1/ Four years on from the start of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian warbloggers are reflecting on the changes that the war has wrought in Russia. Some Russian soldiers are wondering what it was all for. ⬇️
2/ Nikita Tretyakov writes:
"Our varied thoughts and questions converge on one thing: what is going on out there, in the rear, while we are here, far from our families, loved ones, and past lives, defending the Motherland as best we can and seemingly honourably as possible?"
3/ "What is going on there in this very Motherland behind our backs?
Why does it feel more and more uncomfortable to walk around our cities in military uniform – now including Donetsk and Luhansk – every year? Is it even inappropriate?
4/ "And why, instead of "military," "soldier," or "frontline fighter" have we suddenly started calling them, often with a hint of disgust, "SVOshnik"?
5/ "Why is life—utilities, groceries, gasoline, transportation, everything!—so expensive, as if we were suddenly paying tribute as a country to the Golden Horde?
6/ "Why did we leave for war from a country with an advanced digital development, proud of our convenient use of government services, banks, and even deliveries—…
7/ …and now, when we return on vacation to, say, Krasnoyarsk, we find that our mobile internet (which, by the way, was paid for as a service under a tariff) is disconnected, and geolocation doesn't work?
8/ "Why did we previously save from a frontline soldier's salary for a down payment on an apartment, while now, at best, we save for a mediocre car, even though the salary, apartment, and car themselves are still the same?
9/ "Why, in order to stay in touch with our families on the home front, do we have to constantly invent something—something will be slowed down, something else will be cut off?
10/ "Why, finally, do the people on TV who supposedly represent us talk in such a way that it's clear they know nothing about the front or are simply lying, but then it's also unclear—why?
11/ "There are certainly very clever and very "correct" answers to these questions. But no matter how many answers you give, you can't shake the feeling that while we're here defending our Motherland from those who would destroy and plunder it, someone else,…
12/ …a far more cunning enemy, is plundering and squandering our Motherland behind our backs. He's disfiguring it so completely that soon it will be completely unrecognizable." /end
Source:
t.me/tretyakov_n/18…
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