#Russian politics tw

[one-abuse-survivor]

Yoooo, dissociation anon here! Hope you are doing well<3

Good news: I'm finally done with my exams!:D Bad news: the government screwed all of us over😔 They just went and like, removed all of the scholarship placements completely, so now if you want to get a higher education you need to pay and absurd amount of money (ew) or sign a 10-year slave contract with the government (ewwwwwwww, also, fun fact: my family actually tried to push this contract on me earlier in the year, but I gaslight gatekept girlbossed my way out of it! Too bad they are enforcing them now...), so my options for now are great👌🏻 Or you are a chosen one, because for those guys the places are free. Fuck them, by the way.

But! Good news - my brother is transferring to another uni after his current one straight up intentionally failed them (it's... A very long and complicated story), and the cost of his tuition in his last uni can cover both of our educations, because yaaaay, absurd elite unis which ruin their students' lives while milking their finances dry!! Well, at least he didn't kill himself.

So for now my plan is to gaslight gatekeep girlboss my way to a scholarship place after one of the chosen fuckers gets yeeted out for being dumb:) On one hand, yeah I shouldn't be so bitter about it but for god's sake, I am going to despise you if the government treats you preferentially for doing literally nothing while fucking everybody else over in the process.

Then there is an option to become an agronom, but honestly when I think about it... I'd rather spend my time getting my way as a manipulative fucker while thriving in my dream field than learn about a literal one.

How's your mental state for now? Oh and a hi and good luck to all of the other anons out here!:>

Hi again! I'm doing well, thank you 😊 hope you're having a good day today despite everything that's going on ❤️

Well done for finishing your exams! That's so horrible that they removed all scholarships, though, I'm really sorry to hear that. I hope things work out for you anyway and you don't have to go anywhere near that contract! And I'm glad to hear you have a plan. Also, I really hope your brother changing uni means you have to see less of him.

Thanks for asking! My mental state has been significantly better since I finished all my uni deadlines last week. I'm taking lots of time to just rest and do things that bring me happiness, which is really, really nice. And I feel like I've been making progress with my physical and mental health lately :)

Thanks for your encouragement for the other anons! Sending a big big hug ❤️

#Ask #Dissociation anon #Suicide mention #Suicide tw #Russian politics tw #Fascism tw #Toxic brother #abusive brother tw #Gaslighting mention

[luminalunii97]

Some tankie bs detection

I saw this post on my dash. The user is blocked now. But just to educate people so that they won't fall for idiotic claims online, here are a couple of facts:

1. The Islamic Republic is not anti imperialist, they're anti USA. The regime is very much in love with Russian imperialism. At this point, Iran is an unofficial russian colony. And by the support of their imperialist father figure they have their small version of imperialism in middle east. Ask Iraq and Lebanon.

2. There's no "safety" when it comes to economy in Iran. The "national sovereignty" is called "those fvckin thieves in power" here. Iran's regime is one of the most corrupt regimes by international index. Rent, nepotism, embezzlement and money laundering are serious issues in Iran. Done only and only by the governors and people in power. Social class is not only a thing, there's a raging gap between rich people and those in poverty. And the gap is getting bigger and bigger by month. If you have connections in government or you are in the government, you'll get richer and richer. Other wise, soon enough you'll be in poverty too. Many families, including mine, who used to be considered middle class, have incomes lower than the poverty threshold now.

About 15% of Iran's economic failure including inflation is on the sanctions. The rest is on the corruption within the regime.

Iran's banking system is also a corrupted organ. The so called Islamic banking is anything but Islamic. The loan interest rate is one of the highest worldwide, 23%, so that often you have to pay back more than twice the money you've received. It's called Riba in Islam and it's Haram. According to the regime themselves, the banking system in European countries, even in the USA, is more Islamic than us. The fact that some of the biggest embezzlement in Iran has been done by bank managers should give you a picture of how they're drinking our blood.

None of this is on USA imperialism. It's all the Islamic Republic.

3. The Islamic Republic doesn't support Palestinians. The regime is extremely racist and anti Arab. I dare you talk about this with an actual Arab. IR don't give two shites about Palestinians lives. The regime is antisemitic. That's what they are. Palestine is just an excuse to attack Israel. In the past 20+ years of my life, living in Iran and dealing with these posers, not once we've been educated about Palestine and Palestinians lives. Everything I know, I've learned from online resources and documentaries make by Palestinians. The regime doesn't talk about Palestinians when they pose as supporters. I'm pretty sure they don't know or care to know anything noteworthy about Palestine, considering my knowledge of the human rights violations there is always more than basiji people of my country, and I don't even know that much. All the regime talks about is how Israel should be eliminated. IR supports a terrorist organization called Hamas, not Palestinians.

4. Let's forget about everything I said so far. I wonder if tankies like the op has any ounce of humanity in them! The regime has been oppressing women, violating every type of human rights and murdering lgbtq people and other-thinkers for the last 40 years. The spectacular environmental disaster in Iran is the direct result of regime's policies and neglect. This is a case of human rights violation since it's ruining people's lives, especially ethnic minorities, like Arab farmers in south.

No religious minority is safe in Iran, be it atheist, Baha'i, Jew, christian, or Sunni Muslim. They commit crime against children, through labor and through war. IRGC have little regards for human lives in general but it descent into no regards at all for ethnic minorities.

They have MASS EXECUTED 30,000 leftists (members of Marxist Communist parties and their supporters) within the first decade of their autocratic rule. It's unbelievably funny to me when foreign leftists support a regime that has executed many of their fellow thinkers and still arrest and torture any left activist in Iran.

To say the reason the 1979 revolution happened was to get rid of western influence and to establish a democratic free independent government is true. But the Islamic Republic is not that result. Don't be fooled.

#iran #iranian #iran revolution #iran protests #human rights #politics #lgbtq+ #feminism #middle east #irgcterrorists #support iranian women #human rights violation #crimes against children #crimes against women #ethnic minorities #racism #russian imperialism #tw misogyny #tw racism #tw homophobia #environmental issues #background information

[ohnoaname]

Russia is trending again and I went into the tag and well. I saw a few posts by ukrainians which I'm not going to reblog because it feels like it's not my place, but I do want to say some stuff.

Please, don't forget about them. Keep speaking about the war and Ukraine. Oppression of some people don't erase oppression of others. They deserve your attention and your kindness and you should talk about them as much as you talk about Gaza or, currently, russian queers.

Dear Ukrainians who will possibly see this post: Stay safe and strong, I wish for freedom and swift recovery of your country.

#I'm spectacularly failing in staying away from politics on this blog #but this is very important #tw war #russia #Ukraine #politics #russian-ukranian war #russian invasion #ohnotalking

[garfunclegaming]

Day 0: Russia is advancing on Ukraine from three axis of attack with nearly 200,000 troops, VDV are landing at the airport and Zelensky is being offered flights out of the country. Analysts are predicting Kyiv will fall in weeks.

Day 486: Ukrainian forces are fighting in a broad scale offensive with Western armoured vehicles and missiles, meanwhile Wagner is marching on Moscow publicly calling out Putin as their next target.

#russia #news #tw politics #wtf is this timeline #I hope the Russian fascists maul eachother and Ukraine uses the chance to liberate their country #fuck russia

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker is still facing questions about domestic violence as the election nears.

One of the first stories to come out about Walker's past was that he abused his former wife and at one point held a gun to her head threatening to shoot. Walker also admitted that he would play Russian Roulette. In fact, he told ESPN's Highly Questionable that he'd played it "more than once." He loved the competition of it, he said.

The violence and abuse continue to be a topic from those speaking to Walker, but the Heisman Trophy winner continues to dismiss it as unimportant.

Speaking to Atlanta based "Rolling Out," an entertainment site, Walker explained it wasn't anything more than a sin.

“You know, he without sin cast the first stone," Walker said, quoting Jesus in John 8:7. Walker went on to attack his opponent, Rev. Raphael Warnock for being critical of his "sins" from 15 years ago.

Typically, one's past comes into focus when one runs for political office as a sign of judgment and leadership, and attempted murder is not generally brushed aside in political campaigns as nothing more than an everyday "sin."

Walker has also spent the past week employing the strategy of not being that intelligent, which is being called a racist dog whistle by trying "to galvanize white conservatives by leaning into antiquated and bigoted ideas," Slate explained.

#us politics #news #raw story #2022 midterms #2022 elections #2022 #Ron Filipkowski #Georgia #twitter #tweet #domestic violence #tw assault #tw abuse #russian roulette #slate #espn #highly questionable #rolling out #sen. Raphael Warnock #herschel walker

[queerbauten]

saw a TikTok earlier blaming diasporic Russians for the war against Ukraine, and it's just... jingoism rots the psyche

#don't be a jingoist; I am a building #also I totally see no way blaming the Russian diaspora could harm the Slavic diaspora as a whole—including Ukrainians #[/s] #thankfully most people don't have that level of psychic rot #war mention #xenophobia tw #politics #I guess

[katyspersonal]

Speaking of music!!! I feel like sharing some songs tbh.

They are best understood if you click Subtitles option on the video ofc, and choose English.. Because I am pretty sure most of people that follow me don't speak Russian language?

This is, officially, the most 'poorly aged' song I've known in my life, as this clip was created one year before the wаr on Ukraine. I remember returning to this song compulsively when the events triggered by our deluded president started to unravel, but even today it still feels bizarre. Other people seem to find some obscure "comfort" in it too. It just... It a way, it is a proof that art such as songs is timeless - it is just that for us it is relevant like never before.

This one feels important for me too. The amount of domestic abuse in my country is absurd and apologised in every way possible, especially the man on woman one in married couples, and this song gave me some grim sense of 'peace' when I found it tbh. It is just one of the songs that feels like it understands me without 'knowing' me - especially with how the figures of the father and the abuser are mixed in the clip.

#music #video #these have proper english translations but i gotta warn these songs are very dark #i still can't believe the first one... this is so poorly aged it is incredible #it is more like a political song vs an internal song #tw: abuse #tw: violence #tw: war #this year tbh been a long arc from deeply resenting being a russian #to feeling angry about the government system being messed up and that's a severe understatement #all in all i feel sort of joy staying here because government =/= citizens and nobody here should feel guilty for- #-being born under deluded and fucked up government #it is a lot to get off my chest i know but i feel like it #Youtube

[deaddee-anime-brownfanlady]

As said before, I still don't understand how certain people. Be it some here in America or in other parts of western Europe not side with Ukraine. Ukrainians are literally fighting against genocide as well as not allowing their country to be conquer or destroyed by a authoritarian regime. Yet you seem to have those that either still make excuses or are okay with being on the side of a dictator whose army and soldiers are doing heinous crimes against humanity, like torturing actual children or commenting acts of rape & sexual violence against both women and kids as young as two years-old. Everything that Russia/Putin is doing in terms of trying to sow chaos in Europe or trying to destabilize international security, yet still surprisingly you got those that are seemingly okay with siding with a genocidal dictator trying to fuck shit up. While at the same time place blame on Ukraine for fighting for their basic survival and trying to stay alive 24/7.

#Ukraine #war in ukraine #political #russia war in ukraine #russo ukrainian war #russia invasion #politics #tankies #russian imperialism #tw: rape #tw: torture #russia war crimes

[arcanistvysoren]

cool. partial draft happening in my country. my mother's 57yo husband is technically affected, idk how they're gonna really be enforcing it all yet, but the mood is.... not great. might fuck around and just become heavily depressed again

#depression cw #negativity tw #politics tw #tag: russian invasion #tag: the portrait of the blogger as a young man

[vydumaj]

someone needs to conduct a study on why spaniards online are more happy to spread russian government propaganda more than any other demographic outside of american tankies. no, ukrainian people aren’t nazis for speaking ukrainian or fighting in the war. they’re not “selfishly prolonging” the war, but trying to stop the russian army from killing more people… (nothing here is a strawman I’ve seen literally hundreds of “progressive” spanish people say these things)

#the takes you see … I do want to unlearn spanish sometimes I really do #I’m as anti military and pacifist as you can be you’ve got to realize there’s a difference between Russian army attacking ukraine and the #Ukrainian one defending themselves from the attacks?? or?? #you’ll also see them spread Soviet propaganda like how the ethnic minorities that got deported during ussr times were ALL nazis and that’s #why it happened and actually people are Nazis for speaking their minority languages #and it’s always Spaniards?? I’ve never heard of the Spanish education system being worse than other places #like you’re not ~woke~ for advocating genocide of Eastern European Caucasian and north/central minorities #and you hear a lot about russian oligarchs in German and British politics but not in Spanish #maybe there’s a simple explanation but I don’t know it #it’s scary though #nazism tw #and yeah there ARE Nazis in the Ukrainian army … and the Russian one #more of them there #can’t even say it’s Russia having effective Spanish language propaganda bc you don’t see Spanish speakers from Latin America doing this #really? it’s something spain specific

[beccaiscold]

i recently went down a rabbit hole on the soviet players from the 90s and the cold war era and how they were basically tortured and forced to play for the red army team under the worst possible conditions and couldn't see their families for almost a full year and how they all bonded through their collective traumas and how they had to sacrifice so much to play in the nhl and potentially risk going to prison if they ever returned to their home country and it was all worth it bc they created new records and won the cup a few times together and paved the way for all of the current russian/ex-soviet players and and and...

now i'm extremely endeared by igor larionov and alexander mogilny

LOOK AT THEM (photos taken from @/fedoroved and @/chunkletskhl respectively)

#its such a fascinating moment in time and such an interesting look at how politics and sports will always be intertwined... #...no matter how many lil bitches say “politics should not be in sports” even though SPORTS WILL ALWAYS BE USED AS A POLITICAL WEAPON #it was a tiny glimpse into the rising political climate and a reflection of the hard times ppl went through #all through the lens of this niche sport called hockey #ugh im so jealous of red wings fans #you have so much lore and history on your team AND THE RUSSIAN FIVE RAHHH #if you're interested to learn more i HIGHLY recommend the russian five doc (tears were shed) and the red army doc (tw reagan jump scare) #also who do i have to call to get the russian five and alex mogilny's numbers retired??

[one-abuse-survivor]

Yo, dissociation here from the pits of hell known as Russia in the current political situation!✌🏻 Honestly I knew they say that the brain is adaptable, but I didn't know it was to this extent. Essentially, the crisis is still in full swing - also I think there has been a lot of messaging in most of the big very advertised films that have come out in the past..... Fiveish years? which can be summarised with "trust the government and sit on your asses while taking any hardship it causes, also fight for the behalf of your country for essentially nothing, just because we told you to", which makes me wonder if it is a P*tin propaganda thing or a this entire "operation" has been planned for a long time - but at this point I have just accepted the situation and am vibing. I have my first exam in a week, and at this point every day someone in my circle has a panic attack about failing. I look at it this way: either I do well and get into a in the capital for free (oh also they screwed over EVERYONE applying for uni and now like 20% of the free seats are inaccessible and now I want to 1917 these bitches even more (for "I don't want to go to prison" reasons this is a joke)), or I do poorly and get into uni in another city while getting to ditch my abusive family early. Any words of encouragement before my final school exams?

And besides that, we have to deal with organising a concert for the school (a DAY before my first exam!!) and rehearse the waltz for the ceremony and dancing in heels is such shit, you won't believe it, if you have the opportunity to dance in heels DON'T TAKE IT it's horrible.

On another note, there has been a rift in tantrum land today: my brother and mother had an argument that got so violent and heated I thought they would kill each other over the whole... War thing. And believe me, a confrontation between a die-hard loyalist who believes that everything is fine and a person who looks at any sources other than government propaganda is a very explosive thing. My brother literally threatened to write a thing to the government that would send my mother in jail! Now, both of their opinions are shit, but that is a new low, even for them. I didn't even think there was a low to sink to, we're well pass the "Having threatened to murder family members multiple times" low and that is already six feet underground! Gods, I'm going to need so much therapy when I get out.

Good thing is I used that to get out of her bad graces - because this morning I dared to.... Go and eat breakfast in my room. No, literally, she went and threw a tantrum because of that. What the fuck. How am I, a wreck under an extreme amount of stress with a schedule more hectic that a doctor's (I'm still going to med school btw, even with the possible risk of getting drafted, because I didn't fight my entire abusive family on it for nothing) and with a fucking van of trauma I drag behind me daily more stable than these two fucks! Seriously, they act like emotionally stunted five year old and I am tired of it>:(

(Honestly, when I said "I want my teenage years to be more adventurous", I didn't mean "I want to live through a global pandemic and a war that exposed just how rotten the political core of the country is and have to hide everything about myself from beliefs to my raging queerness while trying to escape a violently abusive house", but oh well, beggars can't be choosers. Also I think I might get some more info and attempt to run away to another country in 1-2 years, but that is only if the info I get is the most fortunate. Wish me luck!)

As you can see, this one actually didn't turn out to be this heavy. Have a nice day!(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧

Hi, nonnie! I'm guessing it's late for words of encouragement regarding your exams 😅 it sounds so stressful to have to organise a concert right before your exams start! I definitely will pass if I ever get the chance to dance in heels—I honestly can't even stand while wearing them 😂

Your brother and mother sound horrible to live with, it's no wonder you're tired of it :( I hope you can go go uni and get away from there soon. They sound so volatile and violent, and it's no wonder you carry so much trauma around, between them and your country's political situation/queerphobia (plus the pandemic... Ugh). I really hope you can get therapy to help you handle this all in the future, and that you find away to leave the country safely and live somewhere where you feel safe enough to heal.

Wishing you the best of luck with that and sending so many positive thoughts your way ❤️

I hope you have a nice day too!

#Ask #dissociation anon #Current events tw #Trauma tw #War tw #Nationalism tw #Fascism tw #Russian politics tw #Panic attack mention #Violence tw #Verbal abuse tw #Abusive family #Toxic family #Abusive brother tw #Abusive mother tw #Death threat tw #Homicide tw #Pandemic mention #Abuse tw #Queerphobia tw

[unhonestlymirror]

Roman Golovchenko, the Prime Minister of Belarus reflected on the snowy elements:

“Snow is like a white sea, a person can go out and get lost in it, forgetting about everything in the world, or he can take a shovel and row. You need to row snow today so that you can eat tomorrow!”

#tw: russian language #Belarus #Belarusian politics #lol

[sir-klauz]

Apparently, if you like anime, you're not supposed to have opinions/feelings about things that affect your own life, or so I hear. Are anime viewers not people?

I love melting into fantasy when I need to, but sometimes, lesser privileged people can not escape the reality made by those who are, created for them, by typecasting every single person as the same person and punishing us, no matter how many episodes of Jujutsu Kaisen we consume. People are allowed to feel things. Likewise, some people are forced to as their country is a war zone ran as a right wing politicians playground.

#ventauz #going to bed #the world is bs rn everywhere why cant i live some place thats not politically corrupt and be a happy gay dad #whether it's homophobia transphobia racism anti-semitism islamophobic xenophobic white nationalism (racism again) ableism fk name ur fighter #i assume nowhere is not like this uuuuh if there is soemwjere withojt all of it hit me up im not even gonna start with russian warfare #politics #tw politics

[ammg-old2]

When the corpse of a Wagner mercenary fighter arrived in his small Russian village in late February after he was killed fighting in Ukraine, some residents wanted to give him a hero’s burial. Others could not forget that the former prisoner had stabbed his father to death.

The ruckus prompted a stream of acrimonious comments on social media, with those demanding military honors for the fighter, Ilshat Askarov, flinging words like “Shame!” or “Traitor!” at opponents. Detractors called it a travesty to treat convicts who went to war for money as if they were regular soldiers.

Disputes like this one are erupting across Russia as convicts killed in the war are returned to their hometowns — dividing villages and pitting neighbors against one another. The diverging viewpoints underscore the difficult moral calculations involved in releasing criminals to fight for their country.

Some villages have vetoed the presence of a military honor guard at the burials, while others denied relatives the use of public spaces to accommodate mourners. One remote Siberian village balked at providing transportation to bring home the coffin of a man formerly imprisoned for beating his girlfriend.

In the southwestern Rostov region, Roman Lazaruk, 32, was buried in February in the local “Alley of Heroes” after dying in the battle for Bakhmut. But his violent criminal record — he was convicted of burning his mother and sister to death in 2014 — outraged some local residents.

A former classmate of the sister was appalled that convicts were being buried in the area of the cemetery once reserved for soldiers from World War II. “What did this Lazaruk or other guys do?” she told a local online newspaper. “They killed, stole, stabbed, raped, went to jail and went out to continue killing. What kind of heroes are they?”

Russia wandered into this thicket by allowing the Wagner private military group to recruit tens of thousands of convicts from penal colonies to fight and die in Ukraine, many near the eastern city of Bakhmut. The move allowed the Kremlin to replenish its ranks and postpone a conscription of civilians until last September, but it also alienated some Russians.

With President Vladimir V. Putin deepening the militarization of Russian society, soldiers are being put on a pedestal. Both the Kremlin’s propaganda machine and Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner forces, have sought to portray all those killed as heroes defending the Motherland, no matter how sordid their backgrounds.

In Russian schools, new patriotic education classes have been named “Heroes of Modern Russia,” and fresh plaques on some school walls honor former prisoners who died.

“Designing the image of a hero has always been a matter of state policy,” said Elena Istyagina-Eliseeva, a member of the Civic Chamber, a Kremlin organization that steers civil society, at a recent Moscow conference about heroes.

The tension between that jingoistic narrative of the war and the grim realities of coping with soldiers’ deaths is an especially acute phenomenon in small villages. Residents tend to remember the chilling details of the crimes committed by men who were subsequently recruited from prison to fight.

“They know who is a criminal, who is a danger to the community, and they want to protect their everyday lives,” said Greg Yudin, a Russian professor of political philosophy currently doing research at Princeton University. “It is a kind of moral protection of their community.”

On the other side are regional officials who intercede in disputes over burials, pushing the Kremlin’s narrative, as well as relatives and friends of the deceased who want to remove the stigma of the crime. Soldiers who were outcasts in the community can become heroes, Professor Yudin said. “You can get some money out of them,” he said, referring to government payments to families of dead soldiers, “and their reputation is whitewashed. That is a good deal, so you can understand those people.”

#current events #politics #crime #russo-ukrainian war #russian invasion of ukraine #russia #wagner group #rape tw

[dougielombax]

I’ve heard some people say that Russia is cursed all because Ivan the Terrible killed his son (idk).

I’d say it’s because the country just has a very bleak history. (It’s also because people there have been conditioned to accept misery and fatalism, even Gorbachev recognised this! I’d know! I read his memoirs for research. I know things!).

This unexpectedly caused me to crack up.

It brought to my mind Ilya Repin’s painting of Ivan killing his son (don’t look it up, it’s haunting stuff and it’s said to be cursed).

And I’m just imagining Ivan seeing flashes of Russia’s future and being utterly baffled and confused.

“My son….No! WHAT HAVE I DONE?! And what the FUCK am I seeing?! Wait…What the FUCK is collectivisation?! Am I tripping balls?!”

It’s one of those things that made me laugh way more than it should have done.

Oddly specific. I know.

#personal stuff #dougie rambles #political crap (sort of) #tw murder #a lot of this sounded better in my head #shut up dougie #russian history #ilya repin #ivan the terrible