Brilliant, as always Russia.

@navalny has never kept his nationalist views secret

He, who was banned from @amnesty for racist and homophobic slurs

He, who suggested to blockade Georgia in 2008 🇬🇪

He, who dubbed the annexation of Crimea a “military adventure” 🥪
You can appreciate the archive

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It’s a shame that this tweet has been marked as “sensitive content”. There’s genuinely nothing sensitive in pictures of Navalny marching with a bunch of nazis.

But Russians are afraid that their only chance to still sell themselves to the west as “good” is sullied as well.

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Mar 18
I see many people arguing that Russians have been forced to attend today’s pro-Putin/pro-war rally.

I can’t argue against it because I don’t know 🤷🏼‍♀️

What I will argue, is that none of the previous rallies and supremacists celebrations were forced.

And THAT is a problem

👇 2014, the signs say “Putin ...2015, anniversary of annexa...2019, Day of Russia; A high...2018
The anxiety about sanction and disappointment about losing this war are being mistaken for moral wake up calls and antiwar moods.

If you think this, you are misinterpreting and projecting your own wishful thinking on Russian people, artist, politicians, activists and media 🔽
For the past 15 years, ever since the Munich SC 2007, Putin has been engaging in international terrorism, starting wars, and annexing territories.

All this time - there was no protests against war. Only against establishment. And for Navalny. Who’s a prominent nationalist.
🔽
Read 9 tweets
Mar 18
A recent poll says: Russians support Putin.

I’m stats-savvy enough to understand that stats can be used to prove that a dead salmon🐟 is alive. (Google it, it’s funny)

But this 🧵 is about people’s reaction & psychological defenses that make our communication difficult.
I don’t like psychoanalysis because of its unfalsifiability but it’s hard to deny the existence of denial.

A psychiatrist George Vaillant classified defence mechanisms into four levels.

✔️ pathological defences
✔️ immature defences
✔️ neurotic defences
✔️ mature defences
I won’t go into detail about which level contains which defensive reaction - you can look them up on wiki.

I want to denote something: for one - you can distinguish Russian people in the comments on this poll by their defense mechanisms being anything but *mature*.
Read 14 tweets
Mar 17
Quip “shocking news” and provide 0% context

Sadly, Russia’s strongest & most disastrous lobby sits in… Ukraine. That’s why people fight it since the 1st revolution on granite.

But let’s talk about moot claims with insufficient information?

Military trade 101 for dummies 🧵👇
The key points to arms trade in Ukraine sum up to:

🔹 pro-Russian establishment; collaborators, who trade weapons for profit = scum
🔹 strategic trade, that allows for purchases of urgently needed equipment

1st is clear.

2nd is more difficult to accept for your average person.
To explain it in borderline simple terms:

Imagine you have apples but need some oranges very badly.

And someone has oranges but won’t exchange them for your apples.

You sell the apples elsewhere for money and buy the oranges.

Sometimes this “elsewhere” is your enemy.
Read 10 tweets
Mar 17
“Discrimination: this is how unsettled employees of Russian origin are at work”

@handelsblatt You’re trying hard to show that you’re tolerant but you’re tolerant of the wrong things.

Let’s talk about bad journalism and bad timing, shall we?

google.com/amp/s/amp2.han…
First of all: “Russian origin” and Russians are different things.

Russian origins means that the person might have been born in Russia or migrated a long time ago but no longer shares any cultural or political connection with it.

These people have no business in this war.
Russians, however, very much do.

There’s whole 🧵 on Twitter, written by Ukrainians and Americans far smarter that me, who elaborate in detail how and why Russian people are the ones who fully bare responsibility for their government’s crimes, wether they supported it or not.
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