Posted on 09/21/2022 7:35:57 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Police wearing blacked-out helmets are dragging anti-mobilisation protestors off the streets of Russia tonight, as thousands come out to demonstrate against being sent to the front lines in Ukraine.
More than 1,000 people have been arrested tonight in 37 cities across Russia, including Moscow and St Petersburg, as they voiced their anger at President Vladimir Putin's order to mobilise 300,000 reservists.
There have been angry clashes between activists and security forces, with protestors being forcefully taken to the ground and removed from the streets as the government cracks down on vocal dissent.
Demonstrators tonight chanted anti-war slogans, with some calling for Putin himself to go to the trenches in Ukraine, while other's have angrily proclaimed they're not willing to die for him.
It is reported a total of 828 arrests have been made so far, with this number likely to rise throughout the night as the government cracks down on vocal dissent.
In the capital Moscow 303 people have been arrested, while the former imperial capital of St Petersburg saw 279 taken into custody, and 40 more have been arrested in Yekaterinburg, a city east of the Ural Mountains.
As protests spread, many men of fighting age opted to try and leave the country, driven by fears the border might soon be closed, with tickets for one-way flights out of Moscow being snapped up by worried Russians.
The decision to mobilise the country is the first of its type in the country since the Second World War, and has come as Russian forces sustain humiliating losses to advancing Ukrainian troops in the east of the country.
The first protests against the partial mobilisation took place in Siberia, with demonstrators risking being jailed under draconian laws forbidding criticism of the armed forces.
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Propaganda at its best.
GG
Wake me when they storm The Winter Palace.
Wake me up when they’ve been in jail for 20 months, like the Jan 6th Trump supporters in DC.
That was so this mornings.
Ceaușescu Time in Moscow
Anti-war protests can go on for years without much effect on the war-making ability of the regime.
See, for example, the Vietnam War.
My friends in Moscow were out walking too, posting about people they knew who were there. I think they were brave to do that.
Never mind the photographic evidence
2,000 teenage flash mobsters arrived through Telegram ads. That’s the end of Putin:)
Much in the same vain as anything that is not from the Western/US/UK - namely the Daily Mail for one)/EU/NATO propaganda media or is not from the CIA/MI6 fronts like Oryx, Bellingcat, and the war-mongering Kagan family propaganda mill The Institute for the Study of War is not legit or is ‘Russian’ propaganda, huh???
Putin’s bungling his mobilization already. LOL!
_ K Z _ _ P_ R
“Pat, I’d like to buy a vowel please.”
“Yes, I’d like to buy an E.”
_ K Z E E PE R
“Pat, I’d like to solve the puzzle.”
OK ZEEPER!
But, but, a few pics is proof most in Russia are against Putin. /s.
If a 1,000 Russians protesting is a “revolt.” Then 6500+ illegals entering the United States is definitely an invasion.
Yeah, pictures are a dime a dozen these days.
You won’t see these pictures of dissent from Kyiv tho, the neo-yatzi there have fine tuned the art of instantaneous vamping of dissenters, opposition voices, etc.
Propaganda? Which part? There have been mass arrests. There have been large demonstrations.
And the current estimate pushing 55,000 Russian DEAD (which based on common practice, means the total casualties (both dead and injured/wounded) is probably close to 150k.
Thats massive.
And yes, I am aware that this means Ukrainian losses are also likely comparably tragic (along with a LOT of civilian casualties as well - including now verified mass murder of civilians in the first few weeks of the war, and likely more in the Mariupol area... I have pastor and missionary friends in some of the areas not currently occupied - and there are a LOT of families still trying to find “vanished” loved ones. Mass shallow graves have been discovered - many of which have not made the news...
So - again - which propaganda are you referring to?
Lulz. Nice one. *thumbs up*
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