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Not all of Russia. And I think it is a reminder to the people of Dagestan, Buratia, Altai, Bashkortorstan etc that they allow themselves to be taken advantage
by fifilura 2y ago
Not all of Russia.
And I think it is a reminder to the people of Dagestan, Buratia, Altai, Bashkortorstan etc that they allow themselves to be taken advantage of and killed by a tribesman from the plains.
- paganel 2y agoThe reactionary spirit among the Western technical elites never ceases to amaze me, it shouldn't by this point, but it still does.
- fifilura 2y agoYou may be right? It was written in anger.
- rrr_oh_man 2y agoIt takes a lot to admit one's missteps! Appreciate the gesture, as an innocent byreader
- wqaatwt 2y agoIt still seems very moderate compared to the fascist imperialist spirit amongst the elite (and majority of the overall population) of that other country..
- paganel 2y ago[flagged]
- fifilura 2y agoHm, that seems like a false dichtonomy. Why could it not be both?
- paganel 2y ago[flagged]
- wqaatwt 2y agoDo you lack the general sense of time and can’t tell if we’re living in the 1940s or 2020s? Surely Russia can’t be imperialist wither because they defeated Napoleon back in 1813? (your “argument” makes about as much sense).
- riffraff 2y agothe Brits defeated Napoleon, and that's why there never was a British empire.
- wqaatwt 2y agoWell of course. They saved Europe from tyranny. It would be the definition of historical revisionism to claim they could do anything wrong after that. Also I wouldn’t say that Waterloo was more important than Leipzig or Napoleon’s trip to Moscow.
- BartjeD 2y agoA lot changes in 80 years, and fascism and communism are both totalitarian ideologies.
- paganel 2y agoCommunism gave my parents and (younger) me free Education, free Healthcare and very cheap Housing, I don't care about its supposed totalitarianism, I just want that back, can I?
- wqaatwt 2y agoDepending on where live now you can try asking for asylum in North Korea? They’d probably love a western defector in a time like this. Also you want what back? To be younger? Because all of those things are available in much of western world. You might say “housing” but while it was technically cheap in the USSR it was extremely limited. There was never enough housing for everyone and multiple generations often had to live in tiny “affordable” apartments.
- martin_a 2y ago"We fought Nazis once, so we can't be Nazis ourselves"? Sounds... Interesting...
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- short_sells_poo 2y agoYes and let us remind ourselves that they only did this once they were themselves backstabbed by the Nazis that they very eagerly allied with just 2 years prior. In fact, they happily divvied up Poland with said Nazis. There is no doubt about Russia's intentions for Eastern Europe had the Ribbentrop-Molotov alliance held. You must be trolling to try and come here preaching that Russia were good guys in WW2.
- wqaatwt 2y agoI’d guess Stalin’s idea was to fund (literally, Germany wouldn’t have had enough oil without the Soviets) the nazi invasion of France and then swoop and “liberate” Europe after a couple of years of brutal WW1 style fighting.
- wqaatwt 2y agoIf it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck then what do you think it might be? So because Russians did something right* 80 years ago they have a permanent moral high ground in perpetuity? How does that make any sense? *of course let’s not get into how WW2 started and how would Germany would have had a much harder time defeating France with their horse powered military without massive Soviet support..).
- wave-function 2y agoThis is precisely why I lost all respect for the West in the last couple of years and am now cheering on Putin's propaganda that is deepening divisions in your own societies. It's obvious you'd like nothing more than to carve up our country and destroy our culture — which the people of Siberia, Caucasus, and all other regions have significantly contributed to. But you know fuck all about that because your knowledge of Russia is based on news headlines. Now I really hope he's successful, so this will come back at you.
- ipaddr 2y agoYou held respect previously and this is what caused you to lose it? Or you never held respect and use whatever to feed you?