you will eventually see this in the news if true. brllingcat confirmed the mayor’s story. there are actual experts following the people complaints and doing testing.
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Was looking for a road sign pointing the way to Russia, just had to wait a few seconds.
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Looks like they weren’t tourists but local residents, and the bartender was Ukrainian. This is a town town with a lot of Russian expats apparently.
Then Ruslan Povolvyy, a friend of the owner of the bar, tried to intercede and also asked them to leave the place. But as they spoke, the three Russian men began to get more nervous as they intuited, from his accent, his place of origin . “They asked me where I was from,” he explained to the regional television À punt . " I told them that from Ukraine" and, as he admits, he added: “Glory Ukraine” .
Immediately, the three men, who according to consulted sources of the Civil Guard have already been identified pending their arrests , began to beat him. At first, the owner and two other women try to separate them, without success, cornering the man between the wall of the premises and the door of the toilets.
Lol at this comment:
https://twitter.com/tuhatjalkainen/status/1515370019265421316
FWIW I was treated wonderfully in Irkutsk and Lake Baikal, Russia, and by Russian tourists coming back to Russia from Tianjin, China.
But it’s possible that like a lot of our older and larger amygdala relatives, they’ve been whipped into a very bad state by decades of propaganda.
consider that you’ve only met maybe five percent of one thousandth of one percent of russians in your life.
also russians are nice in general, but they got their triggers like everyone else. one is their children, noone can’t ever say anything of any ill or harm to their children, bringing it up is a threat and brings pure pain. the other is russian political history/present, the blood starts boiling if a foreigner or expat tries to make a russian “feel” anything sad/critical about any period, going back to at least tsar peter.
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Even Russian expats who aren’t being force fed propaganda 24/7?
That’s the weirdest part of it. If they live outside of Russia, they must have more access to the truth. If, knowing that, they are still pro-Putin, then they are far worse than the average Russian.
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Well then at least Sting was right.
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https://twitter.com/Nat_Vasilyeva/status/1515617876765519872
https://twitter.com/mdmitri91/status/1515613424314630144
I’m sure Putin will make the survivors scapegoats as per SOP.
it’s a very weird line of thinking, but yes. for example, a lot of expats and immigrants escape the ongoing propaganda, but due to their personal experience, hate socialism to the point of not even noticing social programs that exists around them and works to their benefit. similar to anti-socialist sentiment in the cuban community. so the propaganda stays with them on many levels.
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What does that have to do with supporting the invasion of Ukraine? It makes no sense that a Russian living outside Russia would support that.
I met someone about a month ago who was clearly embarrassed to admit she was Russian. I suppose she could have been afraid, but it seemed more like shame than fear.
https://twitter.com/lesiavasylenko/status/1515685300902805506?s=20&t=EtEQVqtpCyfC6tbu_baHlg
Jesus. It’s a long walk but at least I don’t have to worry about this when I go to the grocery store.
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I moved the Zara stuff to the Ukraine LC thread. Personally, I think it’s not in the best taste to attack a poster that has quit since they aren’t here to speak on their own behakf, but if you feel the need to do so, let’s at least not clutter up this thread with it.