Comments by "Anita K" (@Anita-k) on "Силиконовый занавес"
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If you appreciate Konstantin as much as I do, you might also like the Russian YouTubers "Zack the Russian" and "NFKRZ" ... Zack's still extremely young - 21 years I believe - he had just arrived back "home" to Russia from his time as an US exchange student, shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine.
Feeling it's his duty to stand up against that bs, bc he had learned in America, that people have the right to say "NO" to injustice, he went out on the 24th of February 2022 to join the anti-war protesters in Moscow, (which btw is full of surveillance cameras), so Russian police chased him and he had to flee Russia to the country Georgia/Tbilisi ... he has an aunt living in the US, so he's lucky to be back in college there now ... he doesn't post often, but when you watch him you'll quickly realize he's wise beyond his age and at least to me he appears to be much older due to his mature personality.
& "NFKRZ" uses lots humour to show, how backwards Putin's Russia has become ... both speak almost perfect English and are absolutely worth watching.
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I'm Austrian as well and I'm not surprised at all, that Anna's Austrian subscriber told her that we would've totally given up, if invaded by Russia.
I saw a poll yesterday stating, that 75% of Austrians wanna "stay neutral", (so basically we rather fight for our neutrality than against an enemy), we rather call the cops on our neighbours for making a noise complaint, we rather comply with jab mandates, we rather make each others lives hell than do something useful*, (etc), I guess we are deeply devided here and I don't get it.
Or yes I get it, bc I myself mentally divorced from my country when I noticed, that we didn't fully take Ukraine's side in this war, although we're sending humanitarian aid and took in lots of refugees, but it could be so much more done and I'm generally disappointed ... so I'm devided from "our" Austrian people as well, I'm not one bit better than others here.
Also, lots of Austrians are influenced by Russian propaganda to the level of some being brainwashed, we didn't learn at all from the mistakes of Germany's natural gas dependency, (etc), "we"/more like the ruling classes want business as usual and I despite having an eastern European background myself, I don't know how to change this.
* Ok maybe I see this WAY too negatively atm, I truly don't know, but Austria has become a super-weird country to me although I'm born here.
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& Now this great interview makes me question Putin's extremely weak speech from yesterday - the 21st of February 2023 - even more!
I mean I was always aware, that Putin's fighting not only for staying in power but also for his personal survival.
* spelling?
But he looked and acted so defeated, bc there's NO victory he can offer to the Russians, however I don't think, he even gives a dam what his own people think about him atm and most of the time he never really did, bc he controls them anyways - I was wondering, if he ordered this speech to be written in such a lame and boring way, to lull the West into believing he's defeated and to underestimate him - to (again) lure a part of the United Western countries into appeasing him and drive a wedge between them.
Well whatever we do, we shouldn't give in into the fear of his nukes, (although I'm aware, he likely doesn't shy away of trying to use them if he's getting cornered, however his fellow Russians certainly aren't that suicidal as him).
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I feel definitely extremely ashamed, how many Ukrainians and volunteers lives this delay has costed and I'm not even from the US ... however I just hope, there's also the "good aspect" to it, that Europe was forced to wake up from its slumber, it's been in for ~2 years.
& Let's face it, NATO = almost 1 billion people, if only 10% to 15% of us adults are fully committed to win this war, russia's totally done, as there's NO WAY, ALL their ~144 or how many millions they're three atm, can be as committed as our 10% to 15% adults ... simply bc this number also includes elderly and kids.
Sounds grim, but that's the reality russia's facing now and these numbers are real.
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@SyKnife
Yeah my dad was ~5 years in 1945, when Russia suddenly decided, not to leave and instead stay in a bunch of eastern European countries after WW2 (those are known as the countries behind the iron curtain), back then a Russian commander and his soldiers occupied my Hungarian family's home, they slept there while all females were hidden in a well disguised basement below them ... then one day they looted our home and moved into "their" next target/house.
Then Russia feared to lose their grip on Hungary, so they fully invaded it again in 1956, when my dad was barely 17 he fled together with 2 adult siblings to the unknown West, the so called "worst part of the world", he had only heard terrible stories about in school, that's how he ended up in "Austria Oblast" and met my mom here.
He explained me a lot about the way, Russian propaganda works and I'm always mindblown, how much money all these campaigns must cost ... unfortunately there're lots of "contrarian westerners" willingly repeating their conspiracy theories and talking points, some paid and knowingly, others not so much, they likely just believe in it.
The YouTube channels Professor Gerdes explains, Mercado Media, Jake Broe, Operator Starsky and others were also great debunking that nonsense ... Jonathan collaborated/made interviews with lots of them.
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OF COURSE HE DOESN'T WANT PEACE (I've no clue, how this is even up for debate) ... he started that invasion, he changed his whole country into a war economy and now there's no more way out in his mind.
Not sure, how true this is, bc the West bent over backwards trying to offer him countless "face saving off ramps" throughout all those ~3+years ... however, he highly likely would've to face his inner circle and justify all the russian lives lost for nothing, if he'd stop now.
Besides that, he's delusional and thinks (or at the very least he hopes) that he's winning.
Anyways, THANK YOU so very much for educating all the people, who still might've doubts or have fallen for their way too effective propaganda machine, Jonathan and Konstantin.
🖖💛🇺🇦💙🖖
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While listening to Julia talking about all those Russian propagandists, I thought:
& Btw, can you PLEASE interview Konstantin S. from the INSIDE RUSSIA YouTube channel again?
He's recently been in Dubai for a few days and was totally shocked about the amount of Putin-loyal/government conform wealthy Russians staying there for fun - eighter bc they and/or their kids, families & close friends mostly live there and/or bc they're there on extended holidays - he saw them partying etc, after, or pretty much almost while they're spreadingall kinda nonsense at home to their fellow Russians about the "evil satanic west out there to get us all".
& He claimed that's NOT only happening in Dubai/UAE but also everywhere in the US, Europe and the other western countries.
Basically we/the West refuse to give visas to the less wealthy, but highly educated Russian refugees (let alone give them a permanent residence permit) - meaning those refugees, who fled before the war, after protesting against the war on the 24th of February 2022 and on the days after the full scale invasion had started, after Putin's announcement of his so called "partial" mobilisation - these are doctors, teachers, IT specialists, etc ... I mean, of course I can understand and appreciate that our/the West's worried about taking spies and paid vandals into our countries, but I also understand his and his people's frustrations with this unjust system, we're definitely using double standards here imo.
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@SiliconCurtain
Yeah actually after typing my main comment I suddenly remembered, that Konstantin from INSIDE RUSSIA - another very interesting guest of your podcasts here on your channel and also a YouTuber I'm watching almost daily - has pointed out on several occasions and repeatedly in different contexts, that both the Russian leadership won't let such information through by simply blocking it and also, that the Russian audience itself isn't really that interested in investigating and learning the truth neighter.
IF Russians truly wanted to know, how things are really going in other countries - not only in Europe but pretty much in every single country worldwide they're personally interested in for whatever reasons - they could simply just watch several YouTube channels about it, on top of this they can personally communicate with locals from said country/continent online (on any other apps they're having access to besides YouTube), but usually that doesn't happen on a large scale; so it appears the vast majority of average Russians actually prefer to stay in their isolated mindsets and Putin propaganda bubble willingly.
But you're right, there're ALREADY attempts of Putin's regime to block even certain YouTube channels videos from getting through to Russia and Belarus ... YouTuber Mercado Media has been talking about his problems with Russian copyright claims quite a bit lately, maybe you'd want to interview him as well?
Details about this type of (attempted*) new Russian censorship targeting American & other international YouTubers, of course also including Ukrainian ones, would be really interesting to learn ... Andrew from Mercado Media only said, Russia's making copyright claims for all types of songs, texts and other content (specifically short clips taken from Russian tv), which have "Russian names and/or words" in them, regardless if the authors/content creators are TRULY Russian citizens, or their names are just being typed in Cyrillic letters, etc.
And/or you might want to talk to Andrew in private, especially if you're experiencing similar issues here on your channel, which quite frankly might be a bit mysterious at the beginning, bc the way I understood it, Russia's complaining about copyright issues to YouTube and in turn YouTube's making Andrew some troubles, he then has to sort this all out with YouTube, which tbh can also be a bit frightening for full-time YouTubers, when they're suddenly getting threatened that they'll get or are in fact demonetized cause of copyright claims; (if I got all of that correctly as I'm not a native English speaker and I'm also no YouTuber ... so I'm very sorry if that's not been the most exact description of this phenomenon).
* "Attempted", bc usually it's "fair use" and YouTube then accepts the video or stream after reviewing the copyright issue.
I'll also have to explain this to several other YouTubers btw, bc they're also been fighting with "unexplainable copyright issues" recently, especially when wanting to show/debunk propaganda from Russian tv ... although they're clearly stating, that showing those clips is for educational purposes ONLY and certainly NO attempt of sharing Russian propaganda at all.
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Sorry YouTube's been a bit behind with showing me your reply, so while I was typing the rest of my "novel in chapters" here, I couldn't see your reply yet ... so my first replies after yours, that aren't addressed to you are just me continuing my train of thoughts.
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@LisaNH934
(Me ~5 days ago and already feeling I'm late).
Hi Lisa, 💛💙🤗💙💛 I'm sooo happy to see you again!
Sorry for being a bit late with replying - I'm not sure if it's "just me", or if my gut feeling's correct, that our "beloved" ru trolls are so overly-active atm, that I'm pretty much getting overwhelmed with countering their bs claims I can detect, which results in me having to do more Google-research than usual, which is time consuming and I fall far behind quite easily.
Research is crucial and necessary though, bc despite "smelling" them and their pro-russian bs, I'm far from knowing everything and I don't wanna reply only with:
"those are ALL russian propaganda lies you're telling me here" + a list of the most popular ru narratives ... bc I know, I can't convince the trolls, but my goal is to bring the people, who're reading along to their senses by arguing better than the troll (if possible, although it's a never ending learning process).
It's also a huge relief to hear in this video here, that even experts, foreign policy professionals and world leaders/politicians fall victim to russian propaganda, at least I won't feel too stupid when it happens to me again, bc I certainly remember feeling confused like Jonathan's guest after accidentally watching ru propaganda ... til I shook my head and reminded myself that this is exactly what their propaganda's aiming at.
I guess it's the algorithm throwing everything Ukraine related at me, even clearly pro-russian stuff and I block them, but I'm keeping an eye on Prof Gerdes analysing them, bc it's fascinating to see how the other side's reacting to world news and how they try to spin everything to their own advantage.
But I think it's not "just me", bc I'm getting more troll replies than usual, as I've just noticed after counting those from the past few days ... and I agree, it's indeed easy to spot their latest talking points and narratives, bc besides getting their replies I also read lots of their comments and I feel the main problem is, they're constantly adapting and coming up with new bs and lies.
Like e.g. they're (likely instigating, fuelling and) using the middle East's struggles to distract us all from Ukraine.
But the silver lining is, that this could be a huge sign of their own desperation and the upcoming end of russia as we know it atm, bc at least two or more people predicted highly increased troll activities shortly before all falls apart over there in ru - not sure, if it's been Vlad Vexler, K from "inside russia", Mercado Media, Starsky, Rick, Jonathan from this channel here, Geogijs from Ukraine Matters and/or Jake Broe saying this, mainly bc they've ALL noticed and explained troll activity patterns in their streams and videos at some point - the worse russia's in crisis, the more troll activity til they can't afford to pay them for their propaganda efforts anymore.
Sending you both big hugs and hopefully 2024 will be the year this war ends with Ukrainian victory, (although I'm currently impatiently waiting for the "United West" to start moving again).
& Of course I hope, that it's the year of healing for J. and you!
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I'd argue, Russian mobilisation has in fact never fully stopped, since Putin's fateful announcement of their so called "partial" mobilisation - which hasn't been limited at all, neighter in numbers of mobilised men, nor is there any limited timeframe to that "partial" nonsense, whatsoever (& regardless of a few Russian politicians coming out and stating "it's over", in an attempt to calm the public down) - according to your guest Konstantin from INSIDE RUSSIA and "sanctioned Ivan", their next wave is already starting right now.
If we're waiting for another Putin mobilisation announcement and/or war declaration, we'll get disappointed bc there'll be none, to avoid panic amongst military aged citizens and another mass-exodus from Russia to (mostly neighbouring) countries, who're still willing to accept them as refugees.
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I've read on the "Inside Russia" channel in Konstantin's comments early on about Zack's ill friend getting conscripted and I've been wondering ever since, if he's gotten conscripted, exactly BECAUSE he's writing Zack's "Russia tomorrow" Telegram channel.
There're "rumours" of some Telegram servers having been installed inside of russia not too long ago - but I've no clue, how they would've done this and especially how they'd have connected said servers to the real already existing Telegram app, so it's VERY questionable if there's any truth to these rumours at all - if they're true though, maybe that's how Zack's friend got found out and specifically targeted; (just my personal suspicions and gut feeling).
Although these might just be rumours without any truth to them, they could also serve another totally different purpose, which is to undermine the average russians trust in the Telegram app ... as far as I'm aware millions of russians have Telegram accounts, so it angers and worries the russian leadership, that they can't control war related information shared on Telegram.
So destroying the trust into this app could be, how they're fighting against the lack of power they're having over it.
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I wanna underline, these are indeed ONLY rumours without any proof and I feel really bad sharing them - especially if this helps the russian leadership - at the same time I'd feel bad not warning people that these rumours exist.
I'm in some kinda pickl here and really torn ... so PLEASE feel free to remove this comment here, if you feel it's counterproductive, Jonathan!
You know more about this stuff than I do and of course I won't be angry.
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My best guess is, this app's trying to filter out paid commentators to get rid of them, like e.g. russian troll farm "employees".
But did they EVER think, that there're also millions of retired and disabled people, and/or very personally dedicated individuals, who're naturally writing more comments for free, bc they've eighter more spare time, or are personally more effected by this war - or ALL OF THE ABOVE together as in my case, as I'm in disability retirement and my dad had fled from another Russian invasion in an eastern European country to the West - and WE ALL want to help Ukraine by supporting Ukrainian and pro-Ukrainian channels with, what I'd describe as our own "private grassroots attempts"*, to counter said russian trolls arguments?
* & I'd say, me and all the other private people here who struggle with their disappearing texts, are somewhat similar to NAFO, without being any organized group(s) but only individuals ... and due to this not being X, it's not accepted nor allowed to do the same here as NAFO does there -> well, but then this isn't really an independent platform anymore - and yes no worries, I'm very much aware, that this phenomenon of posts disappearing for no reason had already started loooooong before the russian invasion of Ukraine and also long before 2020, when the "cough-struggles" began.
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& My theory is, they're trying to filter out paid writers to get rid of them, like e.g. russian troll farm "employees".
But did they EVER think, that there're also millions of retired and disabled people, and/or very personally dedicated individuals, who're naturally posting more for free, bc they've eighter more spare time and/or are personally more effected by this war - or ALL OF THE ABOVE together in my case, bc I'm in disability retirement and my dad had fled from another russian invasion to the West - and at the end of the day, WE ALL want to help Ukraine by supporting Ukrainian and pro-Ukrainian channels with, what I'd describe as our own private attempts*, to counter said ru arguments and narratives?
* & I'd say, me and all the other private people here, who struggle with their disappearing texts, are in a way somewhat similar to NAFO, without being any organized group(s) at all, but only individuals ... and due to this not being E.M's app, it's not accepted nor allowed, to do the same her -> well, but then this isn't really an independent platform anymore and yes no worries, I'm very much aware, that this phenomenon of texts disappearing for no reason had already started loooooong before the russian invasion of Ukraine and also long before 2020, when the pandemic had started.
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Yeah I also believe, that the willingness of Russians to sacrifice the own, or their closest relatives lives to save Putin's "sorry S" has decreased significantly over the past ~16 months since he'd started HIS invasion, BUT even more so during the past ~3 days or so*!
The entire behaviour of the Rostov on Don population proved/kinda still proves this!
I've heard long time ago, Putin has a habit to re-watch such public uprisings and protests repeatedly, bc he's obsessed with finding the mistakes, that were made and "led to this uprising to begin with", so he basically analyses that footage, till he feels he's figured it all out - normally it's footage from other countries, some of these nations are/were somewhat close to Russia politically/ideologically/financially (trade-wise) - and I bet, he'll watch his private "Prigozhin's protest" tv- footage extremely often ... and I'm genuinely worried about the fate of the Rostov crowd's individuals.
Especially those, who brought the Wagnerites groceries/viands, danced, hugged, drank, sang with and cheered for them, etc ... and bc loyalty's highly impotent to him, I'm certain he'll NEVER forgive the citizens of Rostov on Don for this "betrayal"!
& Btw, they didn't cheer for "Prigozhin the war criminal/convict/brutal guy", no they were excited about the possible change in the Russian power structure as rooted for Prigozhin bc he symbolizes it!
* & Btw, isn't it ironic, Putin managed to lose so much support and loyalty throughout only ~3 DAYS?!^^
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@Aussie-Mocha
YEAH amazing, what a wonderful post!
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH for taking the time to mentioning this very important issue, bc I was already wondering, if that's just a problem on my end - mainly, bc nobody else had bothered so far, to even ask about the missing ~7 dark minutes and I already got a bit desperate and relatively confused about this, thinking my own phone sucks so much that it's getting worse and worse every day.
Interestingly and thankfully though, it had turned out that ALL other problems I've had experienced during the past few weeks and months - like e.g. YouTube notifications NOT working properly, (such as getting notified AFTER the streams had already ended) and YouTube unsubscribing me from 2 pro-Ukrainian channels, even TWICE IN ONLY 1 MONTH from @Rick The Ukrainian, were all problems others have had in pretty much the same time period as well - so I'm a bit less worried now... BUT I STILL THINK, that it's highly suspicious!
Bc tbh, YouTube's never unsubbed me from any "neutral content" like cute cat videos beforein my whole 10+ years on YouTube I've never been unsubbed from anything before, LET ALONE TWICE DURING 1 MONTH AND FROM THE SAME CHANNEL!
Now my main problem is, that I can't NOT tell this to my Ukrainian online friends, bc I feel they've already enough negativity on their plates due to this whole horrifically stupid Russian invasion on their home-country, but I also HAVE TO ALERT THEM ABOUT THIS ON-GOING CRAP, bc when I look at the numbers of their subscribers/views/comments/etc, they're all going slowly down and initially - BEFORE all of this unexpected YouTube unsubbing had happened to me personally and specifically in such a short amount of time, I had only thought that people's living costs had likely gone up and they couldn't afford supporting the Ukrainian channels anymore ... however imo there's a huge difference between:
1*) no longer being able to support certain creators Patreon, YouTube channel membership, (etc) and
2*) unsubscribing, no longer being notified by YouTube and most importantly:
no longer leaving at the very least some uplifting comments for them in their channels comment sections for them, ESPECIALLY when they need it the most like right now!
(Like e.g. I occasionally also struggle a bit to make ends meet, but my pro-Ukrainian mindset didn't change in the slightest!
& I still very much want to encourage my favourite pro-Ukrainian, but mainly my beloved Ukrainian YouTubers - like Starsky, his 2nd press officer Maxim, his brother and his buddy Pasha from @The Flashback, volunteers like e.g. Brandon Mitchell and many others
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@Hans-WalterThun-np3yz
Yeah I definitely notice(d) an overall glaring lack of 🇺🇦 and russia related official news coverage and it's already going on for ~18+ months - that's why I'm not too surprised, I've missed this entirely* - I'm angry and disappointed about it, bc no matter how you slice it, all of this is of high importance for the world's safety.
It's a news shortage to the point of my parents always asking me to explain to them, what's happening in this despicable invasion.
* & I can only guess, it also might've taken some time to connect the dots for the relevant authorities responding for this, bc these accidents happened to ships/tankers of that shadow fleet, which were in all likelihood sailing under different flags, registered in other countries with other laws and if said accidents then occurred in again other countries waters (or in international waters), NOBODY really feels responsible for this, bc literally everything's "all over the place" ... which reminds me of the so called "bystander effect".
& Less wealthy countries also might've been offered/given cash to stay as quiet and secretive about it as possible ... it's indeed very troubling!
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