And I do, anywhere there aren’t Russian police… 
Does rather beg the question, would they arrest someone who was walking near a protest wearing a plain white t-shirt?
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They would if it was a group of protesters gathered together and all wearing white t-shirts. Guaranteed.
probably. For the purposes of repression, it is sometimes useful to believe in a triune person.
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The many people protesting are deliberately not all walking at the same pace, wearing particular clothing etc., so they look a bit less like an actual protest and more like a large group of people all going to the same place. Apparently even a blank placard is too organized.
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Killing the platform-for-dissent baby in the crib.
Just to be safe, the authorities also could have chosen to interpret her performance as being satire.
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With the “Two Words” protest/arrest video, the second arrest (of someone simply explaining what just happened with the first, actual protest) was more jarring than the first.
(And yet they dont bother the film crews?) Perhaps because the film crews are getting the message out that they want broadcast: if you protest, you will be summarily arrested.
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Tell me you don’t know what “Communist” means, without saying “I don’t know what ‘Communist’ means”.
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Yet people still wonder why Putin’s approval ratings are so high…
(I seriously messed up the original formatting deleted and redid instead of edit because I keep forgetting that the forum software shows “post deleted by author”)
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Putin’s nostalgia is not for communism, but for the Soviet Union, and the KGB.
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Russia never really made it as far as communism, and gave up trying long before the Soviet Union collapsed.
As has China.
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Arrested on a technicality.
She may have to write a self-denunciation, implicate other would-be revisionists and write 85,000 “I must not’s…”
Or Tsarist Russia. No pretense of democracy necessary.
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A secretary is standing outside the Kremlin as Marshal Zhukov leaves a meeting with Stalin, and she hears him muttering under his breath, “Murderous moustache!”. She runs in to see Stalin and breathlessly reports, “I just heard Zhukov say ‘Murderous moustache’!” Stalin dismisses the secretary and sends for Zhukov, who comes back in. “Who did you have in mind with ‘Murderous moustache’?” asks Stalin. “Why, Iosef Vissarionovich, Hitler, of course!” Stalin thanks him, dismisses him, and calls the secretary back. “And who did you think he was talking about?”
Edit: I see that I quoted them (indirectly) from Russian political jokes - Wikipedia
This one fits the “empty sign” theme even better, I think:
A man was reported to have said: “Nikolay is a moron!” and was arrested by a policeman.
“No, sir, I meant not our respected Emperor, but another Nikolay!”
“Don’t try to trick me: if you say “moron”, you are obviously referring to our tsar!”
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Yeah, you can’t say what the population’s views are on anything under that kind of authoritarian regime. (It doesn’t help that Putin kills off any politician who gains any popularity and might be a threat to him, either…)
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Damn, imagine if she was holding up a Rorschach test.
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