Russian students are turning in teachers who don't back the war

[speak easy]

The cases are part of a Soviet-style hunt for “traitors” who oppose the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine.

RIGA, Latvia — When Irina Gen’s students in western Russia asked why a European sports competition had barred them from attending, the 55-year-old teacher let loose with a tirade against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“So long as Russia doesn’t behave itself in a civilized way, this will go on forever,” she fumed, adding that she endorsed the European ban. Russia “wanted to get to Kyiv, to overthrow Zelensky and the government. This is a sovereign state,” she said. “There’s a sovereign government there.”

Little did she know that her students were recording her outburst and that a copy would make its way to law enforcement, who opened a criminal investigation March 30 under a new national law banning false information about the military.

Gen is one of at least four teachers recently turned in by students or parents for antiwar speech, in some of the starkest examples of the government’s quest to identify and punish individuals who criticize the invasion.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/10/russia-war-dissent-opposition-crackdown/

[The Unmitigated Gall]

1. Ahh, yes...the Pootler Youth.

Fuck Russia

[Historic NY]

2. The students should go volunteer for Putin.