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This is anecdata. I know many Russians and zero of them approve of the current war. This includes the Russians living in Donetsk who had a lot of anger towards

This is anecdata. I know many Russians and zero of them approve of the current war. This includes the Russians living in Donetsk who had a lot of anger towards the Ukraininan government previously.

supreme_berry 5y ago
You can go this recent thread about blocking Instagram/Meta and read how they call west "nazi" https://habr.com/ru/news/t/655229/comments https://habr.com/ru/news/t/655229/comments > This includes the Russians living in Donetsk who had a lot of anger towards the Ukraininan government Got you fam. Take your 15 rubles.
- hakunin 5y ago
  While I won't argue that many Russians are indeed nationalistic and pro-Putin, that thread shows the opposite. All anti-war comments are upvoted, anti-west downvoted. Some comments are sarcasm/irony, maybe it was lost in translation.
  - supreme_berry 5y ago
    There's like right now 50/50. So from topic to topic pro-war comments can be more upvoted. Personally I left this comment https://habr.com/ru/news/t/655229/comments/#comment_24156299 https://habr.com/ru/news/t/655229/comments/#comment_24156299
- sam_lowry_ 5y ago
  I removed my account and my postings from habr at the start of the war by writing to its support. Many habr users did the same, because the company behind habr chose not to speak up and decided to censor the site to avoid any mention of war. At the same time, habr seems to suffer from increased activity of kremlinbots. So what you see there are remnants of a once sprawling community. Habr is irrelevant now.
rr808 5y ago
Its fascinating I'm following @666_mancer on Twitter and posts a lot of Social Media from Russia about soldier deaths. Extraordinary we can look at this stuff. Most of the comments are supportive (though seem cleaned up) https://vk.com/wall513235930_163856 https://vk.com/wall513235930_163856 https://vk.com/wall-18384194_684 https://vk.com/wall-18384194_684 https://vk.com/wall183637217_137 https://vk.com/wall183637217_137
sidibe 5y ago
If you go on Russian social media sites, there's an interesting phenomenon of many of them obviously disliking Putin while buying his propaganda wholesale about the West and Ukraine's Nazi government
- aaomidi 5y ago
  I feel like this comment kinda describes the west perfectly too.

This is anecdata. I know many Russians and zero of them approve of the current war. This includes the Russians living in Donetsk who had a lot of anger towards the Ukraininan government previously.

supreme_berry 5y ago

You can go this recent thread about blocking Instagram/Meta and read how they call west "nazi" https://habr.com/ru/news/t/655229/comments https://habr.com/ru/news/t/655229/comments > This includes the Russians living in Donetsk who had a lot of anger towards the Ukraininan government Got you fam. Take your 15 rubles.

hakunin 5y ago
While I won't argue that many Russians are indeed nationalistic and pro-Putin, that thread shows the opposite. All anti-war comments are upvoted, anti-west downvoted. Some comments are sarcasm/irony, maybe it was lost in translation.
- supreme_berry 5y ago
  There's like right now 50/50. So from topic to topic pro-war comments can be more upvoted. Personally I left this comment https://habr.com/ru/news/t/655229/comments/#comment_24156299 https://habr.com/ru/news/t/655229/comments/#comment_24156299
sam_lowry_ 5y ago
I removed my account and my postings from habr at the start of the war by writing to its support. Many habr users did the same, because the company behind habr chose not to speak up and decided to censor the site to avoid any mention of war. At the same time, habr seems to suffer from increased activity of kremlinbots. So what you see there are remnants of a once sprawling community. Habr is irrelevant now.

rr808 5y ago

Its fascinating I'm following @666_mancer on Twitter and posts a lot of Social Media from Russia about soldier deaths. Extraordinary we can look at this stuff. Most of the comments are supportive (though seem cleaned up) https://vk.com/wall513235930_163856 https://vk.com/wall513235930_163856 https://vk.com/wall-18384194_684 https://vk.com/wall-18384194_684 https://vk.com/wall183637217_137 https://vk.com/wall183637217_137

sidibe 5y ago

If you go on Russian social media sites, there's an interesting phenomenon of many of them obviously disliking Putin while buying his propaganda wholesale about the West and Ukraine's Nazi government

aaomidi 5y ago
I feel like this comment kinda describes the west perfectly too.