Russia and NATO Agree On One Thing: Jailing Dissidents
Two Minutes Hate: Russia & NATO allies jailing protestors for war dissent is the correct way to silence traitors. Cease-fire? Big Brother forbids it! pic.twitter.com/5KZyOs4oFp
— Orwell (parody) (@goodthink1984) September 11, 2024
Russia and its enemies to the West. Two rivals separated by an intractable and irreconcilable hatred. Disputes over Ukrainian land, treasure, and blood ensure they will never see eye-to-eye. Except, of course, in how they treat citizens who protest against the war. Jail!
Russia imprisoned a municipal councilman for speaking out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in the very motherland on which he stood! Latvia, a Ukraine-supporting NATO member, jailed an activist for flying a Soviet flag and antagonizing people at pro-Ukraine protests. This is the correct and only punishment for not blindly supporting the ideas put forth by their respective governments.
Traitors who violate allegiance to Big Brother with their free speech-isms and unwelcome opinions disrupt the righteous order of the world. That’s universal. Let’s just hope this fleeting moment doesn’t lead to a friendship or — BB forbid — talks of a cease-fire. Don't worry, with billions of dollars invested on each side of this conflict, it's not likely to end well or soon.
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- Latvian activist Jelena Kreile was sentenced to three years in jail last month for publicly displaying Russian and Soviet Union flags. Kreile was given a one-year suspended sentence last year on similar charges.
- Besides displaying the flags outside her home, Kreile was accused of carrying a bag with a large letter “Z” on it, which is allegedly a sign of support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
- Also last month, a councilman from Russia’s Krasnoselsky municipality, Alexei Gorinov, was given seven years in jail for spreading “knowingly false information” about the Russian military.
- Gorinov is now the first Russian elected official to go to prison under a wartime law passed just after the invasion.
- Ukraine has also jailed anti-war activists, including Chilean-American commentator Gonzalo Lira, who spent eight months in prison on charges of "production and dissemination of materials justifying Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine." He later died in a Ukrainian hospital.
Sources: AP, The Grayzone, Moscow Times, and Radio Free Europe.
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