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Fuck. I was born and raised in Russia. And yet, I desperately wish for Russia to be nuked to shreds. Fucking wiped off the map.Made uninhabitable for centuries and left that way as a warning to future generations.

I don't even know if there will ever be anything other than tyranny. And yes, my relatives and friends are still over there... Others have become emigrants and refugees...

Fuck, sometimes I wish it all to just end. I never chose this. I and most of my circle didn't vote for this Hitler of modernity. I don't know, maybe I should have burnt myself on the Red Square? But what for?

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This is what despair looks like. I am not judging - I am from Eastern Europe, and I grew up in a country still occupied by Russians. Knowing that no matter what good I do, my life might be destroyed by Russia makes me feel all kinds of feelings too. It's hard to find solace, but one thing that helps me is that there is always a choice. They can destroy my life, but it is up to me whether I choose not to be like them. We all die sooner or later, but if I spend my life on the right side of the eternal fight between good and evil, I still win. I know I am not original, and I am probably not explaining it well, but it gives me a bit of tranquility. I hope it will help you too.

Stay calm, and support armed forces of Ukraine if you can. With sufficient external support, Ukrainians will make Russia small again.

Personally I trust the following two foundations: https://savelife.in.ua/en/ https://www.sternenkofund.org/en I believe both are doing a great job, and donate regularly.

And the blight is spreading. The US have already fallen, Europe's chances are 50/50. The world is being robbed of the future that has liberty and pursuit of happiness in it — only to be replaced with "you die today, I die tomorrow" of the all-encompassing Russian prison law.

Don’t buy into the sorrow. The USA has survived almost 300 years, and has seen a lot of bad shit. Europe is just pulling itself up. And even if it all isn’t enough, neither Putin nor Trump are going to get much older, and both are too full of themselves to start building up a successor.

Have a little faith! Otherwise we’ve already lost.

Nuking Russia will not do anyone any good, even Ukrainians. Russian Empire should dissolve to constituent republics in the same way USSR did. Also they should be forced to give up nukes, it is in the long term interest of every country on Earth

I was also born in Russia. Things are bad now, but the arc of history is long. Stalin saw millions repressed under his brutal reign but was thrown immediately under the bus after his death. Non-hereditary autocracy is an inherently unstable system; we can still hope for positive change once the current crop of dictators passes away.

>I desperately wish for Russia to be nuked to shreds.

Well my ambitions extend beyond Russia. Just saying...

> I and most of my circle didn't vote for this Hitler of modernity.

One think I must say is that while you (or your generation) didn't vote, at some point in the past people collectively did vote/support or ignore. Common people are a divided, obedient lot as opposed to the oppressors who know how to gang up. As the quote goes:

'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,'

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