‘Maybe you’ll even come back’ Two Russian men recount how their own families tried to make them go to war

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1. Russian Mir.

   Why those pesky Baltic States, Finland, Poland and so on don’t want to adopt it…?!

   Anyone supporting Putin in his genocidal war is a dangerous moron.

2. >Sergey says his mother’s desire for him to join the war wasn’t because she wanted money. “In fact, it was because she needed a reason to be proud of me. She’d always had issues with that.”

   >When Sergey tried not to engage with his mother’s questions, he says, she became “hysterical” and started berating him: “It’s your duty! You’re a man! Come on — you don’t even have a good job right now! You’ll make some money, you’ll be a hero, and your son will be proud of you!”

   >Sergey asked his mother if she understood that he would likely be killed if he went to war. He sums up her response like this: “At least you’ll die like a man. Everyone will be proud of you. And Misha, your son, will see you as a hero, and your wife will be the widow of a hero.”

   >**At first, Sergey says, he didn’t take his mother’s words seriously. But then she asked his younger brother to go to the conscription office and alert them that Sergey planned to flee the draft.**

   >**“My brother sent me the screenshots where Mom wrote, ‘Go to the conscription office and turn him in so he doesn’t escape.’ She threatened me and my wife, saying she would take our son away,” he recounts. “After that, I started to realize she was serious.”**

   Those people are insane. The more shocking part is that the old ones, who perfectly know they can’t/won’t go to the frontline, are advocating for everyone -including they’re freaking children- to join the meatgrinder.

   What kind of parent are you when you care so little about your (grand) children’s lives ?!

3. There’s a YT channel where Ukrainians post interviews with pows. They never fail to amaze me