Commanders tortured a contract soldier from Tatarstan to force him to confess to self-inflicted injury.
37-year-old Rishat Shakurov from the village of Shemordan signed a contract last summer. On May 20, he was injured in a drone attack and suffered a leg injury, according to his sister. She says that after this, the contract soldier did not receive any medical treatment.
Instead of being taken to a hospital, Shakurov was taken to the headquarters of the 37th regiment, where he was tortured: tied to a tree, starved, and beaten, in an attempt to make him confess to self-inflicting his wound. His sister managed to save him by filing a complaint with the prosecutor's office, after which he was released. However, this was short-lived as Shakurov was soon sent back to the front despite his injury.
Shakurov's relative confirmed his story, sending ASTRA screenshots of chats with fellow soldiers, photos of medical certificates, and an audio recording of a call with the soldier himself, in which he describes the torture.
According to Shakurov's comrades, after being tortured and returned to the front line, he tried to escape from the unit but was caught. As a result, he was held in a pit for at least 13 days [a photo of Shakurov in the pit is attached to the news], where he was deprived of food, water, and the ability to use the toilet. On July 9, Shakurov was taken to a notorious torture basement for dissenters in Zaitsevo, "LNR". Since then, his condition and whereabouts have been unknown.
See this is why that whole “I am so strong that I will make you obey and might makes right” breaks down after a while. The MAGA people are learning this, too. (I mean… some of them, who are unusually open to learning.)
It is fractal. Just as you are lying, everyone else is lying, to you and to each other. Just as you are ignoring the greater good and gimmicking the rules to benefit you and ultimately only you, so is everyone else. It doesn’t really matter how high you rise; you’ll always be stood on top of a weird, violent, unstable, dangerous tower of bullshit.
If you’re honest about working for the greater good, it’s not like all of a sudden that means everything simple or easy or good. But, you can build a big tower with the other people who are doing the same, and no one’s going to be trying to sell off pieces of the tower to finance their guest house. You don’t have to worry that literally everyone still alive is trying to kill you and take over. And so on, you get the idea.
Ahh yes, social cooperation. If all of humanity's leaders understood this basic concept as well as an average monkey does.
Alas I think we'll only get this far if we encounter a physical enemy, the whole of the earth can unite against. (Climate change doesn't count) There's too much jealousy and hatred in a few humans, and that makes it impossible for everyone to work together in perfect cohesion.
I legit "joke" about how I wish extraterrestrials would show up so the world could get its shit together on a regular basis. Glad to see I'm not alone in my cynicism about our species.