RUSSIA now: "If you can't hold up a sign without being arrested ..."

[L. Coyote]

People in Russia are trying to protest the war, and are being met with state violence and arrest. Abolition of protests is using COVID as an excuse.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. This is dangerous. Putin will crack down very hard on dissent right now.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. RepubliQonners love Putin because he and they all love FREEDOM!!

[Probatim]

15. Isn't DeSantis doing the same in FL? You can run over protesters, shoot someone without having to

prove self-defense, and fudging COVID numbers. This is shit straight out of fascist regimes.

[Irish_Dem]

16. Of course, Putin and the GOP are one and the same.

[quakerboy]

35. Now, thats not fair

Putin is ruling a country and the GOP are following instructions.

[Irish_Dem]

36. Good point, the GOP are Putin's flying monkeys.

[quakerboy]

43. Again, not fair

They are willing lapdogs to ANYONE willing to pad their pockets and indulge their racist dreams. Putin just happens to fit the bill at the moment.

[Irish_Dem]

44. True, they sell out to anyone.

And would sell their own grandmothers.

[FoxNewsSucks]

21. To be clear,

you can run over BLACK protesters, LIBERAL protesters and "DEMOCRAT" protesters.

I'll bet that law won't apply if someone mowed down a few MAGAts

[momta]

25. True.

You so much as ASK a RWNJ to please be quiet, and you're accused of "cancel culture" and likely to get shot.

[Tommy Carcetti]

2. A couple of days ago we had someone on DU insisting Russia was a democracy.

Mind boggling.

It's time for another Russian Revolution. Hopefully this one will bring democracy.

[The Magistrate]

4. Heartstopping Bravery, Sir

They know what will be done to them.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. We should see a lot of trolls in the coming days

[Hekate]

26. Trollin' trollin' trollin', keep those comrades trollin' --

To the tune of Rawhide keeps runnin’ thru my brain.

[ancianita]

18. It's possible they bought what RT & Russia's other media said; maybe they see it as a broken clock

analogy, about being right twice a day.

Not defending them, but thinking maybe someone didn't ask why they thought that, I don't know; so, assuming they explained or didn't, it's still worth figuring why they might have said that.

Imo, many humans want to believe there can be such a thing as more-or-less democracies -- from those that 'upgrade' contract tracing apps to surveillance use, and jail, assassinate, or 'disappear' dissidents; to those that hold fake elections with fake or no opposition, with compliant media; to those that hold regular free and fair elections whether some media are truthful or not.

[quakerboy]

38. Fair chunk of folk are paid

to get the message out and stir as much doubt as possible in places like this.

[ChazII]

3. K&R n/t

[L. Coyote]

5. UPDATE: Russian police have arrested at least 167 people across the country protesting

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[world wide wally]

6. Another stable genius

Eh, Donald?

[uponit7771]

10. Read NYT story, this shit is crazy. Palace insiders think he's gone off the rails (link) and didn't

... think he'd invade the WHOLE DAMN COUNTRY

https://archive.fo/RWnWt

[geardaddy]

19. Thanks for posting the article

[Hekate]

24. On Putin's Stalinesque isolation, from the article

During the pandemic, analysts had noticed a change in Mr. Putin — a man who isolated himself in a bubble of social distancing without parallel among Western leaders. In isolation, he appeared to become more aggrieved and more emotional, and increasingly spoke about his mission in stark historical terms. His public remarks descended ever deeper into distorted historiography as he spoke of the need to right perceived historical wrongs suffered by Russia over the centuries at the hands of the West.
The political scientist Gleb O. Pavlovsky, a close adviser to Mr. Putin until falling out with him in 2011, said he was stunned by the president’s dark description of Ukraine as a dire threat to Russia in his hourlong speech to the nation on Monday.
“I have no clue where he got all that — he seems to be reading something totally strange,” Mr. Pavlovsky said. “He’s become an isolated man, more isolated than Stalin was.”

[oldsoftie]

29. Someone needs to take him out. nt

[Hekate]

34. Speaking of Stalin: wasn't it Stalin who called a high-level meeting & had everybody killed ...

…on the spot?

Psychopath Putin was spawned and raised in a KGB bunker, so to speak. He’s old-style.

[uponit7771]

40. +1, Putin would NO DOUBT be a MAGA if he were in the US

[treestar]

45. strangely similar to TFG

a mind bubble.

[dchill]

28. Apparently, the "ruling elite" around Putin just found out...

... they were neither ruling nor elite.

[L. Coyote]

7. Nearly 1,000 people detained so far at anti-war demonstrations in 44 cities across Russia.

Multiple government websites including the Kremlin and the State Duma are now offline.

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WOW. Look at the size of anti-war protestors in St Petersburg.

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[Liberal In Texas]

11. Wow, the stuff of despots being overthrown.

But it would probably take military leaders to remove him.

[KS Toronado]

32. Yep, just a couple good military leaders

who could help him "accidentally" fall out of a 20 story window......KARMA

[uponit7771]

41. WHOA

[L. Coyote]

8. Pushkin Square, a significant protest challenging the regime.

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[ffr]

12. Learn that word folks; courage.

We have it. They don't.

They only know threats and intimidation. They was us to go silently into the night.

We will not go down without a fight! It's in our creed, ingrained in our souls as we yearn to be free from oppression.

RESIST!

[L. Coyote]

14. People marching through central Moscow this evening chanting "No to War!"

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[Norbert]

17. I wonder if people that oppose their views are allowed to hit them with their vehicles.

Just saying.

[Hekate]

23. That is indeed what happened in Tienanmin Square, when the vehicles were tanks

[spanone]

20. TFG is taking notes.

[L. Coyote]

22. #FailedCoupGuy is probably thinking ...

HTF can I get my hidden assets out of Russia now?

Should have placed all that tax evasion money in the Caymans!

[Mr. Ected]

27. MAGATS think it's all fun and games as long as it's BLM or libs

Getting their asses kicked.

But the day the jackboots come after them, they'll cry a river and never admit they had signed away their own freedoms at the same time.

[uponit7771]

42. +1

[RussBLib]

30. my connection is getting spotty

instantly I suspect hackers.

Hey, if a sizeable number of Americans are pro-Putin, some of them could be hackers ready to cause mayhem.

[dchill]

31. Heartwarming to see them doing this...

Heartbreaking to know what will happen to them for doing it.

[Botany]

33. These protests will just keep growing and growing

Good Americans and the people of the world will stand with these brave Russian Patriots. I hope this will be like the fall of communism in the late 1980s in Eastern Europe after a while the military and the police will join with the people.

From the Civil Rights Days. They can't arrest all of us.

[L. Coyote]

47. Director of Moscow's Vsevolod Meyerhold State Theater resigns

Looking forward to a lot more of this.

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[burrowowl]

37. K&R!

[L. Coyote]

39. NOW: OVD-Info, more than 1,700 were arrested in 52 Russian cities.

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[L. Coyote]

46. Attack on Ukraine brings rare sight in Russia: Protests

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[L. Coyote]

48. Protests are being held all around the world

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