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Russia's 'Shadow Mobilization' Accelerates With New Ethnic Units From The North Caucasus
Radio Free Europe ^ | 6/26/2022 | Yekaterina Bezmenova

Posted on 06/30/2022 1:07:01 PM PDT by marcusmaximus

Faced with a deepening personnel crisis within its military, Russia is scrambling to find fighters for its war in Ukraine and recruiting heavily from its North Caucasus region to form new units along ethnic lines who are then deployed with minimal training.

Regional officials from Daghestan, Ingushetia, and Kalmykia have announced plans to form rifle companies that are each made up of soldiers from a particular Russian republic. According to reporting by Caucasus.Realities, a regional news outlet of RFE/RL’s North Caucasus Service, these national units are formed primarily of contract soldiers who have previous military training and have been targeted by local recruitment drives aimed at pressuring and enticing men of military age to join the war in Ukraine.

“It seems that the governors [of these North Caucasus republics] were instructed to form extra forces in addition to official recruitment through the military registration and enlistment offices,” Sergei Krivenko, director of the Citizen. Army. Law human rights group, told RFE/RL.

Krivenko says that Citizen. Army. Law is monitoring the formation of these units closely but says that much is still not clear about the conditions and circumstances they will all face, including pay and whether they will be officially classified as military personnel within the Defense Ministry or be designated as paramilitary or mercenary units, which could leave them in a legal gray area.

He adds that while the formation of such units is happening across all of Russia at the moment, the North Caucasus is a particular target, with the region home to some of the lowest living standards and salaries in the entire country.

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while the formation of such units is happening across all of Russia at the moment, the North Caucasus is a particular target, with the region home to some of the lowest living standards and salaries in the entire country.



1 posted on 06/30/2022 1:07:01 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

They beat them up to get them to join up ? LOL


2 posted on 06/30/2022 1:11:32 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: marcusmaximus

Since Russia has frequent “troubles” with the Caucuses, it’s sort of a win-win to use them as cannon fodder. You get to throw troops that actual Russians don’t care about into the meat grinder, and you reduce the “military age male” population of these problematic regions.


3 posted on 06/30/2022 1:42:42 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: marcusmaximus

200,000 rubles a month (US$3,900) in combat zone is standard pay. Wagner Group Mercenaries used to earn 2X that, but their pay has fallen to the army standard also.


4 posted on 06/30/2022 2:20:29 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Russians don’t care about

Not only not care about, but their arrival as 200s will not be counted in any Orc official combat loss statistics.


5 posted on 06/30/2022 2:22:57 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Many Russian Federation subordinate CIS soldiers have died in Ukraine already.

This was one of many reasons Ukraine pulled out of the RUbe Federation subordinate CIS in 2012.

UA had lost their young men in RU operations in four countries they did not want to fight against, and there was concern they would be forced to fight with their neighbors.

Obviously legitimate concerns...


6 posted on 06/30/2022 3:01:24 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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As sh*t continues to spiral downward for the Ukrainians.
But don’t let this very credible source get in the way of your continued propaganda spewage:

‘Jacques Baud: The Military Situation In The Ukraine – Update’
https://labourheartlands.com/jacques-baud-the-military-situation-in-the-ukraine-update/


7 posted on 06/30/2022 3:07:49 PM PDT by cranked
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“Don’t go there if they don’t force you,”

AND THAT IS QUITE A RECRUITING SLOGAN.

I can only imagine their marching cadence?

Please Pres Putin nuke them now; cause I gotta get out somehow...

Am I right or wrong?

YOUR RIGHT!!!


8 posted on 06/30/2022 4:12:04 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (trailer.)
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To: cranked

Putin is losing.


9 posted on 06/30/2022 5:14:15 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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True. Russia’s allies aren’t trusting it, either.

“Mad dog” status. Who wants to cooperate with russia?
https://youtu.be/QdN_OeSrHkg


10 posted on 06/30/2022 5:35:23 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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Russia suffered irreparable losses on Snake Island and was forced to withdraw - Leshchenko
https://youtu.be/HdZ5qj157ok


11 posted on 06/30/2022 5:40:22 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: marcusmaximus

Video posted a couple of weeks ago from a report that’s nearly a month old.

Food Prices in Russia are Skyrocketing
https://youtu.be/VlpRLJ4Mvb0


12 posted on 06/30/2022 5:51:31 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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ABORTION IN RUSSIA | Do Women Have The Right?
https://youtu.be/-taZljk5OiQ

This man’s channel is interesting.

INSIDE RUSSIA
https://www.youtube.com/c/LETTERSTOKING/videos


13 posted on 06/30/2022 6:16:54 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: marcusmaximus

~Welcome to the hotel Ukraini~

~You can check out any time you like...but you can never leave~

The more of Putin’s mongoloid hordes die, the better for the world.


14 posted on 06/30/2022 6:26:15 PM PDT by Vaden (CAUTION: Defending Putin=Defending Hitler=MAGA Destruction)
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To: cranked

If you have the attention span and time, there are Several Related Arguments and Observations I am going to make, and then try to tie them, and relate them to what you posted —

*******

Recent History —

Support for Marxist Communism, as well as global scale financial support from modern day Communist Internationale related sources (which once included its subordinate Supreme Soviet), continue to support centrally controlled global totalitarianism and proliferation anywhere it can, including the currently near split Chinese Politburo, a slim majority of which still support Xi Jinping.

Communist International still permeates and finamces/directs most of the Duma/Parliament and Kremlin in Moscow, as well as funds all things “Renaissance Foundation/Capital, etc”, even with Russia’s energy export economy.

*******

Further historical rehash —

In 1991, I was there in Moscow when most of the Politburo simply slid over into the previously toothless parliament (created by Lenin in 1921 [seme year Lenin chose Mao to spread the Communist Revolution throughout ALL of East Asia], to fool the West into thinking the CCCP had a parliament).

*******

Still Today —

Leftist supported agencies and NGO’s associated with, or dominated by current KGB/FSB, GRU, and MSS are actively supporting SEBIN, DAI, *CNI, D-2, *VAJA, and numerous other national Intel agencies and ngo front’s and finance arrangements.

These have their hands in myriad organizations, including all over the US, and even US government.

A number of these (predominant appendage fronts of the FSB and GRU) have been heavily active, and in partnerships with leftist US and other international leftist NGO’s in organizing mass illegal trafficking into the US. (There are a number of Open Source records and pieces on this)

But relax, it’s far worse than I am conveying.

*Then last week, mostly in Hebrew (even while my Hebrew is bad), IDF’s Cyber Directorate, and even an overly cautious and reluctant Israeli Defense Minister (Benny Gantz), revealed they also have proof Iran (and those working with Iranian VAJA with permission from Ali Khamenei), did indeed penetrate and influence the outcome of the NOV 2020 US election.

I don’t believe you need to be informed as to who those entities were -

Lets just say, Trump had necessarily crushed their economies, and flooded the energy export market of one of them.

*******

Historically —

Both National Socialists (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were anti-God and leftist socialists (and Communism was and is a socialist state).

Both Germany and the CCCP were at their core humanist and socialist. As well, while the numbers are not clear, between the humanist/socialist led Bolshevic Revolution and 1938, most of the more neutral “estimates” (up to WWII, and from Lenin [Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov] to Stalin [Ioseb Jughashvili]) there were somewhere between 33 Million up to near 54 Million people either slaughtered in the various communist “revolutions”, or starved or worked to death as slaves within the CCCP.

Again, this was largely pre-WWII.

There are multiple historians who have tried to put it all together (and who are still trying), but there is careful internal and external study and credibility behind Ukraine having ultimately lost approximately 20-22 Million people to multiple socialist/communist revolutions, and deliberate large/national scale starvation, and forced displacement and enslavement policy (mostly taken to Russian/Siberia and modern day CIS, directed at Ukraine because many of the farmers would not give up their farms and land, and were perceived threats to the CCCP and Moscow’s Supreme Soviet - again, pre 1938.

UA was crushed by the Communist Red Army, then crushed by the NAZI Army, then run back over by the Red Army.

There were three “macro groups” of people in Ukraine at the run up to the WWII German NAZI Army takeover of Ukraine -

1. Those who fought the Nazi’s and died (millions).
2. Those who tried to compromise with the Nazi’s, stay quiet, and to stay alive, or secret work against the Nazi’s.
3. Those who fought with the German Nazi’s, seeing chance to defeat Stalin and the CCCP which had already killed near or over 20 Million Ukrainians.

In other words, the option was a horrific new German Socialist army vs. the already known horrific Soviet Socialist Red Army.

Those were really bad optiims no matter how one may try to paint it.

Of course, Hitler and Stalin had the secret agreement to divide Eastern Europe, which both socialist leaders quickly violated.

After WWII, there was a whole lot of coverup and whitewashing, but absolute horrors were uncovered from both sides, stretching from well before Stalin took a sliver of Poland, followed by Germany going all “Blitzkrieg Postal” through all of Poland and eventually nearly surrounding Moscow (except to the East).

There are very impressive monuments on the edge of Moscow,marking the extent of German Army advances. I have several photos, and from different locations around Moscow, where I worked for nearly a decade, before my Service time.

Decades later, I was a member of a really good team which discovered approximately 2 dozen more very large, previously unmarked, mass graves of Ukrainian and Jewish Ukrainian soldiers and their families who were executed by the NAZI Army in Ukraine.

These are still being studied, but are together likely between 1.6 to 1.8 Million more people killed and not previously counted.

Worse, there is a firestorm of opposition to study and publication coming from both Germany, and yes Moscow. As well there is a significant classified aspect to all of this as well. So another modern WWII mess continuum.

*******

Again to the present —

As far as neo-Nazi’s go, there is a much greater dynamic to the NAZI proliferation problem than you know, which historically included some in Ukraine, and some of these guys have been bold enough to go on national televised programs, and have since been assassinated by FSB -

https://www.memri.org/dttm/foreign-fighters-least-35-neo-nazi-white-supremacist-and-ultranationalist-groups-based-us-texas

https://informnapalm.org/en/russian-neo-nazis-in-the-ranks-of-wagner-pmc/

https://bitterwinter.org/nazism-in-ukraine-7-russian-propaganda/

https://bitterwinter.org/nazism-in-ukraine-6-pro-russian-nazi-fighters/

Whatever you do, don’t scroll down and look at these pics
https://newslanc.com/tsukerman-russian-nazi-volunteers-in-donbas/

Russian Communist/Nazi alliance fighting in Donbas to take Eastern Ukraine for Russia a.d joint Communist and NAZI’s supported and fighting together

https://www.outono.net/elentir/2022/03/01/the-alliance-of-pro-russian-communists-and-nazis-fighting-against-ukraine-in-donbas/

SENT FROM RUSSIA —
https://khpg.org/en/1608809502
https://khpg.org/en/1445287320

Russian 8th Army in Ukraine —

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_separatist_forces_in_Donbas

Poor saps, as happened in Syria, Georgia, and Libya, Putin won’t allow the world to know who they were, or their families to be compensated, as it would tip the world off that Putin and his FSB have been funding, training, and using actual RUSSIAN neo-NAZI’s to destabilize Ukraine since at least 2004/2005, and much more since 2012.

Their deaths would reveal how Moscow has literally been training and supporting neo-NAZI’s, and not just in Eastern Ukraine —
*******

Actually, truth be told, there is a lot more, and the following is only a fraction —

I have personally spent time proximal to метро Комсамольская (Metro Station Commsamolskaya, North Central Moscow), and been to two of it’s modern global socialist news/newspaper offices. (And yes, the rumors of 20th Century, all male bathhouses were/are correct, mirroring the German “Pink Swastika” history, only this was/is Russia.

The Young Communist are yet also associated with Ria Novosti (KGB/FSB), downtown Moscow.

Komsamol — was and is the Young Communist organization HQ’d in Moscow, really consisting of ages 13 up to 29 years of age, with the parent organization once being the Communist Party of Soviet Union, but still funded by Communist Internationale, and multiple socialist parties within current government *INCLUDING “Novorossiya”.

Interestingly, “Novorossiya” is a coalition party which also consists of these —

https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/mappingmilitants/profiles/russian-imperial-movement

Small elements of an associated team once provided significant information to CISAC/Stanford (as Stanford study was already well along), and SIGACT details of neo-NAZI research of financial ties and attacks (INCLUDING to very recent, and on foreign soil, including Ukraine, the Balkans, Germany, Spain, France, and half dozen countries in Latin America, Mexico/Canada/US), as well as it’s DIRECT historical financing and training ties to NKVD/KGB/FSB and GRU/Spetsnaz, (including historical to current).

Yes, many if these have direct ties to Putin’s past East German KGB Stazi, and current FSB, GRU, and NGO’s (some of which are currently operational and involved organizationally in trafficking in Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatamala, El Salvador, Panama, Peru, Venezuela, etc...

It has been estimated by several colleagues of mine, as well as some folks over at Ria Novosti (before we were “closed out”), there may well be significantly more than half a million neo-Nazi”s in and from Russia.

So there is an “enemies foreign and domestic” conspiracy to not only destabilize UA, but the US itself.

Russian neo-NAZI proxy organizations of course range in size from small to very large, and involved in multiple government parties and “mega-billionaire Oligarchs -

- RIM (including “Partizan”//”Guerilla”)
- Imperial Legion
- DPNI
- ROD
- United Russia Party
- Russian Ethno Political Association
(REPA)
- RGS
- Moscow Defense League
- New Force
- Orthodox Nationalist
- NSI - Opposition Coordination Counsel
neo-Nazi National Socialist Initiative (NSI)
- National Democratic Party of Russia (NDP)
- Russian All-National Union (large RONS umbrella)
- REPA and other subordinates
- Slavic Force (SS)
- Russian National Front
- Rodina
- The Last Crusade

This is dynamic, and a few of those have now merged, or taken over others.

All associated with, or under the formal umbrella political party called *Novorossiya*, but not exclusive.
Subsequently, while well published, these groups have mostly “escaped” Russian law enforcement and FSB scrutiny, and even provided known cover -

SOP’s are also aligned with longstanding and KNOWN FSB political an national “Destabilization by Corruptive Means” of foreign governments. Some teams used to refer to as part of larger Asymmetric Political Destabilization.

Statements of some of these Russian Neo-NAZI organizations, literally mirror written FSB FOREIGN DESTABILIZATION strategy.

“Vorobyev has stated that the greatest threat to the Russian nation is “the stability of anti-Russian regimes on all the territory inhabited by the Russian ethnos.”

As a matter of historical record of Russian interventional strategy in Ukraine, RIM saw an opportunity to destabilize the Kiev government and further its objective of protecting ethnic Russians.”

“In March 2015, the group attended the International Russian Conservative Forum, a conference for white supremacists held in St. Petersburg and organized by Rodina, a far-right Russian political party.
[*Not any part of this info was the focus, but we were able to tie funding to multiple Kremlin oligarch accounts, including Sberbank among others, as well as a few foreign transactions.]

Other attendees included U.S. white supremacists, such as Jared Taylor, who serves as the editor of the U.S. white supremacist publication American Renaissance.

Also in attendance were European extreme-right organizations, including

- Golden Dawn (Greece),

- National Democratic Party (Germany)

- Forza Nuova (Italy).

In September 2015, RIM leader Vorobyev traveled to Sweden to meet with the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM), a neo-Nazi group active across Scandinavian countries and spoke at the NRM’s “Nordic Days” event.

In June 2015, RIM joined Rodina in co-founding the World National Conservative Movement (WNCM). A network of extreme-right groups from around the world, WNCM opposes pluralism, tolerance, and other liberal values, according to its manifesto.

The network promotes the use of violence in service of its ideology.

RIM invited over 50 extreme-right, white supremacist, and neo-Nazi groups from 28 countries to join WNCM, including:

National Democratic Party (Germany)

Nordic Resistance Movement (Sweden)

A full list of WNCM-affiliated organizations can be seen under “Relations with other groups” in this profile.

RIM leaders intended the WNCM network to facilitate the sharing of tactical skills across peer organizations and promote their own paramilitary training program.”

Some of these have direct ties to multiple pre and post WWII NAZI families from Germany (East Germany), Russia, and Argentina/Chile -

This is not all we know or have, but as a true principled anti-NAZI, and true principled anti-socialist/anti-communist this is already more than most people have for attention span, especially those who have bought the real lie’s and propaganda from the Kremlin.

*******

It has been a few years, but the teams I was truly honored to serve with early on in the IC were largely principled patriots.

It did not remain this way for sure.

However, Jacques Baud was on multiple lists, including our own *closed list of compromised or “captured” individuals not to engage with.

Not saying we absolutely had it all correct, but his associations, friendships, and project advocacy at the with known KGB and MSS operatives at the UN cemented it for us.

I could go much further, but doubt you will get this far -


15 posted on 06/30/2022 6:37:51 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: marcusmaximus; familyop

If you are interested, you may want to see response #15.

You already know some of it, but still may want to take a look -


16 posted on 06/30/2022 6:44:47 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: patriotfury

Thank you. I’m reading it and following links along with some of your other comments.


17 posted on 06/30/2022 7:06:49 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: familyop

It’s long, and I made a bunch of mistakes due to tired eyes, and a badly broken phone screen.

I apologize for screw ups.


18 posted on 06/30/2022 7:45:52 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: marcusmaximus

More cannon fodder.


19 posted on 07/10/2022 12:27:58 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: cranked

The s seems to be spiralling upwards for the Ukrainians.

Jacques has lied. I hope you see that now, 3 months later


20 posted on 10/02/2022 9:04:34 PM PDT by Cronos
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