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by pandaman
3099 days ago
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Not really because of Kremlin "presenting" but, rather, because Russians see an example of "young, progressive and free democracy" right next to them. The one, where the current government came to power through a revolt, displacing another "democratic" government, which also came to power through a revolt 10 years earlier. The one, which is waging a civil war right now. One, where corruption eclipses Russia's own in 1990s. It's hard not to notice since millions of their citizens flee war and poverty in Russia as well as other countries in Europe. Nobody has a problem with it though since the government is eager to listen to the West so it's a proper "democracy" and things are fine. |
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Reasons your text is a poor attempt:
Kremlin propaganda about "democracy = subjugation" predates Ukrainian situation by at least a few decades if not a century; and then Ukraine is not the only "young democracy" Russians could check out as an example, so why do you even bring it out here? especially since attacking Ukraine themselves definitely taints "the analysis of the benefits of democracy".
Even if we take a bait with "Ukraine is a reason why Russians don't want democracy":
Ukrainian history in your post is (on purpose?) not told exactly right and some important elephants in the room (like Crimea and Russian military involvement) are conveniently ignored; subjective statement about corruption levels is thrown, what's your measurement methodology?
again, other "young democracies" might have a better situation with everything, why Russians don't look at those?
I indeed believe that you are sincere and find that because Ukraine is failing and still labeled a democracy then Russia is never going to be democratic, but it's tragic that such a shaky views are just blindly adopted by Russians.