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Russian soldier admits proudly his comrades were killing POWs
(euromaidanpress.com)
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It would be nice if it was just Putin. And it's true that lots of Russians are opposed to the war. It's even probably true that lots of them are as apolitical as they can be, just doing whatever they have to do to survive day by day.
But there are lots of Russians who support him. Even outside of Russia. There is, in fact, a large portion of the population that approves of him, despite the invasion into Ukraine. A lot of it is retired people, of course, but also shit-tons of people who listen mainly to Russian news sources, and therefore believe Putin's propaganda.
Even if Putin were assassinated the next day, his replacement wouldn't be much better. Hopefully they'd pull out of Ukraine, but they would likely be just as chauvinist and nationalist as Putin. Russia's political spectrum is, unfortunately, very close to "50 shades of nationalism", to the point where even Navalny had to curry favor with them to build up sufficient support. And nationalists (and fascists) tend to do stupid shit like invading neighboring countries.
I would agree that "fuck Russians" is going a step too far. But if Russia's international reputation is shit right now, it's no one's fault but Putin's, and it is unfortunately well-deserved. And, whether we like it or not, when you say "I'm from [country]", that country's reputation will affect how people see you. So if individual Russians around the world are facing stigma, that's really unfortunate, but it's the inevitable outcome of shit like this. It's nothing new — after WWII, Germans had to deal with the exact same shit.