Is there a difference anyways between Russian and Muscovite? After all, Muscovites imposed their culture forcefully all over Russia as much as they could.
And I think it is a reminder to the people of Dagestan, Buratia, Altai, Bashkortorstan etc that they allow themselves to be taken advantage of and killed by a tribesman from the plains.
It still seems very moderate compared to the fascist imperialist spirit amongst the elite (and majority of the overall population) of that other country..
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck then what do you think it might be?
So because Russians did something right* 80 years ago they have a permanent moral high ground in perpetuity?
How does that make any sense?
*of course let’s not get into how WW2 started and how would Germany would have had a much harder time defeating France with their horse powered military without massive Soviet support..).
Yes and let us remind ourselves that they only did this once they were themselves backstabbed by the Nazis that they very eagerly allied with just 2 years prior. In fact, they happily divvied up Poland with said Nazis. There is no doubt about Russia's intentions for Eastern Europe had the Ribbentrop-Molotov alliance held.
You must be trolling to try and come here preaching that Russia were good guys in WW2.
I’d guess Stalin’s idea was to fund (literally, Germany wouldn’t have had enough oil without the Soviets) the nazi invasion of France and then swoop and “liberate” Europe after a couple of years of brutal WW1 style fighting.
Communism gave my parents and (younger) me free Education, free Healthcare and very cheap Housing, I don't care about its supposed totalitarianism, I just want that back, can I?
Depending on where live now you can try asking for asylum in North Korea? They’d probably love a western defector in a time like this.
Also you want what back? To be younger? Because all of those things are available in much of western world.
You might say “housing” but while it was technically cheap in the USSR it was extremely limited. There was never enough housing for everyone and multiple generations often had to live in tiny “affordable” apartments.
This is precisely why I lost all respect for the West in the last couple of years and am now cheering on Putin's propaganda that is deepening divisions in your own societies. It's obvious you'd like nothing more than to carve up our country and destroy our culture — which the people of Siberia, Caucasus, and all other regions have significantly contributed to. But you know fuck all about that because your knowledge of Russia is based on news headlines.
Now I really hope he's successful, so this will come back at you.
No.
Original owner of Yandex (Arkady Volozh) sold Yandex to a group of Russian investors (approved by the government) and left with small number of assets in a form of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebius_Group Everything else that people usually associate with Yandex (search, mail, taxi, marketplace etc.) remains under Russian ownership.
(Edit: R -> Muscovite)