Russian soldiers scammed and robbed of war cash on return from Ukraine

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1. Absolutely wonderful news coming out of Russia for once. Let the boys remember what “ruskijmir”, that they’re sacrificing their lives for, actually is!

2. A textbook example on how to write narrative/propaganda articles.

   Drop a single name to make it look legitimate and “properly” sourced, and follow it up with a bunch of:

   > In October 2024, _police arrested_ three staff members

   > _a local official_ from Belgorod region is suspected of stealing

   > Sometimes soldiers have been robbed _by their own commanders_.

   > _One serviceman_ told the BBC

   > _several police officers_ who worked at a Moscow airport

   other “just trust me bro” examples that anyone can pull out of their ass with minimal effort.

   Next step is to mix in a bunch of “racial” stereotypes to make it look more believable to the people that grew up on a well balanced “Russia bad and backwards” narrative diet: getting drunk, family fights, drunk driving with a bunch of cash on hand, being stopped by police and getting robbed instead of at most being temporarily detained for the act of drunk driving itself as well as suspicious circumstances, etc.

   The name drop is supposed to make you believe everything else the article says is valid as well, but instead it makes me question whether the name drop itself is valid in the first place, and not simply conceived into existence like the rest. Google that name in double quotes and the only results you get are those from numerous copy pastes of this exact article.

3. Image search. Orel, not Rostov (quality journalism). Guy rode car drunk and full of cash, got robbed by road police. Perpetrators jailed. It happened in 2024.

   “Laments to BBC”, what a bullshit, Jesus. “Other soldiers said”…

   You boys got fed shit again. Another peremoga I guess, happens when another couple of cities fall off.

   https://rtvi.com/stories/registrator-podvel-pod-statyu-v-orle-po-delu-ob-ograblenii-uchastnika-svo-zaderzhali-sotrudnikov-dps/

4. This guy drove around drunk with a plastic bag full of cash and was robbed by corrupt police offers, something that would happen in Western countries as well.

   Not exactly an indictment of the entire Russian system, but feel free to circle jerk over more “Russia Bad” breadcrumbs, I guess we all need something to live for.

5. To people saying this isn’t unique to Russia, that it didn’t happen or things like that, I feel you’re missing the forest for the trees: regardless of specific fates like here, Russian soldiers are dying, being injured or facing trauma, that at least I think is hard to deny. But why? Wouldn’t anyone of them be happier to have stayed home and not suffered any of this, they ones who are sending people to the front aren’t the ones bearing the cost. And the reasons they’re dying, what are they exactly?

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