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Honest advice: Get a tshirt with "FUCK PUTIN" printed on it. Wear it everywhere, even if it's covered up by a jacket. If you find yourself in a risky situation, make sure it's showing.

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Then they risk getting shot or stabbed by a pro Putin thug or agent. Your advice is patently bad.

Are russians really such cowards? I always thought to the opposite, but this constant look for excuses why not rebel against putin, why not protest, and now even why not wear a t-shirt really changes my mind. If you're russian, and you call yourself a russian, and you speak russian, and you don't change that for years, and feel no responsibility for what your government is doing whatsoever, honestly, you deserve the sanctions.

It's not cowardly to avoid wearing controversial shirts. There are nuts everywhere just look for reasons to be set off.

Maybe I'm just brave, because I find that cowardly. But then what kind of word do we use to describe Ukrainians - heroic, I guess.

Wearing a shirt with profanity printed on it is not heroic.

Civil disobedience is balancing act between "what will inspire revolution" and "what will get me killed". Wearing a FUCK PUTIN shirt in Moscow, today, is almost certainly heroic.

Wearing it in Egypt? The OP knows better than us. It might simply be self-preservation. I won't fault him either way.

The OP seems genuinely concerned about hostile treatment just for being Russian. Trying to look inconspicuous won't help if you're cornered in an alley by an angry mob.

Choose your risk.

Depending on where you do it, it might go down about as well as this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDnvXAkMnx8

(Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) - Bad Day in Harlem Scene)

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