> I didn’t want to be someone who decided to stay in Germany of 1935.
What are you referring to exactly ?
What are you referring to exactly ?
Now I totally see which aspects of 1935 in Germany parent has in mind when thinking about contemporary Russia.
I can see how Sarah Kirsch's birth was a foretelling sign for things to come.
Totally helping, totally awesome.
"Because Hitler" is way too vague. It doesn't tell anything about which events seem similar to OP and how the situation in the country is evolving. Unless he means Putin is acting and thinking like Hitler which is a gross generalization and still doesn't tell much about what's happening.
By that reasoning it follows that OP should have left the country when Putin was first elected president in 1999.
edit: Also, Hitler became head of state in august of the previous year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_in_Germany
So, why 1935 and not 1934 ? But that's okay, OP clarified things https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19521632
I am curious why this is downvoted and people seem to be OK with the Hitler rising to power comparison when we usually have political conversation here that are going much much deeper in the details of things.
Right now russian government is trying to create own "internet", separated from the global net, control every call/sms on the phones and every bit of traffic.
Law about the "fake news" started today: if some person wrote a commentary (or post/article) about the people from the government (or their friends) and content was negative, then this person will be charged with fee. If you think that somebody is going to check that news are real or not - you have no idea about "laws" in russia :)
I had a conversation with my grand-mother years ago about if it could have known it was better to leave. Some people knew, of those most couldn't leave.
Russia's whereabouts appear now and then on the TV but it's soon replaced by something else so it doesn't stay on our mind for long (enough ?).
I actually don't have a lot of info about russia. I know they engage in online trolling, that they have a whole org dedicated to bashing the EU and NATO in the media and that at some point there was a weirdly oriented map in the president's office that showed Russia as somehow cornered by continental Europe.
I also hear about how journalists are threatened by politics and the murder of that woman on Putin's birthday. And the invasion/incursion.
But then nothing changes here and Brexit linger on and on.
Interestingly Sigmund Freud only left the continent when the anschluss happened so it's quite hard to predict that kind of thing.