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Western media are slowly admitting that shills, propagandists, and putinbots were right all along. (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Officials taking cash and cryptocurrency bribes or helping people eligible to be called up to fight to leave Ukraine are among the charges, said Mr Zelensky, in a video posted on social media.

wtf I support military corruption now. These are probably the Ukrainian officials who have saved the most Ukrainian lives, and they're getting the treatment of Germans who helped Nazi targets flee from Germany. What an odd coincidence.

[+] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The article doesn't go into detail on that, so I just kinda guessed. I doubt that those "bribes" are only from bourgies since the demand to getting the fuck out is usually pretty high during war, and even some labour aristocracy folks (engineers, programmers, medics) could afford to go out. It's not some fantastic victory of socialism, but I prefer that over those same people getting conscripted to die in the front for nothing.

Though I could be wrong, are there ~~less trash~~ better sources than the Beeb on this that go deeper?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

They took money from the ones that could pay and let them out of the country. Then to make up for the conscription quotas, they kidnapped poorer people off the streets to send to the meat grinder. These people are trash.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

I mean when you put it that way...