Comments by "Awesome Avenger" (@awesomeavenger2810) on "Why is Russia still in love with Putin?" video.

  1. Russians are still in love with Stalin. It's like they never learn!
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  2. Stalin's collectivisation and ethnic genocides ensured Russia would remain a third world country well after his death.
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  3. Yeah, and how is being a bric working out for you? Stagnating economy. Falling living standards. Vast corruption. Isolation from the west. Hated by your closest neighbours. The KGB back inside the kremlin. And yet another Great Leader that persecutes and murders all opposition. I would've thought you'd have learned from history by now.
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  4. After decades of economic ruin at the hands of the communists, the Russian system was in collapse. Yeltsin did the heavy lifting. He did the necessary but impossible task of dismantling the communist system. And Putin's 'success' rests on what Yeltsin did. The fact that the Russian economy improved after communism is no surprise. Eastern Europe did exactly the same. China is doing the same. And many small Eastern European nations who suffered under Russian occupation now have better living standards than Russia. Because they don't have a vastly corrupt KGB secret policeman as dictator. Not interested in your rant against the US and Clinton. Typical Russian response is to blame the US for everything whilst never taking responsibility for themselves. Your Soviet Empire. Your tyrants. Your country. Your responsibility.    You seem unaware that the Arab Spring kicked off in Tunisia. An ally of the west. Then spread to Egypt. Another ally of the west. Once again blaming it on a US conspiracy is typical Russian cynicism. You seem unable to understand why someone wouldn't want to live under a murderous tyrant. Perhaps because you think freedom and democracy doesn't exist, so there's no point fighting for it? Typical Russian defeatism. Happy to live on your knees. And you expect everyone else to do the same. Who are Russia's closest allies? The ayatollah, Belarus, the Chinese, and a few puppet dictators Russia manages to prop up on its borders. Been there before, haven't you? Wonder how it ends?
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  5. No, I mean the genocidal Assad regime, north korea, iran, and Putin's puppet dictatorship in Chechnya. Among others. In fact, I can't think of any free democratic country Russia is allied with. Or even friends with. And the Russian bombing of Syria is happening right now. As is Russia's war against Ukraine. And it still occupies Georgia even now.
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  6. And those oligarchs are now the billionaires who support Putin. Or what do you think Putin would have done differently? Would he have continued with the communist system? The communist system was the reason why the Russian economy collapsed! According to the IMF, World Bank, and the Central Intelligence Agency, Russia comes below Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic in GDP per Capita. All those nations suffered under Russian occupation for decades after the war. But all are now democratic. Unlike Russia. And unlike Russia, their economies are not dependent on energy sales. The Arab Spring began in Tunisia. An Ally of the west. There it was a success. It spread to Egypt. An ally of the west. Not so successful. If the West plotted to bring down governments, why do it in allied nations? In fact, it was only once the Arab Spring happened in non Western allied nations that war was the result. In Libya, Gaddafi was desperate to hang on to power. And was prepared to see his nation burn. The same is happening in Syria today. And what is your answer there? To support Assad's regime? The war has gone on for over six years now. Rather than shortening the war as Western intervention undoubtedly did in Libya, Russia has prolonged the war. And the death and destruction far exceeds anything in Libya. By contrast, Libya is in a far better position.  You can argue your case with Libya's GDP. But somehow I doubt that those who took up the fight to remove Gaddafi's terrorist regime would take much notice of you. You could, I guess claim that all those Libyans were, in fact, NATO and CIA operatives in disguise. But that's hardly credible. Whichever way you look at it, Libyans wanted rid of Gaddafi and the only viable way was the use of force. But then that's what happens when you live in a dictatorship. Perhaps you should tell us about the thousands more who have died in Syria by Russian airstrikes. And for what? Another forty years of blood-drenched Assad dictatorship? Is that all you have to offer? More corruption, brutal oppression, and injustice? THERE IS YOUR DICTATORSHIP. That is what Russia is fighting for. And I'm sure you live in the US. For some reason, Putin's most vocal fans are all desperately keen to tell us how they live in the west. And not Russia.  Putin's regime is built on lies. It's rotten from the bottom up. You talk of Saudi Arabia, but Russia has not one single ally that is democratic. Even its closest European neighbours want nothing to do with it. Because whereas you might not agree with fighting for political freedom, even fewer people agree with bombing the shit out of Syria for a mass murdering despot like Assad.
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  7. It's funny that you should blame western sanctions for Russia's apparent economic stagnation. Because Russian counter sanctions were designed to harm the west in retaliation. And yet those Eastern European countries, such as Poland and the Baltics, who have far closer trade links to Russia than the rest of Europe, still out perform Russia economically!   You ask who was to blame for the war in Libya. Gaddafi. He was in charge. He was dictator. Perhaps he should've stepped down when his people demanded it? After all, what do you think would have happened in Tunisia if Ben Ali had refused to step down?  And are you seriously claiming that Libya is worse off than Syria? Gaddafi had to rely on foreign mercenaries to fight his own people. Rather like Assad has to rely on Russians to bomb his own people. But obviously, when Russia is involved and its propping up its mass murdering puppet dictator, the excuse is ''Of course civilian casualties will happen''.   Six years and Russia has done nothing in Syria, but make itself a laughing stock by sailing its antiquated carrier into the Mediterranean, crashing a few of its jets, then dragging it back home again.  And whereas the West may have gone to war against the taliban, saddam, and Gaddafi, who does Russia go to war against? Ukraine (a democracy), Georgia (a democracy). While at the same time making war in Chechnya (for a second time-and to install a puppet dictator) and Syria (to prop up a puppet dictator). And those are only Putin's wars. And we can all put in quotes from the Guardian:  ''Russia has been directly and repeatedly accused of war crimes at the UN security council in an unusually blunt session, as hopes of any form of ceasefire were flattened by the scale and ferocity of the Syrian regime’s assault on eastern Aleppo.'' ''The war crimes accusations centred on the widespread use of bunker-busting and incendiary bombs on the 275,000 civilians living in the rebel-held east of the city, weapons that Moscow’s accusers say were dropped by Russian aircraft. “ ''Bunker-busting bombs, more suited to destroying military installations, are now destroying homes, decimating bomb shelters, crippling, maiming, killing dozens, if not hundreds,” Matthew Rycroft, the UK ambassador to the UN, said during the emergency security council session on Syria on Sunday.“Incendiary munitions, indiscriminate in their reach, are being dropped on to civilian areas so that, yet again, Aleppo is burning. And to cap it all, water supplies, so vital to millions, are now being targeted, depriving water to those most in need. In short, it is difficult to deny that Russia is partnering with the Syrian regime to carry out war crimes.”'' -September 2016 Don't hear any concern from KGB Colonel Putin over his, or Assad's, actions in Syria! But then I guess war is ok when Russia is propping up one of its mass murdering puppet dictators. It's just not ok when its about taking out mass murdering dictators! Let's be honest here. You're trolling for Putin. I'm still waiting for you to tell me you're ex US military. And to copy paste that notorious Russian Troll list of American wars since 1945!
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  8. Those oligarchs are now Putin's. And the corruption under Putin is as vast as ever. It goes right to the top. And since you can't ever get rid of Putin, it will never change.
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  9. Love the way you show your true colors.
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  10. Don't think the Guardian is pushing for war. It's the war criminal in the Kremlin that keeps invading his neighbours.
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  11. If you think that's bad, take a look at what Russia does. If they're not allying with Nazis and kicking off world wars, they're annexing territory and propping up genocidal tyrants.
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  12. It's well known that Assad buys oil from ISIS. Maybe not in Russia, but then if they have such a piss poor grasp on what is going on as you do, they won't know what everyone else knows. Up until recently, the FSA have been the only group fighting the spread of ISIS. While Assad and the Russians have concentrated their attacks on the FSA. But you better tell the Russians that the FSA are ISIS, because they've been holding talks with them Kazakhstan! Putin talks to ISIS now does he? There are no US troops occupying Ukraine. Plenty of Russian troops there tho. The Ukrainians keep capturing them! And when it comes to corruption, I hardly think Russia can be pointing fingers at Ukraine. Russia is ruled by secret policemen, thugs, and crooks! You mean to say the Ukrainians are as happy to live on their knees as the Russians? I don't think so. Putin poured billions more than the US did into Ukrainian politics. Corrupting Ukraine's elections so badly they had to be re-run! The Russians even aided assassination attempts against Yanukovych's political opponents! Just like they do in Russia!  And no, they weren't Georgian troops. It was before the Russian invasion even started. Russian attack helicopters lunched an unprovoked attacks on Georgian civilians.  Assad is no 'progressive'. He's just a tyrant like all Russia's other allies. Like I said, Russia only ever goes to war to prop up it's puppet dictators. Either that, or it attacks its neighbours. And annexes their territory. Then ethnically cleanses the area as it did in occupied Georgian territory, east Ukraine, and Crimea.   Still bitching about your collapsed Russian empire, I see? Worried about US bases? Maybe you should stop invading your neighbours, then you might actually have normal relations with them? You lost! People want democracy! Not your KGB secret police crook and his genocidal puppets!
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  13. The collapse of the Russian economy was because of decades of communism. Take a look around the world at every other communist county. They always collapse. The transition had to happen. And that transition would be painful whoever set it in motion. As for Gaddafi, the proof is in the fact that the Libyans kicked the fucker out. Not everyone is content to live on their knees.
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  14. Yeltsin may have been corrupt, but he did what was necessary. Putin has done nothing of any worth for the Russian economy. Like Saudi Arabia, the Russian economy pretty much depends of its energy sales. That is what is responsible for the money coming into Russia. Not anything the vastly corrupt Putin regime has done. And that's exactly the same with Gaddafi. He wasn't responsible for Libya's oil wealth. And most certainly he was hated. So much so that people went out to risk their lives and the lives of their families to get rid of him. And half of Europe would still be living in dirt-poor communist shitholes if they hadn't have done the same. But then I guess they must just be better people than the Russian?
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  15. XD
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  16. It's why Russia is back to doing deals with nazis.
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  17. Russia not only collaborated, supported, supplied, and allied themselves with the nazis during the war, their space program was entirely the work of the communist party. And the communist party carried out mass murder on a greater scale than even the nazis.
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  18. France and Britain were guilty of nothing more than not going to war with Germany over Czechoslovakia. But then, neither did Russia. Whereas both France and Britain eventually did declare war on Germany, Russia willingly allied with Hitler and the two carved up Europe between them. The Russians actually helped build the nazi war machine that was eventually turned against them. As the two co-operated closely in the development of armored vehicles at Kama, near Kazan in the USSR. This allowed Germany to circumnavigate the Versailles Treaty that prohibited tank development inside Germany. Stalin actually wanted Germany and the western allies to go to war. That is why he delayed his invasion of Poland (the invasion he had planned along with nazi Germany) until 2 weeks after the German invasion. And it worked. As the western allies, France and Britain, declared war on Germany. Not Russia.  The soviet union was a one party state. Just as in nazi Germany, all research and development was conducted under orders of the party. Including its space program. Soviet estimate of the number of German POW's who died in captivity are around 350,000. German estimates, however, are around 1 million. After the Battle of Stalingrad, for example, where the Soviets captured 91,000 German troops, in total only 5,000 survived Russian captivity. The German military used the Soviet Union's refusal to sign the Geneva Convention as a reason for not providing the necessities of life to Soviet POWs. And the Soviets similarly killed Axis prisoners or used them as slave labour. In fact, many soviet POW's released from German captivity were immediately sent to Stalin's gulag concentration camps. As they were seen as having turned traitor against the glorious soviet empire.   Estimates of Stalin's mass genocides range from 20 million or higher. Whole areas were ethnically cleansed. Ask anyone from the Baltics, or anywhere that suffered under Russian occupation.
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  19. France and Britain managed to get Hitler to sign up to an agreement that gave Germany the Sudetenland. They thought they had avoided war. But Hitler took the rest anyway. There was, of course, nothing to prevent Russia from doing what you criticize France and Britain for not doing. And that is, to guarantee the territorial integrity of the whole of Czechoslovakia. And go to war with Germany. But it didn't. And in a year's time, Russia and Germany were allies. And both France and Britain went war in 1914 in defence of little Slavic countries. What you may think of France and Britain's lack of preparation for war makes no difference to the fact that both countries declared war on Germany in response to Hitler's invasion of Poland. If everyone was aware of what Hitler had said about taking Russia, then why did Russia ally with him? And the fact that Russia had such a high casualty rate doesn't make Russia more of a victim than, say, Poland, or the Baltics, or Finland. Russia was like a thief who falls victim to theft. ''USSR took Nazi scientists at gun point, and they were not given vast freedom and lots of money like their SS counterparts'' Russia has its own SS. The NKVD. They impressed even the gestapo by their brutality in occupied Poland.  Unlike Stalin, the western allies signed the Geneva convention. And I certainly wouldn't take soviet figures seriously. Remember, it wasn't until the 1990's the Russia finally admitted to the Katyn massacre in Poland (carried out by the NKVD). Of course you would deny the true horror of Stalin's crimes. Just as some still deny the true horror of Hitler's crimes. Just as there were those in Germany that claimed it was not Hitler but those around him, so too there are those (still) in Russia that claim that Stalin 'didn't know'. But Stalin did know. And like Hitler, he had no problem with ethnically cleansing whole populations. Today, it is only Russian's who continue to deny the war guilt of the Stalinist regime.
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