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They should leave Russia. They’re currently paying taxes to the regime.

• kgeist 4y ago
  Emigration isn't an easy process, it can't happen overnight. You need a visa (now harder to obtain for Russians), you need enough savings (not everyone has enough money), you should be able to speak a foreign language (not everyone is skilled enough to get a job from day 0), you will have to leave all your friends and most of your relatives behind, everything/everyone you loved and invested into, both financially and emotionally - due to a military conflict which may end soon (no one knows). I have elderly parents I take care of - I can't emigrate without them. It's easy to judge people when it doesn't affect you personally. If I remember correctly, 75% federal budget of Russia comes from oil/gas revenues, so in a sense, Europeans are more complicit in funding Putin's war crimes than Russian taxpayers. I wonder why Europeans aren't emigrating en masse. And it won't really help if everyone who opposes Putin's war emigrates, it will only worsen the situation because there will be no one left to change the country from within, the country will only get even more radicalized/conservative. It's not so simple.