sadness of war

@Mopman said in #10:
> We must be careful not to jump to judgment of the average person in Russia.
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> We are not exposed to the barrage of propaganda they face , nor do we suffer from arrest for speaking out in public against Putin.
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> The long history of Russia is filled with tragedy and oppression from the STATE.
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> Generations have grown up there learning to fear their government.

I think the propaganda point is a myth. But you do have a point about being arrested for speaking out in public. The issue i'm having now is that this is the internet and I'm surprised I have only seen one Russian guy speaking out here on lichess compared to the dozens of Putin supporters. And these videos of Russians supposedly living there saying people are fighting with each other over the war makes no sense to me if this is the case. Wouldn't it be more dangerous to make your views known to your neighbors then it would be through a vpn on an anonymous account on an obscure website? This website has more Russian players then any other chess site and they are completely silent. We have to face these facts.

Yup yup.

Your points in the previous post were good as well.

@CooloutAC said in #11:
>The issue i'm having now is that this is the internet and I'm surprised I have only seen one Russian guy speaking out here on lichess compared to the dozens of Putin supporters.

I really do appreciate your posts. And heck, while I'm at it, I'll just throw in @Claire-Marie, @Mopman, @MaugliAU, others, all of your posts are encouraging, beneficial and helpful. I wish Lichess would take a different tack, but at least it's not so bad.

While we're at it -- agreed absolutely to your point. Internet courage would be the best place to discuss this if they were against it.

I have not seen any. On the opposite, I've seen many, many crop up, obviously from there pushing the same insanity.

Its always the same: Putin's "talking points", backed by nothing except aggression, gaslighting, illogic and pretty much -- attempt at insanity.

For instance, blackdahlia left presumably as he said he would.

Just two main points -- saying Lichess was "promoting war" -- point of hatred/insanity as Lichess condemned the war.

But if one is twisted sound enough to believe that is promoting war. There is no hope of a change of mind anytime soon -- although hopefully it will happen down the road.