Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Russian propagandist Alexander Sladkov says that Ukraine's occupied Donetsk region is a place where "they applied everything that we talk about but cannot put into practice", and calls for a similar regime to be adopted in Russia. ⬇️

2/ In a newly published video, Slavkov praises the way that the 'Donetsk People's Republic' (DNR) deals with dissidents and offenders by imprisoning them in basements, using them for forced labour or sending them to the front line, and calls for Russia to do the same.

3/ "In the Donetsk People's Republic, especially at the dawn of its birth, they applied everything that we talk about but cannot put into practice. Well, [due to our] routine, our legality, conservatism, indecision.

4/ "Let's say curfew: if you get caught, no matter who you are, even the Pope, you still go to the basement. There was a strict order, now there are already indulgences. ... Unfortunately, we have to follow instructions, directives, decrees.

5/ "God forbid, someone was caught drunk – they go the basement. And representatives of different detachments came there and could choose their own "robots": ... to wash somewhere, to clean something. ... Sometimes a nightclub was working somewhere.

6/ "They would come, pick them up and take them to the front line. And these glamorous boys and girls in short skirts and stilettos, they were unloaded on the front line and they walked back to Donetsk on their own ...

7/ "So the DNR was once such a normative and practical testing ground for putting into practice all the things we think about but cannot do."

8/ As Slavkov observes, the DNR (and its counterpart in Luhansk, the LNR) have been lawless zones for years, where citizens have been seized from the streets and forcibly mobilised into its 'People's Militia'. Many thousands have died as a result.

9/ Both have been annexed by Russia but Russian law doesn't yet operate there. The Russian army has taken advantage by imprisoning and torturing dissenting soldiers in improvised basement-prisons in the region (see thread below), without legal challenge.

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1590696393001168897

10/ Such imprisonment is illegal in Russian law, a situation which Sladkov regrets. His call for similar measures to be adopted in Russia highlights how the human rights abuses seen in occupied Ukraine may end up spreading to Russia as well. /end

Source:
t.me/astrapress/356…