„Aber die Russen leisten Widerstand“ – Treffen Sie Putins im Exil lebende Gegner in Europa
“But Russians are resisting” – Meet Putin’s exiled opponents in Europe
Von K0rek
„Aber die Russen leisten Widerstand“ – Treffen Sie Putins im Exil lebende Gegner in Europa
“But Russians are resisting” – Meet Putin’s exiled opponents in Europe
Von K0rek
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In the comments, I’d also like to share my personal perspective on the current elections in Hungary and the use of populist slogans.
I’m a Russian who supports TISZA and is against both Putin’s and Orbán’s regimes. I’ve been promoting TISZA to Hungarians in daily conversations for the past two years, and now they’re shouting “go home” at all of us regardless.
I understand that it’s aimed at everything connected to the Russian government and regime, but the thing is that most Russians in the EU are anti-Putin and actually support Ukraine in this matter.
It’s on the same level of generalization as when the USA oppressed and deported Japanese people because of Pearl Harbor.
Good thing I left Hungary for a more sane EU country. Such populist slogans suggest there isn’t much wisdom among the Hungarian people nowadays, on either side of the political spectrum.
Why though they resisting not inside russia? It doesn’t do anything to russian regime, they are just jerking off their ego, from safety, protected by European laws.
RVC is the only russians deserves respect, because instead of „resisting“ from safe apartments in EU, they are really fighting regime, because they understand their responsibility as a citizens of a corrupt, evil country.
Running away, waving your flag and doing interviews isn’t resisting.
Exile isn’t nothing: independent Russian media, fundraising and testimony from abroad actually help Ukraine and dissidents inside. Maybe we should amplify > their work instead of dismissing them outright.
To every fool on this thread asking „why don’t they stay in Russia and be the opposition there?“: it doesn’t work that way. Ask Boris Nemtsov or Alexei Navalny what good it did them leading oppositions in Russia. You can’t, because the Russian state murdered them in cold blood.
Civil society is dead in Russia, killed over the 25 years of Putin at the top. Meaning that unless some actually drastic policy changes that negatively influence the population are taken, Russians have fuck all chance to reach a conclusion akin to regime change.
Have you all not been paying attention to Iran perhaps? Tens of thousands got murdered in the street for protesting the regime, and in the end it sadly led to nothing. Unless you have credibly armed, organized resistance, protests will only get you so far.