Dutch news outlets are coming forward saying the elections are rigged and people were forced (sometimes at gunpoint) to vote in favor of Russia.
Also the number of the population was somehow rigged or something.
What are your thoughts and sources on this? Lot of libs keep throwing it in my face because it’s the state media that reports it.
To add to this I also have to be very critical about the homophobic and transphobic shit of Putin’s speech. I think we would all like to keep the critical in critical support.
Yeah Putin says some cringy shit that we absolutely do not support. But he also said some things that were really spot on about how the west has looted the global south and relied on Russian energy and resources and Chinese manufacturing to prop up its own failing economy since the 1980s.
As usual a mixed bag with this Russian government, but then you can say the same about the Taliban, definitely some very distasteful people and views there but they still kicked the US’ ass and China is working with them to integrate Afghanistan into the Eurasian connectivity and development network.
We have to look at these things dialectically. A government can be at the same time a progressive force in international geopolitics and reactionary in their domestic politics. They can be economically progressive but socially regressive like Iran. Stalin spoke a little about this in “Principles of Leninism”.
Yes you are correct. I think I was mainly trying to raise awareness that he had said this as I had not seen it posted anywhere here (maybe I missed it).
There is thread on top the active about Putin’s speech.