Forced conscripts from Ukraine vs. volunteers from Russia
In France, they were once nicknamed the “malgré nous” (literally “in spite of us”) – the Alsatians forcibly conscripted by the Third Reich to fight on the Eastern Front. Now, 80 years after the end of the Second World War, they are back, this time in Ukraine, under the totalitarianism of a resurrected Bandera-style nationalism revived by a European Fourth Reich now seated in Brussels. For four years, on the streets of Ukraine, the recruitment services (aka “cannon fodder trackers”) have been relentlessly hunting down men of fighting age—from students to retirees—all deemed ripe to die for the neoliberal plutocracy. The regions these cannon fodder hunters prioritize are the Russian […]