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The whole world does not hate Russians. On the contrary, I've seen a lot of empathy for Russians abroad and in Russia who do not support the invasion of and atr

The whole world does not hate Russians. On the contrary, I've seen a lot of empathy for Russians abroad and in Russia who do not support the invasion of and atrocities in the Ukraine but still have to suffer because of the Russian government's, or rather Vladimir Putin's, actions. Obviously, yes, Russians who express support for Putin are hated, rightfully so.

Helitioo 5y ago
michalu 5y ago
"Russians abroad and in Russia who do not support the invasion" lol like Russians abroad have a choice ... it's funny to observe how the west from it's high moral ground and use or 'isms' left and right goes on to full on support of nazism. I guess nobody gave an F about Ukraine until now and all those mainstream media articles from 2014-2021 about nazism problem and anti-russian atrocities have gone ignored. Apparently, people had another pet cause to read about in those years.
- ComradePhil 5y ago
  The western media has been working extra hard to suppress Nazism in Ukraine: https://mobile.twitter.com/elaadeliahu/status/1517948443922255873 https://mobile.twitter.com/elaadeliahu/status/15179484439222...
  - Mikeb85 5y ago
    I see only Ukrainian symbols in that video. Only yellow and blue. No extremist symbols. The extremist elements of Azov have long since been weeded out. And do you know where the word Azov comes from? Sea of Azov, ie. where Mariupol is. Have you seen pictures of what the Russians have done to Mariupol?
- azth 5y ago
  - riedel 5y ago
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- bobkazamakis 5y ago
  plenty of people cared about Ukraine; what the fuck are you on about? the previous US president tried to withhold aid to Ukraine in quid pro quo. >Apparently, people had another pet cause to read about in those years. You mean they weren't literally at war, so they didn't take up as much of the spotlight?
  - michalu 5y ago
    > the fuck are you on about? wow, tough guy here :) I recommend you seek the truth over emotional highs. If you're not willing to do the work then be quiet - not for me but for your own good. FYI I wrote a two theses on the topic and read through tons of available material and defended both in front of a panel of people who served as ambassadors and are highly credible politologists, international lawyers, geopoliticists and I have zero investment in either side being right.
philwelch 5y ago
I think that’s what a silent majority of reasonable people might think, but there is still a ton of indiscriminate anti-Russian bigotry going around.
- hypertele-Xii 5y ago
  - ShivShankaran 5y ago
  - native_samples 5y ago
    Technically, Russian conscripts did.
  - philwelch 5y ago
    And here we have a perfect example of anti-Russian bigotry.
    - hypertele-Xii 5y ago
      Less than a hundred years ago russians marched into my country and tried to murder every man and rape every woman. Now they're marching into Ukraine and doing the same. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, you just want to "feel good" about how woke you percieve yourself to be, all the while living comfortably very far from a russian border, I'd wager. All this seems just overblown bigotry to you.
      - inkyoto 5y ago
        > Less than a hundred years ago russians marched into my country and tried to murder every man and rape every woman. You had better back such a sweeping statement up with hard facts and numbers as its emotional quotient veers past the red line. The history of the human race is so rife with examples of polity A committing atrocities against people of polity B under pretexts 1, 2, … N that it does not take long of poking around to find something to embarrass nearly any ethnic group on this planet, small or large. Human beings simply do not have a lasting track record of peacefully resolving their differences and most of the time resort to the warfare instead. Sad but true. Let's do another fact cross-check if the domain name of «.fi» in your profile rings true to the origin of your abode. Finland joined Nazi Germany as an ally and participated in the invasion of the Soviet Union; from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_War#Finnish_offensive_phase_in_1941 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_War#Finnish_offen...: «On the morning of 22 June Adolf Hitler's proclamation read: "Together with their Finnish comrades in arms the heroes from Narvik stand at the edge of the Arctic Ocean. German troops under command of the conqueror of Norway, and the Finnish freedom fighters under their Marshal's command, are protecting Finnish territory». «The Finnish plans for the offensive in Ladoga Karelia were finalised on 28 June 1941, and the first stages of the operation began on 10 July. By 16 July, VI Corps had reached the northern shore of Lake Ladoga, dividing the Soviet 7th Army, which had been tasked with defending the area. […] The Finnish II Corps started its offensive in the north of the Karelian Isthmus on 31 July. […] On 22 August, the Finnish IV Corps began its offensive south of II Corps and advanced towards Vyborg (Finnish: Viipuri). By 23 August, II Corps had reached the Vuoksi River to the east and encircled the Soviet forces defending Vyborg». On Finland's plans concerning Eastern Karelia; from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_military_administration_in_Eastern_Karelia#Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_military_administratio...: «The Continuation War and belief in a quick German victory over the Soviet Union once again gave rise to Finnish irredentism. The legality of the Finnish claims on Eastern Karelia was justified by both ethno-cultural and military security factors. During the spring of 1941, when the Finnish political leadership understood the full extent of the German plans concerning the Soviet Union, president Ryti commissioned professor of geography Väinö Auer and historian Eino Jutikkala to demonstrate "scholarly" that Eastern Karelia formed a natural part of the Finnish living space». On the ethnic cleansing of ethnic Russians in Easter Karelia by the Finnish government; from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Karelian_concentration_camps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Karelian_concentration_ca...: «These camps were organized by the armed forces supreme commander Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. The [Eastern Karelian concentration – emphasis is mine] camps were intended to hold camp detainees for future exchange with the Finnic population from the rest of Russia. The mortality rate of civilians in the camps was high due to famine and disease: by some estimates, 4279 civilians died in these camps, meaning a rough mortality rate of 17% […] Significant numbers of Soviet civilians were interred in the concentration camps. These were primarily Russian women, children, and the elderly, as almost all of the working age male and female population were either drafted or evacuated by the Soviets. […] During the spring and summer of 1942, about 3,500 detainees died of malnutrition». Granted, the situation with ethnic Russian detained in Finnish concentration camps was never as severe as in German extermination camps and the detainees did get released, several thousands did die anyway under the justification of the polity A leadership having a superiority over people of polity B. We now have gone a full circle.
Trias11 5y ago
It's the silent approval of Putin actions by the majority of Russian population is what caused world to actually and generally dislike Russian people. Granted - they been hypnothized by putin's multi-billion dollar/yr propaganda machine but this is the result.

Helitioo 5y ago

michalu 5y ago

"Russians abroad and in Russia who do not support the invasion" lol like Russians abroad have a choice ... it's funny to observe how the west from it's high moral ground and use or 'isms' left and right goes on to full on support of nazism. I guess nobody gave an F about Ukraine until now and all those mainstream media articles from 2014-2021 about nazism problem and anti-russian atrocities have gone ignored. Apparently, people had another pet cause to read about in those years.

ComradePhil 5y ago
The western media has been working extra hard to suppress Nazism in Ukraine: https://mobile.twitter.com/elaadeliahu/status/1517948443922255873 https://mobile.twitter.com/elaadeliahu/status/15179484439222...
- Mikeb85 5y ago
  I see only Ukrainian symbols in that video. Only yellow and blue. No extremist symbols. The extremist elements of Azov have long since been weeded out. And do you know where the word Azov comes from? Sea of Azov, ie. where Mariupol is. Have you seen pictures of what the Russians have done to Mariupol?
azth 5y ago
- riedel 5y ago
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bobkazamakis 5y ago
plenty of people cared about Ukraine; what the fuck are you on about? the previous US president tried to withhold aid to Ukraine in quid pro quo. >Apparently, people had another pet cause to read about in those years. You mean they weren't literally at war, so they didn't take up as much of the spotlight?
- michalu 5y ago
  > the fuck are you on about? wow, tough guy here :) I recommend you seek the truth over emotional highs. If you're not willing to do the work then be quiet - not for me but for your own good. FYI I wrote a two theses on the topic and read through tons of available material and defended both in front of a panel of people who served as ambassadors and are highly credible politologists, international lawyers, geopoliticists and I have zero investment in either side being right.

philwelch 5y ago

I think that’s what a silent majority of reasonable people might think, but there is still a ton of indiscriminate anti-Russian bigotry going around.

hypertele-Xii 5y ago
- ShivShankaran 5y ago
- native_samples 5y ago
  Technically, Russian conscripts did.
- philwelch 5y ago
  And here we have a perfect example of anti-Russian bigotry.
  - hypertele-Xii 5y ago
    Less than a hundred years ago russians marched into my country and tried to murder every man and rape every woman. Now they're marching into Ukraine and doing the same. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, you just want to "feel good" about how woke you percieve yourself to be, all the while living comfortably very far from a russian border, I'd wager. All this seems just overblown bigotry to you.
    - inkyoto 5y ago
      > Less than a hundred years ago russians marched into my country and tried to murder every man and rape every woman. You had better back such a sweeping statement up with hard facts and numbers as its emotional quotient veers past the red line. The history of the human race is so rife with examples of polity A committing atrocities against people of polity B under pretexts 1, 2, … N that it does not take long of poking around to find something to embarrass nearly any ethnic group on this planet, small or large. Human beings simply do not have a lasting track record of peacefully resolving their differences and most of the time resort to the warfare instead. Sad but true. Let's do another fact cross-check if the domain name of «.fi» in your profile rings true to the origin of your abode. Finland joined Nazi Germany as an ally and participated in the invasion of the Soviet Union; from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_War#Finnish_offensive_phase_in_1941 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_War#Finnish_offen...: «On the morning of 22 June Adolf Hitler's proclamation read: "Together with their Finnish comrades in arms the heroes from Narvik stand at the edge of the Arctic Ocean. German troops under command of the conqueror of Norway, and the Finnish freedom fighters under their Marshal's command, are protecting Finnish territory». «The Finnish plans for the offensive in Ladoga Karelia were finalised on 28 June 1941, and the first stages of the operation began on 10 July. By 16 July, VI Corps had reached the northern shore of Lake Ladoga, dividing the Soviet 7th Army, which had been tasked with defending the area. […] The Finnish II Corps started its offensive in the north of the Karelian Isthmus on 31 July. […] On 22 August, the Finnish IV Corps began its offensive south of II Corps and advanced towards Vyborg (Finnish: Viipuri). By 23 August, II Corps had reached the Vuoksi River to the east and encircled the Soviet forces defending Vyborg». On Finland's plans concerning Eastern Karelia; from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_military_administration_in_Eastern_Karelia#Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_military_administratio...: «The Continuation War and belief in a quick German victory over the Soviet Union once again gave rise to Finnish irredentism. The legality of the Finnish claims on Eastern Karelia was justified by both ethno-cultural and military security factors. During the spring of 1941, when the Finnish political leadership understood the full extent of the German plans concerning the Soviet Union, president Ryti commissioned professor of geography Väinö Auer and historian Eino Jutikkala to demonstrate "scholarly" that Eastern Karelia formed a natural part of the Finnish living space». On the ethnic cleansing of ethnic Russians in Easter Karelia by the Finnish government; from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Karelian_concentration_camps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Karelian_concentration_ca...: «These camps were organized by the armed forces supreme commander Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. The [Eastern Karelian concentration – emphasis is mine] camps were intended to hold camp detainees for future exchange with the Finnic population from the rest of Russia. The mortality rate of civilians in the camps was high due to famine and disease: by some estimates, 4279 civilians died in these camps, meaning a rough mortality rate of 17% […] Significant numbers of Soviet civilians were interred in the concentration camps. These were primarily Russian women, children, and the elderly, as almost all of the working age male and female population were either drafted or evacuated by the Soviets. […] During the spring and summer of 1942, about 3,500 detainees died of malnutrition». Granted, the situation with ethnic Russian detained in Finnish concentration camps was never as severe as in German extermination camps and the detainees did get released, several thousands did die anyway under the justification of the polity A leadership having a superiority over people of polity B. We now have gone a full circle.

Trias11 5y ago

It's the silent approval of Putin actions by the majority of Russian population is what caused world to actually and generally dislike Russian people. Granted - they been hypnothized by putin's multi-billion dollar/yr propaganda machine but this is the result.