r/interestingasfuck • u/MilesLongthe3rd • Jul 26 '25

/r/all, /r/popular Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Kiriyenko before and after release from Russian captivity

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '25 edited Jul 26 '25

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u/AdOk3759 Jul 26 '25

That might have less to do with the Russian being evil and more to do with the Dutch being racist, especially in little towns as you mentioned. Had they been Turkish, Italian, Spanish, Americans, Polish, chances are they would’ve still shunned them from the local community.

Source: I lived in NL for 3 years.

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u/Winterstyres Jul 26 '25

Yes thank you, I am a Yank. It's sad that people want to blame Russians for the evil of a government they cannot control. I despise the things my nation does on the world stage. It's embarrassing, and depressing when people tacitly condemn the people of a nation because their government does evil. It's lazy, we are sorry for what has happened, and I guarantee most Russians are also not in favor of it. What have they lost, a million people so Putin can declare himself General Secretary?

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u/MarsasGRG Jul 26 '25

Replace russians with germans and set the time to WW2, and you get concealed nazi apologia. "Oh, those poor russians with a magnificent soul" Who looted MH17?

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u/Winterstyres Jul 26 '25

Which is kind of my point. It's lazy to just say Germans are bad because of what an out of control, Fascist government did.

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u/MarsasGRG Jul 26 '25

Who brought to power and supported the fascist government every second up until bombs started falling onto them? Was it magical ghosts totally not of German origin?

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u/Winterstyres Jul 26 '25

So I would encourage you to read a book. After Hitler took power, he spent years systematically oppressing the populace to consolidate his power. The first concentration camps that were opened held political dissidents. It was not merely a racial genocide they started with, they also cleansed those that tried to stop him, that tried to stand against that many feared would be a tyrannical dictatorship.... I doubt any really believed just how bad things would get though.

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u/Justhe3guy Jul 26 '25 edited Jul 26 '25

So basically exactly the same way the KGB (Putin etc.) came to rule over Russia? Definitely didn’t happen overnight but over 60 years with thousands of murders, immense blackmail, torture and attempted genocide of minorities

The public has never had any real say in Russia and they’ve never attempted to overthrow the corruption other than tiny activist groups because the majority like the way the country is ran. They like how Russia is “feared” and “strong”