Comments by "Anita K" (@Anita-k) on "Силиконовый занавес" channel.

  1.  @primalamusica3  👍 Perfect, thank you so very much! I just realized, that I've made a * next to his totally misspelled name bc I felt it's wrong, but then I accidentally wrote... * spelling? ...into my other comment here, which was hilariously confusing to me, when I noticed it a few minutes ago.😁✌
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  2. 1:08:48 ...we can't sleep happily bc we were "unknown word"... I'm not a native English speaker and need to look it up, bc I just don't understand the meaning of it.
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  3. Noel, oh no you again.
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  4. Pretty sure I'll watch this interview again, bc there's so much to think about! I'd love to know, what type of media - coming eighter from inside or outside of Russia - could make a difference and would actually work for Russia in a positive way. Certainly NOT western propaganda disguised as some educational series and reports, but maybe strictly anti-propaganda showing the truth? Or would Russian propaganda abuse such programs as well?
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  5.  @SiliconCurtain  Thank you so very much for replying and clarifying! I've no idea, why I had memorized "weekly" instead of monthly, my bad ... it's a great idea regardless and I'm looking forward to your collaboration episodes.
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  6. 15:24 It's VERY CLOSE! The time difference between my country and Kyiv is only 1 hour, I can't understand why people can't grasp this concept.
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  7. It's always the greatest pleasure for me to hear you talking with Starsky! Not to mention, that I've the biggest "grandma crush" ever on him, since I first saw him very shortly after the start of the FSI (= Full Scale Invasion) Feb 24th 2022.😅 💙🇺🇦💛
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  8. I've also seen russian trolls throwing around these "I was very pro-Ukrainian BUT..." arguments recently in the YT comments* and although there might be real western people amongst them, who struggle to make up their minds, bc russian propaganda narratives are so confusing, but I feel russia's picking up on their insecurities and quickly turns to amplify them. * I've never used X/Twitter in my whole life and I don't plan on using it now, I'm actually starting to question, if people don't give that app way too much influence by focusing too much onto it - especially now that Musk-ovite has taken it over - then again I'm likely the last person to assess how important/unimportant that app is to influence people's minds bc I don't use it; personally I'd starve it of attention but maybe that's the wrong way and I just don't know.
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  9. 🤗 @LisaNH934  🤗 Super-HAPPY to see you! Got the notification of your reply, I'm already writing my response!💛💙
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  10. Excellent! However we're endangered in the West that our worries about our darn economies and our hesitation to provide Ukraine with a victory package might result in exactly that: Our economies might take huge damages if this war drags on for too long. So it's not only Putin and his cronies who cause their own nonsense but we add well.
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  11.  @mac_mcleod  That's true, the world doesn't need Russia, but Russia will struggle a lot in the future being so isolated.
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  12. ❤️ @AkenValle ❤️ Even after dwelling about your reply to me for ~6 days now , I've NO IDEA how I'm supposed to "hold orcs" - did you mean, I should "hold orcs" as in "hugging orcs" - or did you mean I should "hold orcs" prisoner in my basement? You tell me! & Please have some mercy ... I'm a second language English speaker and Google doesn't translate "Chickenhawk" for some reason, but I'll think only the best of you and I'll take it as a well intended, although a bit strange sounding compliment from you.❤️ 💙🇺🇦💛
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  13. ​ @nikedoesthings Exactly! Another fake thread about an unknown broke broker. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH for making people aware of this, that's the only reason I even scrolled down to the end of this thread, just in case nobody had reacted yet.
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  14.  @AkenValle  Oh my, my favourite pro-ru, so the kremlin doesn't do propaganda? That's news to me.
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  15. Eighter that or the audience split between native English speakers and all others who've English as second language like me ... tbh I struggled a lot despite subtitles I normally don't need at all.
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  16. Agree💯 ... as much as I enjoy Starsky's convo with Jonathan, I truly wish it'd be under different circumstances.💙💛
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  17. I've to wonder and ask, why "Deutsche Welle" would even give this piece of rų propaganda a platform? Sounds like they're rų asserts as well now ... that's why I don't watch in my native language anymore.
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  18. I've a hard time believing Polish truckers can't figure out on their own, there're FSB agents with russian accents amongst them, but what do I know?
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  19. Those malicious russian propagandists reach everybody who's vulnerable to their malicious influence, even my only sister and I'm very ashamed to admit that ... after unsuccessfully trying to convince her for 2+ years, I treat her pro-ru mindset almost like a mental illness atm. I also thought a lot about sharing links with her but ended up not to, as all pro-Ukranians channels I know fundraise for their army and bc I've no clue, what she'd be capable of doing and what connections she might've, I decided it's much better she doesn't know anything. :(
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  20. Add troll and bot farms, sadly they're in many countries.
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  21. Jake Broe, Mercado Media and The Enforcer were the first ones doing this and I didn't feel it's enough with YouTube also not really being an ideal platform for this endeavour - you and the Prof are important doing this - and yes I also understand, that Ukraine certainly doesn't like propaganda in general but lots of mainly western confused folks need a bit of a reminder, that "Ukraine didn't invade itself", the US and NATO also didn't provoke this attack on the sovereign country of Ukraine, as Putin's mouthpieces wanna make us believe all day long ... maybe you want to get them on board as well if they agree. Thank you so very much for all your hard work!
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  22. About commenting and algorithm: I'd love to write many more comments, but lots of them get removed without me saying anything outrageous. That's really becoming a huge problem here, I know the channel owners aren't doing that, but I don't know WHY it's happening on a daily basis? & It's not only me complaining about my missing posts, lots of viewers have made the exact same experiences and I'm afraid we'll end up only being able to write "greetings from country x and city z to the channel/host and his guests"!
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  23.  @SiliconCurtain  I know the channel owners don't remove the comments, no worries. I'm so sorry to hear about your viewers getting unsubscribed, I'd love to know what's going on here!
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  24.  @Aussie_T  💙🐾💛💕🇺🇦💕💛🐾💙
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  25.  @eamonnclabby7067  💙🐾💛💕🇺🇦💕💛🐾💙
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  26. Well I just hope, the russians aren't WAY too afraid of democracy itself, bc the ages from 45 upwards are still severely traumatized by the experiences they've made during the 1990ies, which were the only halfway democratic times there in russia after the collapse of the soviet union. But these were also very bad times for poor people who were starving, or becoming criminals, etc ... as K/inside russia, international observers, visitors and other russians have explained to us.
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  27. 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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  28. It irks me, that there were already accidents with that ru shadow fleet without real consequences tbh ... and I hadn't even heard about it before you told me/us viewers about it. This is a disaster waiting to happen!😢
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  29. Yeah I'm also very disappointed about the lack of secrecy regarding US decisions during this full scale invasion - just allow Ukraine to strike and rų learns it early enough (afterwards) - the way this is reported in the press is totally ridiculous. Always fantastic to hear from you both, I LOVE daddy Starsky! 💙🇺🇦💛
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  30. PS. My other 2 texts just disappeared as they always do.
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  31. I'm sure, this is a longer challenge than initially expected, bc it ties into so many different aspects of the currently on-going war. Just started to collect time stamps and trying to point out, why I think the difference between WW2 and the Russians "Great Patriotic War" is so impotent for the current war.
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  32. Can't talk about LinkedIn cause I've none, but this is happening on YouTube as well. & I've heard of Ukrainian/pro-Ukrainian YouTube content creators also having troubles with their Patreon and PayPal accounts.
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  33. These forceful so called "evacuations" done by Russians needs WAY more exposure and most importantly understanding. I don't know, why organisations like the UN, UNICEF, (etc) don't look deeper into this at all. The way I understand this problem: BEFORE there can be any negotiations, ALL the deported Ukrainians regardless of their age, would need to be brought to a neutral country, where they can decide if they wanna return to Ukraine or stay in Russia without feeling pressured in any way or form ... it's such a humanitarian nightmare Russia brought over Ukraine by spreading their people over large parts of the world add refugees already, this can't continue forever as they certainly are planning it.
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  34. Hi @denisesyrett ! I didn't expect to see you here as well! Guess having an eastern European family background has been extremely helpful to me being able to smell Russian propaganda narratives and potential Russian interferences from afar.
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  35. Google doesn't translate it and I believe, that's not what she said. Just my gut feeling.
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  36.  @SiliconCurtain  No she didn't. I guess I've to watch that part with subtitles to figure it out, bc I still don't understand that word. I'm SORRY!
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  37. Yeah as European I'm not a fan of him, however I can't wait for their egos clashing and I believe it's inevitable. 💙🇺🇦💛
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  38. Russia benefits the most of this blockade, so of course they orchestrate this whole mess ... there's no doubt in my mind.
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  39. Julia Davis's "Russian Media Monitor" channel does lots of great analysis on the - slightly different - Russian state tv narratives, bc as you've rightfully stated, some of those narratives are just something like Putin's "test balloons". Carefully designed to eighter observe the average Russians reactions afterwards (through polls* I guess), and/or how the West reacted to said Russian narratives. * Please somebody needs to explain to me, how and whythere's allegedly still a polling institute in Russia, that's mostly considered to be "independent" in the West, when we all know very well, there's nothing really independent in Russia, I'm a bit confused. Julia herself didn't mention said polls btw - if I didn't miss her talking about it - but it's mentioned relatively often in western media ... ok most likely in the more pro-Russian press, I guess I kinda get it now; it's called the Levada Centre or something along those lines.
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  40. 41:35 Imagine having to read all facial expressions of "your tsar putin", bc getting it wrong could destroy your whole life ... I'm sure Zack's friend isn't the only one doing this inside of russia.
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  41. 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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  42. I'm asking this, bc all that stuff I've heard coming out of Russian tv recently were blatant lies, like e.g. the hamster ad.
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  43. & There was a bunch of other stuff like: *) British/European women sell sex for food & heat. *) Germany's running out of candles. *) Poland has to eat and drink their beverages like tea cold in winter. *) Europeans shower cold cause of high energy prices. *) The list goes on, but I don't remember everything tbh.
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  44. ALL of that's certainly NOT the case for the vast majority of Europeans ... I live here with very low income, can still easily afford my lifestyle and even to donate to Ukraine. That's really a joke that they're claiming this!
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  45. You'll find a few more or less impoverished people in every country everywhere worldwide, but when looking deeper into their overall depts and daily spending habits, you'll see they've eighter been *) living for decades (before covid and the war) spending more than they earned already, *) or they've made some bad business choices in their past, *) or have had extremely bad luck otherwise.
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  46. & For all of them there're organisations and programs to fix this and improve their lives; especially here in Europe. Here in Austria we don't even have a homeless population worth mentioning.
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  47.  @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. PS. 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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  48.  @SiliconCurtain  I made some typos, but YouTube didn't allow me to post my edited version. So I made a copy and deleted the first poorly written reply. Very SORRY for the confusion!
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  49. 44:55 Yup, the fake opposition is financed by putin and it's common knowledge in russia. Even a russian "troll" I was communicating with online ~20 months ago explained it this way to me ... maybe he wasn't such a troll after all. (?) I'm only calling him a troll bc he started freaking out and some weird online harassment happened immediately after our conversation had stopped; to this day I'm not sure it's been him making hidden threats from a different account or just a coincidence.
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  50. @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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