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This is all sorts of fucked up. Russia is even bringing in African teenaged girls into slavery.

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[–] livus@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

Is there a reputable source for this?

It soulds plausible in general.

But the catfishing/trafficking part seems like a time-consuming and difficult way to get unskilled teenage girls as slaves when they have plenty of them in Russia.

[–] tal@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If the Kremlin wanted more wealth and power over a larger number of people and is willing to take in immigration and able to attract people, instead of trying to annex neighboring countries and their not-too-keen-on-being-annexed populations, they could just leverage immigration. Could just cut the whole annexing thing out of the equation and still grow.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah but that would mean truly embracing capitalism

[–] xuxebiko@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

This is just so horrible.

This is fucked up, but those that make Wisconsin labor laws might be thinking Russia is just forward thinking.

(Wisconsin is working to legalize middle school and high school kids working from 4 pm until midnight during school, allow kids as young as 12 to work dangerous factory and slaughterhouse jobs, and let kids as young as 14 tend bar)

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 0 points 1 year ago

Interesting but going to have to wait for a bit more information/confirmation.

[–] doyadig@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wtf. This is so ducked up it can’t be true. Wtf!!!!!!11

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Of course it can. Just read up some Russian history. If you think that some kind of abuse by the government is not possible, then Russian government did it many times already and in a lot worse ways.

For example, when the war started, some westerners were wondering why are there not that many protests in Russia. Sure the government can't just put everyone into jail. Guess what? 2k people went straight into jail during the first day of the protest on the first day of the war and 10k in the first week. Millions were sent to Gulags during Soviet times. Yes, Russian government can jail millions, not a big deal. And if jails will become overcrowded, millions will be shot. Again, happened many times before.

As for slavery, at least a quarter of Russia's population were slaves until 19th century. No other country in the world enslaved its own citizens on such scale.

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Is a mastodon post a reliable source?

Maybe. But im sceptical.

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