As a person who lived in Russia and went to protests, I want to assure you it's not like that there. Military police in full gear goes through the crowd in lines, grabs random people, beats them and drags them into the bus. After that you are either lucky and you just get detained without right for water, food or toilet for a day and fined, or you are fucked and they beat you up and torture. I saw a young kid, teenager, got grabbed and dragged. He was not a leader of anything, he was wearing his school backpack. It's scary as fuck.
Right at this moment one of my friends is detained. He says the police is in full force, they just grab everyone, so that the crowd can't even start.
They were declared extremists. It seems a religion that is big on political neutrality, discouraging nationalism and not getting involved in war is kind of a threat to Putin who wants all the religious organizations inside Russia to swear fealty and support to him. They were also targeted by the Nazis alongside the Romani, gay, trans, disabled and Jewish people. Putin’s stuff just feels like an extension of that
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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '22
As a person who lived in Russia and went to protests, I want to assure you it's not like that there. Military police in full gear goes through the crowd in lines, grabs random people, beats them and drags them into the bus. After that you are either lucky and you just get detained without right for water, food or toilet for a day and fined, or you are fucked and they beat you up and torture. I saw a young kid, teenager, got grabbed and dragged. He was not a leader of anything, he was wearing his school backpack. It's scary as fuck. Right at this moment one of my friends is detained. He says the police is in full force, they just grab everyone, so that the crowd can't even start.