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20 Recruitment Offices Firebombed in 24 Hours
The grandmas of Russia are determined to delay the September mobilization and also get a new social contract
20 recruiting stations in 24 hours have been fired-bombed. Of those who have been caught, three of the alleged bombers are over 60 years of age. One woman is 82.
Imagine an octogenarian exiting her house with a bag of Molotov cocktails to try to prevent the continued slaughter of Russia’s men. It is a wonderful act of rebellion from a person who lived the first 50 years of her life in the Soviet Union. A woman who knew of the repression of Stalin, the oppression of Khrushchev, and then the stagnation of Brezhnev, sees the sickness and evil of the Putin regime and decides to break the monotony of what will be her final decade of life to blow up recruiting stations. She was detained and likely will be jailed for the rest of her life.
It’s amazing, though, that it is not the Soviet generation that came of age at the end of the collapsing empire but the ones that grew up at the tail end of Stalin and through the Brezhnev years, the ones who have a small sense of what is right and what is wrong and also a recollection of the social contract between the people and their government who are finally fighting back.
