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horsefacts
@horsefacts.eth
Curious to hear takes on Pavel Durov and TG from actual Russians. Personally not a fan of the Russian government but have come to realize how much US media is garbage when it comes to Russia. (Always has been)
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
You can find takes from some Russian opposition figures on twitter, eg. here's one from Ilya Yashin, who just got released from long-time imprisonment in the recent swap: https://x.com/IlyaYashin/status/1828096352275857683
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wijuwiju.eth
@wijuwiju.eth
Yeah unfortunately once Soviet Union collapsed, US never dissolved the institutions in place to fight against us, partially explains why we are where we are at today. TG is mainstream in Russia, most people I know, in tech and cities love and respect Durov for building something so awesome against the odds twice (VK and tg), few believe or hope Durov and tg is greatest FSB success story in current world of confrontation (i.e designed Lebedev). There is also an awesome movie Mayor Grom where Durov is the main antagonist (highly recommend to watch). Russian libertarians i.e Svetov are all pro tg, they were the ones who organised huge meetings back in 2017 when tg was getting banned in Russia, which I attended. Albeit there is an alternative explanation that ban was staged to create alibi during SEC fillings (Illarionov theory/conspiracy I think). I would say it’s not all white and black, tg is the biggest social network among the progressives, everyone uses channels to obtain information.
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silly goose
@lovejoy
was going to wrap up my thoughts on that tonight, but wijuwiju already had done it much better than i ever would. so, aside from that, media is always garbage, they always try to instill what we “should” feel. the major reason why i started searching for foreign connections when i was 15yo was that it struck me one day that i had prejudice towards americans and germans.. although i was always perceiving everything with a clear mind (as i thought). was just watching the news on tv 🥲
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Gramajo👽
@gramajo.eth
https://t.me/golden_borodutch also a FC user
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