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The Russians Fleeing Putin’s Wartime Crackdown...
Resisters are leaving Russia because the country they worked to build is disappearing—and the more people who leave, the faster it vanishes.
Some of the conversations—about elderly parents who couldn’t make the journey, or teen-age children forced to separate from their first loves—were familiar to me from the nineteen-seventies, when a small number of people, mostly Jews, were able to leave the U.S.S.R. But this was different. The old Russian émigrés were moving toward a vision of a better life; the new ones were running from a crushing darkness. “It’s like watching everyone you know turn into a ghost of themselves,” a friend, Ilya Venyavkin, said.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/28/the-russians-fleeing-putins-wartime-crackdown
we're definitely witnessing the existing world order morph into god knows what, Putin is not only leveling Ukraine he's disassembling Russia, economically and culturally destroying it
and this is brain-drain on steroids, obviously the educated and intelligent Russians don't want another USSR replete with secret police and bread lines, Putin really fucked up this time
I predict he gets assassinated before early April at the latest
Resisters are leaving Russia because the country they worked to build is disappearing—and the more people who leave, the faster it vanishes.
Some of the conversations—about elderly parents who couldn’t make the journey, or teen-age children forced to separate from their first loves—were familiar to me from the nineteen-seventies, when a small number of people, mostly Jews, were able to leave the U.S.S.R. But this was different. The old Russian émigrés were moving toward a vision of a better life; the new ones were running from a crushing darkness. “It’s like watching everyone you know turn into a ghost of themselves,” a friend, Ilya Venyavkin, said.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/28/the-russians-fleeing-putins-wartime-crackdown
we're definitely witnessing the existing world order morph into god knows what, Putin is not only leveling Ukraine he's disassembling Russia, economically and culturally destroying it
and this is brain-drain on steroids, obviously the educated and intelligent Russians don't want another USSR replete with secret police and bread lines, Putin really fucked up this time
I predict he gets assassinated before early April at the latest
