Last week, President Vladimir Putin signed an order to call up 160,000 men as part of Russia’s biannual conscription drive. Now, reports are emerging that police across the country are raiding fitness clubs in search of male gymgoers. According to a new report from Current Time, officers quickly divide those detained into Russian citizens and non-citizens. Citizens are then taken to enlistment offices, while non-citizens are often accused of minor offenses or immigration violations and deported. Meduza shares a translation of the outlet’s findings.
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Many of those taken to enlistment offices were ultimately handed military summons, according to multiple witnesses. “My husband is in court now,” said Anastasia, who lives in a city just outside Moscow.
“They tried to issue him a summons illegally more than two years ago — even though he has an exemption. Now they’ve dragged him into the enlistment office again. I rushed over with documents, but they wouldn’t let him go until the lawyer arrived. They told him he had to show up again on the fifth. Of course he won’t go. He’s taken vacation just to avoid getting grabbed on the way to work. But that’s no solution. We have to figure something out. I’m scared they’ll come banging on our door.”
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They should just send the police to war.
They tried before. Spoiler: It didn’t go so well.
https://thedebrief.org/know-no-mercy-the-russian-cops-who-tried-to-storm-kyiv-by-themselves/
Nah, Putin & friends would be better.
“One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
Until Russians start fragging the people who issue orders on the ground and opening fire in their barracks, this won’t end. I don’t understand why, when faced with certain death, a person wouldn’t deign to take a few oppressors with them.
They probably dont know any better and only realize who the real enemy is within when its too late.
Propaganda works.
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I wonder if they fear for the well-being of their families, making wasting their lives in a pointless war more meaningful than endangering the well-being of those related to them.
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Call me crazy but, with things getting like this, if I was a Russian, I’d go. Just present myself, get the trainning (ah! as if!), get the equipment, get the guns.
Immediatly start to prepare a bomb attempt at a magazine, a hit on an officers station, whatever. Do some critical damage, from within.
It will either be dying on the field or by firing squad, so, better to die doing something useful.
Lol, the problem is, you would be in Ukraine by that moment. At best, you could take some officer with you to the grave. At worst, you wouldn’t get any ammunition till zero-line, (aka peredok on russian).
That sounds familiar.
I heard stories of people that were sent to war in the sixties, by draft, and there was a practice of having new squads train with their commanding officers.
Many of those officers got a bullet to the back of the head, in the field.
I assume the biggest problem is that the people are taught for centuries to follow their leaders instead of thinking for themselves and acting accordingly. It is the mentality of the general Russian society I would say. A larger Russian population could for sure bring down the government and end the war by an instant, yet this remains sadly as it is, utopia.
