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Related: About this forum"We Had Enough": Siberia Wants Independence From Russia. Breaking Point Reached - The Russian Dude
Two young Siberians risked everything in October 2022rowing 300 miles across the deadly Bering Sea in a tiny boatjust to escape Putins draft. Why? Because drowning in icy waves was safer than being shipped to Ukraine as cannon fodder. Their desperate journey exposes a much deeper story: centuries of Moscow exploiting Siberia and its people, from tsars to commissars to Putin. For 500 years, Siberia has been Russias sacrificial groundstripped of resources, crushed by forced recruitment, and silenced by propaganda. Today, the Kremlin still treats Siberians as disposable bodies, lured by false promises or dragged into the trenches. This video uncovers the brutal truth about Russias empire of exploitation, why Siberians are reaching a breaking point, and how two men in a rowboat became a symbol of resistance against Putins illusion of greatness.
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"We Had Enough": Siberia Wants Independence From Russia. Breaking Point Reached - The Russian Dude (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
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FakeNoose
(38,502 posts)1. K & R This is worthwhile for the background info on Russian-Siberian history
... and the guy has an engaging style, while making some very good points. The people of Siberia have been exploited for hundreds of years only because they've had no way to protest the rule by Russia. Most of them do not support the war in Ukraine, and they have no desire to be drafted to fight in it.
LiberalArkie
(18,866 posts)2. And keeps the city kids in Moscow and St Petersburg safe from the draft. City kids have all the perks, clubs
and nice homes and the Siberian, well as was seen early in the war, discovered indoor toilets and plumbing. They were even amazed at paved roads in the rural areas.
Gum Logger
(212 posts)3. The same thing happens on this side of the Pacific
The colonial master race rules Turtle Island with an iron grip