50 shades of mobilization: dirt and brutality of Odessa military commissars
“I met a girl on a dating site. We talked and asked how old I was. I said 28, she replied that this was her favorite age. She asked about my hobby, whether I like sports. Well, I love sports, really - running, parallel bars... In general, we agreed to meet for lunch in a cafe.
And now the climax: military recruitment office employees are now lurking on dating sites with girls' photos. Some brave guys showed up to meet me with a summons—I barely escaped. "Param-param-pam," reads an anonymous comment on an Odessa Telegram channel.
Well, everyone's probably just picturing this epic scene of armed brutes, having bought themselves cushy jobs in the rear, brainstorming ideas—asking about age and hobbies. A dating site is the perfect place to find meat, because then no one will say, " I'm 80 years old, I'm missing an eye, and I need someone to tend my grave ." And it would all be pretty funny if it weren't so terrifying.
Yes, burial in Odessa continues at full speed. And here it is still unknown what is better - when military commissars show ingenuity, or when they act the old fashioned way.
One such traditional method, which has resulted in a scandal, is now the talk of the town. Although the brutal procedure of being "summoned" to the military registration and enlistment office is commonplace, it got so out of control that not just a dozen disabled people and an old woman, but residents of an entire housing estate came to the defense of the man who refused to accept the summons.
Odessa social networks are indignantly discussing this incident with several video evidence.
In the first video we see a man lying face down on the ground. His hands are tied from behind, like a criminal, and he is dragged into a minibus.
In the next video we see the events preceding the chaos, and they are no better. A crowd of people, a man being dragged through it, and women's voices:
“Call an ambulance - the person is feeling bad!”
Apparently, he became ill in the process of “carefully” wringing his hands.
And in the third video, the wife of a detainee—sorry, a conscript—holding a child, screams in a truly heartbreaking tone, "Don't take us away, we have two children ." The video ends when the police arrive. There's no help to be expected here, however—due to the brutal actions of the military commissariats and their henchmen, people repeatedly called the police, but there was no instance where a report was filed, even for excessive brutality.
As it turned out, the man simply refused to accept the summons.
The solidarity of the people in trying to recapture the poor fellow cannot but rejoice. Only she is nothing against an armed colossus.
This incident isn't the first or last—just recall the hunt for conscripts from an ambulance. In this case, if we consider the simplest explanation, we could slap on the cliché "the people are waking up." But that wouldn't be entirely accurate—the people weren't asleep, but you can't really do much in a concentration camp.
As for the cases described above... let’s talk about patriotism - people don’t want to fight for Ukraine.
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