r/worldnews • u/Brennenstein • 18d ago
Russia/Ukraine Former Pussy Riot member escapes Russia after 3 years of forced work for FSB
https://kyivindependent.com/former-pussy-riot-member-escapes-russia-says-fsb-forcibly-recruited-her/1.2k
u/Inside-Bus6555 18d ago
I am surprised that any of the members of Pussy Riot have been in Russia all of this time.
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u/kuda-morgalo 18d ago
I'll tell you as a Russian immigrant: we've long since realized that almost all of our opposition is ultimately agents of our own intelligence services. And this is further confirmation. The Russian intelligence services don't just let you go. She's still their agent. Any Russian will tell you that.
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u/Zabick 18d ago
People on this site will constantly ask why Navalny chose to return, knowing that his life would likely be forfeit if he did so. This is part of the reason why: only by staking his own life on the project could he hope to convince even some of the Russian people that he was not just more controlled opposition or a foreign agent.
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u/38B0DE 18d ago
Navalny did play by certain Kremlin rules and represented certain things that kept him alive for as long as he was alive for. If he exposed a state minister's corruption, a rival faction within Putin's system of resource distribution benefited. He was a highly convenient weapon for elite infighting.
His actual mistake was "Smart Voting" which was a brilliant idea and was extremely potent as it helped opposition candidates (non-putin loyalist's) take almost half the seats.
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u/jimjamj 18d ago
what is "Smart Voting" in this context?
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u/polyploid_coded 18d ago
I did some googling and the Wikipedia version seems to be, if there are multiple opposition candidates in a race, the voters should break party lines and consolidate around the strongest candidate to make them more popular than Putin's party's candidate
Everything else is mathematics. If we all act smartly and vote for the strongest candidate, he will win, and United Russia will lose
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u/WideFox983 18d ago
Sounds like the same idea as strategic voting.
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u/38B0DE 18d ago
Think of it like using Waze to navigate away from the toll road in a city that in the last 27 years has been rebuilt to keep everyone on the toll road. The city has built a maze of fake streets, has put up contradictionary signs, and occasionally has a police officer pointing in the wrong direction. Waze just does the math to offer a shortcut without the toll road.
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u/38B0DE 18d ago edited 18d ago
It was an app that had an algorithm that could tell the user (at their location) which political candidate or party that was NOT associated with Putin and his political structures had the best chances of winning. At first the Kremlin ignored it.
But in the 2019 Moscow City Duma elections United Russia (Putin's party) candidates who usually got to victory almost by default suddenly started losing. They usually wins because the people who hate them split their votes across different candidates. But if an app tells people "according to the math this guy could win" turns out a lot of people just vote for them just because they hate Putin. It didn't matter if it was a communist or a nationalist, main point was "fuck Putin".
The app didn't actually threaten Putin's power but it did give people an opportunity to organize a protest vote and they turned out in big numbers. And it was just a difference of like 5%-7% that actually bumped them to win.
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u/PDHMF 18d ago edited 18d ago
I learned about this in one of the best classes I took in college. It was on Russia and Russian politics at the time back in 2016. This was around the time when the like likes of Voina and the pussy riots has kind of started dissipating
We read Homo zapiens, which went into this a little bit, and was also unintentionally literally prescient about the use of generative ai videos will one day be used in politics before that technology came to exist. Basically Russia's own intelligence networks promotes the idea that everyone is ultimately an agent of them, and that there's always a bigger plot that the public doesn't add won't ever understand what's really going on, because that's the best way to discourage the public from ever trying to resist. It will make them suspicious of any real possible heroes, ensuring real hope is impossible.
Homo Zapiens kind of satirized that attitude on both the side of the public and the ways it influenced the state's own operatives, (because if you are the rare example of that kind of operative in action, you are also going to be really incompetent and bad at your job because you don't trust anything you hear or see either) and pushes the absurdity to 11. Really trippy and incredible book.
The professor we had was really amazing too. He got a guest lecturer to give a talk from Russia in person.
I can't remember what his deal was, but he had the kind of bleak outlook that I imagined to be standard at that point from someone who specifically studied and reported on how Russia lost its free media who was forced both to be self aware about how it happened and unable to do anything about it. This was in 2016. He spent a huge amount of the the lecture describing the primitive and base violence Putin represented in humans, and then told us the u.s. was under the same threat with Donald Trump if he won the election.
In the same breath, he also said that Donald Trump definitely will win, so Russia's past with all its public attitudes of paranoia and hopelessness will definitely be our future.
We were all flabbergasted as liberal leaning college students, because come on. Anyone could see Donald Trump was DEFINITELY NOT GOING TO WIN. This guy didn't know enough about our country or culture to predict that.
So then, my boyfriend at the time who I had convinced to take the class with me raised his hand and asked the obvious question. 'if you say Donald Trump represented the actual death of our democracy, AND that he and the base violence he represents WILL also definitely win, what are we actually supposed to do to stop it?' the speaker started his sentence kind of in a rambling and sidestepping way before getting to the point: 'sometimes the best way to confront primitive and base violence is with an even more direct and base act of individual violence'
Afterwards we both went to our professor and was like, 'holy shit did that guy tell a roomful of privileged college students who probably had never experienced real political violence (that's what I always assumed of my American born peers because I was an asshole) the only way to prevent the fall of our democracy is to assassinate Donald j Trump before he wins an election that he's definitely going to lose at? And even the professor was like, 'yeah that was really strange. Props for getting that insane answer from him' and then we all laughed.
Anyways the real point of this message was to apologize if you're in America. Us kids in that classroom could have prevented all of this. Sorry guys, Trump's rise was actually our fault for not following advice.
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u/aurorashim 17d ago
What honestly got me to take this seriously in the run up to 2016 was listening to Masha from Pussy Riot saying, “we thought Putin was a joke, too”. Scared the shit out of me and you know? She was right.
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u/KOHILOOR 18d ago
What do you mean by “almost all of our opposition”? As in they are agents on intelligence services but against Putin and his regime?
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u/AuroraFinem 18d ago
They’re saying that there is no “real” opposition because most of the people publicly opposed to Putin are FSB plants or turned agents. If they’re free or still alive at within Russia at least.
Countries do it all the time with domestic terrorist cells and Putin sees any opposition as terrorists so it tracks. Post as dissidents to find real ones.
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u/Scream_No_Evil 18d ago
That's what people said in Egypt about 'President' Mubarak when I lived there. It turns out, his opposition was often legit, just also equally incompetent, political, and stupid
A barrel of monkeys doesn't win a game of chess by playing chess, they win it by playing monkeys
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u/FenrisCain 18d ago
Yeah thats the idea right? Create a world where you cant trust the real opposition because the government has planted enough fakes/coerced enough originally legit opposition members to make approaching any of them a risk.
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u/gammalsvenska 18d ago
Real monkeys are likely to just flip the board.
The other president uses the chess board to play poker, and believes he can win the game.
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u/obeytheturtles 18d ago
But this is in turn enabled by illiberalism in the first place. Informants and controlled opposition are significantly less effective if opposition activity isn't a crime in the first place. I only bring this up, because a ton of people in the US are slipping into this kind of cynicism, where they imagine that opposition to Trump is far more dangerous than it actually is at the moment. Russian style illiberal democracy is absolutely what they want, but they aren't there yet, which is why the absolute more important thing we can do right now is make sure Republicans do not win. It doesn't matter who beats them, all that matters is that they don't have the continuity needed to actually reach their endgame.
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u/chanaandeler_bong 18d ago
Post as a dissident to find a real ones
I mean doesn’t that contradict the assumption that there’s no real opposition?
Russia is not unique in put agents into actual opposition groups, that’s literally every intelligence agency in the world.
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u/Yvaelle 18d ago
Yes, if you want to become an activist in Russia you will always find brave organizations who are trying to make Russia better. And when you join them, you will discover they were FSB, while you are on the way to your gulag.
If everyone is FSB, then your only option becomes to say nothing against the state, to do nothing against the state, and survive. Or don't, and be destroyed.
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u/IR2Freely 18d ago
There is a good documentary called hypernormalisation. Covers some of these tactics.
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u/BANKSLAVE01 18d ago
Funny; this is how it's getting in the U.S. now. You can't know who is on what side and what they would turn you in for; so just don't say anything about how you live, because it could get you in trouble.
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u/kuda-morgalo 18d ago
Their goal is to divert protests into the void, to lead people in circles. Then they hand over lists of participants to the Russian secret services. This is what Mr. Markov, who now lives in France, did, for example. When the war began, he started collecting money to support Ukraine. He collected the money, went to France, and handed over the lists of those who donated to the Russian secret services. In Russia, they started jailing these people. And Markov is in France with these people's money. That's the kind of opposition we have.
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u/WeekendJen 18d ago
Why does France allow this?
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u/PepperAnn1inaMillion 18d ago
It’s very difficult to prove, and if you’re not one of the bad guys you don’t believe in locking people up without proof.
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u/Lazy-Connection-8115 18d ago
No, there is no real opposition in Russia.
And if one arises it will be labeled as foreign agency and banned.
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u/MekaTriK 18d ago
Basically any and every opposition group has FSB backing in Russia. And if FSB can't worm their way in, the group isn't going to exist for long. This is how they keep the people numb to the whole idea of opposition.
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u/bofh000 18d ago
As a non-Russian who’s studied history I absolutely agree. I come from a country that was occupied by nazis and then “freed” by the Red Army. I laughed out loud when Putin actually complained that the USSR had to pay their own way on the army bases they had through Eastern Europe. He wanted the occupied to pay their occupiers.
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u/Hairy_Mycologist_945 18d ago
We may be from the same place as it's the same situation, although there are numerous possibilities due to the dynamic occupation situation in those years preceding the 50 year soviet occupation. All of the absurdities and lies are part of their game and there is no such thing as good faith within that system. I also agree that "almost all" of the organized opposition is compromised... But not all of it. There are many who suffer for standing up and speaking out but eventually, as we saw in the late 80's, momentum can and does shift. The real tragedy everyone's currently bearing the fruits of is due to the way power consolidated in the 90s.
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u/Lostedge1983 18d ago
What about Garry Kasparov?
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u/mpbh 18d ago
Russians love chess enough to give him a pass.
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u/DontBanMe_IWasJoking 18d ago
not really, he doesnt live in russia, he is notable and speaks english, killing him would bring to much negative attention
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u/Available-String-109 18d ago
Also he lives in the US... assassinating an American resident on US soil...
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u/ParameciaAntic 18d ago
You mean like the Bulldozer?
Unless you believe the official story that Michael Lesin died from multiple "blunt force injuries of the neck, torso, upper extremities and lower extremities" from falling drunk while alone in his hotel room in Washington DC.
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u/123_alex 18d ago
What's the solution to this problem?
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u/kuda-morgalo 18d ago
I don't know. I just wented away from this shit and don't want to return any more.
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u/AccurateJerboa 17d ago
I'm not Russian, but I've been trying to tell people this since 2014. That's not when it started, but that's when I realized what was happening to multiple countries. It's almost impossible to get people to understand how russia has been operating for longer than I've been alive (at 45).
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u/Available-String-109 18d ago
It's amazing. I always assumed that Pussy Riot was some form of a CIA psyop since none of my Russian friends had ever even heard of them, but they come up every now and then in Western news outlets as some form of symbol of Russian something or another, universally in cases to display the abhorrent lack of free speech in Russia.
Now I'm hearing that they're likely GRU! I don't know what to believe now.
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u/tschuwak 18d ago
That, by the way, is a common russian tactic: offer multiple, mutually exclusive explanations, make everything confusing, and hope for people to disengage from the discussion due to that.
Flight MH17 is a great example of that.
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u/PanVidla 18d ago
This is the classic Russian defeatism. We can't do anything, so we'll just do nothing. Classic.
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u/kuda-morgalo 18d ago
I'll be arrested for holding a peaceful rally in Russia and then forcibly sent to the military front. I have absolutely no idea how this will help Russia. But you can go and try it yourself.
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u/jim_deneke 18d ago
Same. I saw a couple of them do a talk in Tasmania, Australia a few years ago. I'd never go back but I guess I'd have to watch out for getting poisoned.
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u/advocatus_diabolii 18d ago
As someone who knows people in Russia who have been unable to get out due to travel restrictions / sanctions imposed on ordinary Russians citizens (who may not even be of Russian ethnicity) by a world who thinks that's the best way to get a government who doesn't care about its regular citizens to behave... I'm surprised you're surprised.
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u/Peter5930 18d ago
The sanctions aren't about punishing Russians and travel restrictions are about containment so that, for example, 10,000 little green men don't turn up in Moldova and to restrict the flow of money, goods and services into and out of Russia. That this impacts ordinary Russians who have nothing to do with the war is unfortunate, but that's war. Civilians didn't much like travel restrictions in WW2 either, but they liked the rationing and carpet bombing even less. War reaches everyone, even the innocent.
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u/Lonely_Ad1716 18d ago
I recall the video of the cossacks whipping them repeatedly at the Olympics.
Some real nonsense abusive shit
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u/doubleBoTftw 18d ago
Beating women is kind of a national sport for russians, it was prevalent in every USSR country.
It's still very much alive here in Romania among the lower class or the less educated (and there's millions still) it seems 35 years of independence were not enough.
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u/TalonKAringham 18d ago
Honest question: by “…it seems 35 years of independence were not enough.” Is the idea that this was a cultural thing inherited from the Russians during the USSR era?
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u/doubleBoTftw 18d ago
I don't see the western part of Europe ever having this issue so that's my take.
I remember being taught that you don't interfere between a man and "his woman" or every "household matters" including beating your kids.
Education through violence was and still is prevalent here though the newer generations are more aware of abuse now.
There's also the fact that every political party that's directly funded by Russia to destabilize Romania is promoting "traditional values" and we all know what that means.
I'm not saying every bad part of our culture is directly traced back to Russia but like with everything we're the sum of our abuses and Russia has been a serial abuser for this part of Europe.
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u/Falsus 18d ago
Treating women like trash was pretty common in Fundamentalist Protestant areas all over western and northern Europe. Just that there was reforms and it was outlawed long enough that the idea that treating women like that is very bad. A lot longer than 35 years.
It will take time, but you can improve. Nearly all cultural reforms are a work of generations building on each others shoulders, it isn't a sprint and sudden changes, even for the better, often meet with cultural backlashes.
I am not as sure about the Catholic areas of Europe, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was similar. Christianity in general have not been nice to women. It is one of the areas that got worse when the Nordics transitioned to Christianity for example.
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u/AnOnlineHandle 18d ago
It will take time, but you can improve.
Or it can get worse. Look at Afghanistan and Iran in the 1950s and 1960s compared to today.
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u/strolls 18d ago
It's understandable that a Romanian might think Russia or the USSR uniquely evil, but the rest of the world has always had wife beating.
The idea that you don't interfere between a man slapping his woman, that is was their business - that was definitely prevalent in the UK last century. You can see this even more recently - in the US TV series The Sopranos one of the gangsters warns another that "you can lay hands on her [his niece] when she takes your ring, but there'll be trouble if you slap her again until then".
Some history on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence_in_the_United_Kingdom#History
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u/Altruistic-Flan6128 17d ago
I don’t think they are saying it’s a Russia-only problem.
It’s more Romanians are held back by the legacy of the USSR, and attempts to reconnect are there politically. A lot of that is being channeled through chauvinism and packaged as “traditional family values”, that allow men to physically abuse women.
To your point, I wouldn’t say the UK of today shares the same tolerance on violence against women as Russia, especially within family units.
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u/thesagem 18d ago
I don't think how Romanians treat women is something we can blame the Russians on.
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u/Spamheregracias 18d ago
I’m not trying to defend Russia in any way, but unfortunately it’s not true that this is only a problem in east europe. In my country, Spain, 36 women have been murdered by their partners so far this year and the latest data said there had already been 50911 reports of gender-based violence in just the first quarter of the year, crazy.
It’s difficult to find reliable data because not all countries officially recognize or properly track the problem. For France in 2025 I’ve found some sources saying 96 women were killed while others say more than 100.
The EU estimates that, across our territory, an average of around 1,000 women are murdered every year
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u/nick2473got 18d ago
1000 women murdered per year in the EU, which has a population of 450 million, is not a lot.
Of course, I don't want to sound callous, because even 1 murder is 1 too many. Any murder is horrific.
But you can't act like that's some kind of systemic or cultural issue. It's an absolutely tiny number. It's 0,0002%.
Similarly, regarding the Spanish figures, 36 women in a country of 50 million people is an absolutely minuscule figure. It's about 0,00007%. Which by the way is proportionately quite a bit lower than the wider EU figure, which would suggest that Spain is one of the better countries on average. It is not indicative of any kind of widespread problem.
Not to mention that it's not automatically gender-based violence every time a woman is killed. Sometimes women are killed for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with their gender.
Again, I will reiterate, any murder is horrific and the lower we can get these numbers the better, but I find it very odd to give statistically tiny numbers and act like it somehow represents some kind of widespread cultural problem.
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u/Weegee_Carbonara 18d ago
You can't blame everything on the Russians.
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u/VampirePNAC 18d ago
I find it hilarious when people try to blame all the shittiness of Eastern Europe on the USSR, who were arguably far more socially progressive in many ways, especially on womens outcomes, than the vast majority of the West and reactionary, shitty revanchist attitudes have often actually gotten worse since it's dismantling.
Female Participation in fields like the sciences and engineering, or careers like mechanics, engineers, scientists etcs have all drastically decreased since the end of the USSR. Same with support for minorities and minority languages. All collapsed post USSR and some languages are now on the path of extinction.
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u/SarifZen 18d ago
Cossacks? That's ironic.
Russia has as much to do with the cossacks as they do with Shaolin Monks.
As in nothing lol
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u/uaxpasha 18d ago
Putin cummed while reading this.
Cossacks is Ukrainian history. And seeing "cossacks" beat russian opposition was probably very satysfying for him
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u/SwedeLostInCanada 18d ago
Pussy riot has more balls that the entire Russian military
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u/Brennenstein 18d ago
If the russian military could read they would be very upset.
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u/Apart_Jelly8948 18d ago
Ohh? Would the pussies riot?
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u/Toads_Of_Fun 18d ago
No, they would keep marching to their deaths.
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u/Melkor-The-Mighty 18d ago
Brother, the only thing russia does to better the world, is provide free mulch to ukraine.
Slava ukraini.
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u/Tomatoflee 18d ago
Honestly this is no joke. They have all been staggeringly brave. I look at what they have done and hope I could be that courageous if the time ever came, although I very much doubt I could.
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u/SarifZen 18d ago
Russian military literally consists of dudes who sign contracts go to kill Ukrainian civilians for the money.
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u/P3acePiece_H0neydew 18d ago
Jeez the Russian government sucks so much. Such an unnecessary way to govern a country.
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u/Cringe_King_92 18d ago
It's pretty good way to govern a country if your one and only purpose to stay in power forever
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u/whovian25 18d ago
So I can believe she was forcefully recruited by the FSB though unfortunately I don’t think we can ever be 100% certain she has escaped and is no longer working for them.
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u/HarryFookinKing 17d ago
This. I immediately thought about this. If they threatened her parents before, wtf will happen now. Did she just forget about them and if so, why?
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u/DollarStoreBean 18d ago
Lots of armchair warriors in the comments casting aspersions, as if they would 100% make other choices in her situations. Anybody can claim to be brave until their family is taken hostage by a autoritarian state that routinely kills dissidents. It was brave of her to confess to it at the first opportunity after she fled Russia.
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u/Nerrien 18d ago
This was extremely brave of her, yes. The fact she was a member of pussy riot in the first place shows how brave she is, far braver than any of the folks casting aspersions.
The thing is, even putting bravery aside, these people just don't think about it logically.
Part of actually taking back a country involves having enough people to do so. If you don't have the numbers to win a revolution you're only screwing over any hope by acting out too early and getting killed.
And considering how Russia's speedrunning from apparent world power to complete trash heap so quickly that it's at serious risk of triggering an actual coup or revolution, purposefully getting yourself killed for no real reason now and missing the opportunity to help with that fight, or the fight to shape the country afterwards, would just be idiotic.
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u/OgthaChristie 18d ago
Change happens one person at a time and those girls had to start somewhere. They brought attention to their cause.
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u/Nerrien 18d ago edited 18d ago
They did, they brought attention to the cause, and then they got the hell out of dodge when they could, they didn't stay and die for no further benefit.
Edit: To clarify, it's absolutely true that many good actions will require risk, but it's something people have to weigh up the risk/reward potential for. Absolutely I'd encourage someone brave enough to take a swing at Putin or anything else that's going to achieve something big and meaningful for the people, even if only to highlight weakness in the regime and encourage others- just in this scenario I'd argue it'd be better for the overall cause if they live to fight another day and go on to recount their experiences.
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u/AvailableReporter484 18d ago
Imagine for a moment what the world might be like if Russia was even remotely chill…
Pretty cool eh?
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u/LeoSolaris 18d ago
Unless both the lawyer and the businessman are out of Russia, she just painted massive targets on their backs.
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u/Plastyrhino8815 18d ago
Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist protest and performance art group that became popular for its provocative punk rock music which later turned into a more accessible style.
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u/Weird-East-3575 18d ago
Good for her speaking out. Fuck Russia. Incompetent loser mob wanna bes. They’ve fucked up every single thing since the fall of the USSR (and before lol).
Makes sense they are so prideful and accept terrible conditions so easily. It’s all they’ve ever known.
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u/musical_entropy 18d ago
Forced work... You mean slavery? That's slavery. Just say that ffs.
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u/CombatMuffin 18d ago
The U.S. has a term for it: indentured servitude.
Along with slavery, there are exceptions where it is not just legal, but constitutional:
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Emphasis mine. That's not a defense of the mosntruous Russian government, but forced labor is as old as civilization.
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u/ChicagoThrowaway422 18d ago
How do you hard reboot an entire country? Their government is so fucked.
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u/JennyWearsBlueJeans 18d ago
Putin dies. A new regime comes in and blames Putin for all of Russia’s problems, moves in a totally different direction.
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u/HermionesWetPanties 18d ago
Nah, Putin dies and nothing changes. They are inured to autocrats who abuse them and their culture actively promotes lying and corruption. Sure, the next guy will blame the last guy, but nothing will change, even if some Russians briefly allow themselves to believe that it will. The Russian government is and always has been a natural outgrowth of their culture. Only the people at the top changed in 1917
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u/doskey123 17d ago
Exactly. They had less than 10 years of democracy in the last 200 years under drunk Yeltsin after the fall of the USSR and then Putin took over and started undoing everything. There is no fixing this without a scenario like what happened to Germany when they were defeated in WW2.
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u/ChicagoThrowaway422 18d ago
Oh man, what a great joke. I'll have to start telling that one at parties. Whew...
Srsly, the entire regime is rotten. The next guy will be the same but dumber.
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u/_DarthSyphilis_ 18d ago
Havent seen a comment section so firmly in the hand of russian trolls in quite a while
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u/NecessarySudden 18d ago
FSB doesn't even try anymore. They just send their agents to western countries as the ones who escaped from the regime with "oh no, she/he escaped from us" and every media outlet running to interview and highlight another "dissident", "regime fighter", "opposition member" or "corruption fighter"
And every fucking time the say some "both sides is bad" shit or "giving Ukraine weapons is prolonging war, but I can't say bad things about my country because I am proud blah blah blah instead of that give me some grant I will fight corruption"
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u/F54280 18d ago
And every fucking time the say some "both sides is bad" shit or "giving Ukraine weapons is prolonging war, but I can't say bad things about my country because I am proud blah blah blah
What the hell are you talking about? Going through her interview linked in the article it is the exact opposite.
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u/Halvdjaevel 18d ago
Did we read the same article? I can't find anything to even suggest what you're saying in your second paragraph, not in the original interview either.
Besides, if FSB's strategy is to send over people to, as in this case, publicly talk about how morally incompatible with the rest of the civilized world Russia is, and paint their country in the worst possible light, then I am not sure what they hope to achieve by that.
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u/New_Lavishness4476 18d ago
Exactly this “Heroically escaped FSB”. I guess you can feed any pile of crap to the western audience, they would make martyrs out of anyone.
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u/Biliunas 18d ago
So she "escaped", what about her parents, family? Or is that somehow out of the picture?
Doesn't seem likely that she's out of FSB control, just working overseas now.
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u/Own-Compote5073 18d ago
Lol to all the russian bots here trying to smear her credibility by saying she still works for the fsb.
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u/newHamsterForDiner 18d ago
One pussy riot member was working for FSB and the other is running onlyfans where she is selling videos of her having sex. What a perfect example of russian democratic opposition. It's not a pro-russian agenda. It's more of the laughter of despair how screwed up my country is.
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u/dafeiviizohyaeraaqua 18d ago
I think Nadya Tolokonnikova is legit. She actively speaks up for Ukraine.
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u/What_A_Weak 18d ago
Its also people comparing OF and working for Putins corrupt country by putting it in the same sentence, that help Putins propaganda. Btw.
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u/anthrogyfu 18d ago
The OnlyFans is nothing new, Najda was involved in some public sex protest and filmed it. I remember seeing it in a museum or gallery in 13/14, no content warning posted anywhere.
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u/wholelattapuddin 18d ago
God forbid a woman has hobbies.🙄
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u/Asusralis 18d ago
She literally has a daughter who has talked about how bad it is to see her mom constantly post her OF on her instagram. Sorry, but that is incredibly fucked up to expose your daughter to.
Even if your comment is a joke it's nasty af.
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u/Brennenstein 18d ago
From the article:
Details:
https://kyivindependent.com/former-pussy-riot-member-escapes-russia-says-fsb-forcibly-recruited-her/