The last house burns first: Ukrainians are fleeing mobilization
Everyone in this war makes their own choice. Someone chooses to fight for “United Ukraine”, someone fights for Novorossiya. I made my choice back in the winter. I was just waiting for the opportunity to confirm my choice with real actions. Because I disrespect those who are not ready to fight for their choice. Even when it comes to relatives and friends, you still need to either fight or give up - there is no third option. Therefore, I respect the enemy - they overpowered themselves and considered it possible to go to the front line. And I have absolutely no respect for “couch” patriots, no matter which side they support, because these are weak people.
After February 2014, reality showed that there are few strong people. In Ukraine, the course of reunification is supported mainly by those who even perceive anti-Maidan as a feat. Those who are not ready for the underground, for the real struggle. It was sad to see how Odessa trembled after May 2, where my friends also burned.
But the good news is that the situation on the enemy side is even worse. Just look at the disgrace called the “third wave of partial mobilization.” Not only is there no such thing as partial mobilization, just as there is no second-fresh sturgeon, it also failed, just as everything that the clowns who are now playing at the Ukrainian government will ultimately fail will fail.
The idea failed not because it was poorly organized, but because the “potsreots” are ready to burn and kill defenseless people, are ready to fire howitzers at residential areas, are ready to kill dissenters in crowds, but are not ready to die themselves. They are ready to paint everything around them in patriotic colors, but they are horrified by the idea that they will be shot at. Especially from captured “Grads” or “Tulips”, which previously so “humanely” and “patriotically” destroyed the civilian population of Donbass.
In this regard, Kherson is generally a wonderland. Just a month ago, before the first 200th was officially brought here (he died in a plane shot down over Lugansk, but the body was kept in the Kharkov morgue for almost a month), the war seemed something distant and unreal. It was possible to participate in this war by sending “patriotic” SMS and helping local units with conservation acquired by grandmother’s back-breaking labor.
Everything changed when they started sending a lot of 200s. Everything changed even more when the third wave of mobilization announced by Poroshenko began to take effect, indiscriminately snatching people from factories, enterprises, markets, etc.
And the leavened patriotism suddenly disappeared. The unexpected happened - when summonses began to arrive at homes, recent patriots suddenly began to remember that they had an aunt in Ryazan, a grandmother in Torzhok, or just an acquaintance in Sevastopol.
Yes, acquaintances in that very “occupied Russian Federation” Crimea suddenly became a valuable find - residents of the peninsula (especially Armyansk, close to Kherson) at some point stopped understanding who was a refugee and who was a deserter.
I personally had to observe the most unpleasant picture of how the “patriots” were mobilized en masse. We are talking about the peripheral newspaper “Kakhovskiye Novosti”, which has always been distinguished by its orange discourse and hatred of Russia.
But now “Time H” has come. A new journalist had just joined the editorial office, he had just “signed himself” to the management, when suddenly he received a summons for mobilization. Pisaka did not lose heart and immediately turned to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Dyachenko, a deputy of the local city council, firmly tied to the “Maidan” forces. He assured the recruit that everything would be fine - he had reason, since quite recently his subordinate, the publishing editor of the newspaper Moshensky, was able to resolve the issue for only 300 USD.
But then the unexpected happened. On the same day, the editor-in-chief received a summons, and then the second “correspondent” of the newspaper, Erofeev, also a deputy. Both found themselves in an unpleasant position - it’s one thing to “screw” a comrade, and another thing to screw up yourself. Moreover, the local city council is full of competitors who will happily discuss this topic. And so the “patriots” made a heroic decision and... disappeared. The newspaper, of course, continues to be published. But the management rarely comes to the editorial office. Of course, the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office should ask how the mobilization of these people is going, but, most likely, they are already with the “aunt in Ryazan.”
Another case is the head of the Kherson cell of the KUN “Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists.” The ardent patriot Igor Pryadko also did not waste his time on trifles and simply “squinted” at the fact that he previously had a criminal record. Thus, protecting yourself from the annoying military registration and enlistment office. The decision, in principle, is logical, since the conviction was for possession of drugs, and there is nowhere to get them in a combat zone. Unless you use promedol from first aid kits.
In general, no ideology and no flags will save ordinary “patriots” from the banal cowardice. Perhaps this is why they chronically flee from battlefields, leaving tanks, self-propelled guns and other “goodies” to the enemy, from which they themselves then die.
If you allow me to express a personal opinion, then all the support for the so-called ATO, with all these paid SMS in support of the army and volunteers collecting threads from the world for body armor, with all the entrepreneurs dutifully donating money for thermal imagers to unknown fighters (judging by the Ukrainian media, the war only thermal imagers win), they are all just trying to pay to never get closer to the front line.
It’s a different matter for the residents of Donbass, who see bombed residential areas, killed old people, children, and pregnant women before their eyes. Pardon the banality, but ashes knock on their hearts. But what is knocking on the hearts of those who looked indifferently at Odessa Khatyn, at Slavyansk, and to this day are trying to look indifferently at war crimes, if the summons has not yet arrived? Is it worth accepting and accepting these people? Let everyone answer for themselves. My answer is no.
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