The Cold War never actually did end, did it? The communist government fell, but the threat didn't.
At any rate, there's a robust defense against this sort of strategy--strength in numbers. Go ahead, try to poison all of us.
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The Cold War never actually did end, did it? The communist government fell, but the threat didn't.
At any rate, there's a robust defense against this sort of strategy--strength in numbers. Go ahead, try to poison all of us.
Communism was never the problem, Russians were.
This seems racist and I can't believe it's so high upvoted. Sure, the unstable and corrupt leadership continued after the fall of the Soviet Union. But seriously?
They've been an incredibly brutal imperialist country for centuries now; the Soviet Union was just more of the same. I'm not saying it's a genetic feature of all Russians, but something is clearly fucked up about the way they run their country when they can't go few decades without committing literal genocide
Just to drive the point home, here's a list of just the easiest to find genocides and ethnic cleansings perpetrated by Russians that I found with a minimum of searching based on what I remember from history. Note that there's some overlap between these, so you can't just sum the "victims" column to get a total victim count.
Date | Event | Victims |
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1785 – 2017 | Chechen genocide | 500,000 – 900,000 deaths |
1800 – 1870 | Circassian genocide | 1,500,000 – 2,000,000 deaths |
1850s – ongoing | Cultural genocide by Russification in colonized areas | Hard to estimate. Millions, with many minority cultures lost |
1920s – 1930s | Genocide of the Ingrian Finns | Ingrian population reduced from 140,000 – 160,000 before the persecution to 19,000 today |
1920s – ??? | Ethnic cleansings on the Kola Peninsula | Nordic population of the Kola peninsula dropped from 20% to 0.2% |
1930 – 1952 | Cultural genocide by forced migration in the Soviet Union | 6,000,000 deported |
1932 – 1933 | Genocide of Ukrainians in the Holodomor | 3,800,000 – 5,300,000 deaths |
2015 – ??? | Syrian, Russian forces carrying out ethnic cleansing around Aleppo, Turkmen accuse Russia of ethnic cleansing in Syria air strikes | Tens of thousands displaced and/or dead |
2022 – ongoing | Genocide in the current Ukraine war | ??? |
2023 – ongoing | Pogroms in the Caucasus | ??? |
There is a book "Putin Country" on how rural Russia is every bit as fundamentalist in wanting the murdering of considered-reason, diverse-thinking, objectivity, etc, as the republican rural US is: it's the same pattern, or antipattern.
Shit-education, combined with anti-intellect culture, combined with gang-style culture/values ( our gang wins, NEVER whistleblow, or we'll ALL murder you for betraying the herd/gang!! ), and you produce such result.
The Mongol Yoke seems to have entrenched corruption, sociopathy, nihilism, etc, into Russian culture.
the Sovyet Soyuz ( union, I think ) Socialist .. I don't know what the P ( which is an R, in our alphabet ) stood-for, in CCCP .. was continuing the abuse that had already been going on for ages..
and when you prevent uprightness from living, in a population, there are consequences, whether in the Eastern hemisphere or the Western, the Northern or the Soutern, it's only appearances that differ, not the fundamental self/others/Nature/LivingSpirit set of relationships..
Gangs work to murder-out all which would compete against them, whether US, Russian, Chinese, Arab, Israeli, it doesn't matter.
Abuse's supremacy produces the perpetuation of abuse's supremacy.
This is why the only method that could have worked, in Palestine, was having an absolutely neutral government ( which Hamas would never have tolerated, nor would Israel ), and to force absolute neutrality & properness, for a hard minimum of 2+ generations, until the grudge-enforcing generations were all retired-out-from all leverage & authority.
No other method could have worked.
The idiocy of people pretending that "no bullets fly, therefore this is what Peace means!", and indulging in incredulity when grudge-violence erupts..
How can any self-respecting person stomach that dishonesty, I don't know.
Humankind doesn't have the spine to earn real integrity, and real-integrity is what it'd take to clean-up our own countries, let-alone derelict-abandoned countries, ruled by organized-crime..
Notice that the White-Blue-White Russians are city people, not rural: it's cultural, same as in the US with democrats being city slickers.
it takes multiple generations of concerted, strategically-coherent force, to break the ignorance/prejudice/ideology-additions that rule our world's people, including us.
IF any remnant of humankind survives this century, THEN maybe they'll succeed in earning such integrity, & be able to continue living..
that's a big if, though, now, with the global TANTRUM/POGROM that humankind's setting-up to "deal with" God not catering-to our toddler-unconscious..
Sorry for the rambling, but it's all inter-related, and you can't fix anything in isolation, no matter which country it's in..
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Putin, smiling from his throne of russian and non-russian skulls:"Might as well"
The Soviet Union didn't really fall so much as they reshuffled positions and changed titles.
This is not even my final form yet!
There's a really simple and effective solution. Deny entry to any russians with no long-term reason to stay.
FSB agents on a tourist visa? Deny.
Military-haircut men looking to open 'high-tech business' to buy electronic components and drone parts? Deny.
A young family of four fit guys looking to visit their grandma on a weekend? Deny.
Mail-in russian wife moving to live with her Spanish husband? I guess that should be allowed.
A non-fatal attack can serve as a warning — to its target and their circle. Strangely, poisoning can be even harder to prove if the target survives [...]
That's just sick. And in Prague, one of the safest cities in the world, of all places.
Why is considered Prague safe? It's closer to Russian agents than, say, São Paolo or Vancouver.
Tourists ask if Prague is safe for a solo female traveller. Statistically, there is so little violent crime that you're most likely to be safer there than in the capital city of whatever country/state you came from. Locals are generally accepting of anyone unless they go out of their way to provoke them.
However, Czechs are culturally quite opportunistic so you'll need to take precautions against pickpockets and scammers but it's quite easy and all explained on the Honest Guide YouTube channel.
As for Russian spies: it is hard to get statistics but there are definitely fewer than in Vienna, and I can imagine they can get you anywhere if they really wanted to. You'd need to be a very high-profile critic of Russia to become a target. The city is famously anti-Russia, having named the Russian embassy's street “Ukrainian Heroes”. Still, there are scars of the Communist regime and some tourist trap stores sell Soviet-themed items to people who “don’t dare step further east into the former Eastern Bloc”.
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...and when that doesn't work they shoot the dude full of holes in another European country.
sus.