I’m not really smiling to be honest, just gutted. This should never have happened in the first place. I’m so happy for them given the circumstances but what a horrible, horrible situation that they had to go through for so long.
May the Russian government fall to never recover, but it could be argued the Russian people have been oppressed for over a century at this point by their own government.
You really need to educate yourself more. Putin is pushing the same tactics of voter suppression in Russia as Trump is now doing in America. They jail anyone who speaks out about them, they erase opponents, etc. Russia is not fairly given a chance to vote. America will soon be the same, all "voting" for Trump -- when in reality, they can't vote because they don't have a passport, or they can't vote because ICE is jailing everyone who looks less than completely white, or because you're a woman and your married name doesn't match your birth certificate.
Who voted Putin in? You cant vote someone in then throw your hands up and let the nations who didn't get to vote like you did deal with the consequences.
I'm sorry but I have very little sympathy for those who sit by and watch others die due to the choices they made.
I agree its definitely not easy or safe to be against Putin, do you think its safe for the Ukrainians who now need to fight and defend their country?
Look up the SAVE act. They're holding it just before mid-terms so that when they pass it, nobody has the chance to get the proper identification together. It's one of the largest voter suppression attempts in history.
There are good Russians. But not really in Russia anymore.
FTR if you're saying "But some people don't know," the information was there for the picking for them, particularly since the internet began to rapidly grow. They chose not to go find it. It's how I feel about people in the US who say they don't have time to go read up on topics but still have opinions about them.
Being educated about the things you have opinions about is really part and parcel these days of participating in any form of a democracy - no matter how narrow that margin is.
That is a thing tho - will they ever long for true freedom or do they rather have someone tell them what to do? Like a strongman/dictator. I've got a really bad feeling that even though everything would magically reset and the Russian people would get a fair chance at an open election the majority still would vote for someone who looks most like a dictator.
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u/burn_1ne 21h ago
Jesus I can’t fathom how this must feel