Comments by "R" (@rdrrr) on "Russians Aren't the Enemy" video.

  1.  @Перемогобуд  Single mothers were imprisoned in Irish convents and abused for many years. Croats got up to some sus shit during the Yugoslav Wars. Switzerland still has billions of dollars of windmill-of-peace-flag-regime (I suspect YouTube will eat my comment if I say the actual word) gold sitting in its banks. Ukrainian nationalists collaborated with the Funny Mustache Man Elite Divisions (again, worried about YouTube autocensor...) to exterminate Poles in Galicia and Volhynia during the war. Every nation on Earth has done something questionable. We shouldn't uncritically lionize any country. The ruling classes don't have morals, only political interests. They're separate from the ordinary people, who are just caught up in all this mess for better and worse. For example; you say "Iranians overthrew the monarchy to install a religious dictatorship". Nah. Iranians protested against the Shah's dictatorial regime. Things got out of hand fast. There were liberals, Communists and religious extremists all opposed to the Shah - but Khomeini played his cards best, sidelined the other groups and won. Don't presume all - or even most - Iranians wanted the Islamic Republic regime.
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