On Tuesday, April 5, 2022 at 6:21:19 PM UTC-5, danny burstein wrote:   
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   > Terrific reader submission (an "op ed", so to speak)    
   > in Al Jazeera. Yeah, them.    
   >    
   > Don't hold that against the substance.    
   >    
   > Take a moment and read:    
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   > We cannot talk to our mothers because of Russian propaganda    
   >    
   > The war in Ukraine has not yet reached Belarus, but it has already drawn a    
   > wedge between those of us abroad and our mothers back home.    
   > .....    
   > "I know what's going on in Ukraine," she retorted. "Use your brain, Russians    
   > don't kill civilians," said my mother, an ethnic Russian. "Who did it then?"    
   > I exclaimed in disbelief. "The Ukrainian fascists, nazis," she said. She    
   > pronounced the word "nazi-ki", as popularised by talk shows that made my    
   > stomach turn. "Armed Ukrainian hooligans took Irpin hostage," she said.    
   > "They shot the residents who wanted to leave!" The story told by my mother    
   > sounded surreal, but to her, it was the truth. Because my mother gets her    
   > news from Russian TV channels and Facebook.    
      
   "A 2017 poll found that 47 percent of Russians approved of Joseph Stalin’s   
   character and “managerial skills.” " https://www.theatlantic   
   com/science/archive/2017/12/trofim-lysenko-soviet-union-russia/548786/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)