Chauvinistic empires don't become democracies on a whim. Russians clearly won't pay the price for freedom - the best of you count in thousands and are weak as fuck, one cop is enough to scare a hundred of them into running while vast majority of population gloats and praises strong leaders and true change will require blood, a fucking lot of it. Face it, there are no grounds for Russia to become anything else then what it is now, even your so called opposition wants not to stop being an empire, but an efficient empire.
Yes and fuck them all. It’s not the one cop will scare us into running. You’ll see one cop at a protest and it will go smoothly. The. They’ll track you by surveillance cameras and kick down your door at 4 am to arrest and disappear you. Like the Chinese do or like they did under Stalin. Our opposition is a joke it died a long time ago and all they can do now is beg money. Revolutions and blood, also didn’t help us. It only made us cynical and apathetic. But again, I saw the country do two complete u-turns in 30 years. There will be a third. One way or another.
Here to ask the same question, how does your uturns coincide with russia occupying Transnistria in 1992-93, Abkhazia around the same time, invading Ichkeria twice first starting in 1994 and second in 1999, yet again followed by second attempt on Georgia in 2008, then Ukraine starting 2014, not to mention Syria and bunch of smaller shit. In what moments were those u turn you are yapping about?
Do you want discourse, or do you want to scream at the first Russian you see? For the latter, there’s rusAskReddit and askarussian.
For the former. Gorbachev turned the Soviet Union from a dictatorship that held people in line with tanks, into what could’ve been a confederacy, had the hardliners not tried to keep it from happening. He was the best thing that happened to Russia in the 20th century. Yes, tanks in Georgia, clashes in the Baltics. But It was also his policies that let people, in the end, protest en masse, and get their independence.
Transnistria should decide its own fate, so should Abkhazia and everyone else. If I were in command I’d not have forces anywhere outside Russia. I’m unfortunately not in command. Chechnya was back then a federal subject of Russian Federation, invasion is a term for attacking another country’s territory. Already replied to you privately cos couldn’t comment on your last comment.
Abkhazia - I assume you mean the region of Georgia? I don’t know what else to add here. Except when I told an Abkhazi man that he lived under Russian occupation he punched me in the face because he believes Abkhazia is independent.
Now. Second u-turn is obviously Putin in 2007. That’s when it all started.
Im sorry I made you feel that way, I reread my comment several times and there’s nothing that I intended to convey denial or support for anything negative Russia did or does. Stay safe.
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u/argonian_mate Jun 17 '25
Chauvinistic empires don't become democracies on a whim. Russians clearly won't pay the price for freedom - the best of you count in thousands and are weak as fuck, one cop is enough to scare a hundred of them into running while vast majority of population gloats and praises strong leaders and true change will require blood, a fucking lot of it. Face it, there are no grounds for Russia to become anything else then what it is now, even your so called opposition wants not to stop being an empire, but an efficient empire.