Russian citizens are ratting each other out to authorities in droves for anti-war comments made in bars, beauty salons, and grocery stores in roughly a dozen cities across the country, according to a new report from the independent Russian news outlet Vrestka.
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took them only a year to go full Soviet again
Did not stasi that coming! /s
Nothing new. As in Stalinist era mentality. What a benighted country. Always reverting to: invite the Rus in to control us; choosing Orthodoxy ( suffering is good for you) Mongol Yoke mentality; Ivan the Terrible; serfdom; Stalin; Putin.
Russia supposedly invaded Ukraine hunting for “Nazis”, while Russia is repeating the Nazi playbook of population manipulation and legislation in Russia.
Envious of, or angry at, neighbors, family members, and co-workers? Well, Putin has the solution for you. Come to RuZZia where with one neat trick you too can be feared and loathed in your town, while getting revenge on everybody you hate or even just dislike a little.
Homo sovieticus . Why do we let those people enter the EU? We need visa ban for russians
Now only children ratting out their parents and we went full 1984
Brain drain incoming
What terrifies me the most is that having lived a huge chunk of my life in Russia I couldn’t imagine that the population was capable of supporting the war crimes and snitching on this scale in the wildest of dreams. Maybe it was indeed easier to find normal people in Moscow. Thankfully none of my friends disappointed me.
So glad to be out of this hell.
The Handmaid’s tail in Russia.
Must be nice to live in a country where you can’t trust anyone, what a shithole.
I suspect this has less to do with any “soviet mentality” or support for the war, and more to do with striking against neighbors or coworkers you do not like. Guess that’s one way to get revenge on Barishnikov for getting **your** promotion.
Weird how *they* keep acting like nazis.
Rings a bell. Eventually everyone is an enemy of the state in russia
Thank god I wasn’t born in Russia. What a depressing country
Moscovia prison system won’t cope… So will throw them into the meat grinder…
Asking with my background from Soviet Estonia: what’s new? Or what did people expect? That KGB or RuZZia has changed somehow magically?
We are no Nazis, we only act like them in any possible way
Also we started this thing to fight the Nazis, which totally still exist everywhere but within Russia
Also we like vodka — ALOT — might explain some things.
The title is Edited to sensationalise and extremely exaggerate the story. The site the OP posted is also sensationalising the original article from a Russian site.
The original Russian independent news article is referring to half a dozen individual accounts in a population of 140 million. That’ isn’t “ratting each other out in droves.” Droves would be 100+ accounts with human rights or Government site recording a significant number of cases. A few individual cases is an extremely low minority.
This is still awful but it’s obviously trying to spin this story into something it’s not.
The original article is from this Russian news site https://verstka.media/rossiyane-stali-donosit-na-svoih-za-nedolstvo-voynoy
On top of this I under the impression all Russian news site articles get called propaganda even if they are independent / anti-government or is that treated on a case by case basis?
**UPDATE:**
**Exactly the same article was posted here yesterday by one of the moderators. See below link to the thread.**
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/11ojumw/mass_backstabbing_spree_over_putins_war_sweeps/
**The original post didn’t get much traction and now it gets reposted today with a sensationalist title.**
Literally 1984
People need to stop naively pretending that Russia is a nation full of innocents with Putin’s boot on their throats.
This was Romania in the communist era, you could not even truat your own family.
I think you meant “Verstka”
Edit: yeah, that’s a typo on Yahoo news
Ah … good ol Soviet times are finally back.
/s
How many people will use it to get revenge on someone? Like, you suspect your husband is having an affair? Rat him out.
Someone in work is an asshole all the time? Rat him out.
Definitely people out there petty enough and shameless enough to do it.
Damn, imagine living in such a country.