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| Ukrainians Speak about Being Taken to Russia |
| 2022-08-21 |
| [Spiegel] Before the Russian attack he lived with his cat in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. When he wasn't acting, he wrote poetry and read nonfiction. When he tried to flee from the attacks on his city in the spring, he ran into Russian soldiers. Then, as has presumably happened to hundreds of thousands of his fellow citizens, he was deported to Russia. According to a ruling from Moscow published on March 12, Ukrainians can be distributed to places ranging from the North Caucasus to the country's far east. Ukrainians seeking help registered in Perm near the Ural Mountains and even as far away as the Pacific island of Sakhalin in the east. "The Russians acted as if they were helping us," Krasnikov recounts, with astonishment in his voice. He shares a cabin on the ship in Tallinn with two men, one of them an old school friend from Mariupol. He eats in the dining hall three times a day. Sometimes, he goes for a walk on the Isabelle, through the empty casino, past the duty-free store, where expensive cosmetics were once sold and the bags of refugees are piled up today. When he wants to leave the ship, he takes the elevator down and checks out with a boarding pass. But it's a manageable life compared to the odyssey that lies behind him. |
| Posted by:Thing From Snowy Mountain |
| #2 Is Putin trying to solve the population collapse of Russia with force immigration? I believe that’s part of it, Rob. And also to send Ukraine down the Darwinian spiral first, because the additions won’t be enough to save Russia. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-08-21 11:43 |
| #1 Is Putin trying to solve the population collapse of Russia with force immigration? Or is he just running a nation of war criminals? Amazing the lengths he'll go to avoid giving the Russian people a reason to have kids voluntarily. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2022-08-21 10:27 |