Posted on 11/26/2022 9:47:58 AM PST by dennisw
Event is believed to have been a staged PR stunt with handpicked audience All mothers in attendance believed to be strongly pro-war Putin loyalists
One seen previously singing Russian national anthem on Red Square after Putin annexed Ukraine
Vladimir Putin's meeting today with mothers of servicemen he sent to the Ukraine-Russia war has been exposed as a cynical stage-managed sham.
He met a group of ultra-loyalist women carefully selected not to ask difficult questions.
Meanwhile, furious Russian mothers and wives not at the event raged at the 'shame' of how Putin avoided them and their complaints about using their relatives as cannon fodder.
'I would like you to know that, that I personally, and the whole leadership of the country - we share your pain,' he told women in a much-heralded meeting at his official residence.
Russian journalists quickly identified some of the women handpicked to meet Putin as known loyalists.
One of the women, Nadezhda Uzanova from Abakan, had previously appeared at an event with Putin - seen on video - singing the Russian national anthem on Red Square after he formally illegally annexed invaded regions of Ukraine as Kremlin territory.
She is a member of an ultra-patriotic group called Combat Brotherhood, and has advised pro-Putin officials.
Anna Gerusova - seen with Putin at today's session - is believed to be the wife of a military commissar in Rostov region.
Another, Irina Tas-Ool, is a loyalist regional government official, and it is not clear she has children of an age to be serving in the war.
One more, 50-year-old Olga Beltseva, is a representative of pro-Putin party United Russia.
Yulia Belekhova, 40, has a son serving in the conflict but has expressed strongly pro-war views, and is a wannabe MP in Putin's main political party United Russia.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I’ve traveled in Russia and the Ukraine and I’ve never seen any Nazis in either place. But of course there are lots of Nazi imagery captured from Russia’s Wagner mercs and from young men in Ukraine’s Azov. But the real Nazi behavior is making a full-scale blitz with armored columns against Ukraine and the Republic of Georgia. BobL is the real Nazi.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone.
Taking a page out of the Ukrainian propaganda book?
But were they all Gold-star mothers?
if yes, what is the issue?
If no, all options are open.
All of the current regime public events in the USA are staged by the Democrats, are they not?
“I’ve traveled in Russia and the Ukraine and I’ve never seen any Nazis in either place.”
That’s all I saw when I was there, Nazis everywhere. I guess we visited different places.
(the question is, how do we verify either claim? - Perhaps the media reports?)
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