Thank you for sharing.

I’m from Russia, and I’ve seen thousands of people running from the police over a decade ago. I’ve left the country before the big invasion started, but I’ve heard of small, quiet protests, and even quieter, but organized sabotage of railways that run towards the border with Ukraine.

Many people still support Putin, might be hard to stand up to the empowered majority.

But my friends from Belarus participated in mass actions against Lukashenko; we know that the majority doesn’t support him at all, and yet nothing changed.

I’m not saying protest is ineffective, but sometimes it’s not, especially when the time passed and the system hardened.

It’s important to protest, a lot, especially when the situation is not dire yet. Not only when people are desperate, but when they’re in discomfort, when the politicians lie, when our rights are even slightly violated.

Now as a German citizen and resident I go to protests, sign petitions, and participate in other civil actions.

Luckily!~

How dreadful! For many trans people it’ll endanger their lives.

It all reminds me of what was happening in Russia over the decades, just smashed into an impossible timeline. Small steps lead to irrevocable disasters.