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Re:Thank you Wise for blocking our business account by golergka on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @10:49AM (#30601194)
> If I'm an average Russian citizen, maybe I'm against the war, or more likely I just don't feel very strongly about it.

Unfortunately, no. A LOT of Russian citizens are enthusiastically pro-war, and it's very hard to de-program them from state-run propaganda machine.

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Re:Thank you Wise for blocking our business account by Andrew_nenakhov on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @12:46PM (#30603003)
Yeah right. They are so pro-war that the government recently made it a crime [1] punishable by up to 15 years in prison to be publically against the war or spreading information about it not coming from official sources.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-60594110

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Re:Thank you Wise for blocking our business account by golergka on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @03:46AM (#30612274)
Suppressing alternative sources of information is a part of any fascist propaganda machine, yes.
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Re:Thank you Wise for blocking our business account by charles_f on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @11:12AM (#30601540)
Source?
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Re:Thank you Wise for blocking our business account by golergka on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @03:52AM (#30612308)
Lived in Moscow almost all of my life, have been a political activists for a few years, have 30+k subscribers on my Russian political tik-tok account. I talk to a lot of Russians both online and offline. The support and bloodthirst is real, I'd say at about 60% support this war. Russians saying that "we should just nuke the states and kill them all" are not something out of the ordinary.
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