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People are being fined on an almost daily basis, mainly under the law on 'bringing the army into disrepute.
On January, 15, proceedings were initiated for "Bringing the army into disrepute" against the DJ of a bar in Tula who played a Ukrainian song during Vladimir Putin's New Year's Eve message.
On January 20, a truck driver from Chuvashia, on the left bank of the Volga, was fined 30,000 rubles for bringing the army into disrepute after having marked as "Interesting" two videos, one of which was about "The truth about the Ukrainian bombardment of the Donbass over the past eight years," on the Odnoklassniki social media platform.


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Wow! He marked a video as “interesting”… GUILTY
That is nuts >

That's living in an autocracy. People on this site aren't quite getting what that entails and HOW restrictive it is. >

Wargasm is the only permitted way to express yourself. >

A 17 year old Russian was recently jailed as a terrorist for antiwar remarks he said in SCHOOL >

Russians with conscience are really risking their lives under Putin's autocratic rule.  At the least those arrested will spend time in jail and then released.  Some may end up even worse by "disappearing" after arrest never to reappear in public. >

Very possible some people will disappear from jail as well and magically reappear as cannon fodder on the front lines. >

The beatings will continue until moral improves… >

I came here looking for this. >

You looked hard and were well rewarded. >

Reminds me of the uses of the Espionage Act in the United States. Similar idea; it was weaponized to punish speaking out against war. Not to mention the whole thing with the Pentagon Papers. >

Yes, yes. Everyone's evil. We know already. >

The best thing opposition in Russia can do is to donate to Ukraine and gulagunet if possible. Leaving Russia is the best option, but not many can do it nowadays >

I mean revolution is great, but we tried back in 2012. I was a minor back in the day and police beat my ass. If you go protesting on the streets today you will face fines which you will be paying the rest of your life if you do not have a decent job while asking for donations to cover it is fucking stupid when you can save this money to help Ukraine beat the shit out of Putin's army. If you repeat and try to protest again you will go to jail and your family will slowly die in poverty. There are still people protesting, burning military offices. Yes, they are brave indeed, but it is not wise in my opinion. You cannot fight tyranny using its own methods >

Volunteer to military. Get a gun. Return to Russia. Entire opposition could arm themselves this way. It is like filling the ranks with sleeper agents. There is always a way to duke it out with king Putin. What are homos or omon or w/e they are called going to do if red square is painted with their blood? More importantly how is Putin going to keep his head attached to his body?
Moral of this little story is that Russians willingly gave away their rights, so clearly protests ain't going to work. Civil war is your only option or possibly escalating the war to the point that Russian cities start to get bombed as well, this way elites might choose to get rid of Putin themselves. Either way, options are there, but I reckon Russians love BDSM too much and thus more painful journey will be picked where they just lose more rights and back to North Korea they go. >

When I was a kid I was a member of Russian Anti-Fascist Action move. Do you know about "Network" case? All it takes is one FSB agent to fuck up any plan like this. Moreover, nobody will become a part of it after what agents did with radical opposition. Right wing became a part of govt's plan overtime and eventually ended as their obedient pets (as it turned out later they were a cattle to slaughter), Limonov was Kremlin's puppet, Martsinkevich became one and got killed in prison. Left wing? Markelov and Baburova were killed. Kalin (one of the Fair Elections Movement organizers) killed and many others from left wing opposition were either killed or sentenced via fake "protest" chats on VK and TG. My friends are rotting in prison and I could be one of them, but I left earlier and moved to Poland in 2013. I do wish it was this simple, but I am no longer a kid living in a magic world where you can become a Super Che Guevara out of the blue and solve everything with your bare hands. My grand dad was repressed by soviets during Holodomor 6 fucking times and was forced to move from Western Ukraine to Siberia where he died. I am a child of this prison country and I've been trying to change it all my damn life from both inside and outside. The only thing you are right about is that the only solution is civil war. This country only understands blood and sea of ​​blood is not enough to change anything, it always needs a few oceans unfortunately >


All it takes is one FSB agent to fuck up any plan like this.

That is why terrorists use cells. You can't combat cells, but you would need leaders in that case. Not singular leader, but many and that is the problem - Russia has no leaders in the opposition. Some singular politically ambitious person might show up every once awhile but they'll just get RIP in peace'd and since there is only one it is easy mode for the Kremlin. >

All Russian opposition leaders are either dead or in prison. Terrorism has nothing to do with opposition and patriotism. The last tsar was killed with red terror. USSR remains were burnt with white house. Each time government was ready to change from the inside yet destroyed and swallowed by another tyranny under social mask first and democratic one afterwards. There are still good people in Russian government, but they are less than 10% and completely destroying it will not change anything in a long term as history proved. Political prisoners must be released, real elections are needed and current government has to remain to take a part in it except those who support this war. This is the only way Russia can become an actual democratic state. But this pill is too hard to swallow for those people who separate politics as "good" and "bad" >

Russians need to figure something out. They're either going to meaningfully resist in their communities or they'll find themselves in cattle cars to Ukraine. >

The choice is "do we do nothing, or do we do something."
The nature of the "something" no longer matters.  Which is a critical point, as those who would normally just use a sign and complain on the street can no longer do so without the same punishment as someone who actually shot at an officer or FSB member or politician.  
It is at such a point that higher ups will start dying, if they still have any semblance of proper civilization left. >

You got that right, it's an unenviable position for them. Like so many before, Maidan comes to mind, or Iran today. >

Putin has come this far. Might as well go the full 9. >

Anyone pro Russia have been punished for being pro Russia. >

Continue punishing until morale increases >

Didn’t the same thing happen in the USA during Vietnam? >

No. >

The national guard literally shot anti-war protesters >

Better to fight the leader that sends you to certain death than face certain death. >

If they could, redditors would do the same.