Erfahrener Aktivist wegen „Faschismus“-Artikels zu Geldstrafe verurteilt, nachdem er Putins Russland mit „1984“ verglichen hatte

by bangthetank

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  1. Prosecuted in a show trial for comparing Russia to Orwell’s 1984 might be the most ironic example of state persecution I’ve ever heard.

  3. RIP Irony.
    Dawn of time – 2023

    You had a good run

  4. Oh come on, Russia is nowhere near that competent of a dystopian police state, no matter how they try. China, on the other hand…

  6. >Veteran Russian rights activist Oleg Orlov was convicted and fined on Wednesday for “discrediting” the armed forces after telling a Moscow court that Russia had descended into a totalitarian state resembling George Orwell’s “1984”.

    >Orlov, 70, was defending himself in a case based on a November 2022 article in which he wrote that Russia under President Vladimir Putin had descended into fascism.

    >Far from repenting of that statement, he defiantly used his closing speech to declare that Russians were living in Orwell’s dystopian world as their country waged war on its neighbour while claiming to support freedom, peace and security.

    Dam the balls on this guy

  7. “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” – Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism.

  8. *squints* How can an article (not written by the state) comparing things be “fascism”?

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