![]() ![]() This is early 20th century, several generations of your family managed to collect 10 acres of land and built a small farm with their sweat and tears? You are kulak, state will expropriate everything you have and you and your children will die from hunger You publish a book anyway? You go to jail for 20 years. This is 19th century, your Emperor is scared by national movements around Europe and issues an order that forbids to publish books in your nation's language. ![]() You either agree with it or you are an enemy and you must be crushed. In Russia, there is only one "right" way of thinking: the one which comes from the ruler (Tsar, Emperor, Secretary General or President: you name it). That's how democracy works.Īnd if your representation is not big enough to achieve something, you can build coalitions, you can rise awareness for your issue, you can go to the street and make sure government and other people in the country hear you. countries elites are inclusive and diverse enough for any large group of people to receive representation in policy making. You may say that any country in the world is ruled by some elite that benefits from being where they are. ![]() Ukraine is poor as well, right? The problem is that whole state in Russia is built as an ultimate machine to make a very small group of people extremely rich at the expense of everyone else's freedom and future. ![]() Up until recently, if you are lucky, you may have been born in Moscow, integrate into the system and enjoy all benefits of modern global life.īut all this shit actually is a no more than what Russians call "Potemkin village": external façade to a country that is faring poorly, making people believe that the country is faring better.Īnd the problem is not even that real Russia is poor. The problem is that Russia is a totalitarian dictatorship with imperial ambitions and no freedom at all. They look at skyscrapers and parks in Moscow, coffeehouses in Saint-Petersburg and think "What's wrong about that?". People tend to think about Russia in terms of GDP per capita or average income. In their imagination it is like moving from US to Canada or Netherlands to Belgium but without actually moving Many people from other countries don't even remotely understand what does it mean for a Ukrainian to get under Russia's occupation. Hi guys, I wanna tell some fact about russian occupation ![]()
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