 Leagues!), I think they are 3D printed but they don't have the tell-tale striations of deposit/extrusion printers so they may be the sintered liquid type; equally they could be cold-cast resin?

But they are fun, and given what the original games go for, I grabbed a set purely to tick the box, as far as four new figures goes! This is the least close to the originals, being semi-transparent, but also my favourite! The blue and yellow are a bit off from the Remco playing pieces too. Lost in Space with an underwater dart-gun!

Meanwhile, the other ET figures had arrived, so I took a few shots, I thought I'd only taken the comparison shots below, so took another line-up last night, consequently there are two good shots! These are the LJN ones, and a total of six is the whole of series 1, six more (series 2) are obviously harder to find!

Clearly different tranches have lead to marked differences in decoration, although I couldn't tell you which came first, the rule-of-thumb is usually they start better and get poorer, which would probably make the left-hand one the earlier issue? He's reading an ABC!

I is for It Was the First of April!

OK, so yesterday's posts were both attempts at April Fools; the Airfix Space Tank is actually the Centurion card mucked about with in Picasa (I was pleased with the shadow of the firing lever! While the Revell kit is by an unknown artist and was kicking around on Faceplant the other day with no byline, so hat's of to the original artist - if anyone knows him, let us know!

 

I actually posted several edits on different groups or threads on Thursday as I worked on it, so with yesterday's shares it's got out there!

 

I'm still not comfortable posting, given everything that's going on, but i realise that life must go on, and if Putin's going to start WWIII I may only have  a few weeks to get 15-years worth of work done, so it behoves me to just get on with it, however there is still Real life stuff in the background too, but I'll get back to posting something!

In the meantime I did post some stuff over at the But Is It Giant Blog; the Giant 'Space Men' got their day in the sun with five posts covering the main points

Introduction
Giant Originals
Copy Type 1
Copy Type 2 (Woolbro etc)
Copy Type 3

 

While I also took a closer look at the three Roman cards, previously seen in the 'page' at the top of this screen.

 

980 - Roman Legion Chariot Attack

981 - Roman Legion Assault Group

982 - Chariot Race

 

If you go over there and scroll they will all be in the reverse order to above!

B is for Breaking News - Toy Fair Latest!

Latest announcement on the toy 'wire' is a range of topical kits from Revell . . .

The first in the series is reportedly going to be followed by a Belarus-1522 dragging a T-80BVM MBT with damaged 'cope cage', an Agromash-180TK towing a 9K33 Osa/SA-8 'Gecko' and a Western John Deer pulling a BTR-82A IFV, all common-enough sights around Ukraine these days.

R is for Recent Addition!

Picked this up at a recent fair, nothing about it in the books, but you can't have everything . . . 

One wonders if it was destined for the 01741 Astronauts, or was there a range of more fictional Sci-Fi stuff planned? Anyway; it fills an obvious gap in the collection - Space Tank!

R is for Russian Russians from Russia.

I don't know if I have any Russian readers left, nor do I know how many Russian readers I had before Putin locked them out, but against the possibility that some are using VPN's to get a fix of their Western filth (toy soldier and model figure 'filth'!!), or that Blogger has escaped the more Draconian lock-bots currently blocking the parent Google, this is for you, if your President's allowed you to be here.

Most of these pictures were taken by Alex / Oleks known to some of you for his toy soldier site, he's in or around Kyiv, which your army is bombing back to the stone-age, (along with Serhiy of ElastoWit toy soldiers) and sends me what he can when he has a moment.

Luckily, the Russian Army is so fucking useless, they've left the mobile communications network up, so they could use it (which seems to have resulted in five of your Generals' being zeroed and dispatched to meet their maker), and by the time they might have been minded to shut it down, Ukrainian forces had knocked-out or captured most of your Electronic Warfare vehicles.

Understand this is NOT a "Special Military Operation", it is a murderous aggressive war of INVASION against an innocent country which did nothing to harm you, and it is a WAR you are losing. 

Я не знаю, остались ли у меня русские читатели, и не знаю, сколько русских читателей у меня было до того, как Путин заблокировал их, но против возможности того, что некоторые используют VPN, чтобы исправить свою западную грязь (игрушечный солдатик и примерная фигура «грязь»!!), или что Blogger избежал более драконовских блокирующих ботов, которые в настоящее время блокируют родительский Google, это для вас, если вы, президент, позволили вам быть здесь.

Большинство этих фотографий были сделаны Алексом / Олексом, известным некоторым из вас своим сайтом о солдатиках, он находится в Киеве или его окрестностях, который ваша армия бомбит обратно в каменный век (вместе с Сергеем из оловянных солдатиков ElastoWit) и отправляет мне то, что он может, когда у него есть момент.

К счастью, русская армия настолько чертовски бесполезна, что они оставили сеть мобильной связи включенной, чтобы иметь возможность ее использовать (что, похоже, привело к тому, что пятеро ваших генералов были обнулены и отправлены на встречу с их создателем), и, судя по всему, когда они, возможно, собирались отключить его, украинские силы подбили или захватили большую часть ваших средств радиоэлектронной борьбы.

Поймите, это НЕ «Специальная военная операция», это кровопролитная агрессивная ВТОРЖЕНИЕ против невинной страны, которая не причинила вам никакого вреда, и это ВОЙНА, которую вы проигрываете.

Putin lied to you, and he's still lying to you. You have lost thousands of vehicles, tens of thousands of troops, hundreds of tanks and more than 70 aircraft, including three of your new 'indestructible' Kamov Ka-52 gunships.

Путин лгал вам, и он продолжает вам лгать. Вы потеряли тысячи единиц техники, десятки тысяч солдат, сотни танков и более 70 самолетов, в том числе три новых «неубиваемых» боевых корабля Камов Ка-52.

This is what is waiting for you in Kyiv and Kharkiv,
everyone who can is working to make your soldiers die.

Это то, что ждет вас в Киеве и Харькове,
каждый, кто может, работает над тем, чтобы ваши солдаты погибли.

This is what you are doing to dozens of cities in Ukraine, carpet bombing and unregulated shelling, you are making 44-million enemies, in Kharkiv the Russian-speakers stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Ukrainian speakers, ready to kill your invaders.

Это то, что вы делаете с десятками городов Украины, ковровые бомбардировки и нерегулируемые обстрелы, вы наживаете 44 миллиона врагов, в Харькове русскоязычные стоят плечом к плечу с украиноязычными, готовые убить ваших оккупантов.

You have wiped whole villages off the map, for no strategic or tactical reason, the hate generated will last for at least three generations.

Вы стерли с лица земли целые деревни без какой-либо стратегической или тактической причины, вызванной ненавистью хватит как минимум на три поколения.

This is what you mean by not targeting civilians, in Mariupol you have destroyed 90% of the housing and targeted two community shelters (in the Theater and a junior school) because they were built in the Soviet era and you know where they are, they are two war-crimes to add to all the others.

Вот что вы имеете в виду под нецелью мирных жителей, в Мариуполе вы уничтожили 90% жилья и нанесли удар по двум общественным приютам (в Театре и младшей школе), потому что они были построены в советское время, и вы знаете, где они находятся, они два военных преступления вдобавок ко всем остальным.

Your vehicles are not only being destroyed in large numbers, they are also being captured and used against your useless army.

Ваши машины не только массово уничтожаются, но и захватываются и используются против вашей бесполезной армии.

Still burning! Because your officers took all the paperwork, mobile 'phones and watches from the conscripts in the initial wave, they are being buried in mass graves with no hope of identifying half of them. It will take international forensic teams (of the sort still working in the former Yugoslavia) years of peace to sort your mess out.

Еще горит! Поскольку ваши офицеры забрали все документы, мобильные телефоны и часы у призывников в первой волне, их хоронят в братских могилах без надежды опознать половину из них. Международным группам судебно-медицинских экспертов (такие, которые до сих пор работают в бывшей Югославии) потребуются годы мира, чтобы разобраться в вашей неразберихе.

One of yours, the initial phase of the Northern Army Group (Group Z) was so appallingly badly handled, a lot of your dead were found days later frozen to the snow or mud, and the Ukrainians call them 'dog-food', because all the abandoned dogs in the villages you raised to the ground for no reason, have been eating them.

Один из ваших, начальный этап Северной группы армий (группа Z) был так ужасающе плохо организован, многие ваши мертвые были найдены через несколько дней замороженными до снега или грязи, и украинцы называют их «кормом для собак», потому что все брошенные собаки в деревнях, которых вы без причины свели на землю, съели их.

Abandoned, it is reported that retreating troops from that initial debacle were summarily executed by FSB firing squads, I don't know the truth of that, but as you are fighting in a medieval fashion, it's almost certainly true and with mobile crematoria in your rear echelons, you'll never know, as the evidence has already been burned, taking your casualty figures over 15 or 20,000 dead, god only knows how many injured? But we only care about the Ukrainians who didn't want this on their soil, they aren't bombing your cities, your towns - but they have every right to.

Сообщается, что отступающие войска после того первоначального разгрома были без промедления расстреляны ФСБ, я не знаю, правда ли это, но поскольку вы воюете в средневековой манере, это почти наверняка правда, и с мобильными крематориями в ваших руках. тыловые эшелоны, никогда не узнаешь, так как улики уже сожжены, принимая твои цифры потерь более 15 или 20000 убитых, бог знает сколько может раненых? А нас волнуют только украинцы, которые не хотели этого на своей земле, они не бомбят ваши города, ваши поселки - но имеют на это полное право.

One of yours.

 

You have lost so many troops now, the Duma has passed a law allowing you to recruit thousands of mercenaries, but how are you going to pay them, your economy is on the floor and crawling out of the door? And who will those mercenaries be? Fascist lunatics and ego-tripping body-builders from the beer cellars of St. Petersburg, Islamist extremists from Syria and Tunisia? Chechen animals? You're going to love billeting them when the war is over.

Один из ваших.

Вы потеряли сейчас столько войск, Дума приняла закон, разрешающий вам вербовать тысячи наемников, но как вы собираетесь им платить, ваше хозяйство стоит на полу и выползает из дверей? И кто будут эти наемники? Фашистские сумасшедшие и тщеславные бодибилдеры из пивных подвалов Санкт-Петербурга, исламистские экстремисты из Сирии и Туниса? Чеченские животные? Вам понравится расквартировывать их, когда война закончится.

One of theirs - I have no words.

Один из них - у меня нет слов.

What you are doing to Ukraine.

Что вы делаете с Украиной.

Why you've lost so many aircraft!

Почему вы потеряли так много самолетов!

Does this look like a 'limited military operation' to you? Do you seriously think the Ukrainians would do this to themselves while you stand around doing nothing? Stop believing the Soviet-era style propaganda, and start to understand it will take you decades to pay for this.

 

Which you will have to before all sanctions are lifted - you have done trillions of dollars worth of damage and are continuing to do so as I write, despite the fact that in the North your armies have all but stopped and in the South-East Army Group V and the Donbas fascists are struggling.

По-вашему, это "ограниченная военная операция"? Вы серьезно думаете, что украинцы будут делать это с собой, пока вы стоите без дела? Перестаньте верить советской пропаганде и начните понимать, что расплачиваться за это вам потребуются десятилетия.

Что вам придется сделать до того, как все санкции будут сняты - вы нанесли ущерб на триллионы долларов и продолжаете наносить, пока я пишу, несмотря на то, что на Севере ваши армии почти остановились, а в Юго-Восточной армии Группа V и фашисты Донбасса борются.

This is what you're doing.

Это то, что вы делаете.

Blindly bombing residential suburbs.

Вслепую бомбят жилые пригороды.

This is not 'limited', this is total war, with war-crimes.

 

Это не «ограничено»,
это тотальная война с военными преступлениями.

No military targets here, no limited "Nazi" elements,

just housing and shops.

 

Здесь нет военных целей,
нет ограниченных «фашистских» элементов, только жилье и магазины.
 

Your army has thrown so much at the two northern cities, they are reported to be running out of ammunition, then what? Putin wants a deal, but the cards are falling from his hands, and you will have to pick up the pieces.

Ваша армия так много бросила на два северных города, что, говорят, у них закончились боеприпасы, и что дальше? Путин хочет сделки, но карты падают у него из рук, и вам придется собирать осколки.

150+ civilians homeless - if they escaped the bombardment?

 

150+ мирных жителей без крова - если они избежали обстрела?
 

More housing, more shops.

 

Больше жилья, больше магазинов.

Is this one of yours, or one of theirs? Maybe one of yours which became one of theirs for a few days? It doesn't matter, it's what it shows, total war against an innocent neighbor in the 21st century. You can't win, because we don't want this as the 'new normal'. The sanctions against Russia are the most punitive ever, you are now more isolated that Iran or North Korea. the whole world (except China - and they are staying on the fence) are against this WAR.

Это один из ваших или один из их? может быть, один из ваших, который стал одним из них на несколько дней? Неважно, что он показывает, тотальная война против невинного соседа в 21 веке. Вы не можете победить, потому что мы не хотим, чтобы это было «новой нормой». Санкции против России являются самыми карательными за всю историю, вы сейчас более изолированы, чем Иран или Северная Корея. весь мир (кроме Китая - а они стоят на заборе) против этой ВОЙНЫ.

Army Group Z, as they are seen all over the Internet,

an Internet you're not allowed to look at.

 

Группа армий Z, как они видны по всему Интернету, 

Интернет, на который вам не разрешено смотреть.
 

The whole world except Russians and Belorussians are seeing these every day.

Army Group O? Resupply, second wave? Dead.

Весь мир, кроме россиян и белорусов, наблюдает это каждый день.

Группа армий О? Пополнение запасов, вторая волна? Мертв.

Putin calls the Ukrainians Nazi's,

but the only Nazi's in the room are your military.

Путин называет украинцев нацистами,
но единственные нацисты в комнате - твои военные. 

Direct hit on a residential block which has already been shot-up?

Not even war, just war-crimes.

 

Прямое попадание в уже расстрелянный жилой дом?

Даже не война, а военные преступления.

You have forcibly removed between 5 and 8,000 civilians to Russia when they were supposed to be using a humanitarian corridor to escape the bloodshed west, that is a war crime. You are refusing to allow humanitarian convoys into besieged cities, that is a war crime, you are threatening the entire population of Mariupol with military tribunals (when you have no jurisdiction in another country), you have shot on an old people's home killing +/-50 civilians, that is a war crime.

Вы насильно вывезли в Россию от 5 до 8 тысяч мирных жителей, когда они должны были использовать гуманитарный коридор, спасаясь от кровопролития на западе, что является военным преступлением. Вы отказываетесь пускать гуманитарные конвои в блокадные города, это военное преступление, вы угрожаете всему населению Мариуполя военными трибуналами (когда у вас нет юрисдикции в другой стране), вы стреляли по дому престарелых убивая +/ -50 мирных жителей, это военное преступление.

A school. March 1st. It's worse now.

Школа. 1 марта. Сейчас хуже.

A block of Flats.

 

Многоквартирный дом.

But across Ukraine they are ready for you, they are preparing to kill your soldiers as they have been killing them for three and a half weeks.

We are told the people of Russia aren't to blame, yet we are also told Mr Putin's ratings have gone up, we are told the Russians don't know what is going on, well this is going on; your army is destroying a happy, developing democracy for no reason, while the Ukrainians destroy your army.

I realise this is a drop in the ocean of stuff generated by this illegal invasion of a sovereign nation, but if I reach one Russian, and change their mind, it will have been worth it. My impotence in these matters is matched only by my anger.

 

If you are Russian and you don't agree with what's happening, and you can see this, share this.

Но по всей Украине к вам готовы, готовятся убивать ваших солдат, как убивают уже три с половиной недели.

Нам говорят, что народ России не виноват, но нам также говорят, что рейтинг Путина вырос, нам говорят, что русские не знают, что происходит, что ж, это происходит; ваша армия без причины уничтожает счастливую, развивающуюся демократию, а украинцы уничтожают вашу армию.

Я понимаю, что это капля в море вещей, порожденных этим незаконным вторжением в суверенную нацию, но если я доберусь до одного русского и передумаю, это того стоило. Мое бессилие в этих вопросах может сравниться только с моим гневом.

Если вы русский и не согласны с тем, что происходит, и вы это видите, поделитесь этим.

They are killing you at a rate of approximately 1000 personnel every two days, and you can include 5 generals and 1 Admiral in that total. The graph can't be fully trusted as it's come from Ukraine, during a war of attacking aggression and illegal invasion, but it's ten-time more accurate than anything coming out of the Kremlin or your puppet broadcasters.

Они убивают вас со скоростью примерно 1000 человек каждые два дня, и вы можете включить в это количество 5 генералов и 1 адмирала. Графику нельзя полностью доверять, так как он исходит из Украины, во время войны атакующей агрессии и незаконного вторжения, но он в десять раз более точен, чем все, что выходит из Кремля или ваших марионеточных вещателей.

Use Lantern to protest, learn and share

Используйте Lantern, чтобы протестовать, учиться и делиться

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3n5e9/russian-internet-lantern