Oleg
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Very sober observationsI'm a Russian immigrant (living in Michigan), just got here to Moscow a few days ago. I've been living in the US for the last 10 years and want to consider myself quite open-minded, observing-type (given that I grew up in Japan, I'm not an avid patriot - just to give you a better picture of my perspectives).
Having said that, I do agree and feel that Russia currently has more freedom than the US. The amount of censorship that social media platform currently exercises in the US - I'm sorry, fellow Americans, but that's right up China's alley.
Most Americans are so brainwashed with the Covid propaganda (I do agree the virus is real, but my opinion is that it's mostly political agenda), that I can't even express doubts out laud. Russians don't believe in their government or what authoritarian figure says - they were f*cked by the system too many times, so yes, they are not running to get jabs, they question why the agenda is pushed so hard.
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Putin did say multiple times that vaccination can't be mandatory. But the local governors are not following his lead (there is a theory that they are backed by Western money), and what Sobyanin, Moscow mayor did, is a good example: he implemented QR code system to dine-in at the restaurants - those who are vaccinated (QR code) can dine-in, but if you don't have one - stay on the veranda. This rule came into effect in mid-June, and what do you know? People stopped dining-in at the restaurants. So starting today - all QR code system is cancelled.
"60% of service people were vaccinated, so we can open up now" - they explained on the news. Riiiiiiight.