I'm probably getting banned for
"shilling for globalist agenda" but I really can't wrap my head about seeing the echo chamber around here calling everything pro-Ukraine fake news and sharing just Russian narrative. So I, as probably one of few real Eastern Europeans here want to offer my perspective:
We all can agree that the West is quite rotten - everything is for sale, alphabet (LGBT...) propaganda and unbridled freedom but it seems that having no real experience with Russia or the communist regime (and you can't understand today's Russia without understanding USSR) you consider Russia the stronghold of Christianity/wellbeing/closest thing to a paradise on earth, while nothing could be further from the truth.
First, where do you think the western moral bankruptcy comes from? Aforementioned unbridled freedom? Conspiracy of elites? Maybe, but there are strong indicators that it is a direct product of Soviet subversion -
(video of the presentation by a defected ex-KGB agent from 1983; if you can't be bothered to watch it, please read at least this short article
https://unintendedconsequenc.es/bezmenovs-steps/ ).
I know, you will say: Russia is not USSR, past is past, Russia rebirthed like a phoenix from the ashes, now it's glorious but the USA is still rotten.
But is it? Most Russians have an idea of the glorious past of being the world's superpower, the brave Soviet army defeating Hitler (though many wouldn't know that Stalin and Hitler were initially buddies who divided eastern Europe between themselves). Unlike the other Eastern European nations that experienced a surge in the quality of life after the fall of the Eastern block, the changes weren't as distinct there. Oligarchs, corruption, and loss of national pride cause nostalgia for the days of the past. The last Putin's public appearance was at Luzhniki stadium on 18th March on the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea - do you think that it was an accident that remake of Burce Springteen's song, Made in the USSR
was played? The song begins by listing parts of the USSR with Ukraine and Crimea in the very first place. For average Russians, it's not about the war they have a feeling of coming home and the soldiers were negatively surprised that they were not met with greetings (similarly to when the Soviets were "invited" to Czechoslovakia in 1968). Even Putin himself when he was asked what event he would change in Russian history said that the collapse of the USSR.
I'm not going to talk about the utter lack of freedom, oppression of Christians, and dissent under the communist regime, but why do you think that people always fled Russia and never moved in the opposite way? Even in the other thread, you are just talking about it...
If Russia is so great, why does it have an abortion rate 50 times as high as the morally corrupt USA? Why does it have 9 times as high murder as my country, the Czech Republic which is the most atheistic country in Europe? Why do they put people in jail for holding empty pieces of paper or saying literally "two words" (code word for "no (to) war") (btw, how do you like Russia when you watch videos like this
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-woman-protest-blank-sign-arrest-b2035270.html )? Why do the families of top Russian officials live in the West? Why do you praise Christianity of a KGB agent who treats religion just as a means to the end as illustrated by the fact that he (Putin) personally opened multiple mosques? Why do you think that Russians would welcome you with open arms when talking about the "war" (as you do here) instead of the state-sanctioned term "special operation" is forbidden and will get you blocked in the best-case scenario (jailed in the worst one)?
I'm really sick of people here praising Khadyrov's Islamic cutthroats for killing Christian Ukrainians. You talk about Russians liberating Ukrainians from Nazis (which is ironic when they're led by a Jew and you talk all the time about evil globohomo Jewish elites) but how many Ukrainians do you personally know? I know plenty, no one is a nazi and they send money home (well, recently also the bulletproof vests) and I'm pretty sure these people home aren't nazis either. Do you know why is there even any talk about nazis? Because during the WW2 after Russia invaded the Second Polish Republic (Ukraine was part of it back then) some Ukrainians decided to collaborate with Germans because the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" and Stalin causing Holodomor didn't help with these sentiments either. Nazi in Ukraine is simply anti-Russian - and Russia invading Ukraine was a pretty big nail to the coffin too - even Ukrainians who were supporting Russia are mostly against it now.
Even Russia ended the narrative of fast operation to denazify Ukraine - now the majority of Ukrainians are said to be nazi and denazification will reportedly require multiple generations and dissolution of Ukraine as a nation-state ( see https://ria.ru/20220403/ukraina-1781469605.html - article from the Russian state-owned news agency)
I know that you'll post many pieces of "evidence" that Russia is liberating Ukrainians here and I'm wrong, but you should really watch the aforementioned Bezmenovs video - and then explain why you never post content from the refugees in Poland who can speak freely.
P.S.: why is canceling Russia warranting a whole thread criticizing it but the reason for that - Russia invading the sovereign country (and especially one whose sovereignty and borders they promised to respect in the Budapest memorandum) isn't considered a thousand times bigger issue?
P.S.2.: I saw you ridiculing reports of rapes by Russian soldiers - do you really think that this is the first war in history where rape doesn't occur?
TL;DR: just because one side is bad doesn't mean the other is good - there are no good guys and propaganda is done by both sides, it's just easier to see through towhen standing closer to the source. If you want to leave for a reasonably free country where the moral corruption hasn't got so far yet, go to Hungary or Poland, not to Russia
