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pls don't mix the government and the country. the former is a crowd of criminals, the latter is a beautiful country with unique history, culture and traditions

pls don't mix the government and the country. the former is a crowd of criminals, the latter is a beautiful country with unique history, culture and traditions.

throwaway0a5e 5y ago
> pls don't mix the government and the country. Exactly. Look at the kind of social media content and whatnot that the normal people there put out. Generally speaking the people of eastern Europe seem to have far more in common with the people of north America than either group does with the people of western Europe.
WesolyKubeczek 5y ago
"The country" at large is supporting the government. Otherwise there would be sabotage left and right. Stalin may have been "the" bad guy, but there have been people actively producing millions of denunciations, right? So there's the "bad guy" Putin, but there are millions of "little people" serving his causes and seeing nothing bad about it. Just making a little money, always looking out for number one.
- sAbakumoff 5y ago
  >> Otherwise there would be sabotage left and right Sabotage attempts in modern Russia are monitored and persecuted. Non-government orgs and media are declared to be "foreign actors". The opposition is effectively destroyed. Opposition leaders are convicted(unless they had a chance to flee). "Little people" do not necessarily support it, but they afraid for their freedom, their health and their life. You can't blame them for that
  - WesolyKubeczek 5y ago
    This only means there's a great body of people quite happy to exercise ultraviolence towards their fellow citizens and give them horrorshow tolchoks to their gullivers, which is my point exactly.
    - edoceo 5y ago
      Friend, that is the human condition. It's not specific to any country/region/ethnicity. One should consider themselves fortunate if they are not stuck in those situations.

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pls don't mix the government and the country. the former is a crowd of criminals, the latter is a beautiful country with unique history, culture and traditions

by sAbakumoff 5y ago

pls don't mix the government and the country. the former is a crowd of criminals, the latter is a beautiful country with unique history, culture and traditions.

throwaway0a5e 5y ago
> pls don't mix the government and the country. Exactly. Look at the kind of social media content and whatnot that the normal people there put out. Generally speaking the people of eastern Europe seem to have far more in common with the people of north America than either group does with the people of western Europe.
WesolyKubeczek 5y ago
"The country" at large is supporting the government. Otherwise there would be sabotage left and right. Stalin may have been "the" bad guy, but there have been people actively producing millions of denunciations, right? So there's the "bad guy" Putin, but there are millions of "little people" serving his causes and seeing nothing bad about it. Just making a little money, always looking out for number one.
- sAbakumoff 5y ago
  >> Otherwise there would be sabotage left and right Sabotage attempts in modern Russia are monitored and persecuted. Non-government orgs and media are declared to be "foreign actors". The opposition is effectively destroyed. Opposition leaders are convicted(unless they had a chance to flee). "Little people" do not necessarily support it, but they afraid for their freedom, their health and their life. You can't blame them for that
  - WesolyKubeczek 5y ago
    This only means there's a great body of people quite happy to exercise ultraviolence towards their fellow citizens and give them horrorshow tolchoks to their gullivers, which is my point exactly.
    - edoceo 5y ago
      Friend, that is the human condition. It's not specific to any country/region/ethnicity. One should consider themselves fortunate if they are not stuck in those situations.