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Quote from: suchmoon on April 19, 2022, 11:28:08 AM

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Quote from: be.open on April 16, 2022, 07:57:09 AM

It's good that Lyusya Arestovich, the mouthpiece of Ukrainian propaganda, is a crystal-clearly honest person. Grin

I'm not really sure what you're trying to show with this video.

Projecting their totalitarian mindset on the rest of the world. They can't imagine that someone criticizing the president is not in prison.

You are mistaken by projecting your complexes on me, and I will explain why. In Russia, one can criticize Putin quite freely if it is essential and desirable when drinking vodka with friends in one's kitchen, not in a public space. For example, Putin promised not to raise the retirement age, and then the retirement age in Russia nevertheless increased - this is a good reason for criticizing Putin among the people.
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It may seem like something completely new and astonishing for you, but there are places where you cannot only criticise your leaders while drinking, you - prepare to be mind-blown - can actually oppose their politics in public without being poisoned, killed or sent to prison. You may not even believe this, but there is even a chance that you can ... sit down, get ready for this... vote to change them if you think they got it wrong! No, I am not kidding you, those places exist!

Quote from: be.open on Today at 04:40:19 AM

Quote from: suchmoon on April 19, 2022, 11:28:08 AM

Quote from: LTU_btc on April 16, 2022, 09:12:20 PM

Quote from: be.open on April 16, 2022, 07:57:09 AM

It's good that Lyusya Arestovich, the mouthpiece of Ukrainian propaganda, is a crystal-clearly honest person. Grin

I'm not really sure what you're trying to show with this video.

Projecting their totalitarian mindset on the rest of the world. They can't imagine that someone criticizing the president is not in prison.

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From 2014 to 2021, the status of the Russian language in Ukraine has degraded from regional to actually banned in the public space. Actually, this was one of the main reasons for the armed separatist conflict in Ukraine, it is strange that you do not know this. It is interesting that Russian-speaking residents of Donbass often speak Ukrainian language better, because they study the literary version at school than residents of Western Ukraine with their native surzhik.
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Is not an operation, but I know you are not allowed to say so. It is a war of aggression - an invasion of a free country by a despot.

In the latest language map I got, Russian is majoritarian in most of the west and I am yet to see a source (other than the Russian Ministry of Dark Humour and Fantasyland Tales) effectively banning any language in any territory of Ukraine - which is quite multicultural and multilingual.

Ukrainians are speaking of this as their (second) war of independence. Putin has managed to create a national unity spirit on a country that is varied and socially a bit chaotic (in the best sense).

Quote from: af_newbie on Today at 06:46:44 AM

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Sweety, you have no idea what your countrymen did in Ukraine. Ukrainians will hate Russians for generations. If you think otherwise, you are delusional.
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Whoever prepares the scripts of be.open is speaking to people who have not ever experienced a war or even a post-war. Anyone that has some contact with a war, even if it is a generation after, clearly understands your point: hate may last many decades, sometimes centuries. Putin does not care to send their young to die, nor cares about the future because he is nearly 70 and is just looking for a page in the Russian history books as "the rebuilder of the Russian empire". Tough luck, his legacy will only be of hatred, death and poverty for his serfs and for his neighbourgs.

Quote from: be.open on Today at 07:46:54 AM

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Similarly, now Turkey is conducting a special operation in Northern Iraq against the PKK.

Similar? Then you are admitting Putin's war is genocide?

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Quote from: Betwrong on Today at 09:57:12 AM

This is not true. Don't listen to Putin's propaganda. They brainwash you and people like you. I'm living in Kiev right now, and I never heard or saw a negative reaction to Russian speech during the war, let alone before it.

Of course I understand that in a big country like Ukraine anything can happen, but those are rare cases and propaganda is feeding you with them.

So how come POLICE is harassing an American wearing t-shirt with "Russia" written on it?
Not some hooligans, but police

Perhaps you can explain why the Russian police arrests a guy with a BLANK sheet of paper in the Red Square and then make questions yourself?