Siberian politicians slammed journalist of pro-Kremlin news outlet RT for her calls to drop nuclear bomb over Siberia as a way of sending a message to the West (www.themoscowtimes.com)

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RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan proposed detonating a thermonuclear device “on our own territory, somewhere over Siberia,” claiming that there would be no impact on the humans living below.

Simonyan’s remarks were a “deep insult” toward Siberians, said Maria Prusakova, a Communist Party member in Russia’s lower house of parliament from the Altai republic.

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[-] [email protected] 64 points 9 months ago

"Let's bomb ourselves, that'll show them"

Truly great strategy

[-] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

It was quite popular during cold war. Both US and Commies were waving nuclear dicks left and right.

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