Is this wrong?
punkdoc
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Like most moderately sane people, I hate war.
However during the last few days, I have found myself cheering, when I hear the news of Ukrainians retaking territory.
However during the last few days, I have found myself cheering, when I hear the news of Ukrainians retaking territory.
How can you lie there and think of England
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
we have extended family and friends who are Russian ... some in the UK, some with family in Russia and some who are of Russian descent but who were living in Kharkiv when Putin invaded.
The family in Russia believe Putin ... they say he's never lied to them before so why would he do so now? One of them, a successful businesswoman, has lost all her money ... it's worth nothing ... she blames the West because that's what she's been told. Her daughter in the UK is furious with Putin and what he has done but cannot convince her mother of the truth and they're hardly speaking to each other at the moment.
The family who lived in Ukraine are educated and were comfortably off ... they're retired. .. they've lost their home and everything they owned in the horrific bombing of Kharkiv ... they've just managed to join their son and his family who live and work in central London ... they came with nothing but the clothes they were wearing. They supported Putin until he annexed the eastern region ... they say that resulted in an anti-Russian feeling in Ukraine ... Putin manipulated and exploited this, portraying it in Russia as western fascism in order to justify the invasion ... but had no real comprehension of the determination of the Ukrainian people to maintain their own identity. So although they feel Russian they hate Putin ...
Tragic doesn't even begin to describe what's going on ...........
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I went round to my friend's a couple of nights ago to help her fill in the sponsorship form on govuk site (moral support rather than expert knowledge, I think); I have never seen anything so complicated and obviously designed to prevent people coming. How people would be expected to fill it in from a war torn country I have no idea 😠
Horrifying to think of how brainwashed the Russian people are, and how censored their information must be, that they cannot or will take it into their own hands to remove the person who is destroying their country’s economy and credibility.