• NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I’ve met Russians in America. They halfway joked that if they ever spoke out publicly against him that there was a good chance that they would end up “accidentally” shooting themselves a few times before falling out of a window.

    • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe
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      5 days ago

      Not my experience.

      They were parroting Putin’s dumb-ass talking points point-for-point.

      NATO enlargement, Ukraine isn’t a real country, Donald would be a better president than Hillary, christian nationalism, the US somehow tricked Russian oligarchs into oligarchy, on and on.

      With some bonus dumbassery like chem trails and antisemitism.

      People who had been out of Russia for decades and should know better.

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        4 days ago

        As you say, that’s your experience. All of the Russians I’ve met in the US hate Putin. There’s millions of Russians in the US, I think it’s fair to say there’s some diversity of opinion there.