Russians feel new Iron Curtain close in

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Two weeks ago, middle-class Russians could work at and buy from the biggest global firms, plan holidays in the West, get their news from vibrant (if embattled) independent outlets, and post as they pleased on social media.

State of play: With a new law promising prison time for journalists who so much as call Vladimir Putin's war a "war," foreign and domestic outlets are ceasing operations. Western firms are leaving. Social media platforms are disappearing. Borders are tightening. Protesters are being jailed en masse.

"It's over," says Alexander Baunov, a senior fellow at Carnegie Moscow. "All the vestiges of liberalism will be purged."

"The rules were clear and they are not anymore," Baunov says. "We can’t say what is dangerous and what is not. You don’t know what sort of repression you can meet for the things that were tolerated before."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russians-feel-iron-curtain-close-235829600.html

[Texaswitchy]

1. Still alive.

Not being bombed.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. You tolerate the rule of an autocrat

You suffer through the whims of the autocrat too.

Autocracy, many of us wouldn't tolerate it over here.

Wait.

Republicans want an autocracy here and they want to shove it down our throats.


We really need to dole out
some serious consequences to the
traitor/autocrat/
republican party.

Give an autocrat any power...they'll hurt you with it and any vulnerable people they can get away with. Like trans kids, battered women,rape victims,bullied kids..etc.

All autocrats are sociopaths.

[dalton99a]

3. Russia deserves the isolation it has chosen.