Hiding from Putin's call up

[Lilith7]

Those Russians who've no wish to become cannon fodder & see no reason for the war against Ukraine have gone into hiding in an effort to avoid the call up. This man's been living in the forest for almost four months.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64346971


"When Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilisation of Russian men in September last year, it took Adam Kalinin - not his real name - a week to decide that the best thing he could do was move to the forest.

The IT specialist was against the war from the start, receiving a fine and spending two weeks in detention for sticking a poster saying "No to war" on the wall of his apartment building.

So when Russia said it was calling up 300,000 men to help turn things around in a war it was losing, Kalinin did not want to risk being sent to the front line to kill Ukrainians.

But, unlike hundreds of thousands of others, he did not want to leave the country."

[nzoomed]

Hopefully there is more of them like this.
Its sometimes hard to gauge the support of Putin in Russia because they deliberately bring in paid supporters at their rallys and those interviewed in their media are clearly shills, but there is some amount of support of Putin that remains as there is a certain level of anti-west sentiment over there, but it looks like its less than what many think when you take into account the number who have left or attempting to leave the country.

[Lilith7]

Hopefully there is more of them like this.
Its sometimes hard to gauge the support of Putin in Russia because they deliberately bring in paid supporters at their rallys and those interviewed in their media are clearly shills, but there is some amount of support of Putin that remains as there is a certain level of anti-west sentiment over there, but it looks like its less than what many think when you take into account the number who have left or attempting to leave the country.

Yes, I think I read somewhere that its mainly older people who support Putin; younger ones are less likely to. You have to feel sorry for those who are against this war - anyone protesting is locked up as fast as possible.

[Oldfellah]

I was reading that he (Putin) was thinking of doing another call up and this time if anyone fled or went into hiding all there property and/or their families property would be confiscated, he is a sad sad man.

[Lilith7]

I was reading that he (Putin) was thinking of doing another call up and this time if anyone fled or went into hiding all there property and/or their families property would be confiscated, he is a sad sad man.

He's an evil twisted bastard & he probably wouldn't balk at doing that.

[nzoomed]

Hopefully there is more of them like this.
Its sometimes hard to gauge the support of Putin in Russia because they deliberately bring in paid supporters at their rallys and those interviewed in their media are clearly shills, but there is some amount of support of Putin that remains as there is a certain level of anti-west sentiment over there, but it looks like its less than what many think when you take into account the number who have left or attempting to leave the country.

Yes, I think I read somewhere that its mainly older people who support Putin; younger ones are less likely to. You have to feel sorry for those who are against this war - anyone protesting is locked up as fast as possible.

Yeah I saw a video on youtube the other day where protesters were gathering near a war memorial and the bus was already there waiting to take them away.