AncientCraftwork wrote on Feb 8
th, 2022 at 11:54am:
Russia is actually quite normal nowadays, a nice place to be. Belarussia is even nicer, very traditional, good morals and values, nice people and country side. Probably my favorite country in Europe, Belarussia. No qr code crap. I may move there one day. Then again I am a traditionalist and against the so called 'progressive' movement, which to me is anti christ. I don't like the communist past sure, but after a few decades and after Stalin the USSR countries somewhat returned to tradition. But during the civil war in the 1910s there , I would have backed the White movement and supported the Russian Monarchy against the reds.
You are quite the traditionalist, you’re still expressing sentiment for a war over 100 years ago between two awful governments. I guess Belarus is continuing the tradition of being a repressive authoritarian nightmare with a relatively low standard of living. But to each their own.
And I don’t know what you mean by “progressive movement” (and I don’t really need to know because I’m pretty sure that would devolve into a political argument), but progressive is more of an attitude instead of a movement. Same thing with being traditional. And the two aren’t mutually exclusive, a person who thinks of themselves as progressive might have a strong sense of tradition and a person who describes themselves as traditional might see the need for progress. But really, what even are progress and tradition anyways? What one person calls progress, another might call tradition.
I encounter things that go against both of my progressive and traditional attitudes all of the time, but I couldn’t imagine something terrible enough to make me move to Belarus.