Russian propaganda

Could be... if you live and think about life - in Magnitogorsk... Poor Russia is at the moment lonely -
not many "friends" available...
All because that tiny liliputin policy of war...

 

When we speak of freedom we can never speak of absolute freedom, because to live in society is to renounce a little of your freedom, a renunciation that is imposed by laws and whose purpose is to allow people to live together on a daily basis. Attempts in history to live in absolute freedom have always been a complete failure, all attempts to create societies with anarchy always impose their law on the strongest people. It is not a problem to give up a part of one's freedom if in exchange we get a secure coexistence. But the difference is when you give up a part of your freedom to achieve a greater goal such as coexistence, which is a characteristic of democracies, and when you are forced to give up all your freedoms so that the dictator can impose his law by force and fear, as is the case in dictatorships.

 

I beg to differ but I cannot accept the comparison between Russia and my country. You cannot compare a democracy with a dictatorship and Russia is a dictatorship, the proof of that is in fact in the last elections, an absurd act and a waste of time for the citizens. All the opposition has been killed and those who are presenting themselves as Putin's opponents were all Putin's chosen candidates. They all knew the outcome of the election before the vote. That is a real dictatorship disguised in the imaginary garb of a democracy.

I also disagree with comparing the capitalism of my country with the false capitalism of Russia, because Russia being a clear and forceful dictatorship, it is the government that controls the companies and the proof is when Putin distributed the companies among his friends so that his friends would be immensely rich and thus ensure their loyalty. In my country, like other countries in Europe, the tendency of governments is that monopolies do not exist (in Russia they do) and that different companies can compete for the benefit of citizens, while at the same time reducing their share in companies.

I do not have any concrete illusions, only the reality that in my country, as in other European countries, there is no brutal capitalism as the maximum expression as the companies were in the Industrial Revolution and that only money is important, because to counteract that purpose, there are trade unions and workers' rights.

For all these reasons I cannot accept and I strongly reject the comparison of Russia with my country.

 

Yes, it's true, I have pink glasses, and pink is my favourite colour

Although I always like to learn, I wouldn't say that I don't know how capitalism works, because I run a company and I have friends who also run companies. For all this, I find it very bold of you to tell me that those are not my thoughts, although I imagine that those words must be comforting for you, because they still allow you to live in your particular matrix, where others have no thoughts and we are just puppets in the hands of a government and a savage capitalism, without any freedom and programmed as computers to serve as slaves to the government. That is your reality, that is the reality of Russia, but it is not the reality of other countries, including mine.

You cannot seriously say that a government has absolute power, because there are two circumstances besides laws that limit power, the first would be elections and the second would be the freedom of any citizen to create their own political party and the freedom to access elections. So we have parties on the extreme left, on the left, on the right, on the extreme right, on the central left, on the central right, who defend animals, who are vegans... This freedom does not exist in Russia and you have as proof the last elections.

Just FYI, every day I read two newspapers, one right wing and one left wing, I like to compare the approach to the news and come up with my own THOUGHTS.

The USSR was not a capitalist economic system, but a communist one and I won't elaborate any further. If you want to know the difference, there are many books on those subjects.

As you rightly said, the USSR no longer exists, but I thank you for supporting my arguments when you say that Russia is indifferent to trade unions and workers, because such things happen in dictatorships. Thank you for claiming that Russia is a dictatorship.

Regarding the yellow waistcoats in France, I can only comment that their freedom was to be able to demonstrate although with excessive violence, and that same freedom is totally denied in today's Russia, although you can call it Russia or the USSR, it is exactly the same, even today.

Returning to the initial topic you should read the following article, it is very interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

 

Right - if you think, that you don't want to participate in this thread any more - it's your free decision.
Just to point out - this thread was not originally set up for discussion with you ...
Therefore - I do not understand your brave command - discussion is over.
Because - you are not in commanding position here in Forum - here is not Russia...

 

Those Russian propagandists are nowadays everywhere, on different forums and just
on newspaper comments pages, some have been educated in Yale and Oxford and are living in West.
Of course, @vladislav lives in Russia, in Ural Region, by some good reason he is not
fighting in war in Ukraine himself - but tries here to agitate people around a world, to start believe
that their dictator VVP can win...
That war is not a typical one > One Orthodox Slavic nation (Russians), under command that bloody maniac
dictator Putin, is trying to destroy another Orthodox Slavic nation (Ukrainians) with the most terrible
genocide, in the 21st century!