@PeterJJ_@afneil I understand the sentiment and am not pro-Russian, unlike many of the other comments. But "Russians can leave Ukraine tomorrow" is a great example of a "talking point." It's thought terminating rhetoric that doesn't account for the obvious: they won't.
@souljagoyteller Boring. There's a long tradition of puritan moral scolding on the liberal left that reaches back to the earliest settlers. Likewise, cycles of moral panics that grab hold of even the most stable institutions
@JamesClay1917@arash_tehran You can be sympathetic to the USSR without engaging in this pablum. To answer one point (political prisoners) look into: suppression of left and right Socialist Revolutionaries between 1917-1922; suppression of Moscow anarchists in spring 1918; arrest of Mensheviks etc.