The Siege of the Dubrovka Theater

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  @mikdan8813 · 2 years ago

  "Congratulations, you are being rescued. Please, do not resist".

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  @thedarkonestaint6105 · 2 years ago

  Thank you Simon and team, for completely taking over my YouTube feed. The rest were all junk channels anyways

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  @5Dogs1BrainCell · 2 years ago (edited)

  The children and pregnant women were not let out immediately. They were freed by different negotiators including Josef Kobzon (you mentioned him) and the Surgeon General. But otherwise, very accurate, thank you.

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  @WorkLifeStressBalance · 2 years ago

  &quot;In exactly zero moments of history has post-Soviet Russia been an easy place to be.&quot;<br><br>The same is largely true for Soviet and pre-Soviet Russia too. The podcast Behind the Bastards once described Russian history as &quot;a series of lateral moves,&quot; which sounds about right.

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  @FruitFlyKilla · 2 years ago

  The Russian approach to things like this is always like they&apos;ve watched too many Hollywood action movies. There is no such thing as &apos;sleeping gas&apos; per se - if you want to render a human unconscious through use of sedative substances, no matter how it&apos;s administered, they&apos;re all going to need respiratory support. The dosage that the people inside received was undoubtedly massive and was always going to end in causing mass civilian casualties. In classic Russian style though this basic fact was ignored and a lot of innocent people died due to reckless incompetence.

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• HA

  @hairydadder1168 · 2 years ago

  I remember this in the news for weeks. &nbsp;My Uncle (in the Navy in WW2) turned to me and said &quot;The soviet union hasn&apos;t gone away, it&apos;s still there, just a new name&quot; and used this siege and the Russian response as example.

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• MA

  @masao2922 · 2 years ago

  The gas used had been tested with incredible success before, but it was tested for OUTDOOR purposes not INDOOR

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• ZA

  @zawa322 · 1 year ago

  What a chilling quote, &quot;we are more keen on dying than u r of living.&quot; Time to start plotting an escape.

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• AR

  @archangeldo913 · 2 years ago

  The most feared statement anywhere, “We are spetznaz and we’re here to rescue you.”

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• HA

  @harlequinems · 2 years ago

  The S.O.B.R? That got to be the closest a Russian has come to being fully sober 😂

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  @V3RYG00DS1R · 2 years ago

  Got here so early, had to help put up the banners

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• BA

  @Baddy187 · 2 years ago

  I checked a few weeks ago if Simon did this topic already. I knew it would not be far away 😊

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