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by darthrupert 1275 days ago
In addition to being nice, Russians should grow a spine. The American people of 70s were massively better than current Russians: they stopped the Vietnam War by protesting against it.

Where are the massive Russian peotests?

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The American people of 70s didn't face violence, torture, and over a decade of prison for protesting.

It is not a fair comparison, the ship has long sailed for Russian protest movement, when rest of the world was turning the blind eye for the past decade.

Vietnam war lasted 10 years.

Let's see if Russians might turn things around before the Americans did!

I don't expect so but it's in part because by shunning the Russia people we've weakened their ability to resist their government. It's ridiculous that the first response from social media was to block Russia's and now be a conduit for the average Russia to see the truth about the war.