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C'est la vie
https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...source=twitterHow I Lost the Russia That Never Was
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Whether because of fear or inertia, Russian society hardly stirred itself during the massacres in Bucha, Irpin, Borodyanka, and Mariupol. I don’t accept repression as an excuse for passivity. The willingness to remain silent is hardly distinguishable from the impulse of the Soviet man who looked at a nonconforming neighbor and picked up the phone to call the KGB. And the silence of the many throws into relief the protests of the few.
Last year, a movement called Soft Power pe ioned against the war in Ukraine and the mobilization to support it: “President Vladimir Putin does not and cannot have any legal grounds, any balanced reasons for the war,” the pe ion said. Nearly half a million people signed it. But in the country at large, anti-war voices have grown faint and the lists of those arrested or killed have grown long. Russia’s rich enjoy opulent lives while the rest of the country stagnates—and sends its children to die in something they are not allowed to call “war.”
Read: The bitter truth behind Russia’s looting of Ukrainian art
The war in Ukraine destroyed the part of me that missed Russia and felt pain for its fate. I can at last let go of my peculiar nostalgia—the nostalgia for what I hoped Russia could one day be—and see the country for what it is.
Russia is the country destroying cities and villages in Ukraine; the country where more than 500 political prisoners languish; where even Wagner soldiers know that their nation has no pity for its dead; the global power whose leader has entered an anti-Western entente with North Korea, China, Hamas, and other authoritarian governments that kill journalists and opposition activists. Russia has reached its bottom, and then the level beyond.
Ukraine!
"NEVER SURRENDER!"
You joking? We know who it won't be.
"NEVER SURRENDER!"
"NEVER SURRENDER!"
So you agree you were full of when you were speaking for Putin's successor.You joking? We know who it won't be.
"NEVER SURRENDER!"
Days
I agree you're an idiot if you think the successor is handing back Crimea. You're embarrassing yourself.
"NEVER SURRENDER!"
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