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Lured with promise of Russian bride & job, 2 tortured for refusing to join army | Times of India
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It is really an ongoing low. There have been reports of this with nepalese "joining" the Russian military for a year now. Some may have been voluntary but many took jobs as private support staff only to be sent to the front.
Yeah, they've been kidnapping Indians too and literally torturing them if they refuse to join the army.
Wonderful culture, such nice people.
I think it is important to remember to separate the regime from the people. This has nothing to do with the Russian public. We know there is real opposition, it is just heavily suppressed.
Please remember that dehumanizing a culture or group is one of the ways used to justify treating them exactly how the Russian regime is these people.
It's not some abstract regime that is routinely torturing people in Ukraine and elsewhere, though. There's something deeply fucked up about their culture when you consider that absolutely hair-raising brutality has been a hallmark of theirs for centuries now. It's a colonialist, imperialist, violent and deeply racist mentality.
I had a significant proportion of my family tree (who were Ingrian Finns) genocided by Russians. I'm the first generation in my family for about 100 years who hasn't either had to live under Russian occupation, fight invading Russians, or dodge Russian agents because somebody in the family dared stand up to them (yes I'm old and my parents are practically ancient). The argument that the problem is their regime just doesn't sit right with me, considering the shit that the individuals get up to pretty habitually, and the hundreds of years of brutal regimes have to come from somewhere.
This is not to say that all Russians are terrible, nor that it's a fundamental biological feature of the people, but even scholars think that their culture is – to put it very mildly – extremely problematic