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I'm in Finland, <400 km from St. Petersburg, and here the Russian community seems more divided. Some are taking anything from RT/whatever completely seriously,
by ptaipale 12y ago
I'm in Finland, <400 km from St. Petersburg, and here the Russian community seems more divided. Some are taking anything from RT/whatever completely seriously, particularly regarding Ukraine, or at least in public they make an appearance to that effect.
Others are horrified by seeing the chasm between Russian propaganda and actual reality - for instance regarding the supposed persecution of Russians here, taking away children from families, etc - and also the chasm between their own views and views of their families who are living in Russia under full coverage of government-induced media bombardment about Kiev Nazis etc.
And yet another group - quite large in fact - is careful to not say anything at all, if possible.
There's one interesting thing, though: the Russian vocabulary has been amended with the term Nazism. In the past, Russian language and any Soviet/Russian source would always speak of fascism (фашизм) and never Nazism (нацизм). This was apparently because Nazi is short for National Socialist, and that was a little bit too close to International Socialist, which was officially good. But now they actually say "Nazi". That is new.