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Do you think a random Russian citizen who is trying to leave Russia has anything to do with this?
Many of the people trying to leave Russia are against the war. It is idiotic to shame civilians who have little to no power to stop the actions of their oligarch run government.
She says:
Not sure what to make of this. We only have a video of an upset girl. Is she being treated unfairly? Who the fuck knows. All I know is that it plays perfectly into the Kremlin's propaganda: We are the good guys and the world hates us for no good reason.
The claim is that she is a civilian, not a soldier. The video in no way suggests that soldiers
Disliking the actions of a government is very different from disliking an entire people based on nationality.
Russias "nationality" has boiled quite down to hail putin so there's that.
There is no "good old russia" any more.