7 more Indians release video, say forced to fight Ukraine war by Russian army
(indianexpress.com)
from LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to world@lemmy.world on 06 Mar 2024 17:39
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from LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to world@lemmy.world on 06 Mar 2024 17:39
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Hey, it was this or work the cruise ships…
Boy, my sympathy went to 0 pretty damn fast. Might as well have said they went to Nazi Germany as tourists.
edit: grammar
Sorry, the power of pedantry compels me. Hope this is of help at least.
Thank you. I knew it looked/sounded wrong.
I don’t know if media coverage and public awareness about the atrocities are high enough in India to make that judgement.
Russia sell oil cheap to India, so they are good?
The argument is basically “they’ve never done anything to us, so we’re good”. But yeah the cheap stuff must help.
…medium.com/why-does-india-love-hitler-so-much-4d…
Indians would certainly have gone to Nazi Germany for a holiday.
That’s utterly vile, especially considering that India fought against the Nazis during WWII. I can’t imagine being one of the soldiers that came back alive and seeing that shit in my own country.
Don’t forget they fought against Nazi Germany because Britain owned them and forced them too.
Frankly I assume they’d have rather sat the whole thing out and as such I doubt they really cared all too much about a European conflict.
It wasn’t just a European issue. They had a name for these types of issues
The
Europe and European colonies plus Japan wanting to join in with European imperialism War?
Or
Europe and European colonies plus Japan wanting to do its own European imperialism after being stiffed last time War?
The world aspect was because Europe decided it owned the world, not because it was the worlds war.
There was conflict on nearly every continent, I’m not saying who started it, just where it happened.
There were based operations in india related to fighting in China and Burma for example.
Frankly this article is an interesting overview. Lots going on
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_in_World_War_II#:~:….
Sure is a lot of Britain in there. Almost like India had no say in the matter🤔
How much of the world war was European colonial powers forcing natives of the lands they had invaded to fight their battles for them? Like I said it was a European war, just because every battlefield wasn’t in Europe doesn’t change that.
I didn’t speak to the colonial link to England. Keep reading, not all of India was unified on that decision, and the time period played a critical role towards independence.
Further, operations were based out of the country, regarding other theaters of war in Asia. Are you familiar with where India and Myanmar (then Burma) are located?
I get what your trying to do so I’ll head you off: colonialism is wrong, and India DID get dragged into the conflict. I’m not contesting that.
All I was highlighting is conflict occurred in the area, and India was involved in several different ways.
You’re forgetting the entire Pacific War, which had little to do with Europe. You’re forgetting Japan invading China and interrupting the civil war. You’re forgetting Japan invading every island in between them and New Guinea.
Your comment infantilizes local groups who used the war to settle local or regional rivalries. Colonial subjects were not idiots being used. They took up sides based on their goals and historical alliances.
Planet War
Earf, v earf
They’re rolling in their graves seeing how India dehumanizes and treats Muslims. It’s a slow rolling genocide that doesn’t get much attention.
Not just India that’s into Nazi chic…
www.cnn.com/2016/12/27/asia/…/index.html
There was a whole Olympics hosted by Nazi Germany.
So Russia’s worse than Hitlers’s Germany?
Putin’s Russia also hosted Olympics
You are a victim of propaganda, indoctrination, and tribalism.
Or maybe it’s just a bad idea to play tourist in countries that are engaged in active war
Weird how you just moved the goalposts from “Russia is a bad nation” to “it’s only bad because it’s in active war.”
You will never acknowledge how you’re a victim of propaganda, indoctrination, and tribalism.
I’m not OP lol
To me this story is about idiots visiting a nation at war and ending up a part of it. Big surprise
Then why are you replying to me?
Make your own comments.
Lemmy is a discussion site my dude, replying to comments is what it’s for. If you don’t want replies, send a PM
Yes, but you’re replying to comments that have nothing to do with what you’re saying.
Just start your own chain instead of trying to hijack others.
Makes irrelevant comments like “You are a victim of propaganda, indoctrination, and tribalism.”
Ok I’ll stop feeding the trolls now, have yourself a nice day
Not really.
You just don’t like what’s being said so you pretend not to understand it.
I see it all the time and don’t expect more from people like you.
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Just stop with the Internet Slap Fight.
Just stop with the Internet Slap Fight.
Stop with the censorship.
You break the rules, you get removed. Simple. Read the sidebar, it’s there for a reason.
Said the dude who posts video links and leaves uncivil slapfight responses when you are getting called out for spreading misinformation.
Moderate your own comments before moderating others.
Video links are allowed in comments, they are not allowed as submissions.
You realize you’re arguing with one of the people who WROTE THE RULES, right?
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Got any links to news stories about tourists in Ukraine getting forced into fighting for them.
Take your time. I’ll wait.
Or how about Ukraine intentionally targeting missiles at apartment buildings and purely civilian infrastructure with no military value just to murder and terrorize people just trying to live their lives.
If there’s anyone here that’s a victim of propaganda and indoctrination, you’ll find them in the mirror.
What does that have to do with anything?
Why are you so delusional to set up bullshit criteria and think you should be taken seriously by rational people?
I mean even though the Russian state is utterly corrupt, this recruiting vector seems way to convoluted to be practical.
It might also be that they did volunteer, but made up this story in order to seem the victim.
From another comment in here it sounds like someone scammed them into going to Belarus where they didn’t have authorization to be and were arrested as criminals and criminals can be conscripts.
Doesn’t seem like the Russian government is doing this intentionally as much as they’re looking the other way since it benefits them. I wouldn’t be surprised if the scammer gets a kickback from whomever in the police is benefiting from sending the army conscripts.
Just keep advertising your position with your phones, and the Ukraine will take care of you (and your Russian hosts).
Ukraine really isn’t this unstoppable force you seem to make it out as.
No, they are not unstoppable, but if someone turns themself into an easy target…
Ukraine actively assists people looking to disband from the Russian military.
It’s a weird concept you’re floating. Who do you think wants to kill people who are essentially being used as meat shields by a fascist terrorist state?
It’s not the Ukraine, it’s Ukraine. It hasn’t been since it hasn’t been part of the USSR.
And India still tries not to take a stance.