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Sigh. I take a nap and now I’m for persecuting those young Russian moms at my skating rink trying to make their kids into Ilia and Sasha Cohen. (Some of them are very hard on their kids but that’s none of my business.)
Fine. I should have been careful and specified anti-Russia as in the country’s regime, policies, values and actions apparently supported by the vast majority of its people. AS WELL AS its history of doping, unsportsmanlike behaviour, official whining, bragging and exploitation of its own athletes by state-funded coaches etc. Also its imperialist history as brutal and bloody as any other empire but inexplicably overlooked by far left and far right alike.
Therefore I hereby state that Russians who do oppose their regime or who have emigrated and are trying to make new lives for themselves are AOK. I thought that was obvious but I guess not.
Fine. I should have been careful and specified anti-Russia as in the country’s regime, policies, values and actions apparently supported by the vast majority of its people. AS WELL AS its history of doping, unsportsmanlike behaviour, official whining, bragging and exploitation of its own athletes by state-funded coaches etc. Also its imperialist history as brutal and bloody as any other empire but inexplicably overlooked by far left and far right alike.
Therefore I hereby state that Russians who do oppose their regime or who have emigrated and are trying to make new lives for themselves are AOK. I thought that was obvious but I guess not.