Dear Sir,
The Russians are coming!
Letter to the editor: Not too sure EU tourists would be welcomed in Russia
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Just to add there is a new law in Russia: up to 15 years in jail if you do not support the russian army actions and repost "fakes" about what they do in Ukraine. Many people are terrified to get to a jail and be killed in there. This is a war of Putin and those who are fed well by him: state officials, etc. Majority of Russians do not support but terrified to do something because they know the regime will shoot on the streets on them .
How do you know 80% of them support the war? From the official russian state run public opinion poll? Do you understand that those ,80% are only of those who AGREE to answer? If you risk to be sentenced for 15 years in a jail where they will be torturing you with a mop stick in your butt will you agree to participate in the poll and answer sincerely if you support the war or not? Think about the difference. The majority of russians refuse to answer in such polls and just hang up.
Just because they speak Russian they are not necessarily from Russia. 50% or more of Ukrainians speak Russian as their first language and a high % of Ukrainians have left their country and have spread out right across Europe - my bet is that you are mistaking Russians for Ukrainians (or Kazakh etc).
Hmm Russian or Russian speakers?! There are around 10-15M native Russian speakers who are Kazakh, Latvian, Israeli or British etc. Another 15M Ukrainians are native Russian speakers, when you add that it’s hard for anyone speaking one of those languages to tell the difference between Ukrainian and Russian (but also Bulgarian, Slovak or Croatian) you have around 80-100M people who are not Russian but might sound Russian. Let’s do not forget 5-7M Russians/Belarusians who settled in EU long time ago (mostly because they don’t want to live under Moscow/Minsk regimes). Going for holidays without a credit card and direct flight is hard. The number of those who will go for holidays in Western Mediterrean via Istambul or Dubai with a pile of cash is (and will be) very low. Not to mention that amount of cash they have to spend keeps on melting. Russian tourists? There are almost none Russian tourists in EU and looks like they are not coming back for the next few years.