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They've been brainwashed for decades.
My girlfriend's grandfather who came from Soviet Union and lived here in Lithuania for 50 years still doesn't speak a word Lithuanian and he hates Ukrainians with all of his heart. "They're not people" he said.
My girlfriends uncle, who seems like a decent guy, well off and everything, even he got into a discussion that Crimea and whole Ukraine should be a part of Russia.
These are people who've been living in a free country for many decades but been consuming Russian media so one can just wonder how brainwashed are people inside Russia.
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It's as if a death cult has been building up in Russia for some time without us really realising it. I mean, we knew there were the horrible authorities, and we worried about the many extremists. But now it feels like there must have been a far larger proportions of the Russian populace that has completely lost any sense of the value of human life.
I also wonder if this isn't some sort of world record in going from zero to atrocity. History is full of violence, but the stuff from Bucha etc. is the sort of stuff you'd expect to happen a couple of years into a horrible civil war. Stuff carried out by soldiers who have seen their own home towns bombed to bits by the enemy. Or they might have been hardened by living in a semi lawless state for decades, like in areas of Mexico or El Salvador. But these Russian guys are just a month into the attack and their homes back in Russia haven't been harmed in the slightest.