Where did the idea come from that conservatives were "Russian trolls"?

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SOME PEOPLE LIKE BEING RULED, & TOLD HOW TO THINK & ACT. A DICKTATOR FILLS THAT ROLE.

 

[iansolyn]

freedoms Russia denies to its own citizens

It's true, by the way. There are even a lot of memes on this subject in Ukrainian and Russian publishers. For example you cannot say anything bad about Putin, or for example about the war. So if you ask a Russian streamer about the war, he either bans you, or asks you to skip the question, because he knows what will happen if he expresses his position. There was also a case where a sixth-grader in the Tula region was taken away from her father and sent to an orphanage for an anti-war drawing, and the father wants to go to prison for 2 to 5 years. This is all because of the law introduced last May, which reads as "discrediting the army of the Russian Federation. Any statements about the Russian army, criticism of the top leadership or even deputies, and expressions of a "NO WAR" position are punishable by criminal penalties. Great country.