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Certainly Grotskov subscribes to such views. When we met close to some of the fiercest fighting in the deadly battlegrounds south of Izyum, he told me about the personal journey that led him to take up arms against his nation’s forces.
His awakening began 11 years ago when pro-democracy protests erupted across Russia following ballot-rigging and fraud to fix the success of Putin’s party in parliamentary elections.
Grotskov joined small demonstrations in his home town of Kandalaksha after discovering a video posted by Alexei Navalny – the anti-corruption campaigner who has since survived a poisoning attack and been jailed.
The video, based on documents obtained by Navalny, exposed how billions of pounds were stolen from an oil pipeline project by one of Putin’s closest cronies.
Grotskov said: ‘I was shocked by the scale of corruption and injustice that was organised at the highest level. I started to look into the political and economic situation and realised that we need to fight this regime.’.
The soldier, whose family remain in Russia, began putting up posters and joining protests. But after Putin illegally seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, he decided it was immoral to pay taxes to fund a thieving and toxic dictatorship. ‘I’ve always been the kind of person who wants to fight for justice,’ he said. ‘I left for Ukraine because I knew the hottest spot of fighting Putin’s imperial regime is here in this country.’ Initially he intended to set up an online project with friends inside Russia to spread information about corrupt state officials, expose the government’s failure to prosecute them and encourage the imposition of stricter Western sanctions.
He explained: ‘They have fun, spend the money, have businesses abroad. I wanted to make sure that they would not be allowed into the West. The brainwashing has been going on for decades.’
Political repressions in Russia: the Kremlin is in pursuit of those who stand against war
https://youtu.be/3Z1i7u5IAeQ
Russia is killing Ukrainian children: 6-year-old boy killed in Lysychansk
https://youtu.be/YJGJ5w-71ac
Russian POWs: Ukraine respects the rules of international conventions
https://youtu.be/BQcNRMXv7mA
Ukrainian army advances in South direction: enemy ammunition depot destroyed. 112th day
https://youtu.be/Ea5RQAMaAeM
Ukrainian defenders advance near Izium, liberating villages. The 113th day of war
https://youtu.be/_pXeyUxcKJc
Ukrainian guitar warriors. They forge metal on the frontline. The story of Maestro
https://youtu.be/E1poqQimkyQ
Zelenskyy: During 112 days of war, Ukrainian army proved courage, wisdom and ability to defeat enemy
https://youtu.be/Hmbobm5ZQNo
RE: Brave Russian Defectors
Didn’t the USA have such people? Benedict Arnold was one of them.
Russians are also growing weary of Pidor Putin.
Goes a long way to explaining why Alexander Navalny was arbitrarily moved to a high security prison without a hearing. Putin is afraid of the growing calls for new leadership in Moscow.
Putin’s dreams of Soviet Russia are coming to an end.
Frontline Ukrainian soldiers fighting Russians in Donetsk ‘WILL WIN WAR’
https://youtu.be/qiEgPRbyASU
That’s not a great idea. The Russians can shoot deserters and there is not legal defense for it.
UK Daily Propaganda
How a former US Navy sailor became a Putin propagandist
Patrick Lancaster describes himself as an independent journalist.
https://taskandpurpose.com/analysis/navy-veteran-russian-propaganda-ukraine/
Russia’s favorite war propagandist is a Navy veteran from Missouri
Putin’s invasion has catapulted Patrick Lancaster, who calls himself an independent journalist, into the limelight.
https://www.grid.news/story/misinformation/2022/04/18/russias-favorite-war-propagandist-is-a-navy-veteran-from-missouri/
Russia’s favorite war propagandist is a Navy veteran from Missouri
Putin’s invasion has catapulted Patrick Lancaster, who calls himself an independent journalist, into the limelight.
May 9, 2022
https://www.lapresse.us/crisis-in-ukraine/2022/05/09/russias-favorite-war-propagandist-is-a-navy-veteran-from-missouri/
We are FREE Republic, so posting stories from a 90% discredited source (on Ukraine) is fine.
Obviously we don’t have to believe any of it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/10/ukraine-ammunition-donbas-russia/
Around 200 Ukrainian soldiers are now being killed every day, up from 100 late last month, an aide to President Volodymyr Zelensky told the BBC on Friday — meaning that as many as 1,000 Ukrainians are being taken out of the fight every day, including those who are injured.
We should support these anti-communist heroes, who oppose the KGB regime and its allies in Red China and Iran. Too many Freepers Larp as anticommunists and anti-PRC, but support its allies and interests
Propaganda is getting deep today.
