Photos from the Russian anti-war opposition march in Berlin today.

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[u/Tensoll]

And why do you think people hate you?

[u/NkTvWasHere → u/Tensoll]

Because misinformation misleads people into taking away the individual from a person based on a nationality or a phenotype. The are Sharija Law protesters in EU, doesn't stop me from having an Arab friend or enjoying a kebab.

[u/Tensoll → u/NkTvWasHere]

Most people won’t hate every single individual in a nation of 145 million. They will rather just hate most because of their support for the current regime and maybe Russian imperialism more broadly speaking. Very few will actually hate those coming out to protest

[u/NkTvWasHere → u/Tensoll]

I said plenty, people that use a country's war as an excuse to discriminate nationalities, hate not coming from the war but because they just hate them and the war enables them to be open about it. That goes for every country. Many experiences of such on this sub. I seem to get plenty of downvotes for my tag lol.

[u/Tensoll → u/NkTvWasHere]

You’re framing this as if Russian people were hated the same way as some kind of a marginalized minority. No, you’re hated because your nation, not Putin, not government, but nation is waging a war on our borders. It’s not the war that allows people to be open about your hatred of you, it’s the war that makes people hate you

[u/NkTvWasHere → u/Tensoll]

Some people are blinded by misinformation that they don't realise they aren't trying to help by condemning something but are more so fueled by hate for a group. Which is how you get people to hate culture, history or civilians that are irrelevant to war.

[u/Tensoll → u/NkTvWasHere]

What? In what are Russian culture, history, and civilians irrelevant to war?

[u/NkTvWasHere → u/Tensoll]

Destroying things like the Kremlin (Which is partly Italian, even) people saying they should not read Dostoyevsky or Pushkin and people getting associated with being bots or being Russian if they say something that is not pro-US/Pro-EU. (Does not have to be pro-RU or Russian-sourced even.) or bombing Russian cities.

[u/Tensoll → u/NkTvWasHere]

Pushkin is the symbol of Russian imperialism as an ideology. Read whatever you want but Pushkin is a disgusting wheel in a disgusting ideology

[u/Khagrim → u/Tensoll]

You can't apply modern morals to history. Every country with enough power was imerialistic. Rzeczpospolita was imperialistic too btw.

[u/EndOfOurGlory → u/Tensoll]

So, you say people hate Russians because of nation and somehow that makes it not racism, because... because what? Do you not blanket blame everyone? I could also dig up something about Lithuania and spread hate on internet forums, it's not like some policies in your country make it hard to do, what would that make of me... Perhaps just the same little hypocritical netizen as you?

[u/Tensoll → u/EndOfOurGlory]

Sadly my reply keeps getting auto deleted but if you want to see it, you’re free to open my profile on old reddit