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‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’ (www.thetimes.com)

submitted 2 days ago by misk@piefed.social to c/world@quokk.au

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[–] Samuelwankenobi@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

American is obviously no longer a safe country to escape to I feel bad to anyone from Russia or North Korea or well really any country that ended up escaping or relocating to the USA

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago

The cruelty is the point. As is the Russia bootlicking.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

Khodorkovsky said the treatment of Russian dissidents by the US posed the question of “whether the current administration is prepared to act as a leader of the democratic world”.

Lol