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Yellow stickers plastered on the doors and calls for denunciation: Moscow hunts down "traitors"

2022-03-25T20:22:37.718Z


After Putin's little phrases comparing opponents to "mosquitoes" trying to weaken the country, the Russian state encourages the denunciation of unpatriotic acts. The attacks multiply and blacklists are compiled on Telegram: "for love of the motherland".


By Rosalba Castelletti

(

special correspondent for

La Repubblica)

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Moscow - On the door of the apartment of Aleksei Milovanov, a journalist from Kaliningrad opposed to the offensive in Ukraine, a yellow sticker appeared on Tuesday morning, on which one could read: "

a traitor lives here

".

Three men with covered faces posted the same inscription on the house of her friend, Oksana Akmaeva, who took to the streets a month ago.

"

When will everyone who doesn't support this madness have to wear a yellow sticker?"

commented blogger Aleksandr Gorbunov bitterly.

Since Russian President Vladimir Putin referred to "

true patriots

" who know how to distinguish between "

traitors

" and "

spit them out like you do with a gnat that got into your mouth

,” in Russia, an Orwellian world has clearly surfaced, where the enemy is listening to you and Big Brother is spying on you.

Nearly a hundred years after Stalin's Great Terror, denunciation encouraged and…

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Source: lefigaro

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