You’ve probably seen that Vladmir Putin held a giant rally in support of his “special military operation” in Ukraine. This Twitter thread from a BBC producer based in Moscow (probably not for much longer) alleges that many of the attendees were there voluntarily.
And by “voluntarily” I mean “they’d lose their jobs and probably get poisoned if they did…
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