Author here if anyone has questions. I've been doing a lot of 8086 stuff lately, so this article is different from last week's 8086 article (in case anyone thinks they have deja vu).
If you're complaining about finding politics "here" (i.e. on Hacker News), you should complain to the person posting the article, not to Ken Shirriff. Ken Shirriff can't control what you're presented here.
This is so fucked up in multiple ways I do not know what to say. Even if person is trying to flee Putin's regime - the West is actively denying entry to those people. I would understand if you were Ukrainian but it appears you are not.
Are our inherited sins worse than our committed ones? In other words, is it more disgusting to be born Russian, or to choose to work at Google?