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What? Please release me let me go from this ethnocrapism. If I wasn't told from birth I was Irish, I wouldn't have known it. Talk about Imagined Communities. For crying out loud we all eat, fuck and sing ...

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Given the lack of direct communication, I offer this semi-tangential note:

from a recent interview w/ N. Khrushcheva:

Diana Arbenina and her rock band, the Night Snipers, [see her YT page] had their concerts canceled in some cities over their criticism of the war, Arbenina spoke out, telling an audience in Chelyabinsk that, though she had been warned to stay silent about the “lawless” bans, she would not obey – and her fans should not obey, either. The crowd cheered, and the show continued; the police did not dare intervene.

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A recent Proekt media investigation calculated that since 2018, when Putin’s current term began, almost 6,000 criminal cases against Russian citizens qualify as political repression. For comparison, in 1956-85 – from the post-Stalin years to the beginning of Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika – there were about 8,000 in total. The harder the Kremlin tries to stave off rebellion, the more likely rebellion becomes.

Unfortunately this interview is tollboothed. I asked for a 'gift' sub. We shall see if one appears.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/an-interview-with-nina-khrushcheva-navalny-putin-russian-elections-2024-03

Replies? Discussion of the Night Snipers? What a great name.

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Hm. One would think this quote would be fairly big news, but crickets from the bourgeois media, same as what happened with that poor guy who lit himself on fire this past Sunday outside the Israeli embassy in Washington: the elites are really in lock-step on this one.

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Hes said it a bunch of times before too

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