MOSCOW, Sept 14 — When Russians started being arrested for opposing the Ukraine offensive, Maria felt the same kind of fear she guessed her ancestors, victims of repression under...
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“It’s not normal when you start behaving like your ancestors did. Twitching every time the phone rings... thinking all the time about who you are talking with and what you are talking about,” Maria, a 47-year-old from Moscow, told AFP.Leafing through a book with photos of victims of Stalin’s purges, Maria pointed to her great-grandfather.He was posthumously rehabilitated after Stalin’s death in 1953.
Under military censorship laws, people can be convicted for up to 15 years for spreading “false information” about the military campaign in Ukraine. English itself is now considered an “enemy language” that raises suspicions, said Maria, who asked for her surname to be withheld. Heavy sentences for regime critics along with harsh treatment of prisoners has scared many into silence, she said.
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