Posted on 10/13/2022 7:09:53 AM PDT by Salohcin
The Russian authorities have resorted to raiding hostels and hotels in search of men who may be eligible for military service as part of the country's "partial" mobilization, according to multiple media reports.
Two Moscow locations of the Travel Inn hostel chain were visited by the police last week, according to a report by broadcaster RTVi, which cited a hostel representative.
At one of the hostels, all guests eligible for military conscription were rounded up and sent to an enlistment center where men with prior military experience had their passports confiscated and were ordered to report back with their belongings the next day, according to the broadcaster.
Similar round ups have been taking place in other Moscow hotels and hostels for at least two weeks, according to information obtained by news outlet VPost.
Hostel and hotel searches have also been carried out in the city of Vladivostok in Russia's Far East, according to VPost-media.
"[The police] came to us and to our competitors as well. We have a lot of people from other cities [staying with us] since mobilization began; perhaps, they are running away from it," a hostel manager in Vladivostok told VPost-media.
Under Russian law, all hostels and hotels in the country are legally obliged to provide the Ministry of Interior with information on all their residents.
The recent searches suggest that the Russian authorities are working to integrate various government databases to step up mobilization efforts and to crack down on draft dodgers, according to Russian digital rights watchdog Network Freedoms.
If you’re going to hide, hide in a brothel. Nobody would think to look there.
Getting ‘volunteers’ this way will make for a disaster............cannon fodder.................
Nah, that wouldn’t work. They would just run into FSB officers enjoying their free time.
sounds like the old British “press gangs” in the late 1700s
you could be walking a street in Boston and get jumped by a gang of drunken British sailors, kidnapped and forced to join the Royal Navy ... maybe never see your family & friends again
that happened to a lot of innocent early American citizens
Won’t work here. Our hotels are all full of Illegals!
Russian men ain’t stupid. No one wants to be cannon fodder and be forced to die for something they don’t believe in.
This is hardly wwii defending their own territory from the german push inward.
New tshirt idea: I survived Putin’s Folly.
That’ll be great for morale, just like with the old British press gangs.
When you have to force people to fight for your cause you are heading down the wrong path. You will have a fighting force with zero interest in it’s assignment other than to save its own skin.
Ukraine did the same on day one...stopping men with their families and “recruiting” them on the spot.
For those who don’t understand the concept of countries that follow the Napoleonic Code type of legal system which is quite different from the common law, every person must have a registered address. So places like Russia require people staying in hotels to register with the police to find criminals, etc. In this case they are looking for draft dodgers. Also understand that in the former soviet union, people need to have I.D. cards, called internal passports, for every day life, banking, getting a phone contract, etc. Travel passports, for international travel, are different and cost more.
Draft Dodgers: Coming to Amerika in a few years.
I’ll help them.
The smart ones got out of Russia.
Putin will populate his forces with the dumbest of the dumb.
Ah, press gangs, a standard tactic of countries that are handily winning conflicts.
“that happened to a lot of innocent early American citizens”
Yep, and it was one of many complaints that eventually turned the mood of the country towards revolution. Be a real shame if that happened in Russia. Real shame, I tell ya.
Don’t underestimate the skill of Russian propagandists though. They have been successful at convincing at least a significant portion of the Russian population that this is a necessary war, and that if they aren’t fighting in Ukraine, they’ll soon be fighting Americans outside Moscow.
Press gangs. How quaint...
The Ukrainians go car to car in gas station lines.
—”That’ll be great for morale, just like with the old British press gangs.”
Yes!
That is the way to win the hearts and minds of the populace.
Watched an interview with Nina Khrushcheva,(YES, adopted granddaughter) Professor/writer, who just returned from Russia.
The morale in Russia going downhill quickly.
Hear what a professor who just visited Russia noticed...
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