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ivandelapena t1_j5f123s wrote

Reply to comment by DrBeerkitty in Kyrgyz Workers With Russian Citizenship Prevented From Leaving Russia, Urged To Fight In Ukraine by -Fuck-You-Charles-

This is why the Russian public are generally unsympathetic to the idea of Ukrainian independence. They can't imagine that Ukrainians are anything other than lower than Russians. This is why Putin cannot have an independent Ukraine, because it will inevitably become more successful than Russia and when Russians see that they'll realise they've been fed lies.

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DrBeerkitty t1_j5f29h0 wrote

One of the early cell intercepts of the invading russian troops calling home had this interesting episode -

This russian is calling his wife and is all very excited saying "OMG, their icecream is amazing, I ate like a kilo of it, so much better than ours! And you know what? Their villages all have asphalt roads and the houses, have you seen the houses? Lots of appliances in each of them! HOW DARE THEY LIVE BETTER THAN US!"

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flukshun t1_j5ffci9 wrote

I remember one occupied home tagged up with "you live so well, why do you fight then?" They can't accept that Ukraine doesn't owe all it's prosperity to the Russian Federation that's done nothing but constantly fuck them over.

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ComradeMoneybags t1_j5hsul6 wrote

Russia is basically crabs in a bucket personified. They can’t win, but the closest thing possible is to bring everyone down.

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jahsd t1_j5imp5x wrote

>when Russians see that they'll realise they've been fed lies

Baltics?

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