kravietz 🦇 on Nostr: npub170jlj…7n79f I listened to some interview recently with some Russian opposition ...
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I listened to some interview recently with some Russian opposition figure that would be very relevant here, unfortunately it was one of dozens and I just can't remember where and with whom 🤦♂️
She said that yes, soldiers' mothers and wives movement is rebirth of civil society in Russian, born out of necessity, but it may be very short lived because Moscow learned how to manage them.
She brought examples of the actual organization called Committee of Soldiers' Mothers which was very active in Chechnya and which played a huge role in delivering the news of Russian losses there to the Russian society. Then there were Mothers of Beslan. Then there was the last year's movement of wives and mothers.
Kremlin has dealt with all of these quite efficiently, by a combination of money, bullying, blackmail, black PR and tricks like creating loyal organizations with identical names and giving them prime time on state TV.
It took a few years to suppress the first two organizations as they had some brand and respect among society, last year's movement didn't last a month.
I listened to some interview recently with some Russian opposition figure that would be very relevant here, unfortunately it was one of dozens and I just can't remember where and with whom 🤦♂️
She said that yes, soldiers' mothers and wives movement is rebirth of civil society in Russian, born out of necessity, but it may be very short lived because Moscow learned how to manage them.
She brought examples of the actual organization called Committee of Soldiers' Mothers which was very active in Chechnya and which played a huge role in delivering the news of Russian losses there to the Russian society. Then there were Mothers of Beslan. Then there was the last year's movement of wives and mothers.
Kremlin has dealt with all of these quite efficiently, by a combination of money, bullying, blackmail, black PR and tricks like creating loyal organizations with identical names and giving them prime time on state TV.
It took a few years to suppress the first two organizations as they had some brand and respect among society, last year's movement didn't last a month.