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Where Have All the Men in Moscow Gone?
NYSlimes ^ | 19-OCT-2022 | Valerie Hopkins

Posted on 10/19/2022 8:23:00 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas

Friday afternoons at the Chop-Chop Barbershop in central Moscow used to be busy, but at the beginning of a recent weekend, only one of the four chairs was occupied.

“We would usually be full right now, but about half of our customers have gone,” said the manager, a woman named Olya. Many of the clients — along with half of the barbers, too — have fled Russia to avoid President Vladimir V. Putin’s campaign to mobilize hundreds of thousands of men for the flagging military campaign in Ukraine.

Many men have been staying off the streets out of fear of being handed a draft notice. As Olya came to work last Friday, she said, she witnessed the authorities at each of the four exits of the metro station, checking documents.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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“I feel like we are a country of women now,” Stanislava, a 33-year-old photographer, said at a recent birthday party that was attended mostly by women. “I was searching for male friends to help me move some furniture, and I realized almost all of them had left.”
1 posted on 10/19/2022 8:23:00 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
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Where are those brave Moscovites? Hiding in closets? Dressed as women?

Archived version: https://archive.ph/GgyP0


2 posted on 10/19/2022 8:24:05 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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To: DannyTN; marcusmaximus

“And if I have to vote against Republicans to make sure Ukraine is supported, I’ll consider doing so.”

I’m in that exact situation right now. My congressman is Roger Williams (TX-25). He voted against the last Ukraine funding bill. I’m upset with him, but going to vote straight R during early voting next week.

Only voted D once in my entire life. Jane Byrne for mayor of Chicago.

Can’t cross that threshold yet. But lets see what 2023 and 2024 brings.

8 posted on 10/18/2022 12:04:05 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
(RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)

3 posted on 10/19/2022 8:25:24 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Well, the part of your post where you title the source as the ‘NYSlimes’ is correct.

The rest? Doubtful.


4 posted on 10/19/2022 8:26:15 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

They’re ‘identifying’ as old women in babushkas picking cabbages, Comrade!


5 posted on 10/19/2022 8:27:24 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Sberbank, Russia’s largest lender, closed 529 branches in September alone, “according to Kommersant newspaper.”


6 posted on 10/19/2022 8:27:52 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Comrade, I’m a Conservative before I’m a Republican.


7 posted on 10/19/2022 8:28:48 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Not true no matter how many times you say it.


8 posted on 10/19/2022 8:30:58 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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Poor strippers.

“Local media report that attendance at one of the largest strip clubs in Moscow went down by 60 percent and that there are also fewer security guards available because they had either been mobilized or fled.”


9 posted on 10/19/2022 8:33:08 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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Bad Vlad sees his Russian people as dumb pawns to send to the Tsar’s meatgrinder. All this Vlad needs to do is look in the mirror to see Satanic. And he calls The West satanic?

What Hitler said before his suicide. That the German people were not worthy of him. Vlad might hit this wall too.


10 posted on 10/19/2022 8:33:16 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: Tench_Coxe

Lets get on the scene reports from NorseViking and Kazan!


11 posted on 10/19/2022 8:35:30 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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To: Tench_Coxe

This is my favorite Speedy comment. These people are truly unhinged.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4099982/posts?page=15#15

To: Travis McGee
I would rather the world end in nuclear war than yield to Little Pukin.

15 posted on 10/12/2022, 6:02:03 AM by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)


12 posted on 10/19/2022 8:35:45 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Time for Tsar Putin to start drafting chicks. At least a bit more of a party in the trench before the drone grenade drops on your head.


13 posted on 10/19/2022 8:35:47 AM PDT by Callahan ( )
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14 posted on 10/19/2022 8:36:50 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Tench_Coxe

Yes, Speedy and company have gone completely off the rails hoping for WWIII and nuclear holocaust. With Joe Biden at the helm the Ukraine strategy has got to be almost as good as his withdrawal from Afghanistan was. Those boys really know how to pick a winner!

If you thought the level of ridiculous propaganda provided last month was comical wait until this winter when the Europeans start to face the reality of what this idiocy has accomplished. It would be funny except that millions of people are going to starve who have no connection to Ukraine and if you think inflation is bad now... wait until the real shortages begin. Way to go boys!


15 posted on 10/19/2022 8:36:56 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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16 posted on 10/19/2022 8:41:11 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: Tench_Coxe

Imagine that!

Good work!


17 posted on 10/19/2022 8:42:06 AM PDT by crz
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To: SpeedyInTexas

if only one out of four is occupied, that’s a 75% drop, not half...


18 posted on 10/19/2022 8:42:19 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

“I feel like we are a country of women now,”

I’m torn between commenting about how Russia could become a new sex tourism hotspot, or how Russia has caught up to the US on this topic, so I’ll do both!


19 posted on 10/19/2022 8:49:37 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

We need to be worrying about our own men — the absentee fathers, the metrosexuals, the over-tattooed, the steroid taking freaks, and the LGBTs — before we turn up our noses about Russian men.


20 posted on 10/19/2022 8:58:16 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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