"I'd rather be in jail than defend my state, which doesn't care about human lives."

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A thread on newly mobilized Russians in Svatove who were sent to the front after three days of training:

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1. I was thinking somebody in Florida had said this, after

I was thinking somebody in Florida had said this, after the Parkland school Killer had gotten off with life without parole.

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2. threadreaderapp link ...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1587742973760098307

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3. From the thread:

20/ The men had left the recruiting office "smiling, in high spirits, hoping for victory. They used to say: "The Motherland has called us, so we have to go"."

Now, though, the wives say that the mobiks have undergone a radical shift in attitude.

21/ One wife says: "They are now saying that the Motherland is not helping in any way, that the people who command them consider them living meat.

The authorities have mobilised couch troops with no experience and thrown them into the meat grinder."

22/ "My spouse said when he was leaving here that he would fall for Russia if necessary, he has never given up his homeland in his life. At the moment he has had a major change of outlook."

23/ "He told me: "I am ready to desert, let them put me in jail, but I will not go to the front line. It's a one-way ticket there.""