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| Protasevich is a product of the Lukashenko regime |
| 2021-05-26 |
| Direct translation and edited by Vladimir Zotov [Regnum] The arrest by the Belarusian authorities of the blogger Roman Protasevich , which was preceded by the forced landing of the plane on which Protasevich flew from Greece to Lithuania, received many different assessments from the Russian audience. Its liberal part was predictably outraged by the "violation of international law" and demanded that the Western countries severely punish the regime of Alexander Lukashenko... |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 So it's yet another "Who is the least villainous villain?" situation with that plane being forced down. And everyone is calling everone else a Nazi. Another Wendesday in the wild wild East eh Badinov? Just showing Russian views of events on their own border. I think it's noteworthy that the Russians tell the same lies and half-truths about their enemies that the liberal leftists do here in the US: "They're Nazis!" And then they pretend to hate each other. The difference is one has a legitimate beef against Nazis, and the other doesn't what they're talking about. |
| Posted by: badanov 2021-05-26 16:45 |
| #2 I think it's noteworthy that the Russians tell the same lies and half-truths about their enemies that the liberal leftists do here in the US: "They're Nazis!" And then they pretend to hate each other. (By-now old joke from 20 years ago: "In the future everyone will be Hitler for fifteen minutes.") |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-05-26 11:37 |
| #1 So it's yet another "Who is the least villainous villain?" situation with that plane being forced down. And everyone is calling everone else a Nazi. Another Wendesday in the wild wild East eh Badinov? |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2021-05-26 11:23 |