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tomorrowusa · 1 year

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A few people are still making excuses for Russia on the basis that it is the supposed successor to the “workers’ paradise” known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The USSR was a repressive police state which tolerated no dissent and invaded its neighbors — and that was even after the alleged de-Stalinization.

Many critics justly decry US transgressions like involvement in Vietnam, the Iraq War, and interference in Latin America for much of the last century. But when those same people ignore the Holodomor, Soviet cooperation with Nazi Germany over the invasion of Poland, and Putin’s ongoing mafia-style kleptocratic revanchist régime, there is more than a little hypocrisy involved.

President Truman was correct. Totalitarian autocracies are more similar than they are different. And using an ideological fig leaf to cover up the atrocities of such a régime is being deceitful.

The true geopolitical struggle is between democracy and totalitarianism. There may be some ways in which democracy is not perfect, but there is no way that totalitarianism is good for anybody except autocrats, kleptocrats, and dogmatic thugs.

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jonostroveart · 8 months

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No Mercynary

#political satire #editorial cartoons #politics #political cartoon #prigojin #prigozhin #prigozsin #yevgeny prigozhin #russian aggression #russia #putinism #putin ukraine

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odinsblog · 2 years

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Somehow we are expected to believe that Putin is bombing the hell out of Odesa, a heavily Jewish city in Ukraine — where many elderly Holocaust survivors reside — to “save” them from Nazis?

Russia and America have higher percentages of neo Nazis in their military and police forces. To be clear: NO amount of Nazis anywhere is ever acceptable. That said, if you still genuinely believe that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was to “denazify” it, and not the tzarist imperialistic land grab it really is, then you need to seriously consider you have been propagandized and manipulated. There is no justification for any nation, including the United States, starting a war and invading another country that was peacefully minding its own business and not attacking anyone. (x)

#politics #ukraine #tankies #russia #propaganda #russian colonialism #russian imperialism #dehumanization #vladimir putin #putinism #little putler #adolph putin

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ykradna · 2 years

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Putin loveZ Blood :(

#putinism #fuck putin #stopputin #putin #blood #war russia ukraine #operation z #ukraine

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afranse · 2 years

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Он недалёкий дятел,

И кровью страну пометил.

Любит ракеты пулять он

Больше всего на свете.

Как в детстве, играет в солдатики,

А две страны платят кровью.

Он недалёкий дятел,

И в смерти людей виновен.

Он не понял, что око за око,

И себя возомнил мессией.

Он построил страну орков,

А надо было Россию.

Свой народ ему неприятен.

Сотни тысяч живых больше нету.

И всё потому что дятел

Обожает пулять ракеты.

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He is not too smart like a woodpecker.

And marked two neighboring country with blood.

He loves to fire rockets and shells

More than anything else in fact.

Like in childhood, he plays with soldiers,

And peaceful people meet their death.

He is not too smart like a woodpecker.

And don’t understand casualties math.

He killed thousands of innocent folks,

And considers himself the messiah in action.

He built a country of wild orcs,

While he had to built actually Russia.

He dislikes his own people.

Hundreds of thousands souls have been perished.

And all because of this woodpecker

Who enjoys firing rockets and indiscriminate shelling.

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democratic-cool · 1 year

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Anybody opposed to Putin is a foreign agent. Yes, that is indeed the name of a new law in Russia.

#putin #russia #dictator #russian #repression

#russia #russian #president putin #putinism #stop putin #moscow

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6-at-0-n · 2 years

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#RussiaIsATerroristState.

#politics #putinhitler #putinism #russia #ukraine

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tomorrowusa · 9 months

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«Putinism is a postmodern compilation of contradictions. It combines mawkish Soviet nostalgia with Mafia capitalism, devotion to the Orthodox Church with the spread of broken families, ferocious attacks on a "unipolar" American world with revived Russian imperialist aggression — all held together by the ruthless suppression of dissident voices and recourse to violence when necessary.»

– Journalist Roger Cohen, Paris bureau chief of the New York Times, with a short definition of Putinism. From the article "Putin’s Forever War" (archived).

All forms of fascism are personalized and Putinism is no different. Though promoting a sense of national victimhood is universal among fascists.

Putin's nostalgic pining for the decrepit Soviet Union distorts his view of the world. In a century where both China and the EU are stronger than Russia, he is psychologically stuck in the geopolitical world of circa 1970 when it was essentially just the US vs. USSR. Significantly, the tankies who parrot Putin's rantings are also wallowing in a Cold War mindset - but that's another story.