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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