the laugh is that the average Russian is not stupid and the pressure is building inside their joe-public 'champagne bottle' is shortly to explode - the question being how does this play out?
Incredible courage! Compared to her, Putin, suited & warm in safety while condemning thousands to misery & death is a weedy sick little coward.
I hope her bravery will be an incentive for others to find their own individual ways follow her example.
I’ve been reading about the treatment meted out to many of the arrestees.
A regime that rests its own people so and lies to them is rotten to the core and will ultimately implode.
All this has burst the myth that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people”.
In a terribly perverse way Putin has strengthened Ukraine’s nationhood. The so called Russians in E Ukraine who once respected him now hate him. As indeed they have increasingly for years now. It’s a pity it’s taken this war for that fact to get through
The other day a woman was arrested for holding up a blank piece of paper.
Another woman was explaining that she supported the war and she was arrested also! It’s like a zombie reaction by the OMON