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The writer of the Metro novels and video games has been handed an eight-year prison sentence, for his opposition to the Ukraine war.

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[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The origin of this war is that Putin wants to restore the Soviet Union and thought Ukraine is easy prey, because of revolutionary forces within Ukraine and because his collaborators lied to him. They then continued to invade with limited success, thanks to low morale, aged tactics and corruption in their badly equipped military. Now Russians die in the thousands not because of Ukraine, but because of him.

[–] cooljacob204@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No point in feeding the troll. Look at his profile, it's a either a Russian in denial or an extreme case of tankie.

[–] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

pretty much everyone from lemmygrad and hexbear dismiss anything from any western outlet as propaganda while uncritically spouting insanity from the putin regime or the ccp.

i saw someone unironically posting about "democratic dictatorship" yesterday. good times

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Have you seen the profile of that guy? I fear he's dead serious.