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"plaintext": "It's March 8th, which means that we get to celebrate freedom, and what's more - women that have given us that freedom."
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"plaintext": "And they continue telling us that the origins of this day don't matter, they ingrained it into our brains so deeply that even some women of my generation - Gen Z, which claims to be progressive and smart, and all that shit - openly say that \"feminists are ruining the holiday for them\" because we talk about this day being the day of women fighting for our rights. "
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"plaintext": "The government did this to us, and they continue doing this - by broadcasting some seemingly cozy and comfy TV shows with a sprinkle of propaganda in them, by telling us that men should make us pregnant \"as a gift\"..."
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"plaintext": "Strikes, maybe. Like the one in Petrograd in 1917.* They just don't want us to be politically conscious, because a politically conscious citizen would know that the government is the problem."
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"plaintext": "Plus, the patriarchy in general made a lot of Russian women view feminism as something bad, which exists solely as an excuse to hate men. I remember being poked like that by my literature professor, who was a woman, and she outright told me to not use the word \"feminist\" because it's \"too radical\"."
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