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Originally Posted by deltav
Really?
How about:
-KGB career in both East Germany & USSR
-suppression & jailing of numerous opposition figures on trumped up "corruption" and other charges
-suppression of dissents & criticism in print media, tv, and other journalism (argue all you want about Russia having a free press, this is not remotely the case) plus supression of activist opposition groups & other segments of civil society. You can find multiple reports on this by Amnesty International, HRW, etc.
-completing the near-total destruction of Grozny
-fucking with former Soviet republics like Ukraine (poisoning Yuschenko) or Georgia (did they get UN approval for invading them in 2008? course not)
-the ridiculous Pussy Riot jailing (just one of the more sensationalist anti-dissident events recently), the regressive "homosexual propaganda" law, etc.
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This is exactly why I don't think that people who don't understand Russian should judge processes in Russia. The information that you are getting from English language press is plain wrong.
- As a person who grew up in Soviet Union I don't see anything wrong with KGB who were trying to protect our country from your government overthrowing our government, nuking us and so on. So this, "Oh come on he's KGB!!" doesn't work on me.
There rest of your points are plain wrong. You don't have any proof only opinionated articles written in press that's owned by the people who also own the big corporations that were squeezed by Putin out of getting free oil in Russia in 2004. That's pretty much it in a nutshell.
I'm just curious don't you think it's ridiculous how someone who doesn't understand Russian is trying to explain to me, who's first language is Russian that there is no freedom of speech in Russia?