Men of conscription age are hunted in Transcarpathia

Until now, many Transcarpathian Ukrainians considered the huge amount of forced line-up videos circulating on the Internet to be Russian propaganda and staged, but now they were able to experience the true face of Zelensky’s war first hand. Patriotism has quickly gone away, and yes, even those who have so far criticized the Hungarian Prime Minister for his sane, pro-peace stance are beginning to agree with Viktor Orbán.

Of course, many Ukrainians would be happy to return their Ukrainian papers after acquiring another citizenship, but even the person who gave them does not have to do so… Resignation is a multi-year, complicated hassle, which is also prohibited during martial law.

Mobilization as punishment

However, the reality of war in Ukraine would lie to itself if it did not contain a hint of Stalinism, which, embodying the modern world, carries within itself the market gap, i.e. corruption. Many stories are known in Ukraine that mobilization can now be ordered for political purposes, even for money.

The same is the case with journalists who expose corruption schemes, who – after the publication of their articles – are waiting in front of their houses or workplaces by uniformed officers with an urgent summons order. But this is also the case in the business world. If a protected company senses competition, it will take away its rival’s employees. It’s all just a matter of money and good connections.

Family revenge

Of course, in many cases, family members report their own relatives. This can be caused by a bad marriage, domestic violence and other disputes. The Ukrainian press reported on several cases where the hiding person was reported to the military by his own mother-in-law or even his wife. In this way, the uniformed officers were able to arrive at the exact address, from where they immediately took the man away. In most of these cases, the wife who calls claims that her husband is an alcoholic and beats her, so he would benefit from a little discipline. However, he no longer thinks about solving a marriage gone astray by sending his former love straight to his death.

In the last two years, the Ukrainian press has been trying to combine a kind of Soviet, North Korean and modern European style. In the West, which applies double standards, this is applauded and even financially supported. Now one of these funded television stations has broadcast a report in which military personnel are being escorted to deployment. In it, the interviewee, a young woman recruiter, talks about how they often receive phone calls where there is a woman on the other end of the line and she says: my husband is hiding, don’t I want to accidentally mobilize him? The recruiter hastily adds: they don’t do that because it’s illegal. This is of course not true.

However, in the report, they talk to the reporter, who looks even more stupid, as if it were natural that war, not peace, is the only possible solution in this situation. And they also forget that as a result of the manhunt they advertise, more than half a million Ukrainians had to be buried.