Comments by "Marcus Aurelius Antoninus" (@marcusaureliusantoninus2597) on "The USA KICKS China in the Balls" video.

  1. Hey, Winston, with all respect, you may be some sort of a local expert on China, but when you start talking about Russia, you are becoming a lolcow. Russian government tries to hide negative sides of Russia? Mate, are we speaking about the same Russia? YouTube is choke full of videos with negative portrayals of various sides of life in Russia, most of those made by Russians themselves. Maybe language barrier prevents you from seeing them? Well, it's not a Russian problem then, it's yours. If you knew ANYTHING about Russia, you would know that what you cannot publicly discuss in Russia is political stuff. To be precise, you cannot criticise Putin, the army or the war in the Ukraine. This much is true. Also (for some strange reason, probably it's a personal thing for Putin) LGBT. That's ALL. Everything else you can freely discuss. You can film anything (as long as these are not military/police/FSB related) and post anything. That's what's called an AUTHORITARIAN state. China, on the other hand, is a TOTALITARIAN state where you can only discuss what is allowed by the government. What you said about the US is exactly applicable to Russia. There are issues - it is indeed an authoritarian state. If you go to a rural area or a small town, you can find shitty little supermarket with poor choice. But this is not how the absolute majority of RUssians live. It's a good country with a high standards of living, functional post system, libraries (in fact, in rural areas in Russia there are libraries that you would hardly be able to find even in affluent EU countries), great medical system, accessible college education, etc. And JUST as you said, there are people who purposefully seek for problems, hype them up, amplify them and make them look like it's how the entire Russia is. Usually these people are our "brothers" from one despicable country to out Southwestern borders that will soon cease to exist (good riddance!).
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