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Comment by koakuma-chan

7 hours ago

You should take pity on them. They are unfortunate people who live in a dictatorship. Russians who tried to protest were arrested and taken in unknown direction by authorities.

I honestly do take pity on russians but I also chose to not engage with russian culture to sanitize my own environment as it's just too ruined for any healthy engagement.

I live in Baltics. It took 50 years and many dead people, but we got rid of them.

  • your liberation was a byproduct of the Soviet empire's collapse. your struggle and your dead had nothing to do with it.

    • Hence, the weak spot in Russia‘s age old decrying of „NATO-encroachment“: It is Russia‘s neighboring countries themselves that immediately sought NATO-membership

    • Ah yes all the freedom fighters and culture preservationists had zero impact in securing Lithuania's freedom - what an incredibly dumb, disrespectful and frankly depressing take.

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