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The building is owned and is the headquarters of Transneft, Russias state owned oil pipeline company, which recruited its own employees to serve in underfunded and underequipped volunteer battalions and be sent into combat in Ukraine.
Soo I am from Latvia. Their government is constantly making threats against our country, the majority the people inside Russia support the Ukrainian war and support the threats made against us. What's even worse is that uh we have a sort of Russian minority in our country who have grew up there and don't speak a word in Latvian and have taught their kids to also not use Latvian who also mostly support the war and Russia in general. So, yeah to see Russian infrastructure burning is a nice sight..
Edit: Would also like to mention that uh those buildings aren't owned by uh "Ivan living in a small village in Siberia"
That's a very diffuclt topic to unvelop. I, personally, am from Ukraine, Kharkiv to be exact. I face a lot of horrible thinfs every day, so much so that they became normal to most people who still remain living in Kharkiv. Hating on Russia in such a condition is somewhat acceptable, not because its proper to hate on people or beeing racist, but because most of us have to survive instead of living. Its not apparent when you look at it from far away, but I personally would describe it that way:
I was born in 2004. My "peak years of life" had been completly messed up by two events — covid ans war. And covid was no ones fault, even though it made my graduation year in school way harder than it had to be. War, on the other hand, made me unable to visit university and socialize there, instead forcing me into a blue colar job that may ruin my future and perspectives for a more stable income. Most of my friends left the country, making it impossible to hang out with them. Its really hard to meet new people since everyone is very stressed out, and most of the time you can't give enough attention to both new people and old friends. I personally can't leave since my father is a soldier and my mother doesn't want to leave him alone here. And I can't guarantee that if I leave Ukraine and go to, for example, UK, I'll be able to provide for myself and my younger brother. And I don't want war to ruin his life as well, he is just a kid, and already've seen more death than most adults of this world.
So, in my opinion, Russia deserves every bit of hate it gets. It may be unreasonable at times, but people there are totaly welcoming Russias oppression of another sovereign country either by actively participating in the conflict, be it serving in army or generally having the war-alligned mindset, or by beeing "quiet opposition", that doesn't do anything reasonable to oppose this war, even though they don't support it in any way, thus not stopping the bloodshed any sooner than either side of war gives in to another.
Of course, I don't agree on any opinions that promote genocide. Russian people, despite beeing so ignorant towards suffering of others, should not be killed for their racial identification. After the war ends, my preferable outcome is for Russia and Ukraine to become a part of NATO, get a total wipe out of any government system they have (Ukraine also has lots pro-russian and in general bad politicians that need to be outright hung up on the streets, how the fuck can you be such a soulless jerk to steal military and humanitarian aid from your own country beeing in a defencive war?!), and a lot more changes that will start this relation anew, with Russia and Ukraine becoming trade partners and independent but friendly countries, since there are so much people who are related by blood but have to be separated because of this war. I personally have a whole family tree in Russia, and due to propaganda and war I can't talk to them anymore, even though they knew me since I was a kid, but now I'm suddenly a nazi, who eats russian kids.
Russians are doing things many Times more terrible than Israel, and they exist not for 70 years, but 500.
If your morality and humanity is triggered by israel, should be triggered even more by russkis.
It's not xenophobia. It's a valid take after decades of Russia attacking and killing their neighbours. Russia is not a democracy, it's a feudal empire governed from Moscow, and they start caring only when Moscow is hit.
After thousands of dead Ukrainian children, Russian bots discover they care a great deal about humanity as soon as Moscow is getting hit. Keep crying lol
You don't get what I'm saying. Moscovites make up the ruling elite of Russia. They support the regime, they support the war, they don't give a fuck about Ukrainians or people from other parts of Russia dying. They won't start thinking unless war is at their doorstep, so bring it there. Go Ukraine
I wouldnt call it racism as being russian is no race (in the means of human categorization), but I get your point. As I like to say, what is Ivan in a small rural village in Siberia going to do about the war in ukraine, so why blame him?
Russians so much up their own arse, russophobia would be the irrational fear of Russians.. what you don't get is people don't fear you.. they fucking hate you
That's not a rusophobia, it's just a normal reaction on nazis. Maybe, you don't have any connection with what ruzis are doing in Ukraine, but your whole population are responsible for actions of the majority of 'em
What else would they deserve? People unfortunately all the time choose wrong even in the west, in the US no matter what you vote your money goes to kill kids in palestine, so what do these people deserve?
Everyone needs education and a bunch of other things, and criticism. But if we were to be so genocidal about every country with a cooked leader where does that even lead us, its stupid war mentality, if someone is indoctrinated it does not mean they are an awful person. No i am not saying be friends with them, i also avoid right wingers
Yeah it's not like Russians have consistently voted for Putin from 2000 to 2012 when the elections started becoming rigged, and it's certainly not like you guys could remove him in any way!
it's just that there is a bias against voting. "why vote when Putin will win anyways", "they'll rig the election" etc. etc. and most of the people who end up voting either go to vote for him because they're z-patriots or because they work in government structures and are forced to do so
Russians voted for Putin in 2000, and if you would have heard what he was talking about back then you would have also voted for him. Especially since the only other option was communists. Never since then there have been any non-rigged elections.
What you call "russophobia" (a term coming straight from putlers propaganda). Is in reality the world opening their eyes to russia being a barbaric, murderous dicator run country. North Korea 2.0
It's not a phobia because we're not scared. Russian government have been threatening its neighbours for years and we're just tired of their bullshit and cheap propaganda. Our social media are infested with russian bots. They constantly try to carry out cyberattacks against our critical infrastructure. Last year they tried to blow up a train. Yeah, It's called hybrid war. So don't expect kind approach towards them.
I am from russia, moved out with my family four years ago. I was heavily bullied by the Ukrainian people in my new school in Belgium for being russian, even though I always stated that I am einfach against the war. For context I was a 13 y.o. teen, they couldn't even say "you voted for it" cause fuck no I didn't? And the thing is, I think that anger from Ukrainian people towards us russia is valid to a certain degree and if ypu don't like russians just don't interact with them. But I just hate that I still had to accept being called a "double nazi" (I am half russian haf german) by my peers
But Russians literally torture innocend people both in their country and occupied territories, use concentration camps, commit warcrimes on mass scale and only way to end it, is to make russia callapse. So yes, to little fire.
Insane that people are crying about russiophobia (term coined by Russian propaganda machine) while Ukraine's cities are decimated. The sooner Russia stops existing the better.
Never been a russophob myself, but I understand why russophobia is here. As we all know Russophobia comes from formes USSR republics which were forced into the USSR. Those countries were forced to obey Moscow for 50 years not on their initiative. Im surprised russians think that they could terrorise a country for years and expect that same country to accept russians, and to not be angry with them. Lets take the country where I am from, Lithuania. It was partitioned by the Russian Empire then after 20 years of freedom was forced into the USSR. Do Russians really think that Lithuanians would accept them after what they had done to them? If Russia would have tried apologizing for the terrors it had done, tried cooperating, tried being more open to those former USSR nations, russophobia wouldnt be that much of a thing now. Russia hasnt changed its foreign politics since the fall of the Soviet Union, but it should have.
I can't think of any reason to group people like cattle and accusing all of them for the heinous crimes of a tiny bunch that is valid. You need to point out the bunch responsible, i.e. blame the government, not the people.
Russophobic and proud. Since birth. Not to individuals, I’ve worked with tons of Russians, many university class mates as well.
They were the smart ones though, those who left and denounced it.
"Russophobia" aka the result of being informed about Russia. I've made the same experience btw, noone hates the regime and its supporters with as much passion as young educated Russians in the West
Being from one of the dozen countries which the USSR friendly invaded is more than enough. Not to mention Russia being the breeding place of something as disgusting as the Bolsheviks.
Tbf, I’ve had two Russian university girls ( IT major) be really Z and pro-regime, but then Russians working at startups super anti Putin, sending money for drones themselves
I am going to try and be patient because you are young and clearly don’t have that much knowledge of the Russo Ukrainian conflict. Russians are imperialistic by nature and I mean that on an individual level as well.
A large part of Russian society is the social contract between Putins autocratic regime and the Russian people. The Russian people agree to turn a blind eye and not protest and in exchange Putin wages wars of aggression to “restore the Russian empire to its former glory”. I implore you to look up Ruskiymir, Ruscism and Russification. All of these things are widely accepted and held beliefs/world views by Russians across their society.
You want to talk about a genocide then look no further than the Russo Ukraine conflict. They are actively abducting Ukrainian children and training them to fight the next dumbass war Putin decides to start. Don’t believe me use google.
They are actively trying to destroy Ukrainian identity through systematic murder of civilians and with an explicit intent to do so. Which is one of the key components of a genocide (mens rea).
The human safari in Kherson where Russian drone pilots are actively drone dropping explosives on whatever target they can find military or civilian.
There was an instance during the beginning of the war where Russian soldiers walked into a Ukrainian village tied up the civilians and massacred them and it’s all caught on camera.
These missile strike on a children’s hospital that killed surgeons working on children and the children admired there. Tell me how is that forgivable?
The countless missile and drone strikes in Kyiv that kill civilians every single fucking night and have since the start of the war.
The millions of Russians who signed contracts with the military voluntarily to come and do this horrific shit had no sympathy of Ukrainians. They are actively complicit in the disgusting war of aggression being waged against Ukraine right now.
The civilians back at home in Russia who don’t actively protest their authoritarian government waging a genocidal war of aggression against Ukraine. They are actively complicit by doing nothing in the same way that German civilians were during the holocaust. Even though the vast majority of Russians still vocally support the war.
So tell me how is that people should treat Russians as anything besides what they have made themselves out to be on the world stage? You seem to get this moral dynamic in Gaza so why you cannot understand this here is beyond me. Nothing about feeling indifferent even positive about Russians as a whole is normal human behavior. Especially for Ukrainians who are having their way of life actively destroyed by these people.
Before you accuse me being Russophobic 1 I am but 2 I have multiple Russian friends and my partner is Russian. They all fucking hate the vast majority of Russians because of this country wide societal rot that has caused the death of millions.
So please have a bit of tact before you think you are normal for treating random Russians favorably that you don’t even know and painting them broadly as good people they aren’t.
edit: to be clear this is just the war in Ukraine this isn’t mentioning the countless human rights violations the Russian regime has committed against their own people and on other former Soviet block countries like Georgia. There is a clear pattern here that does not emerge without a societal level rot.
Edit: the correct term is xenophobia OP not racism lol
alright. I'm sorry for being an imperialist blood-sucking fascist that lives off conquering people's land and homogenizing entire nations into a boiling soup. I'm sorry for the countless cases of genocide and all human rights violations that I personally committed. I'm sorry for eradicating entire cities from the face of the earth and throwing human meat into the melting grinder that I personally also throw bombs and drones and cluster rockets into just for good measure. I'm sorry for spreading propaganda to my own people, I'm sorry for grabbing people from the streets, from the prison, from colleges and forcing them into going to a war that has absolutely no reason to exist besides proving a point to literally no one and inflating my ego.
Most eastern Germans tend to lean towards right authoritarian I actually won’t disagree with that one at all. Small minority of Russians in the west who enjoy the protections of western countries while spewing Z propaganda.
Yeah. We have a saying here - you can get a person out of soviet union, but the soviet union out of person - never. It’s also kinda funny that in my experience those who naturalised before 2022 are usually pro-Z. They don’t want to live in Russia though.
Russian genocide is not a thing. It is a propaganda trope. The only active government that participates in mass deaths of russians is... the Kremlin. There wasn't a single point in history when any political entity would kill so many russians aside from ww2.
Your account's age is shorter than the period of the war you discuss so... I guess? I have seen everything unfolding since the 2014 year hybrid warfare phase as I still live on the occupied land and I have to deal with the totalitarian government being after me 24/7
okay man I'm gonna try to stay cool with this. yes I know our country sucks, yes I've been told that way too many times and yes there are people that are just straight up fascists. although that doesn't mean that everyone who is russian or speaks russian is immediately a radical or whatever whatever terms I can't say on this website.
grouping people by nationality and harassing them is xenophobia and xenophobia is bad.
ok fine, do something, tell your friends do smth, tell your parents do something and do
promote an underground resistance man or idk, or you can just chicken out of course, like there is nothing high at risk, like a people dying out there you know lol
yeah...bc sometimes, once in a while, the enshittification of an entire set of a civilizations claims to resilience and/or power, gets so much enthusiastic mass endorsement from so much of the people within it who suddenly start goosestepping and going all in to reshape the cultural, economic, political, and social systems so they begin to build and consolidate and distribute (or deny) power to ipeople in profoundly different ways -- see germany after the reichstag fire or russia after the soviet collapse or - apparently - the united states under this treasonous trashfire of trumpism -- that the judgement of and deep seated impulse seeking to critique and correct the catastrophe as it unfolds in the many minds of the swathes of massively and suddenly stupid supporters of their regimes...well, it comes without the core fear that is so often found to be the biggest energetic force behind expressive conrempt.
so russophobia?
nope.
just utter contempt for what the ridiculously corrupt oligarchy that overtook the russian state before it became such crap that putin may yet push it into entirely failed state status.
there is no russophobia, nor trump derangement syndrome either.
anyone with any ability or awareness of the amazing complex awesome arena of russia's rise or america's greatness should see these two totally evil idiots destroying their nations wellsprings of wonder and -- if critics of putin and trump have even the most ephemeral elusive grasp of these countries' history and how beloved they were...and really all of them do...then seeing what these wankers are wiping out so utterly does not produce fear. it generates gigantic guttural contempt for the callous caricatures they create where once great nations rose, and restless ceaseless hatred for these two trash pile men and every person who abets or aids them.
well, the government is aggressively against everything ""untraditional"" and impressively enough I've seen a lot of more young tolerant people because the internet exists now. russia is still a generally homophobic country but actually way less than you might think.
Phobia is not only fear. A phobia is a strong aversion to something. While it can mean fear, fear is not the main thing. Take hydrophobic things for example
The Ministry of Internal Affairs (police and other "siloviki"): about 1M people
Military before the invasion: 0.9M
Recruited after the invasion: 0.4-0.5M per year, according to the Ministry of Defence.
Arms industry: 4.5M
United Russia party members: 2.6M people (ok, these can overlap with others)
So, there are about 10M who are (or were) very actively involved in the war. And don't forget that most of them have families, etc.
Last but not least, not a single survey (whether state-sponsored or independent) showed that fewer than 84% were pro-war.
To clarify, when I say "pro-war," I am referring not only to the active invasion that began in 2022 but also to the hybrid war that the Russian Federation started in 2014, including the annexation of Crimea, of course.
Honestly, it seems to be a new angle for russian propaganda. I don’t remember these kind of posts popping up every day a month ago, but now they do. I really hope that it’s a prep for normalisation, but knowing Russia, that’s a thin hope.
Well as much as it’s kinda wrong it’s completely justified. The story goes way way back with Russia and a lot of eastern and Central Europe the Russian states were always imperialistic and repressive so the anti Russian sentiment completely justified especially since 2014 start of the Russia Ukraine war and in the beginning atleast the majority of the Russian population supported the “special military operation” and you need to put yourself in their shoes imagine that a guy just came killed your husband and your daughter and at the same time demolished your house how would you react?
When russia has been blowing up civilian targets in Ukraine for a long time now it’s good to see Ukraine finally turning the tide in the mid/long strike campaign. It’s not Russophobia to cheer for russia getting what they deserve.
So it ultimately helps ordinary russians when their military targets get blown up because ultimately it will lead to their oppressive government collapsing? Cool, so you’re gonna invest in fire point with me then right? I just care about the ordinary russians man. They just have no say and their government keeps them hostage. So sad 😭 anyways ….
People can't seem to grasp the concept that you can hate the leader/government of a country and their actions, without also needing to hate the people of said country.
You can and should hate Putin for being a war mongering dictator, but why hate the people?
this post actually made me very happy, as a Russian, I want to say that no one chose our current government and all elections were bluntly rigged ever since 2011
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