“They can always threaten to ship you off to the front lines,” said an investigative reporter.
    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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      5 months ago

      When it’s to attack a foreign nation that’s not even threatening you, for sure. Definitely a weapon of the capitalist class against both their own people and other capitalists.

      But when you’re being attacked?

      I don’t have a problem with, for random example, the Soviet Union drafting millions of people to beat the Nazis. Or America. Or Britain. Just the aggressors in a war are committing enslavement, the defenders can at least be argued to being entitled to a collectivised defense.

      I’d say even Mao drafting people for the Civil War didn’t count (all people living under capitalism being understood to be being attacked and the KMT being genocidal corrupt warlords regardless who started the first period of the war in the first place)

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    5 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    KYIV — Ukrainian investigative journalist Yevhenii Shulhat was about to publish a story alleging corruption in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) when uniformed soldiers approached him in a shopping mall and tried to hand him a draft notice.

    “I believe that the use of criminal justice tools to put pressure on any person, including public activists, is unacceptable, and such facts must be immediately reported to the competent authorities,” the president’s office’s powerful deputy head Oleg Tatarov, who oversees Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, told POLITICO.

    “If a person demands everyone’s compliance with the law, then he should set an example,” Kyiv-based lawyer Rostyslav Kravets, who filed the complaint, told POLITICO.

    “It is difficult for me to imagine how I can be accused of evasion of duty if I voluntarily mobilized in Kyiv in the first days of invasion,” he said, adding that his unit had been rotated away from the front lines before he was transferred.

    “My duties include the coordination of the department of justice and the directorate of legal policy, which cannot in any way influence the activities of any law enforcement agencies, whose investigators are independent,” he said.

    “They use different intimidation tactics to try to deter reporters and then, of course, they can always threaten to ship you off to the front lines,” investigative journalist Yuri Nikolov told POLITICO.

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