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  1. Thank you for this update. I find that woman insufferable, but I must admit I only know of her through your videos, she doesn't seem to have much of an international platform (at least not in the UK). I fully agree with you about keeping up the pressure on these people whenever they make imperialist statements: I remember russian dissidents being revered in the West when I was growing up (i.e. in the 20 years before the fall of the soviet union), and that still seems to be the case now, so they potentially have a lot of traction with our media and even our politicians. Kara-Murza himself is already rowing back on the statement he made shortly after his release (from: Russian dissident tells BBC he thought he would die in 'Putin's prison'): "“I need more information,” he admits. “I realise that February 2022 changed a lot.” But he wants to know why a Russian human rights lawyer can’t travel to the Baltic states for a conference, when a Russian missile containing a Western-made chip can slam into a residential building in Ukraine. “The responsibility for what the Putin regime is doing there is shared by Russian society, a large part of which chose to close their eyes to the abuses and repression,” he argues. “But let’s not forget the responsibility of those Western countries who for years preferred to deal with Vladimir Putin and do business, knowing full well who he was and what he represented.” He was the only one I had some respect for, and while I'm relieved he didn't die in prison, I remain disappointed and angry with him for saying what he said the other day. However Operator Starsky made me look at it in a different light, when he said in last week's live stream that he wasn't surprised to hear something like that from someone who had just been released from russian captivity, because of the amount of brainwashing and disinformation that those prisoners are subjected to (he told us about his experience of speaking to a comrade who was released in late 2022 after months in captivity). So I don't know. Maybe he should have been treated like a released hostage and debriefed, instead of being given that platform so soon after his release. I will continue to argue with anyone calling for an end to sanctions on the russian federation. Слава Україні 💙💛
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