Dude, I’m from POLAND. I’m from post east block country. I have a tons of friends from Ukraine, Russia, Czech Republic, and so on. I remember the '90s, i my parents, and a lot of older friends remember how it was under soviet occupation during the cold war.
And the truth is, that we all are very happy to be a part of UE instead of being part of russian imperialism. Look what Ukraine did, or what Belarus tried to do. That’s why russia don’t allow opposition, or independent journalists, or democracy.
So dead guy from internet, stop trying to convince me, that russian imperialism doesn’t exist, or it’s ok to be a part of russian empire, while you’re probably living in some western country, while me and my friends remember how bad it was in the past to be a russian ally.
Look on the homophobia, legalizing domestic violence, hatred towards UE and european values. In the Europe, we don’t want to live under authoritarian regime with one president and the same government for so many decades.
Truth is simple.
For people in Europe (especially middle/east) russian imperialism is the same thing, as american imperialism to a middle east and countries in the North and South America.
We can all hate russian and USA imperialism, hate the mainstream media, but please don’t use other imperial contry as a alternative :)