Russian police often treat innocent people with casual brutality. They really go to town when someone they believe is guilty falls into their hands.
Russians Being Russian
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
For some reason, I think this is a false flag op.
Don’t know why, exactly. Hmmm.
If I understand correctly, one problem the Russian armed services has is severe hazing and a deficit of sergeants to put a damper on it. Makes it difficult to recruit and retain troops.
Hazing has always been ever present in Russian armies. The sergeants have little authority and the officers ignore it.
Good argument for holding tight to “innocent until proven guilty” and other so-called antiquated notions…
My Finnish maternal grandfather would tell my mom and her siblings never to trust the Russians. He grew up in Finland when it was under the Tsar. It must have been a bad time for him, because he hated the Rus.
My German (not Prussian) grandmother regarded Russians as barbarians and the Kaiser as a bad joke. She emigrated to the US before the war to avoid the insanity.
Stephen:
When I was in Finland in 1996 I noticed the Finns maintain monuments to the early 19th century tsars like Nicholas I but not the later ones. Finland was a Grand Duchy 1809-1918 and had its own coins and considerable autonomy internally, until the “Russification” laws of the later half of that century. Still, many Finns served in the Russian Army, including Mannerheim, who was a Life Guard and then an intelligence agent who wrote a remarkable report about Asiatic Russia just about 1900. Independence and later the Winter War changed everything.
Russian police don’t have the same restrictions ours do, but they do have some. I suspect, however, that these guys will not be getting “interviewed” by the regular police.
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