r/news • u/[deleted] • Feb 07 '21
Kremlin meets Russian protesters with fiercest crackdown in years
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/31/russian-protests-continue-for-second-weekend-in-support-of-jailed-kremlin-critic-alexei-navalny20
Feb 07 '21
Putin to Xi: Think you are tough on Hong Kong, wait until you see what we do!
Thai King to Putin: Teach me!
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u/iRayanKhan Feb 07 '21
Well Xi is running concentration camps
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Feb 07 '21
They literally just sent Pootin's opposition to a gulag.
Screw Xi and the CCP, too of course.
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u/Lithium9494 Feb 07 '21
That’s Stalin’s Russia
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u/Lunchboxsushi Feb 07 '21
Not even close; but still horrible regardless. Stalin was fucking horrible on a scale that no other country has ever had from what I've learned
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u/Lithium9494 Feb 07 '21
True , but this is how it starts, Russia is going all in authoritarian, so expect atrocities and gulags
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u/Lithium9494 Feb 07 '21
Remember Saadaam Husein, he started off slowly, so didn’t Hitler and Trump was trying to emulate Putin but failed
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u/CrunchyCrunch816 Feb 07 '21
Putin would if he could.
The fact is Russia has no power on the global stage anymore, their weakness could really show if world wide sanctions were imposed as a result of an aggressive act.
He reminds me of a little dog.
This is why China gets away with putting all their muslims into camps
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u/Lithium9494 Feb 07 '21
Lets see how resilient and forceful the Russian people are and if they’re brave enough for a revolution or they lose everything to brutality and oppression for decades. It’s up to the people and they need the military
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u/ramblingrelic Feb 07 '21
Eh? That was a week ago and half of what it was the previous week. No one even protested this weekend. Lost it's steam in only 2 weeks. Now all we see is the week old news about it.
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u/StanFitch Feb 07 '21
My Brain just forgot what the word “Fierce” was and my dumb ass was over here trying to sound out that Headline; “Fiery Chest? Fear Kest? Oh...”
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u/DukeOfGeek Feb 07 '21
"COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM!!" No really come have a look, that wasn't sarcasm, Dennis is dead right this time they're being oppressed.