Posted on 09/27/2022 8:04:59 PM PDT by FarCenter
When Ukrainian national Kateryna Rietz-Rakul first heard that Germany wants to take in Russian deserters, she thought it was a bad joke. "I thought this can't possibly be true, I couldn't believe it at first. Until I watched the evening news," says the interpreter, who has lived and worked in Germany for 20 years.
There, she was amazed to see German politicians from all three ruling parties literally falling over themselves with offers of help for the Russian conscientious objectors who are seeking to leave the country since President Vladimir Putin announced the partial mobilization last week.
"Those who hate Putin's policies and love liberal democracy are welcome to join us in Germany," said German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann from the neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP).
"To support such people, to give refuge to such people, I really think that is natural reaction," said Lower Saxony's Premier Stephan Weil from Chancellor Olaf Scholz's center-left Social Democrats (SPD).
And the parliamentary secretary of the Green Party, Irene Mihalic, demanded: "Anyone who does not want to take part in Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine, which is contrary to international law and murderous, and therefore flees Russia, must be granted asylum in Germany."
Rietz-Rakul, who works with Ukrainian fellows at the Humboldt Forum, cannot understand this attitude. Giving asylum to Russian deserters is a clear political mistake, she says. "These are not opposition figures or dissidents. These are men who just don't want to risk their own lives. They had no problem with Russian policy until just a few days ago, and now they have woken up. But it's not the West's job to protect these people."
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They used to take deserters all day long in Canada.
The Ukrainians refugees that I have known of are well taken care of so some of them probably don’t want to see Russian refugees who are running for their lives here as well.
Make the Russians stay and do a 1917 on their Generals.
All Russians should be required to go to ukraine so if Russians nuke them then they nuke their own people
The Russians who hate Putin and think the anger of the West is directed just at Putin and his men are going to learn a TOUGH LESSON as they try to make friends outside of Russia.
Bull. We have lots of Russians in Poland who are treated well.
The difference is that these do not support Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Russians welcome, not putinistas
Putin has come up with a new way to invade Western Europe.
first Syrian draft dodgers
now Russian draft dodgers
Same here. Half the Ukrainian refugees in my home town are Russian Ukrainians and there’s no animosity between them.
They’re united by the experience of fleeing an invasion by Russia.
The conscripts in Russia are also victims of fascism and the conflict. They’re often from places with no free press and only wall to wall propaganda now.
Even if they appear to hate Ukrainians, that’s a result of brainwashing and it can be countered.
What we should be doing is locating the Russians in Europe who are making a buck on social media by conducting unprovoked attacks on Ukrainians on the street for Russians to laugh at. If they’re so convinced that it’s a good look, they should be given a one way ticket to Belarus and a slow bus ride to Russia so thry can collect their call-up papers.
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