by tymon_tm on Wed Mar 02, 2022 4:28 pm
it's not an easy dillema. for instance, there are many russian students where I live (not quite as many as Ukrainians, but still a rather noticeable quantity). one would say it's just innocent kids, but when you think about it, most of them come from families who benefit directly from state's affairs. these aren't "regular ivans", because an average familiy in russia can't afford sending their kids to study abroad, even to Poland.. so their parents aren't innocent bystanders, they're often goverment clerks, businessmen, people connected one way or the other. if I run a open door business would I place a sign "russians not welcome"? possibly, I don't know. I had many opportunities to work with russians before, I've never gone that way, mostly because I know what I'd be getting into. now, when it's all out war, pretending they're just regular folk is somewhat hard to accept.
I wonder how it actually works on universities here, becaue there a lot of mixed Ukr-rus groups of students.. I really wonder how they put up with each other, how does academic staff see them, treat them...
it's easy to claim russian civilian citizen's innocence, when you actually don't cope with them on a regular basis. or when you're not from a country russia's invading and commiting war crimes on it's people like it's nothing. IMHO banning russian athletes is the least international bodies can do. if these athletes don't like their motherland so much, I'm sure obtaining other citizenship isn't that hard really. it's a definitive, but a necessary line to be drawn.
kkibbler wrote: WW remembers.