r/worldnews • u/DownWithAssad • 5d ago

Russia sentences 15-year-old schoolboy to 5 years for criticizing Putin regime and war against Ukraine Russia/Ukraine

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u/meteorprime 5d ago

What are you even fighting for at that point?

Your children jailed for speech…

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u/espresso_martini__ 5d ago

There was this interview with older man in Russia and he was asked why don't you protest. His response was "Why would I go to the barricades for these people waves around at the people passing by, they would happily report you to the government."

Russian people are a miserable bunch that would happily stab each other in the back. Its sad.

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u/Luke90210 5d ago

Dissidents who used to protest the Putin government largely gave up and left the country when the war started. They understood under wartime laws they would be wiped out. Men of fighting age would be drafted and sent to the front immediately. Everyone else could slowly die in the brutal prisons. Putin would not even pretend to be fair anymore.

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u/espresso_martini__ 5d ago

Yeah I watched a doco about a poet that protested by telling his poem in public. He got 7 years. When they arrested him he was raped. They stuck a pipe up his ass. Threaten to rape his girlfriend but just beat her instead. After he was put in prison they arrested her as well even though she didn't do a thing. Horrible nasty place.

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u/Zilskaabe 5d ago

Yeah, and putin didn't do all that. Lots of russians support him.

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u/OpeningDimension7735 1d ago

The siloviki are psycopaths given power over others, and they earn attention and praise by their sadistic acts.  Dictator 101 - empower the worst to intimidate the many.

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u/espresso_martini__ 5d ago

Yeah. your are completely right! Its not just him, that whole country supports his movement. Russian people are not to be trusted.

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u/CurrencyFit7659 5d ago

So, the guy and his girlfriend also support putin, right?

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u/Pixie1001 5d ago

Yeah, like lets not sit here pretending soldiers and police in western countries don't do fucked up shit as well.

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u/CurrencyFit7659 5d ago

Let's not pretend privileged kids in western countries are any better or smarter. All this "freepalestine" propaganda is identical to Russian propaganda about Ukraine, word by word, and so many people believe in it on the West it gives me a hope about my people - at least we have mostly older people who are weak for propaganda