While it's depressing how many people side with Putin, it's also nice to see there are still russian people against this. I can't imagine how hard it is to be constantly surrounded by people supporting this and even questioning you for only saying what should be the simplest thing to understand in today's world, War is Bad. A similar situation to what you described is happening in a neighboring country of mine, Serbia, where it looks like there are more people in support of Putin then against. All this aside, your content was genuinely great and it's a shame that this situation is forcing you to move. I wish you the best, and hope that once things get better you'll return to youtube.
Oh really? I heard that Serbia had sympathies and also that this is one of the easiest places to move from Russia, plane ticket is pretty costly because of sanctions though. I were considering Serbia, but yeah, decided against it, because don't want to turn up in just a smaller Russia. Hope it's not as bad. It's a surreal feeling, seeing people like this, it's like a dystopia come true, something you thought long gone, something you laughed about, a strange curio somewhere else far away, like North Korea. It's not as brutal of course, luckily we mostly fine people or put them in jail, a wonder of cultural progress. There is a new law in use, if you spread fake information about the war you can be put in jain for up to 15 years, and fake - means anything that doesn' t add up with government narrative I think I understand the logic of common people to some extent. Part of it: If you are a patriot - then you must support your country, if you go against what your country is doing - then you are an enemy. The mistake here is to assume that the government is the country and that the government always acts in favor of it's people. It's blind patriotism, it works so long as whoever rules does the right thing and becomes a disaster when they turn vile.
@@biorival Yeah, it's not the best in Serbia. I remember a weak or so ago when a large portion of Europe had people march in support of Ukraine, in Serbia there was one in support of Russia. And when the Serbian president finally spoke out about how he doesn't believe the war is a good idea (something he only did after the EU forced him to do) the people protested and called him a traitor for turning his back on Russia. Honestly it's kind off worse then in Russia, because as you said in Russia you can at least excuse it as blind patriotism, but here it's not even their country and they still support the war. But I should point out that, much like it is in Russia, there are people against this, but they are in the minority by the looks of it. It's also scary how easily you can cut off so much information and replace it with your propaganda, and then just arrest anyone who speaks otherwise under the excuse of them spreading misinformation. This is the exact reason why I was always against silencing people under that excuse, because even if it is actual lies, you delete it and people accept it, then when someone speaks the truth, it becomes so much easier to delete that under the same excuse. And you're right about the government not being the country. The country are the people living in it, and the government should be the one trying to support the people, not the other way around.
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Holy shit dude. I hope you can make it out safe.
If Ukrainians can fight against uneven odds and show steel resolve, I'll manage somehow role-playing as a Russian Mexican, no offense to Mexicans
While it's depressing how many people side with Putin, it's also nice to see there are still russian people against this.
I can't imagine how hard it is to be constantly surrounded by people supporting this and even questioning you for only saying what should be the simplest thing to understand in today's world, War is Bad.
A similar situation to what you described is happening in a neighboring country of mine, Serbia, where it looks like there are more people in support of Putin then against.
All this aside, your content was genuinely great and it's a shame that this situation is forcing you to move. I wish you the best, and hope that once things get better you'll return to youtube.
Oh really? I heard that Serbia had sympathies and also that this is one of the easiest places to move from Russia, plane ticket is pretty costly because of sanctions though. I were considering Serbia, but yeah, decided against it, because don't want to turn up in just a smaller Russia. Hope it's not as bad.
It's a surreal feeling, seeing people like this, it's like a dystopia come true, something you thought long gone, something you laughed about, a strange curio somewhere else far away, like North Korea. It's not as brutal of course, luckily we mostly fine people or put them in jail, a wonder of cultural progress. There is a new law in use, if you spread fake information about the war you can be put in jain for up to 15 years, and fake - means anything that doesn' t add up with government narrative
I think I understand the logic of common people to some extent. Part of it: If you are a patriot - then you must support your country, if you go against what your country is doing - then you are an enemy. The mistake here is to assume that the government is the country and that the government always acts in favor of it's people. It's blind patriotism, it works so long as whoever rules does the right thing and becomes a disaster when they turn vile.
@@biorival Yeah, it's not the best in Serbia. I remember a weak or so ago when a large portion of Europe had people march in support of Ukraine, in Serbia there was one in support of Russia. And when the Serbian president finally spoke out about how he doesn't believe the war is a good idea (something he only did after the EU forced him to do) the people protested and called him a traitor for turning his back on Russia. Honestly it's kind off worse then in Russia, because as you said in Russia you can at least excuse it as blind patriotism, but here it's not even their country and they still support the war.
But I should point out that, much like it is in Russia, there are people against this, but they are in the minority by the looks of it.
It's also scary how easily you can cut off so much information and replace it with your propaganda, and then just arrest anyone who speaks otherwise under the excuse of them spreading misinformation. This is the exact reason why I was always against silencing people under that excuse, because even if it is actual lies, you delete it and people accept it, then when someone speaks the truth, it becomes so much easier to delete that under the same excuse.
And you're right about the government not being the country. The country are the people living in it, and the government should be the one trying to support the people, not the other way around.