In a not unexpected move, the Russian government has outlawed news outlet Meduza.
Anybody inside Russia who reads Meduza, writes about Meduza, talks about Meduza or who has contacts with anybody who does so, is now automatically a criminal, and could be punished with up to 4 years in prison.
To conclude, just a quote taken from Everything Flows, by Vasili Grossman:
I too was influenced by it, I was just a young woman, and you heard it at meetings, at special instruction gatherings, on the radio and in the movie theatre, and from the writers, and by Stalin himself, always the same: the kulaks were parasites, they burned the grain and kill children. It was said directly: we have to raise the anger of the masses against those damn kulaks and destroy their whole class. I too became bewitched, I too thought: everything is to blame on the kulaks, and once they are destroyed, there will be better times for the peasants. You shouldn't feel pity for them, they weren't humans, but god knows which creatures.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday January 28, @06:22AM
Are we supposed to care that you're either this dumb or pretending such? Russia volunteered hard to be this year's pinata by invading Ukraine. Too bad you can't seem to get that.
And you won't find hypocritcal US politicians who have managed to make it illegal to listen to a media source because it says negative things about a US war, but as we see, you can find some Russian politicians who managed that trick. This has always been the flaw with Soviet/Russian whataboutism. It tries to conflate a great evil with a minor one becoming far more hypocritical in the process than any hypocrisy they claim to see.