Last month there was a Russian woman asking for donations on Twitter so she could move. Apparently she fled Russia cause she got in some legal trouble for protesting against the war. Anyway, a bunch of the comments were pro-Ukraine liberals berating her for being Russian, saying stuff like “oh what about the poor Ukrainians who have to move, huh??”. Being an anti-Russian Russian is… a thankless job to say the least. 🤨
When the whole thing just started, I saw a fellow I knew from school posting photos to vkontakte. It was him at some anti-war protest with a “I am ashamed to be Russian” banner. The kicker? He lives in Canada, and has lived there for a decade, if not more.
Imagine if some white dude moved from the US to China for few decades and started going on about how they’re ashamed to be American.
I can’t
There’s some quote - I can’t remember how it goes, something along the lines of “the job of an anti-imperialist is to protest their own empire, as everyone agrees that the other empire is bad.”
Sure both sides innit?
Good question. I’ve not met many (if any at all) self hating Jews or self hating Chinese, for example. I’d imagine those are also quite cringe. Self hating Russians though, I know plenty personally. They do tend to have one thing in common - liberal ideology. Doesn’t matter the age. Young people who have never seen USSR and grew up on a steady diet of western media and propaganda (with a smattering of modern Russian media, which is also subpar). Middle aged people, who grew up in the closing years of the Union and witnessed the trauma of the collapse. Even one whose teenage years begun while Stalin was alive!
And those that don’t go down the self hating route, often veer towards coping nationalism. It’s honestly painful, seeing just how much our people have been broken.
America defending “Anarchists”.
