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Re:Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Reta... by guard-of-terra on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @05:15PM (#11818216)
Then you should totally stop blaming Russians. Who were under undemocratic regime while a part of another entity (USSR).
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Re:Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Reta... by fauigerzigerk on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @06:28PM (#11818766)
I'm not blaming the Russian people. I'm blaming the USSR, that is the regime in power at the time.

I guess what went wrong in this debate - and it was my fault as well - is that for a democratic country, we can often get away with using sloppy language that conflates "country" and "people". But for undemocratic regimes, that no longer works.

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