About

Out of Nowhere Is Spetsnaz refers to a series of image macros featuring a photo, reportedly, depicting a member of Ukrainian Special Purpose Regiments (Spetsnaz) about to leap onto the back of another soldier.

Origin

The earliest available usage of the image was posted on April 28th, 2004 by an anonymous user on the Soldf message board. The thread featured a number of photographs of Spetsnaz training, including the one of the soldier jumping on the other (shown below).^[1]

Spread

On August 31st, 2010, an anonymous 4chan ^[2] user posted the image with the caption "Out Of Nowhere Is Fucking Spetsnaz" in the /tg/ board (shown below, left).

Four years later, on March 31st, 2014, an anonymous 4chan^[3] user posted a photoshopped version of the image. The post's caption is also altered to read "Out Of Nowere Is Fucking Zergface" (shown below, center).

On October 10th, 2018, Redditor ^[4] RobloxPornAccount posted an object-labeled version of the image in which the aerial Spetsnaz soldier is labeled "kids watching movies on their ipads" and the other solider labeled "restaurant ambience." The post received more than 40,000 points (95% upvoted) and 300 comments.

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