It seems I'm starting to understand. You're one of those who think that everything in Russia is bad and the people are suffering under their ruler? Believe me, Russians will experience great sorrow and fear when someone else replaces Putin. As a ruler, you’re unlikely to find such a successful candidate. Look at how Russia has risen economically under his leadership, how the standard of living for Russians has improved, the minimum wages... You live in some kind of information bubble.
Even I, as a Ukrainian, would vote for him, so why do you doubt that his own people would want something different? Unlike Ukrainians, dissatisfied Russians have the opportunity to leave their country, but I do not. I am wanted, and according to Zelensky, I am supposed to die fighting Putin, who has never personally wished me any harm!
It is continuosly (and most willingly) ignored in the west, 26 or so years of history.
I don't care if eventually the people like or dislike the dictator, I just believe democracy is morally superior because it allows the people to remove the leaders. And mortality is everything in this life, don't you think?
So in Russia there is now much more democracy than in Ukraine
I am not asking exactly now, because Ukraine is fighting for it existence. I am asking about the pre war situation. Putin is more democratic than Zelensky?
Starting from the 2014, people here are oppressed on the basis of language! here they burned dissidents alive with impunity! (Odessa May 2)
but even now you can google restaurants serving Ukrainian cuisine in Moscow, or find schools teaching subjects in Ukrainian.
What you think about?
Upd
According to data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other international organizations, since the beginning of the conflict in eastern Ukraine in 2014 and especially after the escalation of the situation in 2022, a significant number of Ukrainian citizens have relocated to Russia. Official figures vary, but estimates suggest that by 2023, several million Ukrainian refugees had arrived in Russia.
For example, Russian authorities reported that by the end of 2022, over 2.8 million people had entered the country. However, exact numbers may differ depending on the source and methodology used for counting. UNHCR also notes that many Ukrainians are displaced within the country or have left for other states, including EU countries.
Would you prefer a dictatorship under Putin?
Only those who pay bribes can move around here freely! Or if you're a soldier, a police officer, an official, a media worker, or a circus performer... !!!
Ordinary people are caught, and if you don’t have $1K–5K for a bribe, then regardless of your family status or health condition, you’ll end up in a trench on the front lines under Russian bombs—whether you want it or not, whether you’re ready for it or not.
And if you become disabled, your benefit will be around $60 a month. All treatment falls on the shoulders of volunteers...
You simply can’t imagine the level of hell that’s here right now.
absolute lawlessness, corruption and banditry at the state level!
That is why you trust more and prefers Putins regime?
Did you have telegram?
Can see yourself! https://t.me/ukr_narod_opir
Upd:
You would first better become more deeply familiar with the content of my blog before entering into discussions on the side of Bandera and the Nazis.
soon you will see the whole truth even on your “TV”(press)
I don't.
I’m ready to give any money to exchange Ukrainian democracy for Putin’s “dictatorship!”))) but dictator Zelensky deprived me of such opportunities. I can’t even go to work safely, because they’ll steal me and take me to a trench🤬
So your morality derives from your personal interests? That is why you prefer Putin than Zelensky?