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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWatch the faces of yesterday's attendees of the Putin speech: "Why did you come today?"
"I don't want to say"
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Journalist is asking Z-attendees "Friends, wanna give a small comment - what does this day mean for you?" They turn away in silence. Finally he asks - why did you come? Response "They pushed us into a bus and brought here"
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Watch the faces of yesterday's attendees of the Putin speech: "Why did you come today?" (Original Post)
kpete
Mar 2022
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SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)1. Paid actors
Javaman
(62,442 posts)2. Paid in worthless script.
When all is gone, doing something is better than doing nothing
However, imagine if each one of these bought for attendees stood up and said, enough!
putin would have been done
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)3. Exactly!
greatauntoftriplets
(175,698 posts)4. I read that a lot of state employees were forced to go...or else.
They felt they had no choice.
A Telegram channel associated with exiled Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was jailed for 10 years in 2003 after he emerged as a political rival to Putin, reported that students and employees of state-owned enterprises were ordered to attend. It published screenshots from employers informing staffers where buses would pick them up to take them to stadiums or warning them of strict instructions from the general director to attend..
They stuck me on a bus and brought me here, another woman told SOTA Vision, an independent media outlet. Two photographers from the outlet were arrested trying to cover the rally, and a journalist and another photographer from the outlet were briefly detained
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/18/putin-russia-speech-ukraine/?fb_news_token=PYHxgZlI8fCI5Hezkd%2BniA%3D%3D.hqwphYd9h9Wfn45kYVs6Ig7WFWQCkyJywrwDLbdnzfiHTeo%2FP2f5HqtEsPSALUqXHmgV%2Fb4H95dd%2FAfyVP%2Bm84Tk27v%2BXEaEmdc4nAOV3ccdnR2B8rkKB49UdEea0KTKXssr3%2BjcvhmCAVC2j5I1WLKWjGobcCJlVpDpohw4YrUCXxXs54BOKOkGlBT9Q%2B38rcHtnP6aKtSZuu1Z9qAFENPyfORT5aKMVwCit1F9gwjL55tPzgA7LJyLQkUtwTlM3KN6p1ek%2B8pzvV0SguHy%2BuLkgYywWQItcxUEyQ4UJlrWztxolzhwVBeGBdDBq33FSYRmzzExGTBo2K7VzCvWAw%3D%3D&fbclid=IwAR1RpMNmJRewHOYAampdPy1fQAC3-3PGSOKVhTKl-661dFGNlsFCwOVzh84
dalton99a
(81,070 posts)5. "I wanted to know more about the Bible, from our Bible expert Putin"
Talitha
(6,479 posts)6. Pathetic - I wonder if Pooty knows it was a fake crowd?
Never thought I'd say anything nice about Dump, but didn't his central casting crowds at least get paid a few bucks for showing up?
From the way it sounds, Pooty's crowd was kidnapped - BUT hopefully their busses waited for them in the parking lot instead of taking off and leaving them in the cold, like I heard Dump's busses did.