The uncommon demonstrations are an embarrassment for Vladimir Putin two months before elections.
  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
    271·
    11 months ago

    One protester declared: “Everyone can express their opinion. Are we under a fascist regime?”

    Classic mistake, tovarisch. In Russia, opinion expresses you (to jail).

      • andrew_bidlawEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        Vladymir Vladymirovich, there’s probably some mistake!

        Oh, a gift. Why? Is it for me?

        Why’s it in camouflage colors?

        And an enlistment ticket…

        red alert theme starts playing

    • crispy_kilt@feddit.deEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      Everyone can express their opinion. Are we under a fascist regime?

      Keep going, Yvan. You’re this close to getting it

  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    11 months ago

    There was a lady there that put out a video calling for all the local men who are in Ukraine to come home and defend their state from attack by putin

  • andrew_bidlawEnglish
    71·
    11 months ago

    It was shut down as I heard, after four or five days. The thing is, it’s a little town and cops, OMON, requested reinforcements to supress a protest over one guy, protesters even got an agreement and got some people back from captivity (captured on the protest). Their governor would have a hard time explaining it to the boss, that’s for sure. He’d learn next time, but so would different national movements in other places.

    No real violence, the only things that came flying are snowballs, but people got some trigger to come here and stay, even though they had internet outages and local channels in collaborant social media were banned on the day one (and they are still known across all regions). I don’t think it could happen in 2019, but it seems like the decline in standards of living makes the commoners more active. There was a big enough core of people who came for the idea, then there were those who are just pissed at their life, then there were bystanders who join any social thing. It’s not bad, it’s natural. And thousands in Moscow were of the first type mostly, because there’s not many people who struggle to eat like these poor people do. Like we say, ‘The fridge came to win over the TV’.

    It’s leaked over in one small county now and set a precedent. My only hope is that these people won’t be charged in next weeks, months, as scheduling these things is a long-used tactic to calm down the reaction. We’d see if something like that would happen elsewhere. Not very soon. But things like that spread their bad influence on all kinds of wrongthinkers.

  • awwwyissss@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    It would be the third time in about a century that Russians overthrow a sociopath regime in the Kremlin.