Poll of the Day > Let's talk about the protests going on in Russia right now.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Russian_protests

"The 2021 Russian protests began on 23 January 2021 in support of the arrested opposition leader Alexei Navalny and following the release of the film Palace for Putin. According to the BBC Russian Service, protests were held in 122 towns and cities in Russia."

"3,629 people across the country were detained that day with over 1,400 of them in Moscow, according to OVD-Info."

"Navalny aide Leonid Volkov said that Navalny's team plan to organize protests next weekend."

Resignation of Vladimir Putin is the protesters' goal.

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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/261-politics/79255318/949832085

Lmao

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Literally the only thing I know about this situation is that the dude got poisoned.

https://youtu.be/ipAnwilMncI

This is the documentary that was released by Navalny. There is an option for english subs

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Ferarri619 posted...

https://youtu.be/ipAnwilMncI

This is the documentary that was released by Navalny. There is an option for english subs

Will check it out for sure.

DDirtyDastard posted...

Literally the only thing I know about this situation is that the dude got poisoned.

he got poisoned by a unique Russian nerve agent thats been linked to fatal poisonings of several critics of Putin

he was poisoned and recovered abroad, and when immediately arrested when he returned to his home country

Putin isnt going to relinquish power any time soon no matter how bad protests get. Hed never make it out of the country alive if he did that.

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>she cares about russian politics

ngmi.

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1:04:06 in the video...Putin has 2 DDR machines in his palace, LOL WTF

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That's how he stays in shape

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There's nothing more Russian than lynching your leaders when they mess up.... I think MAYBE Gorbachev and Yeltsin were among the only survivors.

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Lokarin posted...

There's nothing more Russian than lynching your leaders when they mess up.... I think MAYBE Gorbachev and Yeltsin were among the only survivors.

There was nothing wrong with the Romanov family.
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Revelation34 posted...

There was nothing wrong with the Romanov family.

There was quite a lot wrong with the Romanov family.
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Lokarin posted...

There's nothing more Russian than lynching your leaders when they mess up

I dont think thats a russia exclusive thing

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

There was quite a lot wrong with the Romanov family.

They were leaders and then replaced by Stalin who was much better obviously.
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Ferarri619 posted...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Russian_protests

"The 2021 Russian protests began on 23 January 2021 in support of the arrested opposition leader Alexei Navalny and following the release of the film Palace for Putin. According to the BBC Russian Service, protests were held in 122 towns and cities in Russia."

"3,629 people across the country were detained that day with over 1,400 of them in Moscow, according to OVD-Info."

"Navalny aide Leonid Volkov said that Navalny's team plan to organize protests next weekend."

Resignation of Vladimir Putin is the protesters' goal.

Pretty tiny ass protest for that kind of a goal.


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Zeus posted...

Pretty tiny ass protest for that kind of a goal.

I wouldn't call it tiny at all. Some cities had over 10 000 protesters and Moscow had over 40 000 who participated.
The almost 4000 were just arrests.

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Eagerly waiting for PO to slap Rev until he abandons this topic.

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Ferarri619 posted...

I wouldn't call it tiny at all. Some cities had over 10 000 protesters and Moscow had over 40 000 who participated.
The almost 4000 were just arrests.

zeus is a russian plant, he has to downplay this and repeat the talking points he was given, ok?

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Sarcasthma posted...

Eagerly waiting for PO to slap Rev until he abandons this topic.

See, when you do this, now I kind of don't want to. You're giving me performance anxiety!







Ahh, fuck it...



Revelation34 posted...

They were leaders and then replaced by Stalin who was much better obviously.

People on this board have been overusing the term "whataboutism" a lot lately, but this is a pretty clear example of it.

Stalin being a shit leader doesn't retroactively make anyone prior to him not-shit so long as they didn't reach his personal level of shit. Just like the mere existence of Hitler doesn't retroactively make Kaiser Wilhelm a brilliant strategist and political negotiator.

The Romanovs in general made a ton of mistakes. The family as a whole tended to get a bit of slack early on because they were successors to Ivan the Terrible's reign and the Time of Troubles afterward, so any sort of stability/sanity seemed like a blessing. But the family produced its own share of terrible shitty rulers (*cough*Peter III*cough*) as much as it produced great ones, and at the very end it was Nicholas' own ineptitude, arrogance, and unwillingness to compromise that helped make the revolution inevitable - a better ruler in his place might easily have been better able to defuse it. Instead, he spent most of the last 20 years of his reign throwing fuel on the fire.

He was a control-freak, an autocrat, a racist, nepotistic, painfully indecisive, and generally overwhelmed by the level of responsibility thrust upon him. His father kept him isolated from politics for most of his early life, which left him unprepared to actually run things once his father died. He was the sort of weak ruler who might have been able to maintain the status quo in a more peaceful, prosperous time, but ruling in a time of chaos and crisis made it almost inevitable that he was going to fail, and fail hard.

He was never as evil a man as the Bolsheviks/Soviets painted him out to be after the fact, but he was never the saint the Russian Orthodox church portrayed him as either. And his numerous mistakes certainly cost millions of lives and helped lead to much of the suffering that followed after him.
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Oh, and on the subject, this is actually a pretty good book for anyone who is interested in the Romanovs (good and bad):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Romanovs_1613%E2%80%931918
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Thank you, Mr. PO. <3

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