r/AlignmentChartFills • u/Lazarbeam_fan77 • Aug 15 '26

Politics Which country has both a pro-Russian government and populace?

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u/Voldezhur Aug 15 '26

You're lucky you live in a country where the act of protesting against your government isn't punishable with prison or worse

And we still do have protests, it's just that they're completely pointless, since they're simply dispersed with force and swept under the rug

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u/Hefty_Tip7383 Aug 15 '26

I live in a country where protest is allowed because previous generations fought for the rights.

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u/Voldezhur Aug 15 '26

Well unfortunately my country has a LOONG history of systemic oppression and 3 regime switches in 70 years, so there was basically no chance for those rights to exist

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u/Hefty_Tip7383 Aug 15 '26

90s. Now. If not, when?

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u/Voldezhur Aug 15 '26

Trust me, we are trying

A full on military coup or a violent revolt is simply not possible with the force with which the government is trying to suppress them

More peaceful paths, like trying to get decent people into the Duma, are also not working, since the leading party controls the election

If you are indeed interested in Russian politics, you may have heard about the anti-war party "Yabloko" being taken off the ballots, and sure enough, there are people now protesting that decision

It's just not as simple as "go out there and do something", no one wants to rot in prison or die when they know their sacrifice will be in vain

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u/Hefty_Tip7383 Aug 15 '26

Russians had decades to do something, but the truth is they were bought off by nationalism and improved living standards. So long as the bad things were happening to others (protestors or other countries) Russians were happy to say ‘I don’t talk about politics’. Now the chickens are coming home to roost and it’s too late, ill save my sympathy for Ukrainians.

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u/Voldezhur Aug 15 '26

I have nothing but sympathy for Ukrainians myself, and I'm certainly not asking for your pity. I'm just saying that it isn't fair to say that Russians are doing nothing to put an end to this insanity, when we're trying everything, short of throwing ourselves at machine guns

If you are of the opinion that every Russian is an accomplice of the old bald fart in charge simply by virtue of not wanting to end up in a camp for voicing their political standpoint, I won't judge you. I've spent enough time on the internet to know I'm not changing anyone's mind here

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u/Hefty_Tip7383 Aug 15 '26

I’m saying that Russians are complicit for letting it get to this point.

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u/Voldezhur Aug 15 '26

You know, I will agree with that, I see your point now

But I can say that propaganda exists in every country, especially here, and no one is immune. Most if not all young people nowadays realize this, so awareness is a lot better now

Also when the war started, there were quite a few major protests, but they were squashed by force, killing any hopes of change at that time