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There are very severe consequences for protesting. I don't blame him if he puts his and his family's lives first.
by kmogpfdk 5y ago
There are very severe consequences for protesting. I don't blame him if he puts his and his family's lives first.
- jacquesm 5y agoI don't blame him either. I'm just pointing out there is a choice. Totally understood that not everybody is in a position to make that choice, now or maybe ever. But there is safety in numbers. https://www.inyourpocket.com/gdansk/the-story-of-solidarity-in-gdansk_71303f https://www.inyourpocket.com/gdansk/the-story-of-solidarity-... FWIW I was in Poland at the time, the people there were absolutely phenomenal, and the amount of personal hardship and risk endured blew me away. Unstoppable, they would have happily run their country into the ground first. Big difference: they had relatively little left to lose, Poland had been bled dry by the Soviets over decades. By contrast Russians today have far more to lose, or so they may believe, when in fact they probably have more to lose from Putin's continued presence. A dictator is one thing, an unhinged dictator quite another.