Escaping Putin
spiegel.de
spiegel.de
These laws will not only hit the emigrants of today, but also many people who left Russia long time ago, but might still own an apartment or still have some money in the bank there. I know people who rent out their apartment in Russia or offered it on AirBnB and made a living from it. These are not oligarchs. These are pretty average Russian people. They will suffer badly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJVYqP6eF2U
I sympathize with anyone trying to escape from such rhetoric.
It goes on to make comparisons between the two emigrations, then and now. But also the different perspectives: those who flee and those who stay. Those who stayed following 1917 were very critical of those who fled, the same is happening already today. The author doesn't question whether history will repeat itself, it shows it is. Including for those who leave.
>That they will be welcomed abroad as "Putin’s people," and not at all as those who fought desperately, although unsuccessfully, against him for 20 years.
>Lenin called intellectuals the "shit" of the nation and did everything in his power to make them leave or disappear. Putin has rid himself of this "shit" just as effectively.
It should be obvious that Russians fleeing from their home country nowadays are definitely not "Putin's people" .
I wish there would be journalists out there bringing facts first and leave the opinion about the facts for the reader. When reading the first lines it becomes clear to me, that I am reading a opinion based article, not fact based.
I am tired and exhausted of articles like this in the media coverage these times. They don't get my attention. How did this land here on hackernews?
It's an op-ed essay. "The media" has always published stuff like this, and newspapers have a section dedicated to it. People are interested in facts, but they're also interested in what other people think and the ideas they have.
The content in a typical newspaper is extremely varied, and rightly so. Did you know they even publish cartoons, and have done so for more than a century?
Oh the times when we were more honest. That paper went out of business 10 years later. He only allowed employees to publish said pieces. The modern editorial where papers began allowing "anybody" to publish opinion based articles only began in 1970, with the NYTimes.
Oh, interesting. I was interpreting "op-ed" to be the backronym "opinions and editorials page" rather than the more trade-jagon "opposite the editorial page," and as meaning a place for opinion content (which the OP was broadly complaining about) rather than news. Opinion content, in the form of editorials, has a much longer history, according to the bio of the editor you mentioned:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Bayard_Swope: "Although standard editorial pages have been printed by newspapers for many centuries, Swope established the first modern op-ed page in 1921."
> ...thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts."
> Oh the times when we were more honest.
That part of the quote seems like something that's very easy to misinterpret if one was so inclined. Opinions themselves aren't facts, but I'm sure some would be tempted to interpret "ignoring facts" as meaning an embrace of falsehood or lies, in order to take a swipe at the media. That's almost certainly a misinterpretation.
I couldn’t disagree with you more.
Most of them want to relocate outside Russia.
I think it's more than an opinion though.