Posted on 09/22/2022 8:43:01 AM PDT by dennisw
More than 1,300 people were detained across Russia on Wednesday for participating in nationwide anti-war protests – with some directly conscripted into the military, according to a monitoring group, after leader Vladimir Putin announced a “partial mobilization” of citizens for his faltering invasion of Ukraine.
Images and videos show police cracking down on demonstrators in multiple cities, with footage showing several protesters at a demonstration in central Moscow being carried away by the police and authorities in St. Petersburg attempting to contain a crowd chanting “no mobilization” outside Isakiivskiy Cathedral.
Police detained the protesters across 38 cities in Russia on Wednesday, according to figures released shortly after midnight by independent monitoring group OVD-Info. The group’s spokeswoman Maria Kuznetsova told CNN by phone that at at least four police stations in Moscow, some of the protesters arrested by riot police were being drafted directly into Russia’s military.
One of the detainees has been threatened with prosecution for refusing to be drafted, she said. The government has said that punishment for refusing the draft is now 15 years in jail. Of the more than 1,300 people detained nationwide, more than 500 were in Moscow and more than 520 in St. Petersburg, according to OVD-Info.
Just over half the detained protesters whose names were made public are women, OVD-Info also said, making it the biggest anti-government protest by share of women in recent history. The watchdog specified the full scale of the arrests remains unknown, however.
Nine journalists and 33 minors are also among the detained, it said, adding that one of the minors was “brutally beaten” by law enforcement.
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Wow, they will make great soldiers!
Probably easier to just get away with fragging.
“More than 1,300 people were detained across Russia on Wednesday for participating in nationwide anti-war protests – with some directly conscripted into the militar”
Yeah, that’s going to improve the morale and effectiveness of the Russian troops! Of course, they’ll probably be peeling beets for borsht....
USA military draft is returning soon. Volunteers are not signing up and half who are interested are not fit for service. I expect the U.S. draft to begin shortly after the upcoming elections.
When you have warmongers in charge, you will need lots of young people to serve as cannon fodder.
Bring back the American Protective League and the Slacker Raids!
I think this is the plot line for the HAIR Musical.
THAT would make things very interesting here in the good old USA.
Or just wait until they send you to Ukraine and desert.
Once this war gets going a bit hotter, we’ll have to institute the draft because we all know it’s just a matter of time.
They should prioritize the draftees by their support for this war, rather than opposition to it.
Warmongers and their offspring should have to fight in the war. Let them back up their keyboard warrior stances.
Only one thing will stop this war, Putin must die, make it so
Brilliant!!!
All who post support in support wars should be automatically enlisted in the military of the side they support.
Even Churchill served in the front lines after the Gallipoli debacle.
One wonders why it hasn’t occurred to the Russkies to all show up at once, all get a weapon, outnumber the goon squad 100 to 1, and then go on a fragfest.
One wonders why it hasn’t occurred to the Russkies to all show up at once, all get a weapon, outnumber the goon squad 100 to 1, and then go on a fragfest.
“Your Country, Officer!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4kQvkvGi9M
What age limits do you expect...?.....just askn for a FRend
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