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'Send back our husbands' - Russian women in rare protest

A group of women are publicly criticising the Russian authorities. Their husbands are among the 300,000 reservists mobilised by Russian President Vladimir Putin for the war in Ukraine in autumn 2022.

And they want them home.

“When will our husbands be considered to have discharged their military duty?” asks Maria. “When they’re brought back with no arms and legs? When they can’t do anything at all because they’re just vegetables? Or do we have to wait for them to be sent back in zinc coffins?”

The women met via social media and have formed a group called The Way Home. They have differing views on the war. Some claim to support it. Others are sceptical about the Kremlin’s “special military operation”. What seems to unite them is the belief that the mobilised men have done their fair share of the fighting and should be back home with their families.

It is an opinion the authorities do not share.

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carl_dungeon ,

Boo hoo QQ

vlad76 ,
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Fuck you

carl_dungeon ,

Suck it vlad

Hyperreality , (edited )

Unless you're pro-Putin, this is yet another ill informed take. You'll notice that the person you're replying to has a blue and white flag avatar.

That's almost certainly the white-blue-white flag. Wikipedia:

The white-blue-white flag (Russian: бело-сине-белый флаг, romanized: belo-sine-belyj flag) is a symbol of opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine that has been used by Russian anti-war protesters. It has also been used as a symbol of opposition to the current government of Vladimir Putin by several personal Internet accounts, and the Freedom of Russia Legion.

Ie. you're telling someone who opposes Putin and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, to suck it.

Everythingispenguins ,

God I went through some of his comments and his is all over the map. So I am going to say very ill informed and likes to say dumb trolly shit.

maness300 ,

You sound like a tribalist who can’t comprehend when someone is independent.

Everythingispenguins ,

Ha ha ha ha if you knew me …

vlad76 ,
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Thank you for being sane.

Hyperreality ,

Ill informed take.

Russian mothers and related groups have historically protested previous Soviet and Russian wars, and are a genuine worry for Putin. It's a relatively(!!!) safe way to protest in an authoritarian state and very macho culture, because they can play the motherhood card.

Relevant article:

Of all the ways that citizens interface with their state, there is no relationship so fraught as war service, particularly when the troops have been conscripted. Most observers say Russia’s record in past wars of treating conscripts humanely and keeping families informed, especially of the worst news, has been abysmal. The impenetrable military bureaucracy and official indifference during the Soviet Union’s war in Afghanistan prompted the rise of the Committees of Soldiers’ Mothers, which organized women like Ms. Chistyakova into a social force that the Kremlin couldn’t ignore. ... After their establishment during the war in Afghanistan, Russia’s various Committees of Soldiers’ Mothers became some of the most powerful civil society organizations Russia has ever seen. Their anti-war stance, and the strong political influence they generated, arguably played a big role in ending both that war and the first Chechnya conflict on terms unfavorable to Moscow.

Ie. you're making fun of Russian women and allied groups who are protesting the war and the regime in the only way they realistically can.

NegativeLookBehind ,
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“Ok, which piece do you want?”

FuglyDuck ,
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“sorry. all we got is teeth, and maybe some ashes…”

Agent641 ,

Still cracks me up to remember that video of a blown up russian truck with just an ass sitting in the front seat. No other body parts left, just a legless, torsoless ass sitting there.

Seraph ,
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Huh TIL about zinc lined coffins

peopleproblems ,

surprising that they’d want to prevent decomposition with that much expense

To be honest I’m more surprised they expect remains at all

nz_fish ,
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Soon to be followed by Russian women mysteriously falling from windows

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Curiously Mr Nadezhdin is one of the few government critics who has been allowed onto national television since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Russian women campaigning for the return of their mobilised husbands, sons or brothers have come in for criticism from different quarters.

“Can you imagine a delegation of wives coming to the Kremlin in autumn 1942 and telling Stalin: 'Let those men who were called up in 1941 go home.

Maria Andreeva, whose husband and cousin have been drafted and despatched to Ukraine, finds Mr Kartapolov’s comments insulting.

Antonina claims that, despite being diagnosed with stomach ulcers, her partner was deployed to an assault unit in Ukraine.

But if he really does see us as traitors and outcasts for wanting our husbands back, I don’t understand why he’d have this attitude towards citizens who once voted for him.”

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