@Variety I certainly hope they are not welcome in any civilized circles. Even the ones who oppose the genocidal war mostly whitewash the war and show the “struggles of poor rissians in exile”. The compassion in this situation should be strictly reserved to the Ukrainian people
@iocmedia@Europarl_EN defund IOC. This is inexcusable. russia wiped out generations of Ukrainian athletes, demolished sports infrastructure, murdered civilians, women and children. How can they be invited to wave their blood soaked flags and glorify their genocidal empire?
@iocmedia@NBCUniversal This is the absolute rock bottom from the IOC. You have enough financial leverage to make them revoke this abominable decision. russia is committing genocide in Ukraine. Russian athletes are in support of their fascist empire. Do the right thing.
@CBCOlympics Anyone with common sense or human decency feels the same. The genocidal war russia started against Ukraine is ongoing, those athletes are proud russian imperialists, most of them support their hitler-esq dictator. Why should they be allowed to glorify their rotten empire?!
@Ilhan So “in good conscience” you pity russian ‘ordinary people’ who overwhelmingly support the genocidal war, enlist voluntarily, showed no opposition in 2014, cheered when Crimea was annexed, but you can’t support Ukraine’s lifeline for survival? you’re full of shit, dear. It’s sad.
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