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Europe and the US have no moral high ground when it comes to the justice system being used against political opponents.



Anna Politkovskaya – Investigative journalist and critic of the Chechen war, shot in Moscow (2006).

Alexander Litvinenko – Ex-FSB officer poisoned with polonium in London (2006).

Stanislav Markelov & Anastasia Baburova – Human rights lawyer and journalist, shot in Moscow (2009).

Boris Nemtsov – Opposition leader, shot near the Kremlin (2015).

Denis Voronenkov – Former Russian MP, shot in Kyiv (2017).

Nikolai Andrushchenko – Journalist, beaten to death in St. Petersburg (2017).

Alexei Navalny – Opposition leader, died in prison after previous poisoning (2024).

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Maybe Europe isn't perfect, but the Russian morals are so low that no effort is requried to be better than them.


Bah, that’s the real freedom, comrade. Freedom to kill opposition. How can you call yourself “free” if you can’t freely put polonium in your opponents chai?


The end result is not much better. Only the candidates with the right positions get to hold power.


If brutally murdering political opponents and terrorizing own population to uphold the regime doesn't matter to you then we have different values.


How many political opponents in the EU and US died by falling out of windows or getting poisened?




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