'There will be no mercy': Russian TV host threatens 'concentration camps and sterilisation' for 'opponents of the letter Z' - [Link]

A prominent Russian state TV host has warned that opponents of Russia's war in Ukraine will face harsh punishments including 'concentration camps and sterilisation'.

Karen Shakhnazarov, a pro-Putin filmmaker, said any 'opponents to the letter Z' - the symbol of Russia's invasion - will face 'no mercy'.

'The opponents of the letter Z must understand that if they are counting on mercy, no, there will be no mercy for them,' Shakhnazarov, who leads the state-backed Mosfilm film studio, said on the state-owned Russian television channel Russia 1.

'It's all become very serious. In this case, it means concentration camps, re-education and sterilisation.'

In a similar tone to that of Shakhnazarov's, Putin recently likened opposition figures to 'gnats' and 'traitors' who try to weaken the country at the behest of the West. The Russian President called for the county to 'purify' itself of the opposition.

'The Russian people will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and will simply spit them out like a gnat that accidentally flew into their mouths — spit them out on the pavement,' Putin said in March.

This reminds me of Karen on FB.

So where was the interview with the "Ukrainian grave diggers" then? Anyone can do this type of interview.

You just have to look at the images coming out of Ukraine to see the truth.

Russian Army Recruitment Office Attacked With Molotov Cocktails - [Link]

The incident in Nizhnevartovsk follows a string of similar attacks across the country. Five other military recruitment offices have already been targeted by Molotov attacks since the start of Russia’s war with Ukraine on Feb. 24.

There have been so many 'fires' in Russia of late, that there's surely a case to be made that some may be Russian resistence rather than external forces. Rumours of a very significant fall in those wanting to take part in polls (speaking out against Russia isn't really an option). It may be that some hold tremendously anger about what is being waged as their name. Who can blame them.

Edited by BlueJay (06 May 2022 1.16am)

I don't want the thread to keep going off topic this like out of nowehere. All I can personally do to achieve that is ignore this stuff, so that's what I'll be doing.

See what I mean..

Mysterious Russian fires that may relate to Ukrainian conflict

Stavrolen polyolefins plant, Budennovsk - 26th of February

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Ammo depot, Belgorod - 29th of March

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Oil depot fire, Belgorod - 1st of April

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Chemical factory, Kineshma - 21st of April

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RKK Energia's Space Defense Centre, Korolev - 21st of April

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Army research center, Tver - 22nd of April

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5 enlistment / conscription offices - 22nd of April

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A house burning in Barvikha, belonging to the family of the governor of the Moscow region Andrey Vorobyov - 23rd of April

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Oil storage facility / refinery, Bryansk - 25th of April

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Other storage etc. depots, Belgorod, Voronezh and Kurzk - 27th of April

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Coal plant, Sakhalin - 30th of April

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Gunpowder plant fire, Perm - 1st of May

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Publishing house, Moscow - 3rd of May

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Fuel / oil storages, Nizhny Novgorod - 4th of May

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Enlistment office, Nizhnevartovsk - 4th of May

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What the 'alternative media' zealots fail to comprehend is that no-one here even believes or has said that Ukranian's act in some kind of perpetually saintly fashion during the invasion and brutal attack on their country. They are simply properly weighing the pertinent fact that said invasion has and is being inflicted upon these people (by a militarily stronger neighbour).

This idea that there's some kind of equatable culpability demanding of equal attention is ridiculous. If, in this country, someone breaks into your home, threatening rape or murder or at least intentionally puts your life seriously at risk, how do you want that perceived? Do you want the onus to be on the expectation that the violent intruder shouldn't have been there and that you have a right to fight back against said invasion? Or instead that the 'both sides brigade' look for a way to not only highlight your defence of your own home in a negative light, but even go so far (W12 style) as cobbling together a 'greatest hits' of everything you or yours have ever done wrong over the past 40 years to legitimise the attack on you or diminish its importance?

People ought think back to the Tony Martin example (tho this is of course significantly more stark and aggressive). If you're under attack, you only spend so much time considering those who attack you. That's real life. That is how besieged people behave when they are fighting for their lives and don't know if they will even see another day. Most intuitively understand that. Those looking to alternative media to tell them what to think though, apparently struggle to draw from any existing moral framework, perspective or previously held view.

Any war crime matters - to be honest, the media here haven't even gone into significant visual detail over tortue other than mentions of mass graves etc because it's hardly family viewing. But the primary event of massive aggression and cause of significiant civilian death (during an invasion which was and remains entirely optional) is what these moments are all set within, and that is inevitably therefore the heavy focus and emphasis (which further highlights how bizarre it is that some hold Russian 'coverage' as equivilant to our own). It pays to remember that those singing from the Kremlin hymn sheet don't even want countries to provide military assistance to the Ukranian people (due to their own fears). They would have them left to the wolves, with their ability to defend themselves stripped away. Cowards berating the brave.

Edited by BlueJay (06 May 2022 4.35am)