Russians Rebel Against Putin's Covert Mobilization

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“Guys, tell me: did you all sign the contract voluntarily? Were you forced to?” The scene takes place in Penza, in the south of European Russia, in front of one of the military commissariats in the municipality. Plainclothes men try to forcefully take some neighbors away in a van in the face of the desperation of a group of women who block the vehicle. Raids like this, in which civilians are recruited under duress to go fight in Ukraine, have be…