Oleg Smirnov
2025-02-19 13:10:04 UTC
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Permalinkcamp. Adult men above 17 y/o cannot leave, even turning transgender
doesn't help men. Certain kinds of women also can not.
The recent Zelensky's statement that those who dislike something can
change citizenship is a sadistic joke, because most of those who would
dream to leave (and forget it like a nightmare) simply have no options
to do so. Nobody wants to be drafted to the army, draft officers are
literally hunting people, men are hiding. Corruption flourishes under
these conditions. Unofficial price-list on how much one has to pay to
avoid conscription is an open secret. The men caught by draft officers
are then often beaten / tortured at the recruiting stations, sometimes
up to death, and when some of such cases become public, it would be
officially a suicide or a sudden heart attack etc. Regular populace
increasingly hate the regime and Zelensky personally. However, there's
no way to somehow protest. Regime critics are quickly labeled Russian
spies and arrested, or simply disappear without a trace.
Any independent media doesn't exist. After the new US administration
stopped USAID, about 90% of Ukrainian outlets that previuously
declared themselves "independent" had to admit they cannot continue to
function as before. While dictator Zelensky, some "western" officials
speak as if on behalf of "Ukrainian people", the populace residing in
the Kiev-controlled territory have no way to express what they really
want and think, both because of fear and because of censorship.
It's clear that in this situiation the popular approval of the regime
and Zelenky personally is very low. But the regime of course promotes
(near-)official data painting a rozy picture, but that is a forgery.
The regime has no way to survive, it will become uglier and worse with
each passing day.
The Atlanticist-backed violent 2014 coup in Kiev was under pro-western
slogans, but it was in fact anti-democratic, so it naturally raised
destructive extremist forces and led to destructive consequences.