Posted on 09/05/2014 4:58:55 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
Lyubov Maksimova’s soldier son called his father from an unknown number last week. He told him he was involved in “training exercises” in the Rostov region – a Russian territory bordering Ukraine – and then swiftly hung up.
The telephone call came a day after Maksimova held a press conference, during which she demanded to know where her son was. At the time, Ilya Maksimov, 20, had not been in touch with his parents for 10 days. This was uncharacteristic. “He always took care not to alarm me.
He always called,” says Maksimova, a resident of the Saratov region. “Then, suddenly, we have days of silence.” When asked whether or not she believed her son had been sent to fight in Ukraine, she says: “It’s all simply too much. I don’t know what to think any more.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Journalist, author, and Chechen war veteran Arkady Babchenko has observed what he believes to be both helplessness and apathy on the part of the Russian public in the face of their soldiers’ involvement in the Ukrainian conflict.
“People are acting like it’s 1937,” says Babchenko, referring to the bloodiest year of the Stalinist Terror. “It’s not but there is a fear that lives in people, planted by years of Putin’s rule.”
GWB looked deep into the eyes of Putin and found he had a soul so no worries my dear/sc.
At least though Putie semi-behaved himself when Booooooosh was president but Bammy he utterly despises.
Wrong. These are the people who elevated the little monster to power and still are supporting him in huge numbers. They deserve what they get.
W is a man. Hussein is a punk
Well at least America has exportd ons set of values to America. Bleeding heart liberal journalism seems to have made the trip to russia
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