| Navalny in a minute BBC2. 20:59 - Apr 25 with 2793 views | jeera |
Might be an interesting watch for some. |  |
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| Navalny in a minute BBC2. on 22:16 - Apr 26 with 538 views | Churchman |
| Navalny in a minute BBC2. on 20:47 - Apr 26 by jeera |
Oh yes the place is fecking massive isn't it with a contrast of citizens as wide as the US with the busy cities and metropolitan types and those who are more small-town and then onto those out in the sticks a bit who have a completely different way of life altogether.
Never the twain and all that.
Off on a tangent, have you seen the Garage People? I asked Guthers the other week but he hadn't seen it.
It's set in the middle of nowhere, somewhere Siberia I think, with some really diverse people. Really bizarre stuff: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000zgdc
Yes Putin doesn't look happy. I hope he regrets every damn disgusting thing he's done for every single moment he has left until he dies. |
An interesting book is Hans von Luck’s book Panzer Commander. Most of the book is about his wartime career which was extraordinary in that he turned up everywhere. The relevance of it to this discussion is that after the war he spent a few years in a Russian labour camp. Because he had skills in the construction trade, he got to see how the russian communist system worked - or more precisely didn’t work. Fascinating.
That though is one tiny example 70 years ago so not really relevant. The point about scale of the place and diverse cultures is relevant. Add in factions and hatreds and god knows how it operates at all.
I was forced to read Solzhenitsyn for my o’level. All about the Gulag. A couple of hundred pages of epic misery. Not recommended! |  | | |
| Navalny in a minute BBC2. on 22:42 - Apr 26 with 508 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Navalny in a minute BBC2. on 22:51 - Apr 25 by Nthsuffolkblue |
Even more desperately needed there than here.
And it is desperately needed here.
Where is Martin Bell when you need him? |
I think either Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe or her husband Richard Ratcliffe should stand against Boris in Uxbridge, as an integrity candidate, and Labour, Lib Dems and Greens step aside.
There is enough of a parallel with Hamilton in Tatton for the Bell precedent to be replicated. |  | | |
| Navalny in a minute BBC2. on 18:51 - Apr 27 with 457 views | Wacko |
| Navalny in a minute BBC2. on 18:38 - Apr 26 by jeera |
Yeah I know, I just thought I'd best acknowledge the other poster's video in my reply to you rather than risk getting bogged down elsewhere with someone I've no time for.
Navalny flying back to face the consequences the way he did, knowing what was waiting the other end. Sod that.
You have got to marvel at the likes of the lady on the news channel parading with that sign the other week. Knowing what might come after doing that is on some level of bravery I'm not sure most of us possess. But did it have any effect?
We don't get to hear what's on the minds of the regular Russian do we, relying ourselves on snippets here and there from news clips and programmes like last night's. We know such people exist, but we also know the public are subjected to state propaganda on a daily basis. You'd really have to put yourself out to discover much information beyond what's available there wouldn't you. That probably carries a huge risk of its own. Just seeking out truth.
What do the pro-Putin public make of their countryfolk who have taken to the streets, do they think they're the brainwashed ones? The way Putin just dismissed all those reports out of hand and laughed at them as though anything negative directed towards him was absurd. Quite chilling really.
It's an interesting one isn't it, life after Putin. Is there even any infrastructure in place for the public to even have a say anymore?
Guthrum might have some ideas if he's around at some point. This might be his bag. |
Weird flex by someone I've hardly had any interaction with but who was clearly too myopic / binary to understand my point, and instead gave a blanket "disgusting!" Daily Mail-style response.
Weird flex also because I haven't detracted from anything or pushed any agenda - Putin is still a horrible human being. I'm just calling out a racist who, as I put in my post, and according to a major expert in Russia politics, is STILL a racist. Funny how the myopic / binary section of this board are happy to blindly apologise for racism multiple times in order to make themselves feel more morally superior (seriously, shooting a guy in a turban is merely tackling extremism??!!! and 15 years is the time limit to wipe out any past misdemeanours? Boris Johnson will be glad to know you'll be apologising for his Darius Guppy phone call then, for example)
While Navalny standing up to a bully (there's that phrase again) is admirable and inspiring, as ever there are always nuances to every political action which sadly the knee-jerker cheerleaders such as yourself predictably fail to fathom.
Oh and putting someone on ignore for offering up a different viewpoint sounds a lot like something Putin would do! | |
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