Was the Ukrainian refugee invasion of West Europe shocking? Well now the Russian refugee invasion has just begun. Tens of thousands of Russians have already fled their country due to Putin’s war, for motives such as being oppressed, arrested if daring to oppose the war against Ukraine or due to sanctions… According to a Bloomberg report, Russia is now suffering a severe brain drain as many leaving the country are very smart people, technicians, IT specialists, engineers, etc. As of now the number 1 destination for the fleeing Russians is only Georgia as they can’t move to EU countries due to sanctions.
Russian émigré Valentin Semyonov uses sausage as an icebreaker when he meets his Georgian neighbors. “This tastes just like the good old Soviet stuff!” the gangly 38-year-old says as he hands around sticks of salami, of which he appears to have brought an endless supply from his motherland.
There is hardly a neighbor in his suburban Tbilisi apartment building who has not received this gift since Semyonov moved to Georgia following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Invariably clad in a green tracksuit and bright white sneakers, the ebullient Russian has knocked on every door in the building, making acquaintances and gathering intel on the best shopping, sightseeing and workout options in the city.
But this meet-and-greet campaign has another agenda as well: to gauge the mood toward Russians in his new home. “I generally try to meet everyone everywhere I go, but, yes, I do confess that I’ve been going out of my way here because I was told that everyone here now hates Russians because of Ukraine,” he told Eurasianet.
Georgia has become an escape hatch for tens of thousands of Russians who have fled their homes because of the punishing effect of international sanctions and a heightened crackdown on the political opposition. Semyonov arrived in March, one of over 43,000 Russians who arrived in Georgia in that month – the record for arrivals in a single month – attracted by the lack of a visa requirement and easy access by land.
Semyonov drove down from his home in Rostov-on-Don, and brought along his wife, two daughters and his little software-development business – essentially a one-man operation that became unworkable once international sanctions disrupted bank transfers into Russia.
Many Russians have a stereotype of Georgia that it is a place of sun, fun, and khachapuri – Georgia’s famed cheese pie and a symbol of its famed hospitality.
But the Semyonovs instead found an icy welcome in every sense. Tbilisi was covered in a late-spring snow, and anti-Russia messages were everywhere.
At the entrance to their apartment building a “Russia is Occupier” sign hung, emblazoned in the colors of the Ukrainian and Georgian flags. On an exploratory stroll around the neighborhood they found graffiti advising Russians to go home or, alternatively, to that particular destination that Ukrainian border guards famously suggested an attacking Russian warship should explore.
On his way home Semyonov dropped into a small shop and asked for some soap and other bathroom supplies, speaking in Russian. The middle-aged woman behind the counter shot daggers at him and replied that she had nothing that could wash the blood off his hands.
As images of suffering and devastation in Ukraine were broadcast worldwide, they caused particular outrage among Georgians to whom it felt like déjà vu of Russia’s 2008 invasion of their country. A long list of grievances against Russian imperialism, which had been bubbling just under the surface, burst out in a massive wave of anger against Russian people that took no prisoners, not even Russian expats who openly opposed the war.
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So, it appears that this website is becoming more and more anti-Russian. The Ukrainian flag colors below the website name (top left) makes it very obvious and clear that this is now a pro-Ukrainian website. Go ahead. Readers got the message. This WAS an objective website. Did the owners change ? Did new funding come from the anti-Russian side ?
Thanks for not disagreeing with the content of the article.
Yes we obviously and openly side with Ukraine and their right to independence and self-determination just like we side with the South Africans of Orania city and their right of independence and self-determination. Give us one single reason why we should side with Russia!! Russia stole Crimea and Donbass from Ukraine yet they keep continuing with their war, why? They want all of Ukraine. Well Ukrainians do NOT want to be part of Russia. Does their opinion not matter? Only Russian opinions and wishes matter?? This is like RAPE. A woman doesn’t want you, but you want her and you force your way to her yet we should be siding with you the abuser, not with the woman?
It is simple, the matter is settled: Ukraine doesn’t want to be part of Russia! Period!
Russia does not want Ukraine to be part of NATO, and Ukraine has mostly been historically part of Russia and has never been part of the USATAN or NATO, and Russia is entirely justified in its actions against the Jewish gangster controlled Ukraine. Shame on EU Times for supporting the Jewish Ukrainian gangster state.
It doesn’t matter what Russia wants!! F**k Russia and its wishes and its happiness. It can fully disintegrate into little states like Kalmykia, Tatarstan, etc for all we care!! Ukraine is an independent entity which fought for its independence multiple times throughout its history. Russia should ask itself WHY IS EVERYONE trying to get away from them and join NATO!? Because they are evil imperialists, stealing lands, money, killing people and oppressing ALL of their neighbors!
The fact that Ukraine was part of Russia is why Ukraine hates Russia today. Poland was also part of the tsar Russian empire and so was Lithuania, Moldova and many others but none of them ever wanted that yet Russian scumbags didn’t care, they conquered them and now you use this as argument? Finland was also part of Russia. Does Finland as a country not exist? It’s Russia’s property just because Russian scumbags had them once? Russia even tried to conquer Sweden. They stole parts of Georgia. They kill the natives and they send their Russians and colonize and then they claim the land is theirs. They ripped Mongolia from China, needless to mention they forced communism on half of Europe and Asia and occupied states like Armenia, Khazakstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and then they forcefully included them in their Soviet empire. Russians are the kind of people who today you give an inch and tomorrow they want a mile. We all need to put our foot down with them, Everyone around Russia, HATES Russia. Russia should ask itself why.
I am glad that the USATAN and NATO never invaded and conquered sovereign nations and included them in the Jewish Zionist American/NATO Empire. Russia did not force communism on half of Europe, this was carried out from 1945 by the Jewish-Bolshevik Soviet Union with the help of the USATAN along with Britain and their allies. You also forgot to mention that everyone around the USATAN HATES the USATAN and you also failed to mention that the Russian people were enslaved by revolutionary Jews in 1922 after they overthrew the Christian ruler of Russia and murdered his entire family. Stop accusing Russia of doing what the Jewish-Zionist USATAN and Britain have been doing for hundreds of years.
Russia did force communism on half of Europe. What do you mean it didn’t? Russia split Germany in 2. East Germany was communist. Do you think Germans wanted to be split in in 2 and half of them to become communists? Here’s another example, they forced King Michael of Romania to abdicate and they faked the elections and pretended the communists won. Romania at the time was occupied by the Russians. Russia effectively forced communism on them. USA did not force communism there, USA was not present there. After WW2, the winning powers split Europe in 2, West Europe fell into America’s sphere of influence where they did NOT force communism. West countries that fell into USA’s hands were helped by USA with money to rebuild such as the Marshall plan. East countries that fell into Russia’s hands not only they weren’t helped, but in fact Russia arrested their people, soldiers and sent them to Siberian gulags and die there. Instead of helping them to rebuild like America did with the Marshal plan, Russia stole all their factories and resources and forced them to pay war reparations for decades. What you said about everyone around “USATAN” hating them is factually incorrect. Neither Canada or Mexico hates USA. Its only Cuba and Haiti a little bit who is around USA and hates them but if Cuba is your model in life… then that’s just sad. You keep mentioning Jews in USA. Here’s the thing, Russia was and still is a Jewish empire. The NKVD was run by Jews, the entire Bolshevik revolution was financed and ran by them. USA fell into a similar situation these days but this because of being good and philanthropic, trying to help everyone. After the collapse of USSR, most Russian Jews fled to USA. Today you see the results. You could say that more or less, the fact that USA is today in the state that it is…. it is also because of Russia… and Russian Jews:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s_post-Soviet_aliyah
They brought to America and Germany their communist ideas.
Russian Jews have long conspired against USA. Take the Rosenberg family for example, they stole the nuclear secrets from USA and gave them to Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg
And even today, Putin is not the pro-white guy you think he is. This is what you believe, this is not what he believes or says. You could believe the moon is made out of cheese, doesn’t mean it really is. Putin is very anti-white. Pro-white activists, movements or parties are banned there, its people arrested. Putin’s empire is an Eurasian mut empire, mixed half-Christian-half Muslim. Russia today receives many immigrants from countries like Uzbekistan, they commit crimes there against the Russians just like the migrants in France. I see you are from Britain, Putin threatened to “sink Britain” with nukes. How can you support a man who threatens to kill you, your family and your fellow country men? If USA issued such a threat against the UK, you would hate USA but if Russia issues such a threat you love them? It is time to admit that you have been brainwashed by RT and Russian propaganda. It is time to detoxify ourselves of Russian propaganda. It is time to love Europe. Europe is the ancestral land of the white man. Russia threatens to destroy it? Then Russia is our enemy. Whoever threatens Europe, is our enemy, We will not give up 1 inch of Europe, to anyone. Yes we have Jewish and immigrant problems but Russia is not the solver of such problems. Russia is just Russia… an opportunist evil empire. Russia will not fix our problems by nuking us. Russia should first fix its own problems back home, besides, Russia is not attacking Ukraine with the goal to fix problems. It is attacking Ukraine to conquer it and while doing so, they sent an army of Chechen Muslims to kill the Ukrainians. How can you watch Muslims from Chechenia kill Ukrainian white men and take joy and side with Russia? This is not nationalism, this is anti-white, anti-Christian leftism.
In 1780’s most of Ukraine was annexed by Russia under Catherine the Great empress. Russia, fearing separatism, imposed strict limits on attempts to elevate the Ukrainian language and culture, even banning its use and study. The Russophile policies of Russification and Panslavism led to an exodus of a number some Ukrainian intellectuals into Western Ukraine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_history_of_Ukraine#The_19th_century
In 1917 Ukraine fought a 4 year war with Russia to be independent from Russia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_War_of_Independence
In 1932 7-10 million Ukrainians were STARVED TO DEATH by Russia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
After this, Ukraine really hated Russia like never before. Russia tried to give them territories to pacify them, stolen from Ukraine’s neighbors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact
It wasn’t enough, Ukraine still hated Russia, in 1941 Ukraine allied with Hitler’s Germany and again fought a war against Russia to regain its independence:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_restoration_of_the_Ukrainian_state
In 1954 Khrushchev gave Crimea to Ukraine as a gift, trying to pacify them and erase some of that hate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_transfer_of_Crimea
In 1994 Ukraine gave up 1700 nukes to Russia and in exchange Russia signed a treaty in Budapest saying it will respect the territorial integrity of Ukraine forever:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
In 2014…. Russia being Russia, a dirty evil demonic empire…….. they stole Crimea from Ukraine and violated the treaty:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation
A gift is a gift! You don’t give something to someone and then take it back. Who does that? Children? Besides, what about the 1994 treaty? Had Ukraine not denuclearize, Russia wouldn’t dare to touch them today! Ukraine made a mistake. It should not have denuclearized.
In February 2022……… Russia invades Ukraine under the pretext to steal Donbas. They finished stealing Donbas but they continue their war anyway to steal ALL of Ukraine.
Does it wonder why Ukraine hates Russia?
“Ukraine has mostly been historically part of Russia”… yeah by force. Its like you buy a house, I steal it from you, you manage to recover it from me a few years later, and then after you owe it for a while, I go invade you again under the pretext “it has been historically mine” while your neighbor says yeah Im the rightful owner of your house because the house has been occupied by me longer than you. Shame on you for supporting the rogue terrorist state of Russia!
Russia did not impose communism on Europe after 1945, the Jewish-Bolshevik Soviet Union did with the help of the USATAN and Britain and their allies, and it was the Jews who ruled the Soviet Union who starved 7-10 Ukrainians to death and Ukraine allied with Hitlers Germany to free itself from the Jewish communist criminals in the Soviet Union. The conflict in Ukraine has been caused by the Jewish gangsters who overthrew the legitimate government of Ukraine in 2014 with the help of the USATAN ,Britain and the EU for the sole purpose of overthrowing Putin and destroying Russia and so far it looks like the EU is going to be destroyed through its own incompetence. Zelenski and his gang should have realised that if you live next to a gigantic country you don’t provoke it unless want to be destroyed.
Yes the 2014 Yanukovych government was legitimate and elected and it was overthrown by a bloody revolution. Why? Because Yanukovych wanted to shun trade with the EU in favor of trade with Russia. Ukrainians were angry. They wanted their country to get closer to the West, not to Russia. Now either you consider the revolution legitimate or illegitimate, that is besides the point, and you are too obsessed with that like most Russian fanboys out there. Legitimate or not, a revolution is a revolution. Now after the revolution there have been 3 elections!!! Poroshenko won twice and then Zelensky won now. What about these 3 elections? Aren’t they legitimate? No? Why because you said so? Because Kremlin puppets didn’t win? If a Kremlin puppet won, then you would have been happy now, but because Poroshenko and Zelensky who are pro-West won, you’re not happy about it. I see how this works. This is called BIAS.
Apparently this debate we’re having isn’t going anywhere. If you consider yourself a nationalist, and a pro-European patriot, you should listen to Martinez Perspective and there you will be awakened to the Russian problem. You can find his videos on his Telegram channel: https://t.me/martinezperspective
At least give it a chance, try to hear our perspective and why we are siding with Ukraine and not with Russia. However, despite what arguments we bring, none will matter because I firmly believe that you are a Russian ethnic who immigrated to the UK. There is no other rational explanation as to why you would support Russia so much despite Russia threatening to “sink Britain”. If you are a Russian and you love your country so much, pack your bags and go back to Russia. If you are an authentic Briton who fell into an irrational love with Russia, same deal, pack your bags and get out of UK. Why are you living in a country that you hate so much? I am not satisfied with the situation in France either but you don’t see me shitting on my country or wishing for Putin to nuke my country!
The so called revolution in Ukraine in 2014 was orchestrated from outside of Ukraine by the USATAN, Britain and the EU, who cannot tolerate democratically elected governments anywhere in the world and spend most of their time carrying out regime change. Yanukovych was free to trade with any country he wanted both Russia and the West and it was the West who overthrew him not Russia and most people in Ukraine don’t care who Ukraine trades with they only want peace and prosperity like any people. You should face up to reality and accept that the political and military situation in Ukraine has been caused entirely by the Jewish controlled Western democracies and not by Russia. Also, I was born in Britain not Russia, so you are wrong again, and Russia was probably threatening to sink the Jewish-Zionist gangsters who rule Britain, also, if you are French tell your mate Macron to stop sending black and Muslim invaders across the Chanel, they belong in France.