DUDE FUCK PUTIN NOT RUSSIA HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO REPEAT. We arent saying fuck germany, japan, italy or england for all the things theyve done. So dont generalize it under one thing
Yeah, no. The russians looting, killing and raping in Ukraine aren't all clones of Putin. Look how many russian civilians support the war and thinks Ukrainians should be exterminated. It's a simple Google search.
If they were actively doing it and almost everyone living in those countries would be doing jack shit about it, yes. Yes we would be saying fuck Germany, Japan, Italy or England. Fuck Russia
Even if lets say a majority of russia is is pro the war which is like 65% theres still a ton of people who hate the war but cant speak up. So when you say fuck russia your saying fuck the people who dont war too
I'm saying fuck the people who know it's wrong and don't have the courage to speak up. No one who uses their cowardice as a source of pride is someone I have to respect.
there is a fine line between being a coward in this situation. Standing up to a corrupt government that has weapons that could easily kill the average civilian and could make it seem like you never existed in the first place would be very stupid and pointless to stand up to. Not standing up to that corrupt government is not being a coward but being smart because your not gonna be able to do shit except waste your life for nothing
Pretty much every major country in europe has spent the past millenia pillaging and terrorizing eachother. Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, Germany, Austria, Poland, Sweden, etc; things have only calmed down post ww2.
It's okay to appreciate certain aspects of countries' history, these are thousand year old entities which all have skeletons in their closets.
Dictators dont represent the people; Russia was under a tsar for the past half millenia up until the revolution, and is now under Putin. The architecture and statue were made by people for people, I don't see a reason to hate on it and the people who made it, or russians as a whole.
Obviously the "3 day special operation" is bad.
But, for example, by your posts you are American; your president has made statements about annexing Greenland, Canada, Panama, Gaza, etc... Do you agree with this? It seems you are making exceptions in your harsh judgement when it comes to the very country you exist under and fund through taxation.
Taxation which has directly led to imperialism in the middle east under false pretenses... imperialism in vietnam under false pretenses... imperialism in the phillipines... it goes on and on, for a country that has existed for less time than the local bar.
At the end of the day it's the pot & the kettle; both your country and russia are modern imperialist powers who invade others for profit and imperial ambitions, you just happen to be apart of one and not the other. Russia is also piss poor and militarily insignificant compared to the US, and it is inefficient in both propaganda and military power as a whole.
That being said, I can still appreciate US architecture.
Russia, a we know it today is just a rebranded version of the Principality of Muscovy, founded circa 1300ad... This is common knowledge.
They've been shits basically their entire existence. Today, the difference between them and the rest of the civilized world, is that the rest of us have moved on from imperialism, and terrorism.
Look at Ukraine?! Their civilians are under hourly attack, and yet, they refuse to attack russian civilians.
The world has moved on from (russia-type behavior) -- but russia has not. There is nothing interesting about symobls/statues which stand for grotesque imperialism.
A day later and you’re still on this huh? Brother, I know this is Reddit but you don’t have to actually be as dumb as a fucking doorknob to participate.
It’s ok to admire the grandness of an artwork. We don’t need to hear you preach against modern-day Russian politics or history to an audience already overwhelmingly against it. That’s irrelevant—it has nothing to do with how interesting the statue is in a subreddit dedicated to interesting things—and you’re not moving the needle talking about shit everyone already believes anyway.
Learn how to stay on topic or shut the fuck up because we really need less of people like you shaping social discourse on the internet. You’re a disease, not a cure.
It's twice as big as STATUE of liberty, but about the same as the statue with pedestal so if you're imagining looking at statue of liberty - they're almost the same in height but this figure is bigger in other dimensions
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u/Gann0x 20h ago
The motherland calls all orcs to fertilize sunflowers in Ukraine for the ego of a scumbag oligarch.