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by madaxe_again 1573 days ago
My wife’s grandmother is an intelligent woman - an engineer, designed industrial machinery in the Soviet Union.

She’s a latvian citizen - but Russian speaking - so she consumes Russian TV and radio.

My wife had a tearful falling out with her a few days ago on the phone, as she’s absolutely drunk the Kool-aid - Ukrainians are all Nazis, we’re rescuing Russian prisoners, Biden is planning a nuclear first strike on St Petersburg, etc. etc.

A large swathe of the population grew up in a world where the state is the world, and everything external to the state is the enemy.