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People shoud understand, that in world there are many different countries. Some of them are based on ethnicity, like Latvia, where national language and culture is important for state formation and further existence. Latvian political elite shoud be more braver, and ignore ignorat and oppressive opinions of others. Because they do represent Latvian interests, they do not respect Latvia, nor they understand it.
Unfortunately murdering their way to democracy wasn’t going so well for Ukraine. This guy is full of it. You cannot possibly argue that growing a massive military alliance swallowing up all of Europe reaching the Russian border was good for peace. It defies logic. We have diplomatic notes from president Clinton and yeltsin’s meetings in early 90’s where yeltsin practically begs Clinton not to expand nato most especially and specifically in Ukraine. Clinton was utterly uncompromising. If a historically large chinese lead military alliance was building a presence in Canada and attempting bring in Canada, that we would allow this or be expected to allow it. And in addition to the Canadian gov being overthrown with Chinese support and in the aftermath that gov then waged war on British Columbia for their opposition to the overthrow and denial of civil rights for nearly a decade. Of course we would support B.C. In this hypothetical.
Why did he skip 2008 and NATO??? and "democracy" = being ruled by the cabal of Bilderberg Conference, Trilateral Commission etc. - look at the puppets Biden, Trump and the idiot 'leaders' of Europe.
They put a father in prison for two years because his daughter made a painting about it being wrong to fire missiles at people. Do you really need to ask if Russia is fascist?
Authoritarian does not equal fascism. They are extremely authoritarian, however they only meet half the planks of ur fascism, and their economy is as different as possible.
@@BenWeiss-f9p Yes, the relationship the German State had with German Industrialists in no way resembles the oligarchs and siloviki of Russia today. Did you hear that Putin's niece was just appointed Deputy Defense Minister?
@@ashcarrier6606 haha oh my bad, most ppl on the Internet will claim they are, I miss took your post. No, not surprising though--isnt nepotism is a universal on earth currently?
@@ashcarrier6606 I mean, it doesn't particularly. The German economy was far, far less regulated and the industrialists had far, far more control. Also Putin is missing like have of Umbertos ecos planks, and does not see violence as way to renew the nation. They are extremely authoritarian, but that does not make them fascist. Can you define fascism? I find many people on the Internet cannot.
this study is a perfect example of bogus science. why not do a questionnaire and report the results. there wasn’t anything scientific about this. self selection alone invalidates the findings and indeed ridiculous opinions and claims by the author. vaccines shouldn’t be political. why would you encourage that with this kind of study!? what a waste of time and effort.
Well, it's a quote from The Time article. Zelenskyy top advisers say about him: “He deludes himself,” one of his closest aides tells me in frustration. “We’re out of options . We’re not winning. But try telling him that. It is immovable, verging on the messianic.” One Austrian artist was in a similar state in 1945. Biden administration doesn't see Ukraine beyond a spring next year.
Marxist atheist idiology is the party and this party moulds Soviet man through everlasting communist world revolutions.National socialism, international socialism, Lenism, Trostzkism, Stalinism, Maoism, are all manifestations of this everlasting world revolution to make man a raceless, cultureless and godless party member all over the world. The party is always right and a person is only a tool of the party.
23:01 byproduct -> authoritarianism 27:07 hierarchical egalitarianism 27:53 exiled anti-communism scholars are disappointed about their lives; the ideal society promised by communism vs true imperfect Western society 40:52 heart of a dog = Homo Sovieticus 54:10 dispositional vs situational factors
This is really great!! Thank you and I pray for freedom of the peoples occupied by Muscovy. I want the Sakha to have a nation that I can visit, they have an amazing culture, same with Chechnya!
The lady blames “both sides” for 120,000 people including children and elderly starving and freezing to death. How tired are we for this “both sidism”!!!!!
Nobody starved or froze to death and the road was open to the Red Cross and other humanitarian aid minus the trucks sent for the Armenian/French propaganda. At the end all the illegal habitants of Karabakh, mostly Armenian passport holders, left voluntarily to Armenia. Furthermore you guys are better stop repeating that ridiculous figure, 120 thousand, because there’s hardly 70 thousand people lived including Russian soldiers’ families and Official Employees sent by Russia, Armenia and diaspora 😂
Okay, so the chief of staff for Navalny, a major opposition leader in russia, doesn't know about russians actions in Syria, he isn't an expert, wow 🤡 He also hasn't answered anything specific as for national minorities in russia. Well why should he know about Syria or minorities if his main goal now is to whitewash russians as soon as possible in order to demand a Marshall plan for russia without deimperialisation of russian society. Once again everything must be circling around poor russians who're of course shouldn't bear a collective responsibility burden, it's putin's war, yes)
I'm from Central Asia and I noticed west doesn't really know about Russian standarts on fascism. I think, reason is that West holds its narratives forwarded. Come to Central Asia and I will show you several aspects how Russian fascism works.
Je to veľmi jednoduché! Ľudovít Veleslav Štúr vedel veľmi dobre prečo to nazýva nárečia. Nemohol to nazývať jazyk pretože Slovenský(eng. Slavic, new 19cent. Slovanský) jazyk bol 1000 rokov predtým schválený pápežom ako 4tý bohoslužobný jazyk je v ňom napísané krásne literárne dielo Proglas. ( Dvaja pápeži nazývali Svätopluka môj jediný syn čo je titul cisársky) a všetky dnešné štátne jazyky sú jeho nárečiami. Preto sa Slovensko nemôže stať súčastou Ruska lebo Rusko je súčasť Slovenska. Nemci onemeli. Maďarsko a Rumunsko sú štaty už pod Talianskou( Rím) vlajkou kde pozmenili dejiny, jazyk aj písmo atď. Juhoslavia= southslavic. ...... Nech žije Nitra
Norway Official policy states that Norway was founded on the territory of two peoples, Norwegians and Samis. In addition, Forest Finns, Kvens, Jews, Romani, and the Norwegian and Swedish Travellers are recognised as national minorities.
She implied that Russia is pushing an ethnic element to the regime’s ideology: What might that be? I do recall Putin writing the article, “On the Historical Unity between Russians and Ukrainians”, where he claimed that Ukrainians and Russians were one people. One people along historical, religious, and ethnic lines. Does this imply that Putin is a Slavophile? I do find it odd that these self-claiming, “anti-liberal” Russians, such as Putin and Dugin, feel the need to declare their lack of ethnocentric ideals. That, “Russia is a diverse country”, but again, aren’t they anti-liberal? I fail to see an ethnic element to the Putin regime’s ideology. Unless one of you can enlighten me.
So if you clearly saw Russia was not equipped for imperial ambitions, why is that the narrative? And if you see they seemed coercive on Ukraine, maybe it was because they told us that was their red line multiple times. Interfering in our elections makes sense if they seek to change US foreign policy.
Media: We support freedom of speech! Nobody shoud be silenced for having a diffirent opinion! Also the media: *anyone who is aganst ukraine deserved are fascists and deserve to be banned from the internet!!!1!1* Ah yes *“freedom of speech”*
Why, when talking about past fascism, the only example that is being brought up every time is Nazi Germany. Actually, Germany was not fascist, but nazi/"national socialist". In the strict sense of the word, Italy was the only fascist country in history (even Franco called his ideology by another name). "Fascism" is not inextricably connected to "death camps" as some speakers seem to suggest. Comparing other countries to Italian or other forms of "fascism" is of course possible, but not very fruitful, in my view. Putin's Russia has many features that make it an unpleasant country. It has not been like that completely since the start, but minority groups are in danger, not of being sent to gas chambers, maybe, but there is a lot in between that and total integration and tolerance.
Yeah exactly, Mussolini's regime is very different from Hitler's. Hitler didn't even like fascism, he saw it as an inferior ideology, and no where did he ever call his regime fascist. Mussolini never set up death camps, and jews in Italy were largely protected from the holocaust until 1943 when Mussolini was overthrown and the Nazis took over. Fascism was much less homicidal to its own population than under national socialism or communism.
Mussolini was the inventor of fascism, but it is generally agreed that nazism is also a fascist ideology and that fascism is an ultra-nationalist, imperialist and expansionist ideology, that in a nutshell romanticizes about a lost greatness of the nation, whines about terrible humiliation imposed by surrounding world and promises to restore the nation's greatness. Mussolini was on a quest to restore the Roman Empire and Adolf Hitler Wanted to restore the German Empire a third time. There was nothing particularly socialist about nazi Germany, just like there is nothing particularly democratic about the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea. Nazi Germany was driven by privately owned enterprise that made great use of slave labour, whereas everything is "stateowned" (Controlled by the Party) in communist socialist ideologies, but also tend to make equal use of slavelabour.
Is Russia fascist? The answer is YES! They committed numerous genocides in their history. Some of the most terrible and sadistic genocides committed by russia is forced famine in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, which led to cannibalism and serious population reduction. In Kazakhstan this resulted in a -50% value of the whole Kazakh nation. So, we don’t have to speculate about russian fascism and build new justifications for world crimes. Putin openly spoke with a quote - "Russian land does not end anywhere!” - that quote should give you a better picture of russian mentality. And for many years, russian people have been brought up on propaganda about permissiveness for a russian person. Putin is not the only initiator of this idea, but he is only an executor. He gives what the Russian people crave, and this is blood, war, violence, robbery and the conquest of foreign lands. Along with this, the average russian person is very poor with a low income, but he is comforted by the idea of a further opportunity to push around other ethnic groups and mock them at the first opportunity.
Committing genocide isn’t fascism though. Facism was started in Italy that was close to socialism but incorporated syndicalism and corporatism. War isn’t facist, and all stood in a crowd chanting for war isn’t facist either. We have been conditioned to think that.
@@mrsentencename7334 Calling them fascistic aligned is absolutely correct. Love for authority, suppressions and murders of opposition, belief in military superiority, enemies are weak, but also strong rhetoric, cult of personality, rewriting history, constant glorification, anti-lgbt, blood and soil rhetoric to reconquest all lost russian lands up to Poland, prejudice against other ethnicities (Most notably Ukrainians and calling them derogatory names), seeking war or conflict, perception of Ukrainian and Belarussian languages as off shoots or fake, galvanization of people. War isn't fascist, but fascists love conflict. Of course modern russia is not = to Italy or Germany from ww2, but it really is taking notes from them and is aligned in their way of doing things and thinking. Also, no, I don't believe that since russia participated in the defeat of nazi germany, that it makes them immune to fascist beliefs.
Russia is fascist state! 1. Autocracy 2. No freedom. Repressions. 3. Leader cult. 4. War cult. Military parades every year showing its superiority and greatness. 5. Government is untouchable. People have no right to uprising. 6. Promotion of mythical "russian spirit" or Russian world" 7. Creation of foreign enemy against which all people should unite. 8. Annexation and occupation of foreign territories. many more points...
Let me proceed. So some missed concentration camps in Russia or that Russia doesn't have plans to conquer the world. Well nobody knew about Hitler's or Stalin's plans at the time either! Nobody knew about concentration camps till after the war and till much later in case Soviet Russia. Everyone probably heard Putin's facsistic speech before raging bloody war in Ukraine. Forgot to mention governmental propaganda on in mass media.To mention as well that all mass media is controlled by government including Internet!
Going to war for territory and political gains isn’t facism. Standing in a crowd in unison chanting for war isn’t facism. But the way the Russian government is set out id argue it is like Italian facism and syndicalism and corporatist.
Few people wonder where Hitler had got the money to start the second world war. After the first world war, Germany was in a very difficult situation. Suddenly, after taking power, Hitler had a huge financial source to manufacture weapons, recruit soldiers, set up and trained elite SS forces, built a powerful propaganda system... Then he took off the army, invaded everywhere. For wherever they occupied, they sought to kill Jews there, and finally put all their strength into fighting the Soviet Union, almost forcing Moscow to remove the communist regime. This indicates that whoever provided the resources for Hitler must have been a Jew and communist hater. For example, there are two restaurants in the same neighbourhood who are in insidious competition with each other. The owner of restaurant A wants to destroy restaurant B, but does not show up. That owner just uses the money to hire gangsters to cause trouble with the excuse of idleness, and then destroys restaurant B. If the owner of restaurant B can't stand it, he will sells his restaurant to the owner of the restaurant A. In that case, the owner of the restaurant A will buy the restaurant to show his sympathy. After that, the gang was arrested and imprisoned by the police. No one knows who hires the gangsters. Hitler was a type of gangster hired to attack the Soviet Union for someone, who was afraid that the communists would threaten their vast fortune. Killing the Jew was also a side hustle because the boss went along with it. Two people contributed money to Hitler, both killing communism and exterminating Jews. Then kill Hitler and erase all traces. Unfortunately, the plan was not successful because the Soviet Union fought so tenaciously. Seeing that the Soviet Union counter-attacked effectively, the US had to participate in order to have merit and have a good reputation in destroying the fascists. Now the old boss appears, pumping money to create a new fascist in Ukraine, also to fight Russia like before. This time Russia took action first, not allowing the powerful fascists to attack Russian territory. The boss (who specializes in creating fascists) furiously ordered to surround Russia in all ways, massively pumping weapons to fight Russia's weakness. This time that guy wants to drag the whole world to fight Russia. Hopefully Russia is brave enough to defeat fascist in Ukraine, and reveal the true face of the man who created fascism for several times.
What a sad sight to see, a Russian Ukrainian groveling at the feet of the eternal enemies of Holy Rus. Everything negative she said about Russia is either more true about Ukraine or entirely false, for example, the phone calls are obviously easy to fake and the numerous ridiculous propaganda stories, pushed by the highest authorities in the Ukrainian government and media, about the ghost of Kiev, the Snake Island martyrs and pickle jar throwing grandmothers. Bucha and Kramatorsk were, by any dispassionate analysis, perpetrated by the Ukrainian armed forces. But what we do have video footage of is Ukrainian soldiers torturing and abusing Russian soldiers from the very beginning in the most horrific ways. And if she is to be consistent she would have to be opposed to Ukraine invading Russia in a situation where Russia was bombing ethnic Ukrainian and Ukrainian speaking Russians and the government made moves to ban the Ukrainian language in schools and Ukrainophile political parties and media outlets, and on top of this after a friendly pro Ukrainian government was established in a coup by the worst geopolitical enemies of Ukraine and the puppet president of Russia started to talk about developing a nuclear deterrent (as a side note, just think for a moment that the US doesn’t allow Iran to develop nuclear power half way around the world). With how much Ukrainians have been brainwashed for 8 years to hate their Slavic brothers, this is simply impossible to believe. Had they been the nuclear superpower they would have possibly even nuked Russia the way Yulia Timoshenko said she would like to. Very sad to hear such a presentation.
Is Russia fascist? Is water wet? Russia has decent people too, but most are brainwashed by state-run propaganda and see it their mission to invade other former Soviet countries. They are a terrorist state under a dictatorship. The worst is Russia claiming to eradicate fascism in Ukraine even though what it is doing is the very definition of fascism.
Thank you so very much for sharing these stories. This really helps Americans understand what’s going on in Ukraine!! I hope we can help all Ukrainian people and secure peace for them in their country! 🇺🇦🇺🇦
