Metro 2033 creator Dmitry Glukhovsky faces eight-year jail sentence if he returns to Russia
Metro 2033 creator Dmitry Glukhovsky faces eight-year jail sentence if he returns to Russia
The writer of the Metro novels and video games has been handed an eight-year prison sentence, for his opposition to the Ukraine war.
The writer of the Metro novels and video games has been handed an eight-year prison sentence, for his opposition to the Ukraine war.
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Very true. And if you stop and think about it, 2033's only 10 years away. Maybe Metro.co.uk could post a followup to this story then. Just for that "Yo dawg, I herd u like 2033" meme potential.
And if you stop and think about it, 2033's only 10 years away.
yo wtf
The brain drain and pointless bloody war will continue until morale improves.
I'm sure he wasn't planning on returning anyway.
Glad he's okay and not in Russia anymore. Makes playing his games a lot more enjoyable.
He's a great storyteller
Great books by the way!
2033, yes.
2034 felt disjointed to a point I wasn't even sure it was written by the same person. Gave up reading eventually, about 1/3 in.
I had the exact same experience. I love 2033, but I couldn't finish 2034.
and the pretexts under which it [the invasion of Ukraine] was started look more and more insignificant and false.’
Really? In what way? More and more people are learning about the origins of the war all the time.
The origin of this war is that Putin wants to restore the Soviet Union and thought Ukraine is easy prey, because of revolutionary forces within Ukraine and because his collaborators lied to him. They then continued to invade with limited success, thanks to low morale, aged tactics and corruption in their badly equipped military. Now Russians die in the thousands not because of Ukraine, but because of him.