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No. There has to be some source for such claims. You see after the last greek civil war (we had three the previous century alone) many greek communists fled to the soviet union. Then some returned during the 90s. I personally know quite a few of them who were soldiers there. Most of them after the fall of soviet union. I have heard a lot of stories from them. What you say doesn't sound true.

As for why many people support Russia, it is because they are right on this one. Putin didn't wake up one day and decided to invade Ukraine...

Silberengel 1y ago

They returned over 25 years ago and we know about the propensity to torture from the East German archives. My family was mostly in East Germany and Czech Republic, behind the Wall. They were pretty terrible, but Russia has always been much worse.

Putin was in Berlin for the KGB, remember? That's why he speaks fluent German. He didn't become a different person, just because they elected him to President. They literally elected a Soviet spook and he's been in charge for nearly a quarter century. Russia doesn't have real elections, just coronations.

It's a shithole. It's always been a shithole.

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nami 1y ago

Oh, i have no doubt that soviet union was horrible and that kgb tortured people in horrible ways.

That does not justify what happens now though and still there has to be evidence that russians torture their own soldiers in such ways.

Meanwhile today the only place i know where people are there because they have been kidnapped and have been tortured without any charges against them, is the Usa base of Guadanamo and the torture has been approved by Barak Obama who has been given the Oscar price for peace...

Silberengel 1y ago

The countries the Guantanamo guys come from don't want them back. Every time we sent some back (we have), they went right back to local terrorism or ended up in prison again.

I'm sorry, but the idea that the USA is torturing people, but Russia isn't, because the USA admits to it and Russia doesn't, is incredibly childish. The West is the only culture where you save face by confessing, and where there are activist journalists and lawyers uncovering everything and publishing it. That doesn't mean they're the only ones who ever do anything wrong, it means they're the only ones with at least the remnants of a free press and civil rights.

Nobody knows what is going on in Russia. Even the Russians in Russia don't know.

nami 1y ago

No again. I said the exact opposite. Which is that we can't blame Russia only for torturing and exclude USA and the west in general. Usa and the west have fallen to barbarism and they are the main sponsors and contributors of terrorism today. As for the press, no again. It was the west that banned rt and sputnik immediately while bbc still operates in Russia. Russian citizens know more about what is happening comparing to western citizens. And Russia is not a place that brugs about free press. That is how much the west has fallen to barbarism and propaganda. We are not in the (previous?) cold war now. Don't judge by standards of decades ago.

Silberengel 1y ago

Look around you. How many Russians are working on Nostr?

nami 1y ago

That is not an indicator i think. Linus Torvalds expelling the russian contributors that maintained the linux kernel is surely an indicator.

Silberengel 1y ago

I used to watch RT because of Keiser Report. They liked him because he crapped on America, but never complained about Russia.

Of course, he kept right on living in America. He's biased, not insane.

Mî¢h&|3 Dëgli Ü3ę®tį 1y ago

Just different and divided memories. War makes the worst of men.

If they were still alive you should just hear my grandpas' opinion on Germany and Germans.

Listen to Germans talking about war crimes and thinking about my family stories makes me crazy every time.