mariusgaaazzh:

gran-tired:

The year is 2056. A child enters the AP euro exam. They open the orange booklet.
DBQ: Analyze the reasons and results of Putin’s ban on memes in the year 2015

honestly, this infuriates me.

my country is one-eighth of the planet’s land area and has the population of over hundred and forty million. it has a complex, bloody history, brilliant schools of scientific thought, fascinating culture and immensely powerful arts.

but now, it also has an enormous hatred saturated propaganda machine which ensures that citizens believe that they are directly threatened by the US and EU, where fascism is on the rise. it has activists, journalists and politicians imprisoned or assaulted and murdered on the streets. it has lgbt people legally branded as second-class citizens and violence against them tacitly encouraged. 

it has corruption blooming on every level, political, intellectual and creative pluralism repressed, and social institutions crumbling. it has a dysfunctional, economy in crisis, which benefits those select few who are in direct control of the oil and gas pipeline. 

it has no hint of a constitutional rule, transparency or accountability of the government. it has no room for me to live a happy, honest, free and accomplished life in the place which I call my home. 

and it has one man directly or indirectly (through the creation and reinforcement of his power hierarchy) responsible for this. a man who was in power for fifteen years, threatened the rest of the world with nuclear weapons and directly acknowledged that he staged and orchestrated russia’s invasion into a neighboring country. a man who would go on trial as a war criminal if he is ever to leave the kremlin alive. 

(I ain’t even gonna talk about the kgb background, fsb staged bombings, the chechen wars, nord ost, beslan, invasion to georgia, all the murders and immense stolen wealth; google it if you care). 

and what do i get from people here? “lololololol putin banned memes”. (so unbiased, open and dedicated to social justice, my ass.)