I've tried explaining this to my colleagues, and their eyes glaze over as they revert back to their "Putin is Hitler" programming.
They simply cannot see how terrible the Ukrainian regime is, and what they have done to their people. The normies will view Putin as the tyrant invader up until the curtain falls, and we get real disclosure of the crimes against humanity that have gone on in Ukraine, and elsewhere in the world that have been kept under wrap all these years.
The once solace I have gained in my conversations was when one of my colleagues was noticeably confused as to why the war was going on so long, and why Russia hadn't escalated events. It was the recent tirade from Zelensky regarding the desire for a preemptive nuclear strike on Russia that spurred this line of thinking. They couldn't quite bridge the gap and land at a viable conclusion, but they are at least seeing discrepancies in the narrative. Mind you this is a Trump voting colleague of mine, and not a leftist. Even among Trump supporters, there are many who view Putin as the enemy in this conflict.
The Moscow-installed authorities of the port city of Mariupol, which fell to Russian forces after a devastating siege earlier in the year, took down a monument to Ukrainian victims of Stalin's famine on Wednesday.
Kyiv has been calling the 1930s man-made hunger under Joseph Stalin a "genocide", while Moscow has been downplaying it as an episode of famine all over the Soviet Union.
I dont think Russia is really distancing itself from its socialist past at all.
Stalin was Georgian actually, but I believe he surrounded himself with Ukrainians and non-Russians because a big point of the USSR was to subjugate the Russians
I've tried explaining this to my colleagues, and their eyes glaze over as they revert back to their "Putin is Hitler" programming.
They simply cannot see how terrible the Ukrainian regime is, and what they have done to their people. The normies will view Putin as the tyrant invader up until the curtain falls, and we get real disclosure of the crimes against humanity that have gone on in Ukraine, and elsewhere in the world that have been kept under wrap all these years.
The once solace I have gained in my conversations was when one of my colleagues was noticeably confused as to why the war was going on so long, and why Russia hadn't escalated events. It was the recent tirade from Zelensky regarding the desire for a preemptive nuclear strike on Russia that spurred this line of thinking. They couldn't quite bridge the gap and land at a viable conclusion, but they are at least seeing discrepancies in the narrative. Mind you this is a Trump voting colleague of mine, and not a leftist. Even among Trump supporters, there are many who view Putin as the enemy in this conflict.
I know some like that. They still see Russia as the communist Soviet Union, which it is not.
What do you think about this.
https://www.barrons.com/news/monument-to-victims-of-stalin-s-famine-removed-in-mariupol-01666197308
I dont think Russia is really distancing itself from its socialist past at all.
Was that by any chance a monument celebrating the Nazi resistance leaders?
Use a careful eye when trusting the way western news outlets characterize events and actions.
Stalin was a Ukrainian. But he has been openly characterized as a bloody tyrant in Russia for decades.
Stalin was Georgian actually, but I believe he surrounded himself with Ukrainians and non-Russians because a big point of the USSR was to subjugate the Russians