Kinda like being on the Oprah Show: "And YOU get Shanghaied...and YOU get Shanghaied..."
Posted on 10/16/2022 12:31:30 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Police and military officers swooped down on a Moscow business center this past week unannounced. They were looking for men to fight in Ukraine — and they seized nearly every one they saw. Some musicians, rehearsing. A courier there to deliver a parcel. A man from a Moscow service agency, very drunk, in his mid-50s, with a walking disability.
“I have no idea why they took him,” said Alexei, who, like dozens of others in the office complex, was rounded up and taken to the nearest military enlistment office, part of a harsh new phase in the Russian drive.
In cities and towns across Russia, men of fighting age are going into hiding to avoid the officials who are seizing them and sending them to fight in Ukraine.
Police and military press-gangs in recent days have snatched men off the streets and outside Metro stations. They’ve lurked in apartment building lobbies to hand out military summonses. They’ve raided office blocks and hostels. They’ve invaded cafes and restaurants, blocking the exits.
At a predawn sweep on the Mipstroy1 construction company dormitories on Thursday, they took more than 200 men. On Oct. 9, they rounded up dozens at a Moscow shelter for the homeless.
The press-gangs appear to descend at random. It is terrifying — and, at times, comically haphazard. Alexei, a 30-something pacifist, lives with his cat and, until he was hauled off, enjoyed hanging out with friends in bars, cafes and parks, going to concerts and planning his next holiday in Europe. (He and others in this report spoke on the condition that his last name be withheld out of concern for his safety. The Washington Post has confirmed the raid, but could not independently verify the details he provided.)
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Sometimes it takes a while for the truth to come out...the Trump Russia collusion stories eventually were found completely false. Now we know Putin colluded with Hillary/Democrats to overthrow Trump.
Putin has greatly helped the globalist elites.
yep
Motivated? Motivated like US forces in Viet Nam - with the draft?
His web site preferences are any site with the .ru tag, Tass, Izvestia, and for fun back issues of Krokodil.
Is Iran on the side of America, neoconned dupe?
Quack your neocon globalist talking points at me all you want.
I'm for AMERICA, not the DC coupsters who are running wild with their forever wars.
You sound like you are with the Forever War Party.
Kinda like being on the Oprah Show: "And YOU get Shanghaied...and YOU get Shanghaied..."
After 20 years of wearing away fighting age US Men in incessant 3rd world wars, feminization, and open border narcotics, the nwo is now destroying the Eastern Slavs in one fell swoop!
Sounds as if the populace are becoming “impressed.”
Not this Krokodil, I suppose, or we would “lose” him soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yau7tMPr89Q
Ha, Nazi propaganda! Russian men are happily marching off to war to fight the Ukranazis, who will soon be completely defeated. /s
The businessmen on balconies are killed off faster than the conscripts. Russia is a corrupt dump that survives on gas and oil.
Yeah, if it doesn’t support Putin and Russia, it’s a propaganda piece. Obviously.
Lighten up, WMarshal, I just ate and your bile is upsetting my digestion.
I remember the same thing in a slightly different manner happening circa 1960’s USA. They just called it a draft, and they would come get you if you refused. Same sheet, different country.
Now that you mention it... I didn’t see any kids in my brief time in Sochi. And all the men I saw were drunk before noon. The hotels and restaurants were owned by Indians.
Stop bleating like a fool and I will never bother you again. Take a moment and unbunch your panties.
Also, get a supply of tissues for your tears this winter.
Don’t put words in my mouth. Ukraine has the morale boost of defending their own soil. What do the Russian conscripts have?
Having briefly passed through Ukraine... I gladly volunteer to help procreate the next generation of Ukrainian babies.
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