A Luhansk woman received 10 years in Russia for donating $12 to what she said was a humanitarian cause.

In court: “No other place where you can wake up and be a foreigner in your home. Was I supposed to take the passport of a country that isn’t mine?”

  • Carmakazi@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I said before that if Ukraine capitulates, they will throw every Ukrainian that has so much as spit shined a boot for the UAF into a labor camp. They will definitely need the manpower from such an enslavement after sacrificing so many of their own lives.

    Check back in 10 years to make sure this woman isn’t either dead or had her sentence surreptitiously extended.

    • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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      16 hours ago

      They’ll do it to every Ukrainian that still refers to themselves as Ukrainian, if they can get away with it. There had been numerous precedents throughout the history of both nations. And it’s also applicable to any non-russian ethnic group that is or have been part of russia geographically.

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      13 hours ago

      You mean using the power of the government to suppress dissent?

      The War on Drugs was largely used as an excuse to target anti-Vietnam War protestors.

      We had https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism where the government targeted the left, accusing them of supporting Communists.

      Or, more recently, the government arrested and is attempting to deport a lawful permanent resident and Colombia University student explicitly (from Trump’s own mouth) for protesting against Israel:

      https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-440828980a4ee7bf4ddcf3d123e02b3e

      During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan many people were arrested for donating to charities which were ran by groups that the US designated as “supporters of terrorism”.

      There’s no end of examples of governments suppressing dissent and protest using the violence of the State.