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D9u said "even Russians get it", not "the Russians get it", "Russia gets it", or "the Russian government gets it", so I don't think D9u meant to say that the po
by sspiff 13y ago
D9u said "even Russians get it", not "the Russians get it", "Russia gets it", or "the Russian government gets it", so I don't think D9u meant to say that the political and social climate in Russia is what we should aspire to.
Clearly, if he/she did, he would be poorly informed. Russia's crackdown on LGBT rights, their out-of-proportion prosecution of Pussy Riot and the oppression of opposition are recent markers of how free speech does not rule in Russia.
- speeder 13y agoRussians said US betrayed their own principles, not Russia principles. Russians never had a free speech culture, and never cared about it, yes there is some minority that care, but pools there for example.revealed that 78% of the population is very happy with the ban of LGBT speech. Also if Russian government allowed pussy riot on the street, someone would volunteer to kill them for profaning the church. Their issue is not with their message, but with how they did it.