r/worldnews • u/DownWithAssad • 5d ago

Russia sentences 15-year-old schoolboy to 5 years for criticizing Putin regime and war against Ukraine Russia/Ukraine

https://khpg.org/en/1608813775
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u/meteorprime 5d ago

What are you even fighting for at that point?

Your children jailed for speech…

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u/his_purple_majesty 5d ago

Didn't parents routinely rat their children out in communist Russia, or maybe it was children ratting their parents out?

So it can get even worse.

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u/kuldnekuu 5d ago

There were legends of it happening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlik_Morozov

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u/Boffinito 5d ago

I think this is described in one of the biographies of Stalin, quite possible the ones by Simon Sebag Montefiore. If so, it would have been properly researched. Might be one of the books by Beevor if it wasn't Montefiore.

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u/BigOldCar 5d ago

No, he's thinking of 1984, where a youth organization called the Junior Spies encourages children to report their parents to the authorities if they question Big Brother or complain about conditions.

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u/NIBBLES_THE_HAMSTER 5d ago

It was pretty common in soviet Russia for people to rat each other out for a number of reasons...