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The Eastern Border

War in Ukraine 194: Mothers

The Eastern Border

Kristaps Andrejsons

Cold War, Politics, Soviet, Society & Culture, History, Ussr, News

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Protests of mothers of the mobilized intensify in Russia. They've also released a manifesto. I asked Evita to give her perspective on the whole matter.

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Oh yes.

0:47.5

Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the eastern border.

0:51.2

Today I want to talk about, well, one of those humane situations of the war,

0:56.9

all about the wives of the Russia mobilized. Ukrainian mobilized, well, you know, they suffer,

1:02.7

they go through the war, but currently there is a movement of the wives of mobilized

1:07.0

happening in Russia, and they seem to be an interesting position. Their protests cannot be

1:13.7

oppressed, at least not openly, since their husbands and brothers and their relatives in general

1:20.6

are out there in the front. I don't feel much sympathy for them, but it's a thing that

1:26.9

causes some instability in the political sphere of Russia.

1:31.1

Now, by the way, a regular news episode is coming, needs that I promised you this one, and I wanted to put some clarity on how these women think.

1:42.5

First of all, well, on the 21st of November, the wives of those mobilized in Russian cities

1:47.9

were organizing some rallies on other protests. Their main demand was obviously to bring home

1:52.5

husbands sent to fight in the war in Ukraine. They were unhappy about the lack of deadlines

1:58.8

and lack of everything.

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