Posted on 02/26/2022 9:44:44 AM PST by blam
As Russian missiles rained down on Ukraine, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in cities across Russia to protest their government’s offensive on Thursday, and many were detained by police.
According to the Russian rights monitoring group OVD-Info, at least 1,758 people were detained at antiwar protests in 55 Russian cities. Of that number, 967 were arrested in Moscow, and 431 were detained in Saint Petersburg.
Look at the size of anti-war protestors in St Petersburg, Russia. Wow pic.twitter.com/dHg9Uwt9RQ
— Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) February 24, 2022
In Moscow, protesters gathered at Pushkinskaya Square, in the center of the city. Demonstrators carried signs with antiwar slogans that read: “Stop the war”, “Ukraine is not our enemy,”, “No one needs this war.”
According to RT, the Moscow police said they “temporarily detained” 600 people. OVD-Info published a list on its website of the names of the people that have been arrested in each city.
Infographic: Where Russian Anti-War Protesters Have Been Detained | Statista
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And according to Fox News, individuals in some prominent political families have spoken out, as the large-scale scope of the war has become unpopular among some segments of society:
Even the daughter of oligarch and Chelsea F.C. owner Roman Abramovich has spoken out, posting on Instagram that “The biggest and most successful lie of Kremlin’s propaganda is that most Russians stand with Putin.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov’s daughter also posted “No to war” on Instagram.
Москва.Людям всё же удалось собраться у метро Пушкинская в Москве. pic.twitter.com/4bZc6Eu1Fb
— Встречный Ветер (@headwind512) February 24, 2022
Some prominent Russians have spoken out against President Vladimir Putin’s decision to attack Ukraine, including journalists and other public figures. Yelena Kovalskaya, the director of a state-funded theater in Moscow, quit her job and wrote on Facebook that it’s “impossible to work for a killer and get paid by him.”
The gulags will be started up again.
What’s going to be really disgusting about all this besides the lives lost is that any success the Ukrainians have the MSM here is going to credit Biden even though the SOB is in Delaware hiding in his basement.
Brave people!
I think Putin misread the room.
Putin has to either retreat in complete defeat or go harder.
He’s going harder:
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/ukraine-russia-invasion-news
The irony is that the present Ukainian president banned opposition parties, opposition demonstrations and put in jail journalist who wrote bad things about them...
It takes a giant pair to protest against the government in Russia. Or Canada. Or the U.S.
The guy is crazy because he’s going to end up destroying the whole country and making himself look like the ultimate scumbag to the entire world. This is bad because this is a nut who has 4000 nukes on his hand and God knows what he’s going to do if this falls apart on him or the current idiot in the White house does something extremely stupid which is par for the course for Biden. We’ll be trading in Covid masks for radiation suits.
Yea, Biden only gave youse guys permission to make just a small incursion into Ukraine, and youse took the whole thing!
That means there were a lot more dumb@$$es who actually believed Putin’s tripe than we realized.
“The gulags will be started up again.”
Pardon me for asking but is this a recommendation or a criticism of the state of freedom under the Putin regime?
Of course. The sanctions worked! Even when he says they wouldn't. But they did, so must be Biden's fault.
“I think Putin misread the room.”
No kidding. Putin thought he could steal someone else’s entire country and get away with it and then at the same time threaten war against at thirty-three other countries at the same time.
The Russian people are starting to wake up to the fact that this war Putin keeps after can also come back at them and destroy their cities, homes, industries, and children.
A lot of them post on this website.
Good. If Biden and Trudeau won’t impose a trade embargo on Russia then the people will do their job for them!
What the hell did the people expect?
“The guy is crazy because he’s going to end up destroying the whole country and making himself look like the ultimate scumbag to the entire world. This is bad because this is a nut who has 4000 nukes on his hand and God knows what he’s going to do”
I have no argument with your take but an addendum:
Putin needs to be gone but it’s highly unlikely his leaving will be a garden party, IFYOUKNOWWHATIMEAN, VERN. (old commercial reference).
Putin can’t go harder. Turning Kyiv into Stalingrad is the surest way he will lose. the morale of Ukrainian troops is extremely high. Putin’s invaders days are numbered.
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