Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends

Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by baskethead on Saturday March 05, 2022 @12:27PM (#30569590)

I think only lesser people would think all Russians support Putin. Every Russian I know in Silicon Valley that are sickened by Putin.

Eric Stalwall, the House Representative in East Bay (of the SF Bay Area) proposed to kick all Russian students out of the US. That sickened me and I won't forget this going forward (he ran for Democratic nominee for President in 2020). How can you blame citizens of the country for the country's actions? That's like Japanese internment camps all over again. I can't believe in 2021 someone would propose such a stupid and horrifying thing, especially in the Bay Area.

I'm glad you were able to escape safely.

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Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by jquery on Saturday March 05, 2022 @12:40PM (#30569758)

I know lots of Russians that support Putin, unfortunately. I wish it were as simple as Putin was acting alone but he is a popular Russian figure.

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Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by shrimp_emoji on Saturday March 05, 2022 @01:44PM (#30570551)

I think if you multiply the number of Russians who protested against the Ukraine invasion by 100, it's 1% of Russians, max.

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Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by gip on Saturday March 05, 2022 @01:44PM (#30570548)

I have family / friends in Russia and outside Russia and I’m seeing the same thing: Putin is popular. I suspect it had to do with how the Russian identity is build.

I keep telling these people that a country is defined by what it does in the world, not by what it is or was. But at the end of the day I think a lot of them consider Russia as a « powerful » country that should have an empire.

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