• knfrmity
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    9 months ago

    Sounds like a spontaneous opportunistic NED/CIA/western-billionaire-NGO colour revolution attempt to me.

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      9 months ago

      That was my immediate thought too. The English signs threw me off the most, it’s not like they need to reach a wider audience so what gives? It’s very fishy…

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        9 months ago

        Signs in English used to be quite widespread in such gatherings. Same with pro-EU “protests” in Georgia, Armenia and back in 2014 in Ukraine.

      • SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        9 months ago

        English signs can mean two things:

        • They want “the international community” (international-community-1international-community-2) to notice them and do something.
        • It is a lot easier to get the guys in Langley to approve your slogans when you don’t try to make them read a foreign language.

        I reckon that neither is going to convince any significant number of Russians of anything other than the fact that these libs are making fools of themselves.