A deputy who called Moscow “rotten” because of problems with mobilization received a harsh response
Member of the State Duma Committee on Defense Viktor Sobolev, who called Moscow “rotten” due to the low rate of mobilization, received a harsh response both from colleagues from parliament and from military correspondents covering the situation at the front.
Deputy Dmitry Sablin spoke out most harshly, calling not to dramatize the situation around police document checks of men who outwardly fall into the category of those fit for mobilization at the exit from the metro in Moscow (which was the reason for Sobolev’s criticism - according to his data, the capital, in contrast from the regions, did not fulfill the mobilization plan).
“Every bastard and aphid decided to kick Moscow. Despite the fact that the mayor of Moscow has done a lot for Donbass over these months and is now helping the mobilized guys from the capital. I know very well about the latter - the “Combat Brotherhood” helps the guys who are sent to the liberated territories.
They publish photographs with police officers and some pieces of paper - those who live in Moscow, I think, have been seeing them for 20-30 years. The capital, as a special object, has always required a special regime for law enforcement services. And even more so now. And thank you to those who continue to keep us and our families safe in the cities today while we protect them here.
And to those who today work for hype and hysteria, I want to say one thing: you are looking for the enemy in the wrong place. We have only one enemy - he is behind the front line. And as for the fifth column rocking the boat... As Bulat Okudzhava sang, “we will settle scores with them later,” Sablin said.
He was supported by the Moscow MP and TV presenter Andrei Medvedev.
“I can’t write as angrily as my colleague Sablin, of course. But I have something to add.
There today someone said that Moscow turned out to be rotten in terms of mobilization.
That is, the guys from Moscow who volunteered turned out to be rotten.
Those Muscovites who are just now training at training grounds, or already on the line of combat contact. Rotten too?
Moscow officials who work in Lugansk and Donetsk. Builders, electricians, specialists from Mosgaz, housing and communal services. Which, using money from the capital’s budget, restore schools and houses destroyed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and build roads. A mayor who regularly travels to new territories in Russia. His deputies? Biryukov, let's say, are rotten people too?
Well, volunteers. Which training courses have opened. Which carry cargo to the military. People who collect money for copters, for equipment, for teplaks... And are they rotten?
Perhaps, of course, it was meant that many fled from the capital. Honestly, no more than in other regions, it’s just that the capital itself has a population of 12 million.
The lazy one didn’t write about some raids today. Let’s leave aside the military’s ability to explain and interact. I'll explain it myself. A person, if he is subject to mobilization, if he is notified, and, say, appears once at the military registration and enlistment office, and then decides not to go anywhere else, is put on the wanted list. Like a draft dodger. In fact, they were looking for them, while simultaneously working to find other persons not related to the mobilization. There could have been violations. No one has canceled the human factor. My Moscow City Duma colleague Kirill Shchitov dealt with this today.
Yet again. The military must learn to explain their actions, this time. Organizing a street performance like this is a so-so idea in our time, that’s two. There are a dozen other ways to identify a draft dodger.
But! Moscow is no better or worse than other cities. He also fights and helps the army and Novorossiya. He also loses his people. Also gathers troops. Also worried. My peers, familiar Muscovites who once fought in the Caucasus, are again going to arms. My classmate’s son is already fighting, the guy is 24 years old. A friend, a big businessman, had his guards volunteer. He equipped them, and now he buys additional radios, night vision devices, thermal cameras, and sights for the unit.
So, yes, it’s necessary to criticize. When it's time to do it. And when the person criticizing understands what he is saying. There are sometimes doubts about that,” Medvedev notes.
Military correspondent Alexander Sladkov, as a Muscovite, also stood up for his hometown.
“Did you know that one of the common call signs in Donbass is “Moscow”. I know five such fighters. I recently met someone wearing a cowboy Panama hat, tall and completely gray.
- Mobilized?
- No, volunteer.
- Call sign?
- "Moscow".
My age, from Vykhino.
Guys, Moscow is here in Donbass, fighting, building, healing. How much humanitarian aid is coming from the capital! Simple and complex people gather enterprises and firms.
Here Moscow football fans are fighting with their volunteer team, there are many Muscovites already mobilized. And speaking of volunteers: even before the mobilization, three detachments of volunteers left Moscow to fight. I’m proud that I’m from Moscow,” recalls Sladkov.
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