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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-02-08 03:39 pm

[ SECRET POST #2594 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2594 ⌋

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Re: #sochiproblems: fun or problematic?

(Anonymous) 2014-02-09 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
Nahhhhhhhhhhh. I don't have any problems with this. Yes, it's a serious problem - a deeply serious problem - but that doesn't mean we can't laugh at it. Life's more complicated than that, you know?

Moreover, it's not like we're laughing at victims here. Most of the problems that have arisen seem to have come mostly from the political conditions of Russia - corruption and cronyism. And a lot of the responsibility for that lies with Russia. Not all of it - I think the historical cause of a lot of this stuff can be traced to the modernization of Russia after the end of the USSR, and I think that Western and especially American institutions, advisers, and economic forces played a significant role in the course that modernization took and the negative consequences of it. But Russia is a sovereign state, a significant international power and a major economic player in its own right. They can hardly lay the responsibility for this at anyone else's feet.