A day after another statement by the Russian dictator about the “need to fight” against all kinds of enemies and “rally ranks”, a bill was submitted to the Russia’s State Duma on punishment for discrediting participants in Russian aggression.
As the head of the “Russian parliamentarians” Vyacheslav Volodin stated, for “discrediting” the so-called “participants of a special military operation and volunteers” they will be punished with a “fine of up to five million rubles” or “in the amount of wages or other income up to five years”, or – “imprisonment for up to fifteen years”.
Such significant punishments can only mean one thing – the aggressor has no other mechanisms to try to stop the degradation of “support” by the Russians themselves for aggression, completely “burning out” any disloyal assessments and comments.
And although the aggressors are already actively using other criminal methods of combating dissent in the occupied territories of Ukraine, including the “fight against extremism”, it is obvious that the aggressor will criminally use the draconian “novellas” in the occupied Crimea, and not only against Ukrainian patriots, but also in within the framework of the constant “internal struggle”.
As one of the collaborators, the host of the Seva Sevastopolsky telegram channel, stated on this occasion, “in other words, if you wanted to criticize the Russian generals, then do it now, in a couple of weeks you can go to the zone for the rest of your life. I have no doubts that this measure is directed specifically against criticism of the [aggressor] army commanders.”
It is noteworthy that indeed, a couple of days before Putin’s statement and the “new bill”, a video was circulated on social networks in which Alexander Matovnikov, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces, dances a striptease. Whether this event is connected with a person close enough to the Kremlin, with a new round of the “fight against discrediting” of the aggressor’s troops is a rather rhetorical question.
