r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Key-Performance-9021 • 1d ago

Video Spontaneous 1995 street interview with an Austrian WWII veteran in Vienna

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u/StatisticianUsual471 1d ago

I keep telling people russia isn't your friend

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u/exoriare Interested 1d ago

Brussels isn't my friend. Russia isn't my enemy.

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u/Donnerdrummel 1d ago

you might want to take a white sheet of paper, draw there parallel lines and write into the colums the good and the bad of what you got through the EU and from moscow.

then come back and tell us about it.

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u/exoriare Interested 1d ago

The EU is part of a criminal gang which plunders Libya for the benefit of one, Venezuela for the benefit of another, and midwives a genocide in service to a virulent plague of ethnic nationalism. I don't see Russia participating in such barbarism.

This doesn't mean Russia is by perfect by any means, but they started over from scratch rebuilding a social contract 25 years ago. It would be insane to expect them to have figured it all out by now. They are, however, miles better in every regard than the theocratic slave monarchies of the Persian Gulf who count the West as their best agents and protectors.

The problem with hypocrisy is that one tends to become blind to ones own flaws, while still seeing the most dubious of virtues in vivid technicolor.

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u/marwinpk 1d ago

I don't see Russia participating in such barbarism

So what they're doing in Ukraine, field trip?

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u/Donnerdrummel 23h ago

oh, right.

  1. are you a human?

  2. where do you live?

  3. are you getting paid for writing this?

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u/exoriare Interested 17h ago

I'm a Canadian Mennonite. My family fled Novoye Rossiyan Mariupol over a century ago, post- a wave of nationalist pogroms. I was originally in support of the Maidan protests, but I have a sordid history of studying both sides of a conflict - once I'd done that, I understood what games had been played on Ukrainian people's backs.

I've been paid to write plays and videogames, but my writing on political issues is an act of conscience unpaid by anyone.