A Jew in Moscow Subway System

[yanis]

I was traveling on a Moscow subway train today around 1:45pm. People in Moscow subways are for the most part extremely quiet, so when between Belorusskaya and Novoslobodskaya stations (sorry, my non-Russian speaking readers russian words are long) I heard loud and assertive youthful voices coming from inside the car I immediately knew something was

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[yanis]

kozak patrols as idiotic as the idea may sound are officially just promoting moral values and preventing petty crimes. they're not supposed to harass minorities according to their own declared goals.
so these guys on the train were different ..

[duffys]

fucking shame to read about such wild shit happining in Russia.

I don't use the subway for unsafety reason first of all.

But it's getting whorst in all directions... Domestic violence is a norm for beggary so they accept and silently support any kind of agression against anybody (even better is this 'anybody' is dissimailar to them). So we're facing the twinlight of Russian culture and moral regress towards vile motives...

Sorry once again, Andrey

[career20]

You made the right choice to walk away.

Regardless of what everyone says or how you feel 'inside', first thing folks are taught at any decent self defense classes is if you can retreat / if you can walk away, do so. And that's exactly what you did, so nothing to be sad about.

As to other folks in the car - nothing you can do about it, so again nothing to upset about it here.

[yanis]

oh i know self defense pretty well myself (been training as a boxer for the past 6 years + done other stuff before) and of course the right thing to do is avoid the conflict.

[gorinevski]

How do you think did they recognize you as jewish?

[yanis]

not sure - i wear glasses and, they looked like the nazi types (not skinheads but the actual nazi type of guys) - they probably have a way to spot a jew.

[ex_juan_gan]

It is a bad place, Moscow.
What makes you be there?
Leave them alone (my humble advice).

[yanis]

i wouldnt go that far - it's an ok place. im here on business