| I am Russian, so I am going to explain the way I and my friends and relatives that I speak to think about Ukrainians. We consider Ukrainians brothers in the best way possible. We don't care what language you speak, but it feels especially warm when we hear that you can speak Russian as well. Like you are speaking to a relative. The government propaganda is trying hard to convince Russian population that they are fighting a small group of Nazis who took over government and against NATO mercenaries, not Ukrainians, because they know Russians don't want to fight them. It may be hard for you to accept, given what's happening, but this is the bullshit that propaganda made some people believe. I am telling you this as a person, whose girlfriend has heated arguments with her grandmother over a phone every week. It goes something like this: "grandma! There are no mercenaries! They are fighting Ukranian military! Destroying cities! Where would they find so many mercenaries??? I don't care what you saw on TV! ... ". The same thing every time. There are probably ~3-5% of people who are fucked in the head and hate Ukranians, but most people do not. |
Lets hope you dont start considering the rest of the world brothers.
> It may be hard for you to accept, given what's happening, but this is the bullshit that propaganda made some people believe.
That same bullshit propaganda has been spewed out by Russia for years and no one inside Russia did anything against it. When Nemstov was killed you all cowered away, when the first arrests for speaking out against the Ukraine war were made the rest of you hid away. This is your mess. This is on you to fix it. The rest of us have to deal wiuth the shit you allowed to come into power, and through inaction and ambivalence you allowed to to accumulate more and more power until we get to where we are today.