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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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[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 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?

[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 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.