Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ A single district in the Novosibirsk region is reported to have sent nearly 4 percent of its entire population to the Ukraine war. Its former head is said to have mobilised anyone "who crossed her path". Angry residents smeared her car with faeces in protest. ⬇️

2/ The Suzun district of the Siberian region of Novosibirsk has a population of around 31,000 people. According to local residents, around 1,200 people – 3.9 percent of the entire population (probably amounting to around 7.5–8 percent of the male population) – were mobilised.

3/ The entire Novosibirsk region, with a population of 2.8 million people, is reported to have mobilised around 11,500 people. Those mobilised from this one small district therefore equal around 10 percent of those mobilised from the entire region.

4/ The pace of mobilisation from Suzun was frantic – there were so many that they could not even be accomodated in the largest mobilisation base in Siberia, but had to sleep in a recreation centre instead. Even men over 50, who were supposed to be exempt, were not spared.

5/ A local says: "Five buses with mobilized people were sent on the very first day, then they sent them every day for a week, but there were already fewer buses [available]."

6/ The massive scale of the local mobilisation is being blamed on the former district head, Lilia Nekrasova, who has since been arrested on corruption charges, and Vasily Radaev, the notably belligerent head of the Suzun military registration and enlistment office.

7/ In a recent speech at the 9 May Victory Day commemorations, Radaev told Suzun residents: "Today the Nazi underdogs are raising their heads – they are being fed by the Anglo-Saxons, who are dreaming of getting their hands on our resources.

8/ "We will not allow this to happen and once again we will free all mankind from Nazism. Once again, happy holidays to you."

9/ Local people say Nekrasova personally selected who was to be mobilised. She is said to have spent nights studying men's personal files and "pointing her finger at who to take away": "If someone crosses her path, he's already gone to war".

10/ This made her very unpopular. After the first batch of mobiks was sent, angry locals are said to have repeatedly poured faeces over her car. "It was fucked up. They smeared shit all over her car every night," says a Novosibirsk politician.

11/ Although some Suzun residents voiced concern to the local media, they decided not to record a protest video because they were afraid of Nekrasova. Many were afraid to talk about it even anonymously.

12/ Nekrasova had a reputation as someone who "wanted to curry favour with her superiors" and as "a very active woman, compared to previous leaders". She regularly wrote on Telegram about her visits to the mobilised and claimed she had ensured they were provided for.

13/ However, relatives say they had to "buy uniforms for the guys ourselves and send them by mail." One woman says she spends 50,000 rubles ($618) a month to send provisions to her husband, as "this is the only way to deliver at least something to our guys."

14/ Nekrasova was arrested in October 2022 and charged with fraud for her husband's fictitious employment in municipal institutions and in the construction of a sewage treatment plan. She was removed from her position and is now under house arrest.

15/ Meanwhile, the mobiks are trickling back to Suzun – both on leave and in coffins. They are only being allowed to take leave in groups because their commanders fear that they won't return if they go individually.

16/ "They are intimidated by collective responsibility. This many went on holiday, that many have to come back," one wife says. "[The commanders say] if you don't come back, we won't let anyone else go."

17/ The coffins of dead mobiks from Suzun have also been arriving regularly since January 2023. The local cultural centre hosts ceremonies for the dead before they are transported to cemeteries in their native villages, with funerals paid for by the local roads department.

18/ Suzun is preparing itself for many more funerals. Its inhabitants are no strangers to mass fatalities in wartime. During World War II, 9,105 Suzun residents were sent to the front, and 4,422 of them – nearly half the total – were killed.

19/ Local officials are invoking this legacy of sacrifice for the Motherland to obtain support and claim legitimacy for the war in Ukraine. The current district head, Vyacheslav Gorshkov, told residents on 9 May:

20/ "Today, participants in a special military operation are presently in action. Our dear defenders, you are defending what our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought for." /end

Sources:
🔹 prosleduet.media/glubinnaya-ros…
🔹 t.me/SuzunGlava/761