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I suspect not everyone in Russia is either pro-Putin or anti-Putin, as in most other polities, for that matter. That's why I think this premise: > Russians by

• watwut 5y ago
  The Ukraine was either not mentioned in news or willified as nazi. And not just for few days. That was Russian media before invasion. There was Russian evacuation of Donbas all over Russian news to supposedly protect civilians from Ukrainian nazi. Because Ukrainiane apparently decided to attack Russians exactly as Russian army was amassing at that exact border. No other opinion is even legal now, there is 15 years imprisonment for that and independent media are closed. Russians who have Ukrainien families refuse to believe them even as their are getting pictures of basement living. This premise of support for Putin is what people/journalists stationed in Russia reports. Before they left, because it is not safe anymore. People who reported on Russia for years, including in runup toward this war. Including during previous wars and whose past reporting turned out ok. The war in Ukraine is result of long term process. The opposition, civil rights groups and what not were dismantled or weakened as part of that process.