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Peaceful protesters are being arrested in St Petersbug just now.

Here are two webcam live feeds of the area:

https://www.webcamtaxi.com/en/russia/saint-petersburg/bolsho...

https://webcamera24.com/camera/russia/great-gostiny-dvor/

On the news they showed police forces dragging protesters one by one into vans.

You can imagine how much braver those people are than Americans. Who here would protest if you could get dragged into a van and possibly disappear, be tortured or worse?

Possibly only detained and intimidated for a while to send a message and discourage other protesters; torture or death would transform each peaceful protester in an angry Russian family of 3 or more, and Putin is already slowly digging his grave by killing civilians in Ukraine.

You mean who would take part in Occupy, Black lives Matter, antifascist, or NoDAPL protest? I'm not saying the risks are equal (electricity torture by Russian services is no joke) but it's fair to point out that popular protesters in the USA also get beaten/mutilated/detained/eliminated by State forces and this is not exactly a new problem (see also: CoIntelPro, Mummia Abu Jamal, Leonard Peltier, Fred Hampton, etc etc).

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