For everyone only reading headlines: Those are not Russians trying to leave.
A total of 91 undocumented migrants have tried to enter Finland on its eastern border since August. These are third-country nationals who used Russia as a transit country and applied for asylum in Finland.
91 at official border crossings in 3 months is nothing, but they need to keep an eye on the situation. So far, Russia is no longer stopping them from crossing towards Finland without documents. On the border between Belarus and Poland they area already a step further and migrants are being used as desperate tools to breach the border and fences towards Poland.
Acknowledging it’s not the people fleeing responsible for the ass hat behavior from Russia, but really funny how the turn has tabled considering how Russia has treated Finland since forever
There is a russian Youtuber, who is mostly know for his (illigal) train ridings across the russian+kasacz regions. Lately in one of his video, he again hitchhiked the finish-russian border region and talked to another russian in a car. He first is talking about how they lost a lot of jobs inside russia, then calls the finns stupid, says that actually russia cut them off from the power grid, so they do net get any more power from russia and that finnalnd should “go join nato, live under nato control, you think life will be sweet but it wont […] now they are in the arse”. That scene really stuck with me. They do not recognize any loss, they are stubborn and olympic mind athlets. Never admit being wrong. No words of conciliatoriness.
That’s a really good video by the way, outside of the psychotic comments from the truck driver too.
But yeah, rus*ians have been fed lies throughout their history and they really seem to believe Finland receded back to the stone age after cutting them out. You know, since they are very rich compared to a modern nordic country I guess.
Also those nato comments are so delusional, what does “nato control” even mean in practise? That evil Americans are coming over and… What exactly? Buy stuff? Get along with us? Open up new business and investment opportunities? Please no, anything but that.
I can recommend his whole channel. The scenery shots from the train-waggons of those far and vast regions of east russia are stunningly beautiful. Sometimes it looks like Canada or America in the 1850s. Imagine the potential this country had. They could have build Holiday Resorts and offer Adventure Tours for tourists. They could have build ski-resorts and curvy roads that people would love to take their camper van to. They could basically be Canada2 with those beauty, resources and distanced remoteness. But they did not become Canada2, they chose to become North Korea 2. What a missed opportunity for a country. They have everything, but they let it all go away for hate. Imagine what a democratic leader in 2000 could have done to this country. Instead what they got was 14 years of authoritarian rule that then attacked the ukraine in 2014. And again in 2022. What a loser of a leader. He could have turned that country around and just decided to not do it. I would be loathing as a citizen about a leader like that, that pissed away the future of my country like that.
Just the way rus*ia is built, it’s impossible for it to not be authoritarian. As a state it’s a federation which has a bunch of different ethnic groups forcefully bound to it by violence, and the moment that grip lets even a little loose it all falls apart, as we saw with chechnya. It’s a miracle it didn’t happen on the heartland with the collapse of the soviet union. Now I’m no geographic determinist but some countries just can’t be democratic as it is existentially threatening to them. It’s sad but not much you can do. Whoever’s gonna inherit the throne after smallballs dies is going to be either just, as if not more of a loser.
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talked to another russian in a car
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Why are the train rides illegal ?
Trainsurfing
Oh, I see. Haha, that sounds so 80s 90s.
