Comment by steve_adams_86
5 years ago
I’m not sure if you misread my comment but I said the “sheer scale of people jailed for protesting”. Maybe I’m wrong too, but I think 100 people per city is absolutely crazy. I’m not sure 100 people have ever been jailed in my city in under a week, ever.
Otherwise I agree, I think we’re more or less on the same page.
I don't think the amount of people arrested in Russia can be compared to your city.
I've seen eg. A report for a woman being arrested for having a blank protest sign. That's insane.
If that's the base for comparison for arrest. I don't think 100 is a lot.
But in general, I think we are in agreement outside of that. Yeah
It's not "100 per city". The vast majority was jailed in Moscow (population about 13 million) and SPb (about 5.5 million). It's really not that much for a heavily authoritarian regime in war time.
https://ovdinfo.org
Of course, you're right. I suppose the question is if "not that much" should be a contextual matter or not. Should people ever be jailed for protesting a war? Is it any better if previous leaders would have responded more harshly, or were they simply worse leaders?
In any case I find it disturbing.
It's a bad wording on my part. I haven't been sleeping much lately. What I tried to say is my Russian friends are shocked about how little the population is willing to do then their Führer is killing their (literally) brothers, pushing the country towards complete isolation and (possibly) WW3.
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