“I didn’t say anything to my parents because they’re very pro-Putin, very patriotic, but after I got our tickets and exchanged our money, my mom happened to find the receipt from the currency exchange where I’d swapped our rubles for dollars.
She immediately started yelling: ‘Why don’t you want to go defend your country? You owe it!’”
Sergey says his mother’s desire for him to join the war wasn’t because she wanted money. “In fact, it was because she needed a reason to be proud of me. She’d always had issues with that.”
She became “hysterical”: “It’s your duty! You’re a man! Come on — you don’t even have a good job right now! You’ll make some money, you’ll be a hero, and your son will be proud of you!”
Sergey asked his mother if she understood that he would likely be killed if he went to war: “At least you’ll die like a man. Everyone will be proud of you. And Misha, your son, will see you as a hero, and your wife will be the widow of a hero!”
“My brother sent me the screenshots where Mom wrote, ‘Go to the conscription office and turn him in so he doesn’t escape.’ She threatened me and my wife, saying she would take our son away if I don’t go” he recounts.
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‘Maybe you’ll even come back’ Two Russian men recount how their own families tried to make them go to war — Meduza
When journalist Irina Snegovskaya posted a poem on social media about a Russian mother telling her son to join a mercenary formation to pay off his debts, she meant for it to be satirical. But after someone left a comment arguing that such a thing had never…
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