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In Reply to: They had eight years to make up their mind posted by Victor Khomenko on September 23, 2022 at 06:36:34:
In Yakutia's isolated settlements, which often lack high-speed internet, Russian state television remains the most important source of news for many. Mr. Shadrin, the Yukaghir community leader, described the members of his Indigenous group as scattered in small villages across the vast region and as overwhelmingly supportive of the Kremlin. But after fielding panicked phone calls from mothers this week, he suggested that might change.
Support for Mr. Putin "was off the charts" in rural Yakutia, Mr. Shadrin said. "Now I think a sobering-up is starting to happen."
At one reindeer herding enterprise, he said, four of the 20 herders had already been drafted. Among the Yukaghirs, he said, he already knew of seven men who had been called up, and he expected the number to rise as hunters and herders return to their villages and receive summonses. The total population of the Yukaghirs numbers about 1,600, he said, including just 400 men between 18 and 45.
Several community organizations published open letters requesting that the draft be suspended for the region's ethnic minorities, asserting that even in World War II, the Soviet Union's Arctic Indigenous peoples were not mobilized because there were so few of them.
(A local woman said).. Yakutians had been following the war on television and knew Mr. Putin's argument that it was a war to protect their country. But until now, it had all been very abstract.
"On television they say that this is about defending the Fatherland," she said. "But the threat is now not so much to the Fatherland but to our own lives."
"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. "
― W.C. Fields
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