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Aww. People in Russia are upset they can’t contact relatives? Zero sympathy after what their country has done to Ukraine. Maybe they should demand a ceasefire.
Even if Russia won this war, and conquered parts of ukraine they will always have to deal with resistance groups. People aren’t just going to allow their homes to be conquered. What is Russia thinking dragging this on?
Russian civilians being upset is kind of the point of this attack, no need to be snarky.
Putin: No way!
Zelenskyy: Way!
If you think about it, it kind of makes sense. Putin can't threaten to torture/imprison your friends and relatives if your friends and relatives are all sitting in a POW camp somewhere. There's nothing to stop these people from calling him out.
What? That's the strategy for threatening people in exile. Those people, he can just torture and imprison right away. But he doesn't need to, he just silenced them. Believe me, as someone who has endure being in Russia and having TV running 24/7 beside me, that none of it is seen on TV, or any publicly accessible websites for that matter.
I am not 100% sold on this. People ARE complaining to Putin but not the way we might think. Many try to speak directly to him in a manner of “you might not be aware of this”, or “every politician around is a corrupt criminal except our glorious leader, they just don’t tell him”.
It reminds me of people getting sent into the gulag murmuring “If Stalin knew of this”, ignoring the fact that it was Stalin himself who signed the imprisonment.
If you are interested about the Russian peoples reaction. It’s frustrating to listen to some.
My favorite story about the gulags is the childhood of Mikhail Gorbachev.
He was born in a family of peasant farmers. His paternal grandfather opposed the collectivization of the farms and was sent to the gulag. His maternal grandfather supported collectivization of the farms, and ended up as the chair of the local farm. He was also sent to the gulag.
There's also the issue of self-censorship. No way of knowing if any Russian folk interviewed actually agree to what they say.
"Could be". Now that's a hard hitting headline of breaking news right there.
“Putin could be having a really hard time right now” oh wow thanks for the info