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FreddieUK · 70-79, M
Putin did the same. Anyone who describes the invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent military action as a war goes to prison. If it looks like a duck...
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
//www.npr.org/2022/03/05/1084729579/russian-law-bans-journalists-from-calling-ukraine-conflict-a-war-or-an-invasion
Try again.
Try again.
emiliya · 26-30, F
@FreddieUK That is four years old. Four years is only one year from half a decade.
Things have changed. Every one in Russia knows it is a war, and can call it that. You see military operation in news but you can call it war. What you can't do is talk nonsense. You are British, you also don't get to say what you want. Some people are arrested for saying garbage about their nation, others are arrested for being racist. Which one do you prefer?
Things have changed. Every one in Russia knows it is a war, and can call it that. You see military operation in news but you can call it war. What you can't do is talk nonsense. You are British, you also don't get to say what you want. Some people are arrested for saying garbage about their nation, others are arrested for being racist. Which one do you prefer?
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
@emiliya Oh, I'm happy for racists to be arrested when they open their mouths in public. Every day there are TV and radio programmes and satirical magazines mocking the government. It's normal for us to disparage our own country: ReformUK and the Conservatives have made it an art form.
So enough people have woken up to the fact that they are at war to make arresting them all a waste of time? But journalists are still not allowed to call the duck a duck. just a water fowl of indeterminate nomenclature. I assume all consumers of Russian TV are aware of this dichotomy.
You don't know what I want and therefore what say I have in getting it.
You see military operation in news but you can call it war.
So enough people have woken up to the fact that they are at war to make arresting them all a waste of time? But journalists are still not allowed to call the duck a duck. just a water fowl of indeterminate nomenclature. I assume all consumers of Russian TV are aware of this dichotomy.
You are British, you also don't get to say what you want.
You don't know what I want and therefore what say I have in getting it.





