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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[-] [email protected] 49 points 8 months ago

What do you mean "Finally"? The protests in Russia started on 24th of February 2022. Over 1000 protesters were detained just in Moscow that day alone. And the protests continued after that.

The problem is, these protests achieved nothing, they only resulted in fines (which undoubtedly went to funding the war), protesters being beaten, detained and some even got a criminal charge. So the protests died down because continuing them only fueled the regime more. Some people shifted to solitary picketing, some started doing online activism, some started sabotaging the railways and burning down enlistment centers, some left the country altogether and some, undoubtedly, just gave up.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

These are not protests about the war.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago

True, but they are calling on their people to withdraw from Ukraine, so it is related.
Also a possible uprising is significant, as it will stress Russia internally.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Haven't there already been protests about the war in Russia? I seem to remember reading about Putin's goons cracking down on citizens who voiced their dissent during a series of protests.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

The headline makes it sound like Russians are doing nothing to protest their government.

[-] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago

You make it sound like they do, but they don't.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Have you contacted ANY Russian anti-war group before making that comment? Vesna, Media Partizans, Voice of Reason movement, Freedom movement, Resistance movement, Rospartizan, BOAK, The Black Bridge, Freedom of Russia Legion, Feminists Against War, or any of the others?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Oh they absolutely do. It's just not popular to mention that.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Jake Broe almost loses it when traitor Johnson pushes another lie, comparing Ukraine to Afghanistan!

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