Your claim for sympathy has been denied.

But in all seriousness, I don't condone murder, but let's be honest here. That "human being with a family and two kids" was indirectly responsible for avoidable deaths of thousands of other human beings. Often also with families and kids.

Because russia is incapable of not looking at the world through their own lenses. Kremlin wholeheartedly believes that NATO works exactly as Warsaw Pact did. That the whole talk about "rights of nations" it's just a charade conceiving brutal and total US control over it's puppets.

Anyone else, apart from Ukrainian and Polish delegation, left when Lavrow started speaking?

That's true, but it's also a matter of scale. I mean, it's unfathomably easier to do if you're a island nation with less than 400k inhabitants.

Draconian anti-abortion laws are just one of the factors for the Polish low birth rates. They sure have impacted the (already terrible) situation negatively, but I don't think that's the main factor.

If not forced to do otherwise, multinational corporations will ALWAYS capitulate before dictators and totalitarian states if there is money to be made.

As Lenin once said - “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them”.

Russia breaking the international treaty it's signatory of? That's unheard of! /s

Absolutnie, każdy głos pokazujący perspektywę regionu jest szalenie ważny.

Small pot dictatorships subservient to russia? I hope not.

For someone who came to adulthood in the early 1980's, I have to tell you it's been really, really strange seeing the German Greens turn into among the staunchest supporters of resisting Russian imperialism in today's Europe.

It's utterly baffling. Three years ago, Germany was unquestionable leader of the EU. Now they are a scared child lost in the fog...

We've certainly dodged a Lukashenko sized bullet in 1990. Stan Tymiński and his "mysterious briefcase" got 26%(!) in second turn of presidential election...

I can't really blame anyone for wanting to leave the USSR for greener pastures, but they could made us all a favor and left their political views back home...

From my (limited) experience, most of the pro-russia / pro-USSR Israelis are actually russians who faked the Jewish ancestry in the 80's to be able to leave USSR for Israel.

Oh yes. The moment communism ended, the anti-communist movement instantly collapsed into like 20 different factions and parties (with varying levels of insane views) tearing each other apart :D

I would argue that such political capitalization of nostalgia for communist period wasn't politically viable in Poland back then due to how that period was viewed (subjugation to hated foreign power). People DID vote for SLD due to falling standards of living though.

I disagree. The party that oversaw most of the transformation period and get us to NATO and EU was SLD - the postcommunist party composed mostly of former PZPR members. It has more to do with the fact that communist period is viewed as russian occupation by majority of Poles.