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Doesn't he risk a 15-year prison sentence, by writing this? Pretty gutsy, to let it be published while he's still in Moscow.
by AlexCoventry 5y ago
Doesn't he risk a 15-year prison sentence, by writing this? Pretty gutsy, to let it be published while he's still in Moscow.
- tartoran 5y agoOh yeah, some Russians have my utmost respect for putting up and being vocal about that brutal regime they’re under. I think it toughens you up after some point but from my outsider perspective I would be simply terrified to speak up.
- older 5y agoYes, that's about 27% of them: https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings/ https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings/
- emptyparadise 5y agoI wonder how truthful such polls are in Russia. I've seen people use these numbers to claim that people in the country support the war, as if anti-war crackdowns don't have any chilling effects on poll responses.
- older 5y agoLevada center is the most respected such organization in Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levada_Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levada_Center
- older 5y agoBTW, there are more people protesting Russian invasion in occupied Ukrainian cities, at gunpoint, than there are people protesting the war in Moscow. Here's from Kherson today: https://twitter.com/mrsorokaa/status/1502983453452734468 https://twitter.com/mrsorokaa/status/1502983453452734468
- nevermindiguess 5y agoIt’s not a brutal regime. That’s what the media wants you to believe. Have you lived there and been treated brutally? The US is a brutal regime. Check the incarceration rates.
- npteljes 5y agoWhy not both? Checking out one data point, the US is a shade lighter, but they're both in the negative. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/human-rights-protection https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/human-rights-protection
- bogantech 5y agoAmericans don't throw you out of windows for criticising the President
- johnny22 5y agoyou mean the American state doesn't (usually) do that. Individuals certainly might though.
- aww_dang 5y ago>Gary Stephen Webb (August 31, 1955 – December 10, 2004) was an American investigative journalist. >Webb was found dead in his Carmichael home on December 10, 2004, with two gunshot wounds to the head. His death was ruled a suicide by the Sacramento County coroner's office. According to a description of Webb's injuries in the Los Angeles Times, he shot himself with a .38 revolver, which he placed near his right ear. The first shot went through his face, and exited at his left cheek. The coroner's staff concluded that the second shot hit an artery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb#Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb#Death >The Supreme Court declared last week that Americans have no right to learn the grisly details of CIA torture because the CIA has never formally confessed its crimes. The verdict symbolizes how the rule of law has become little more than a form of legal mumbo-jumbo to shroud official crimes. Why should anyone expect justice from a Supreme Court that covers up torture? https://mises.org/wire/supreme-court-uses-twisted-logic-protect-us-agents-committing-torture https://mises.org/wire/supreme-court-uses-twisted-logic-prot... If you looked, you could find a full page of citations like this. The difference is who's propaganda bubble you are living inside of. This doesn't excuse Putin or statists anywhere.
- foverzar 5y agoWhy would he? Literally nothing gutsy or illegalish.
- foverzar 5y agoInstead of downvoting maybe open some Russian site and see for yourselves what people write. There is nothing gutsy because it's nothing out of the ordinary.