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Brad Yonaka's avatar

Nicely written, that captured many important points. One thing I would note about protests like this, as the truck driver explained, is that the people most directly impacted are not the ones who need to be impacted. It is unfortunate that we live in a world where to make big changes, you have to make people like yourself suffer first.

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Egor Korneev's avatar

Thank you, Brad. In the end, these protests seemed about minimizing the losses as opposed to reaching for progress. Everyone suffered, and people gained very little, but, some argued, the protesters stopped the slide to the bottom. Of course, there was another half of the population aligned with the government. Like everywhere else.

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