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.
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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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