Posted on 10/10/2024 6:30:07 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
AP — About 200 women ages 18-22 from across Africa have been recruited to work in a factory alongside Russian vocational students assembling thousands of Iranian-designed attack drones to be launched into Ukraine.
In interviews with The Associated Press, some of the women said they were misled that it would be a work-study program, describing long hours under constant surveillance, broken promises about wages and areas of study, and working with caustic chemicals that left their skin pockmarked and itching.
The AP analyzed satellite images of the complex in Russia’s republic of Tatarstan and its leaked internal documents, spoke to a half-dozen African women who ended up there, and tracked down hundreds of videos in the online recruiting program to piece together life at the plant in what is called the Alabuga Special Economic Zone, about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) east of Moscow.
What to know from AP´s reporting:
Russia and Iran signed a $1.7 billion deal in 2022 after President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of neighboring Ukraine, and Moscow began launching Iranian imports of drones later that year.
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It reinforces my view of the Ukraine-Russian war as the first real Drone War.
How much of the Iranian drone technology got its start with the capture of our RQ-170 Sentinel in Dec 2011 that Obama didn’t want to blow up?
It seems odd they have to find 200 foreigners to do such work.
It most certainly has redefined land warfare. Everything we’ve spent trillions on is pretty much obsolete now. Tanks, attack helicopters, air craft carriers, A-10s, etc. Our subs still give us plenty of bang for the buck.
I thought the Russians imported their workers from the “istan” Central Asian countries.
The Russians should be more like Prog Socialist American Blue States and Recruit African Migrants to work in Organized Retail Smash and Grab Theft Gangs, Organized Home Invasion Theft Gangs, and Organized Antifa and Organized BLM Riot, Murder, Loot and Arson Gangs, like we do here in America.
Those awful Russians just won't help bring the Jungle back to Africans.
Or put the Associated Presstitute Disinformation front and center on their Social Media.
They will use whatever resources they have available to pursue their goals.
There may be good reasons to avoid workers from some of the 'stans. I have a source who reported from Tajikistan. They claimed widespread disatisfaction with Russia about how people from Tajikistan have been treated during the war.
The source is credible. No, I will not give details.
How much insight they have in a complex situation is difficult to say.
There are favored groups and not so favored groups.
The war has accentuated internal rifts.
The war is soaking up resources which could have gone to better use internally.
It will be interesting to see the fall out from this horrible, mistake ridden, Russian and Western Civilization weakening conflict. The real winner seems to be China.
It frees up 200 Russians to go the the front lines meat grinder.
Next step is to hire Hessians...
“”””It seems odd they have to find 200 foreigners to do such work.”””””
From the article “Facing a wartime labor shortage in Russia, Alabuga has recruited from African countries like Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, South Sudan, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, as well as the South Asian country of Sri Lanka. The drive is expanding to elsewhere in Asia as well as Latin America.”
When African Peoples travel outside of Africa for work and/or training they often gain skills and ability and personal monetary resources.
They MAY return to Africa to share those skills with others.
We should be discussing when they do and why, along when they don't and why.
I noticed that, too.
Thus my sarcastic tagline for a couple of years now.
“ I thought the Russians imported their workers from the “istan” Central Asian countries.”
I guess they decided it was safer to import Christian women than muslims.
A good point. I do not see it mentioned elsewhere. I believe the United States was a major innovator in using women as a labor source to produce war material during WWII. It certainly happened in the Soviet Union during WWII, and probably before the war as well. The British used women as part of the work force during WWII.
The Germans in WWII had a policy of prioritizing the woman's role as wife and mother. Wartime necessity had half a million German women working in war industries in 1945. This is a seldom mentioned difference between Hitler's National Socialism and Russia's International Socialism.
Women in the USA were used to produce cartridges at home during the U.S. revolutionary war, and since. They were certainly used during the Civil War.
Realistically, before the industrial age, women were a large part of any production done in the home, out of simple necessity.
Needs to be repeated often.
Sounds like that factory would make a good target to save lives in the war. Do the Ukes have anything that could hit it?
“It seems odd they have to find 200 foreigners to do such work.”
Their economy is on steroids, thanks to the Neocon ‘sanctions’. Not so much for Europe, though, LOL!
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