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Always crazy to see and hear those stories and Pictures from the east. You could stand anywhere in Germany with a sign saying whatever you want, criticizing a war, the goverment or some foreign country and there would be no police or secret service that carried you away and put you in a car. You could stand in front of the Reichstag building calling Olaf Scholz a liar and make him accountable for some dubious conspiracy theory or suffering and death and no riot police would show up to drag you away. You would better bring food and water as it would be a long day and you probably would go home this evening because you were tired.
Imagine living in a mob state, where if you hold up a piece of paper without anything written on it is enough for riot police carry you to busses to bring you away. What a fucked up system Russia & China is trying to export into the world. A world, where people are not allowed to have a voice and the only truth is what Olaf Scholz wants to be. I am glad for the freedom I have compared to those systems. People must be brainwashed thinking this is what their forefather wanted for them and died for.
These things always puts it into perspective. On one hand you have Germany under Hitler, China, Russia where protesting gets you vanished, on the other hand you have Poland, Hungary, USA where you can do what you want. Weights twice as heavy on the people in the more free nations to not protest their government's terrorism and/or facism.