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Grischuk has already made public statements against the war. What else do you want him to do, blow up the Duma?

• forgetfulness 5y ago
  And Russia is a country where high profile dissenters do risk their freedom if not their lives outright. The people comfortably making this decision from Norway aren't doing anything like that. This tells to Russians that the world doesn't care about them, individually, risking their lives to stop the actions of their Government as they like to claim.
  • somenameforme 5y ago
    I would also add that Grischuk was under no obligation to say anything that he did. He was even rudely cut off by the 'host' at one point. And he even mentioned that in his phrasing he was going to avoid using the war since it's illegal in the media, and he wants them to be able to quote him. If there was ever a man you want with a voice and face in the media at a time like now, it would be somebody like Grischuk. This is somebody that, especially in times like now, that should be elevated. Instead he's going to be effectively depersoned on the international stage and effectively silenced, seemingly like every single Russian regardless of their wrongthink or lack thereof. What a world we're creating.
    • forgetfulness 5y ago
      These kinds of attitudes show to me that much of the western world didn't draw many lessons from 1914 other than that you can do more than figurative painting in the visual arts.