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I appreciate wanting to support Ukraine. But the current trend of private companies just stopping service in Russia really targets ordinary Russians and just i

by w10-1 5y ago

I appreciate wanting to support Ukraine. But the current trend of private companies just stopping service in Russia really targets ordinary Russians and just increases their paranoia. Currently the ordinary Russian can't read anything from the outside or from independent sources, can't leave, can't get or send shipments, etc. Imagine being traumatized by decades of Soviet repression and isolation... and then having all that come back in a week. Driving ordinary Russians back into a fatalistic, nationalistic hole can only make things worse in Russia. It might also run counter to governments trying to tailor sanctions to target decision-makers. If you do stop your service, at least explain that you love Russian people, but the government is waging war and concealing what it is doing, and you are trying to bring peace.

zelon88 5y ago
> Imagine being traumatized by decades of Soviet repression and isolation... and then having all that come back in a week. Who's government is responsible for that, really? Why doesn't Russia have free press? > Driving ordinary Russians back into a fatalistic, nationalistic hole can only make things worse in Russia. It might also run counter to governments trying to tailor sanctions to target decision-makers. They were always in one. You mistake the status quo where russia is able to function for russia actually being functional. Without the world propping up and tolerating the Russian dictatorship; there can be no Russian prosperity. We didn't design your economy. Your barely functional government did. Russia is now more Russian than ever before. It's time for Russians to face unbridled russia. Enjoy.
keewee7 5y ago
>But the current trend of private companies just stopping service in Russia really targets ordinary Russians and just increases their paranoia. And that is how you make the Kremlin change their mind. >Imagine being traumatized by decades of Soviet repression and isolation... and then having all that come back in a week. The worst repression in the Soviet Union was not Communism. The worst repression was the Russian repression of minorities and non-Russian Soviet states.

by w10-1 5y ago

zelon88 5y ago

> Imagine being traumatized by decades of Soviet repression and isolation... and then having all that come back in a week. Who's government is responsible for that, really? Why doesn't Russia have free press? > Driving ordinary Russians back into a fatalistic, nationalistic hole can only make things worse in Russia. It might also run counter to governments trying to tailor sanctions to target decision-makers. They were always in one. You mistake the status quo where russia is able to function for russia actually being functional. Without the world propping up and tolerating the Russian dictatorship; there can be no Russian prosperity. We didn't design your economy. Your barely functional government did. Russia is now more Russian than ever before. It's time for Russians to face unbridled russia. Enjoy.

keewee7 5y ago

>But the current trend of private companies just stopping service in Russia really targets ordinary Russians and just increases their paranoia. And that is how you make the Kremlin change their mind. >Imagine being traumatized by decades of Soviet repression and isolation... and then having all that come back in a week. The worst repression in the Soviet Union was not Communism. The worst repression was the Russian repression of minorities and non-Russian Soviet states.