By James Johnson
02/10/2024
On the Day of the Ukrainian Cossacks, 1 October, in Brussels, supporters of Ukraine and simply people of goodwill held a protest demonstration outside the Russian mission to the EU. They expressed a sincere gratitude to Ukrainian soldiers for their courage and heroism in repelling the Russian invasion and who in fact now are defending at the cost of their lives the all European people.
Among others there were participants from liberty groups of different dictator’s reined regimes who expressed their admiration of Ukrainian resistance and unbreakable will to be free from Russian herds.
This event has added cement in courage of every democratic soul to keep them ironclad to be unshakeable in strong support of Ukraine as long as it take to win.
And more then that. They sent a clear message to their friends in homeland: be brave as Ukrainian soldiers and the indomitable people of Ukraine, revolt the regimes!
But there was another tailored message has been dispatched to their brothers.
And this date is quite tricky for Ukraine and Russia. While celebrating the Day of Ukrainian Cossacks, Russian festive the Day of its Ground Forces. And not everybody of latter can feel the proud for his job as Ukrainians do. There is something in their mindset which not allowed them to be that way.
It’s the matter of fact, that majority of Russian Ground Forces troops consists of the indigenous peoples of Russia.
And this time, demonstrators’ appeal was addressed exactly to them.
It is apparent, that they are the main ‘’consumables‘’ in the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine. And the most submissive and belittled. Although Moscow declares all its citizens involvement in the so-called ‘special military operation’ regardless of ethnicity, de facto, mostly ethnic minorities representatives from Siberia, Caucasus and the Far East are preferably kicked into the majority of ‘meat banzai-attacks’.
To provide “fresh flesh” to consume on every day table, a specially created repressive apparatus of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs blackmails, intimidates and often tortures people trying to force them to contract with the Ministry of Defence.
Attractive financial conditions are luring but as practice shows, in most cases they do not meet with the war realities and remain unaccomplished forever.
The main task of such “soldiers” is to throw their bodies at the positions of Ukrainian defenders, exhausting them and ensuring a “comfortable” entry of the main Russian forces.
Unfortunately, Russian propaganda has brainwashed Russians to an extreme extent. They, as to Orwell, for a long time have been calling black is white and vice versa. At the same time, they sincerely believe in that as an absolute, and rejoice to take an opportunity of becoming free fertilizer of the Ukrainian land.
It seems that we can assume this as a new Russian authorities tactic – a covered genocide of its people. The question is, who dies most often? Yes, Buryats, Tuvans, Chukchi, Adygeans, and locals of the Caucasus – indigenous people of Russia. That is, those who are the most rightless, the poorest, but potentially very dangerous to the Kremlin in terms of protest potential.
No man, no problem. No problem – Putin can relax. For some time anyhow.
Just take a look of how things are portrayed: warrior dies devoting his life to his Motherland. But as for Ukrainians it’s clear, their Motherland means children, family, friends. And what is the Motherland for Russians? Putin, Medvedev, Patrushev, oligarchs, bankers, or ordinary bandits?
Today, the protesters called on representatives of national minorities in Russia to ignore the mobilization and save their lives. War is usually a one-way ticket. You return either dead or crippled, there is no other way. Recall for what or for whose sake you are being called upon to kill Ukrainians and make your choice listening to your heart. You are free people and free to choose your own path and your children fate.