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Paradoxically, I would say that Dugin is probably more influential abroad than in Russia. He did actually have a debate with none other than Bernard-Henri Lévy (and I saw English-language comments supporting him), and surprisingly to me, my colleague from Brazil told me that he is (at least was back in 2019) quite popular in her country.
But ask a Russian, and he'll most likely tell you that Dugin is a village idiot, and IMO, most serious Russian philosophers wouldn't share a table with him.
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@Molson_Hart An insightful take as usual, Molson. One thing though: please don't repeat p's ppnda that Navalny considered asians cockroaches or was racist.
Judge for yourself: YouTube's "Народ за легализацию оружия" is the main "evidence".
Given what Navalny stood for, it's just not right
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Russia has, for at least 100 years, been a battle between its White Russian majority ethnic group and race-blobism.
Contrary to how he’s portrayed, Putin is not Hitler. He’s the opposite. Look at his cabinet. They’re Armenian, they’re Jewish, they’re German, they’re whatever Shoigu is.
Same thing with their war propaganda. It’s all these ethnicities that most westerners have never heard of, under Russia.
Putin himself, if you just look at him, is not 100% pure White Russian.
Russia and the Soviet Union before it is a multiethnic state that is much more similar to the United States than Japan or the Koreas.
Look at that Navalny guy. He had a stellar reputation in the west. He was White Russian along with his wife and they looked it too. He also called central Asians cockroaches.
The Tsar who was deposed had politics more similar to Navalny than to UsSR or today’s Russia.
Disclaimer: I don’t speak Russian and while I’ve been there I wasn’t there for long. I also don’t really trust generally accepted history and don’t think anyone should either

Carlos That Notices Things@QuetzalPhoenix
Were Russians always like this or did the Soviet Union actually break them?
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In 1920, over 100 million people were surveyed across Soviet-controlled territories. The literacy rates the Bolsheviks found completely contradicted the narrative they were building.
The numbers are telling. Among people aged 16 to 50 in the European part of the RSFSR, about 73% of men could read and write. In cities, almost 90%. In rural areas, around two thirds.


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@girl_honne_labo What's Nikkey? Besides the Japanese stock exchange index
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@predict_addict Is CQF actually useful? I've seen it regarded as a useless especially with fees totalling at 25K USD.
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@FischerKing64 We must WITHHOLD sex from women, until the pussy exchange rate re-normalises.
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@omegababu_ If you're a lady, be/look approachable and be at places where it's easier to approach, i.e. bars, cafés, etc. not gym -- most guys hesitate. Also give a person you liked a hint. Easy as that. Just a look or smile.
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@manic_posting Honestly, in 4 years of living in Paris, I hadn't had a bad experience due to my B2 French.
Though there was a funny bit once, leaving the squash court I asked "Est-ce que c'est le sortie de secours?" and they guy kept replying "mais quel cours?"
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@manic_posting There was only one door so I was afraid it was "alarm will sound" doors. I even spelled "secours" to him, but it didn't help.
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@GabeZZOZZ Olga comes from Helga, so they're just trying to make it different, which is silly. They also initially changed haut couture -> от кутюр into від кутюр. As far as I know they're the only country where Alexandre doesn't start w/ an A.
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Everything sounds retarded in Ukrainian

Андрій Садовий@AndriySadovyi
It’s CHORNOBYL. Not “Chernobyl”. 40 years later, words still matter.
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@nana4_na_ So what's the deal here, it's an AI-generated lady or heavily re-touched with some bait tweets for clicks?
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@cemk_cemil You're literally a Turk. Your country wasn't supposed to exist by the end of WW1.
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Russia must be dismantled. Demilitarized, denuclearized and disintegrated into dozens of independent post-Russian states with their own unique national and regional identities that disavow the "Russian" past.
Learn their names: Ingria, Novgorod Republic, Pskov Republic, Smolensk Republic, Don Republic, Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Chuvashia, Ural Republic, Siberian Republic, Yakutia, Buryatia, Tuva, Far-Eastern Republic and more...
The inhabitants of what is today "Russian Federation" and its citizens abroad should never be accepted into the family of nations as "Russians". But they will be welcomed into this family as Ingrians, Novgorodians, Pskovians, Chechens, Tatars, Bashkorts, Uralians, Siberians, Yakuts and others...
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn@GunterFehlinger
Russia is not Europe... But I offer all 41 ExRussian states a future with us after the break up and dePutinification
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@lepeseypetr How beautiful! Ukranian is almost melodic, singing. There was a poll that it was the second most beautiful language in terms of sound, after Italian.
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@nastasiaKlimash Yes, I think we should up the VAT by 10% in all EU countries, so that these funds were to be transferred to the Ukrainian Army.
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