Being born in the crumbling USSR and growing up in the 90s Russia made me very well psychologically prepared for the current pandemic — the uncertainty is my natural state of mind!
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Russian bride, filmmaker, co-host of ‘The Russians’
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In SF Examiner today — the hypocrisy of western media at its best. ‘Ukraine is different bc Putin is evil’
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That’s on channel one — discussion of the Zelenskiy arming the ‘gay nazis’
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kremlin propagandists seem to be doing real heavy lifting right now, after many years of the easy and worry free existence they are finally mobilized and have to pay their debts to the main don by showing their utter devotion
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The popular google search in Germany from a few days ago. A friend sent me this. ‘Z shaped people Russia’ are right next to ‘New Zealand immigration.’ How very sensible
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Russian ministry of foreign affairs went off the deep end as I predicted. Full on weaponization of the WW2 soviet victory over Nazi Germany. Here is Z shaped St George ribbon
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Nabokov would’ve enjoyed this morbid spectacle. It seems that finally the white emigration is fully vindicated as well as later immigration waves. And by whom - a former soviet kgb officer. What irony!
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But I’d never thought it’ll go down in this way — dragging to hell the little of the soviet glory that was left with them all in the name of rebuilding ‘historical Russia’
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Not that I didn’t know that, I’ve alway sensed the menacing vibes every time I’d visit despite all the prettying up that’s been done
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all the modernization and the renaissance of the centre of Moscow is proven to be just sugar powder on top of the shit donut and is all blown away in a second
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Russia has to devour and depose its cultural elite every few decades for some reason. Whatever little it rebuild after the 90s, all lost again
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My friend who is there says It’s maybe what it was like for white emigration from a hundred years ago
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Everyone I know pretty much left their jobs in Moscow and ran away if they could afford it. There are a lot of Russians in istanbul now — confused and lost - unsure of their next step
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News from the Russian invasion gets more horrific every day. Whatever the optics are, Russia as I knew it is no more. I knew Russian ruling clique was rotten, but not to this degree
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my mom who is 70 lived through two defaults in the 90s alas losing her savings, but whatever is happening now seems much scarier than whatever she’s experienced as a Russian so far
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Happy international women’s day to my two main ladies! The one on the left luckily got out of Moscovia less than two weeks before the war… oh I mean ‘the special operation zombie’
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And that would be known as the real ‘special operation Z’
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Now they are directed towards this ‘Russkiy mir’ militarized nationalism. And it is very scary. Not sure if the Kremlin vampires who are whipping up this sentiment will be able to control it. Maybe the zombies would devour them after all.
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I used to see them in the comment section which was their only platform and it felt like they could go either way - left or right - depending on the circumstances
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The bitter and impoverished silent majority in Russia who didn’t get much political representation or media time are now weaponized in the most vile way.
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For all those ‘criticizing Putin now is supporting American imperialism’ — here are dying children from Kazan’s hospice are forced to stand in the shape of Z in support of ‘the special operation’ in Ukraine.
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Sorokin should stick to fiction writing, but this piece gives a good insight into the mind of the Russian liberal
"his goal isn’t Ukraine, but western civilization, the hatred for which he lapped up in the black milk he drank from the KGB’s teat.
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This is interesting. Once a darling of liberals, Sergey Shnurov of band Leningrad just released a song "Bye, elites!" mocking everyone who is running away from Russia. He fully joined the vampire-zombie alliance.
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Molotov’s grandson is the Russian channel 1 propagandist
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Replying to @adekVatnik1984
Yes, he is —
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyachesla
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This is a host of the news program on the main state propaganda channel 1. He is a grandson of Molotov. (Laugh track)
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The priest recommends Ukrainian people to ‘accept the situation and relax’ because the victory of the russian army is a sure thing and those who fight against it cause more blood and are driven by the devil
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Here is snippet of the convo between a russian orthodox priest and a kremlin media whore
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Not only Putin created this senseless war and so much suffering, but he tarnished the Russian victory in WW2 over real bloodthirsty Nazis for ever
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Every one of these clips of of Ukrainians protesting Russian occupiers is a reminder of what a colossal idiot Putin is. There’s no magical chess move to counter this as it segues to insurgency.
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Russian troops entered Novopskov, #Luhansk Region, civilians blocked the streets #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar
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Putinists share this video with Sergei Bodrov Jr. Good he didn’t live to see it. youtube.com/watch?v=4F1jql
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This slogan is straight from film “Brother”
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Really hard to see journalists as anything but ‘dogs whenever anything moves they begin to bark’. Those yelping reflex machines who have no skin in the game shouldn’t have the respect and prestige they get
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This a great piece by art historian Nadya Plungyan who is in Moscow colta.ru/articles/socie
The Chinese curse came true - we do live in interesting times
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Putin’s new speech to his security council is very scary. He uses the ‘fascist enemy’ rhetoric that is the only real sentiment most Russians share. His appeal to smth so real and painful to most families is beyond cynicism
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My latest. A brief on how we lurched into a wholesale financial war with a major power, something that I maintain has no precedent in the nuclear age.
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Creator of evrostandart shows for Russian tv is so brave to break his Russian ties exactly the moment the opportunities to keep making that schlock are gone
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nauseating. this guy has spent years making money off putin's elite, writing schlock for russian state tv. now that he wants to make it in hollywood, he's suddenly ready to forsake the russian language. a rat jumping ship!
vanityfair.com/news/2022/02/w
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