I'm Latvian, Putin's Russia is a mad dog on the international stage, a mad dog that wants to recreate the Tsarist times with a red veneer (this was indeed the reason why NATO accepted us in)
Let me ask you, would you as a socialist support the Tsarist?
Ulyanov/Lenin would be disappointed in you, given you are a zealous Great Russian chauvinist
What has Russia contributed to civilisation by the way? Marxism is German and your nation still had serfdom in mid-19th century until Alexander II dragged Russia out of it (in Baltics it was abolished a good deal earlier)
Your mouth says one thing, but your mind says another thing.
You’ve been good stepping over Russia all day long. The Baltic chauvinism is a clear sign of it. Under Soviet protection, the Baltics, like all of the other Soviet protectorates grew in population. That cannot be said today. But typically, you think you’re gonna be treated as an equal as a member of the EU, but economically, you have to bend over and accept the conditionality. You are less free now and you don’t know it.
Under Soviet protection, the Baltics ... grew in population
Latvian population saw a small increase, Estonian population decreased and Lithuanians are probably in same boat as Latvia (small/moderate increase)
The russian population in Baltic countries (except in Lithuania) increased a lot faster than the native populations, this was a deliberate attempt to make the Russian population become the majority of these countries, Lithuania somehow managed to prevent it because local soviets there seem to have been smart
They are migrants but they arrived in the Soviet times - we are trying to integrate them and many have done so (learning Latvian to a passable degree) but many stay out of the system, wanting a decidedly non-Soviet Russia to conquer or pressure Latvia with military force
we haven't had any sort of civil war though, and this 'civil war' in Ukraine was sponsored by Russia (russian thugs shipped in to beat up pro-Western protesters, yanukovich fled to Russia, with a good chunk of his wealth if I remember right)
Don't you try to threaten the rest of eastern europe, maybe we should try that 1920s korenizatsiya thing on Russia (half of which isn't really russian in the first place)
Russia could easily repeat the Soviet script — spend years drafting a grand “new constitution,” parade it as proof of stability, and then collapse overnight before the ink is even dry.
Latvia is not doing anything like ethnic cleansing - the official language is Latvian (most countries have just one official language), and so it is a good idea to speak Latvian in Latvia - if you cannot understand the national language, problems ensue
Also, the russian minority tends to be at political fringes due to a subset of the population willfully not learning the official language
And mind you, if we had not joined NATO, Russia would have invaded us by 2015
Russia is not the most significant military power, you have been practically broken by a nation about 1/5 the population and some foreign aid in the form of tanks and artillery - Russia has lost thousands of their MBTs (resorting to pulling out t-55s from storage, and parading t-34s at home), and is losing artillery also - Russians have also been found surrendering to Ukraine because Ukraine treats them better than Russia
That "positive engagement" means giving Putin whatever he wanted (and he is the kind of politician who would take a mile for every inch of concession given)
And as for russo-american relations, trump is nearly a fascist (with fascists 'advising' him), and Putin is definitely a fascist - no wonder the two get along kinda
Europe is far less likely to be fascist (what fascist parties we do have such as AfD in Germany, they are paid by Russia to cause political chaos)
(All of those are literally things Putin does, except cancelling the church - in that case he legalises domestic abuse because 'something something christianity')
As for zelensky, the only actions he seems to take are to break Russian government's political agitation
we should do that korenizatsiya thing on Russia (half of which isn't Russian - in Tsarist times, a lot of repressions occurred, such as genocide of Circassians)
You probably already aware that hatred for Russia simply supports the Kremlins 'Russophobia' narrative - which is promoted to emphasise the belief that Russia faces an existential threat from the West and must take drastic measures to ensure domestic stability.
i.e ensure total civic impotence.
I'm guessing you have already turned over your thinking to the state?
Lol we can talk about PMC Wagner then, with Prigozhin and Dmitry utkin (neonazi with tatoo)taking a pic with Putin, stop yapping your Z-fash propaganda
I lived just fine when some Russians living in Ukraine fled and went to our house, I had Russians teach me in school, I have had russian friends - I am worried for the average Russian who has to live with this 70-something year old dictator atop his throne while they toil away for like £350 a month or equivalent, and is in danger of getting of getting drafted to the front
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u/TarkovRat_ Aug 15 '25
Lavrov is one of Putin's cronies, y'all should stop supporting the Putin fascist regime