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They Came for the Music. They Left With Draft Officers for Ukraine’s Army.
NY Times ^ | Oct 18, 2024 | Maria Varenikova

Posted on 10/17/2024 9:45:32 PM PDT by McGruff

Okean Elzy is one of the top bands in Ukraine. It has a kitschy, stadium rock style, and songs with patriotic themes that for decades have provided the soundtrack to anti-Russia protests.

Tickets to its concerts are highly prized. But they suddenly became available after the first of three sold-out concerts in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, on Friday night. The reason? Draft officers and the police had waited outside the concert hall, looking for men trying to dodge military service in the country’s war with Russia. They asked men to see their draft papers and detained those who had not registered.

“People, help me please!” shouted a young man being dragged away from the concert hall by officers, a video shared on social media showed.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine; War
KEYWORDS: bidenswar; cookiemonster; killkillkillforpeace; mariavarenikova; mic; obamaslegacy; pressgang; shanghaied; tothelastukrainian; ukraine; victorinuland; welfarewar
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1 posted on 10/17/2024 9:45:32 PM PDT by McGruff
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Full article here.

https://archive.ph/XoSyT#selection-827.0-843.138

And they need Taylor Swift to do a concert.


2 posted on 10/17/2024 9:47:02 PM PDT by McGruff (Ask everyone, Are you better off than you were four years ago?)
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FR zeepers enter tumescence...


3 posted on 10/17/2024 9:48:01 PM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: McGruff

“It’s A Trap!”


4 posted on 10/17/2024 9:49:04 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: McGruff

Zzzzzellinssskyyyy’s meatgrinder has quite an appetite! IT MUST BE SATISFIED!!!


5 posted on 10/17/2024 9:51:08 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: McGruff

They came for cannon fodder.


6 posted on 10/17/2024 9:52:31 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: McGruff

When is Zzzzzellinskkyyy gonna lead by example? Put a gun in his globohomo hands and send his ass to the front!


7 posted on 10/17/2024 9:52:42 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Nervous Tick

Exceeded only for The Big Man’s cut.


8 posted on 10/17/2024 9:53:11 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: McGruff

Ukrainian Slacker Raids.


9 posted on 10/17/2024 9:53:21 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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have them play USO type shows for the troops near the front for the duration

would be a lot better use for them than just a few more meatsacks anyway...


10 posted on 10/17/2024 10:32:21 PM 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: McGruff

I might do a Corporal Klinger if I were a 19 year old hohol.
Picked up on Thursday. Kitted out Friday. On the battlefield Saturday.
Sticking an AK barrel in your own mouth Sunday. But the Rainbow flag was worth it!


11 posted on 10/17/2024 10:41:19 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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[“People, help me please!” shouted a young man being dragged away from the concert hall by officers]

Pure cannon fodder - where’s Vicky Nuland and her bag of cookies?


12 posted on 10/17/2024 10:48:14 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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They asked men to see their draft papers and detained those who had not registered.

This is what's in store for your kids/grandkids if you let Kamala into the white house.

13 posted on 10/17/2024 10:49:37 PM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: kiryandil; Nervous Tick; dfwgator; dead; Allegra; bimboeruption; aMorePerfectUnion

Turns out Victoria Nuland was the Real Cookie Monster


14 posted on 10/17/2024 10:51:16 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: kiryandil; dfwgator; Nervous Tick

I had to look it up:

Volkssturm


15 posted on 10/17/2024 10:54:11 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Nervous Tick

You’re talking about KKKomodomir Sukinsuinovich Zelensky, HMFIC of “ukraine”??


16 posted on 10/17/2024 11:06:05 PM PDT by ganeemead (everything )
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To: kiryandil
[Maria Varenikova, New York Times]

Is that a Sunburn or a gin blossom?


17 posted on 10/17/2024 11:24:04 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Nervous Tick

He’s too busy “playing” piano and making nuclear threats if his tantrum isn’t acknowledged.


18 posted on 10/17/2024 11:24:39 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: ganeemead
I'm sure the guys they dragged out of the concert kicking and screaming will do wonders for moral on the front lines. I can't really blame them for not wanting to die for Soros, black rock and greedy politicians. This is a call to arms for all those people sitting at home who support the war. Time is running out. It's time to get off the couch and get to Ukraine. Biden just announced another $425 million dollars for Ukraine. Now they just need people who are willing to die for all those dollars. Desperation is in the air. The mental midget is talking about nuclear Armageddon. Will the defenders of democracy just sit back on their couches and watch Ukraine fall to the evil Russian empire?
19 posted on 10/18/2024 12:06:24 AM PDT by Rdct29 (The Democrats Are The New Nazi Party )
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To: McGruff

In part it is our Deep States fault because they installed Sweater Man. The average Uke speaks Russian as the first language, has close ties to Russia and the vast majority cannot speak much less read their native tongue. It is a smoke screen the public is being fed. Where is the embedded MSM showing the action? From Vietnam to present the MSM has always inserted itself in every war but Kosovo, Ukraine and Gaza where we had nightly coverage and footage of the slugfest. Reason being it is the piggybanks of congress shelling out that foreign aid money so they can cash in before the walls close in.


20 posted on 10/18/2024 3:56:08 AM PDT by Slingwing
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