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TexasTowelie

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Fri Sep 5, 2025, 06:12 AM Friday

"We Had Enough": Siberia Wants Independence From Russia. Breaking Point Reached - The Russian Dude [View all]



Two young Siberians risked everything in October 2022—rowing 300 miles across the deadly Bering Sea in a tiny boat—just to escape Putin’s 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 Russia’s sacrificial ground—stripped 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 Russia’s empire of exploitation, why Siberians are reaching a breaking point, and how two men in a rowboat became a symbol of resistance against Putin’s illusion of greatness.
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