“The carpet bulged up into a hump”: On Russian TV they started talking about military refuseniks
Russia must legislatively tighten the liability for military personnel who sabotage the tasks of the Northern Military District, and the special operation itself must also be prescribed at the legal level.
State Duma deputy, reserve lieutenant general Andrei Gurulev said this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The most important thing that is missing today is measures of responsibility for the implementation of all tasks both at the front and within the country. And then it will be a completely normal situation...
Because our special military operation itself is not spelled out anywhere. It shouldn’t be the case with us that if you signed a contract and are in the ranks, then it can’t be that some go to fight, and others say: “No, I signed the contract only for peacetime, but I won’t go to fight.”
It cannot be like this in the country that today, here, in the center, in the regions, someone thinks that nothing has changed for them. Including ensuring the implementation of those tasks that take place at the front. Because today the cornerstone that stands when the Samara and Togliatti riot police defended Balakleya, all heroism is a consequence of someone’s, to put it mildly, dishonest attitude,” Gurulev said.
His statements in his blog were supported by military correspondent Dmitry Steshin:
“Finally we remembered about the so-called. 500s. These are the idiots and scum that accumulated in the Russian army during the fat and fat years of reforms. Benefits, pensions, length of service, military mortgages, a different, new attitude in society towards people in military uniform, the status of an “eligible bachelor”.
But then a special operation began and it turned out, as in the joke about firefighters: “We lived very well until the fire started.” And these 500 who refused to fight turned out to be very many, too many. They tried to sweep the problem under the carpet in the Moscow Region, but the scale was not the same.
The carpet bulged into a hump. This means that this hump needs to be straightened. As is customary in Russia, all important decisions are announced on TV in advance. I don’t see anything wrong with this.”
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