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GramSci's avatar

Ah, ok. In my experience, or at least in Wikipedia's, "A pogrom is a violent riot aimed at the massacre or expulsion of an ethnic or religious group, particularly one aimed at Jews.", so I read Putin as attempting to express (or feign) sympathy with blacks.

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Yasha Levine's avatar

he was making this point regarding mass lawlessness and agitation against the state of blm and making the explicit connection to russia’s opposition movement, saying it was just as bad as blm. that’s my read of it.

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