I am not czech. Can someone ELI5 what is going on?

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  1. White trash, protesting against goverment, loving Russia and his despotic autocratic president VP. They called themself “Vlastenci” (Patriots), but they are just a bunch of easily manipulated morons.

  2. Pro-russian czechs have gathered on the square. They hate the pro-western government and want Russian gas. The sign says that American (military) bases should remain in America and that they want peace. Which is anecdotal.

  3. Just a bunch of retards, the same type that believes in any weird shit you can imagine – chem trails? check, nanobots in vaccines? check, billionar communist snitch and mafioso being caring prime minister? check, secret NATO bioweapon labs in Ukraine? double check, Putin genious leading Russia to bright feature ? of course!

  4. Yesterday I took the tram from Angel to downtown. A man in garbage man’s work clothes got on. He was on the phone. I caught phrases like:

    “…Just be at that Wenceslas Square at 2 p.m. tomorrow…”
    “…On TV they said there were 70,000 of us, but there were 100,000 of us! and tomorrow there will be 150 thousand of us!!…
    “…They are afraid of us. And a government that is afraid of its people is a really bad government…”
    “…You can park at our company, tomorrow is a public holiday, no one will be there…”
    “Just get there, bye, Piškotku” (the man probably had a nickname like sponge cookie)

  5. Just smile and keep walking. Congratulations, you have just not joined a protest of people who believe unshakably that a Japanese man who hates immigrants and an illiterate billionaire, who is currently in court for stealing 50 million Kč from the EU, are the only ones in politics that can be trusted, and Russia is liberating us of course.

  6. Also funnily enough, they demand peace, while supporting terrorist state aggressor who invaded another country. Because the last time Europe gave up a country to an aggressor to prevent war worked out so great.

  7. Bunch of supporters of Russia who want us to live like Russians do, denying genocide in Ukraine, cheering on the deaths of Ukrainians, selfish, hypocritic, lazy and stupidest people you can find on Earth. Deportation material basically. And also, they want Ukraine to be completely erased from the map, so they are Nazis too.

  8. Lobotomy patiens meeting. Bunch of retard protesting and believing in all kinds of conspiracy theories.

  9. I thought they were protesting against the rising prices of commodities. How do US bases affect the price of gas?

  10. Pro russian Nazi. The guy who leads them owe like 117 000 dollars witch is realy lot here. He takes Tips to fund this but noone ever seen the money after.

  11. This demo is called “Czechia first” – yeah more like Russia first.

    it is organized by indebted dumbass

    Basicly the main pro-russian scene in CZ, however you can see there the whole variety of retard – old commies, fascists, collaborants, anti-vaxxers(the most radical ones), anti refugee – always the same people…

    Their goal is to stop the war by stopping weapon supplies to the Ukrainian side and also they want the cheap gas from Russia.

  12. It’s our 5th column. They may be waving Czech flags, but in their hearts only Russian flag has it’s place. I’m for expulsion of these Russian wannabes to Russia.

  13. As a Scandinavian living part time in Prague now, I must say that the amount of idiots are very low! Like really low. This seems very much like an exception.

  14. Some people still think that Russia can win the conflict and bring peace and undo all the high prices and stuff

  15. Follow-up question from non-Czech.

    Always thought that Czech Republic was one of the bigger anti-Russian proponents in Europe especially comparing to Poland (mostly eastern Poland) that had much greater pro-Russian sentiment in earlier decades.

    Surprising to see so many people in these protests. Any idea why they are gaining momentum?

  16. Does “Czech in the first place” sound vaguely like “America First” to anybody out there?

    It’s the same Russian internet troll placed propaganda reaching the same level of morons.
    What is truly amazing to me is how they don’t see that they are being manipulated.

  17. Retards in the street. Literal braindead slaves. Churns your stomach seeing this live. One of the downsides of democracy.

  18. A protest should have a point, present it and show they want the point to be real. These protests have no point, provide no solution, do absolutelly nothing, and get branded as pro-russians (most neutral way I can think of say it). Prices of energies are high, inflation is high, country debt is high, everything is going to shit and these no brains can’t even agree on what to do with it, just go to a protest. We should do something with it, these are just no brains.

  19. Most of the comments here are accurate, but I would like to add nuance to the “ZAKLADNY USA”. Couple years ago USA wanted to build radar and rocket silo in central bohemia south of Prague. Some people, including me, viewed that as unnecessary aggression towards Russia, putting focus on CZ. For me the problem was that it would not be USA funded silo to be operated by CZE-NATO forces, it would be american military base. That was too much for me and many other people, after protests the idea was scrapped.

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    Ofcourse now noone is suggesting any american military base, so it is pointless. And these are all retards or misguided to say the least, IMHO.

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