17.1.23

THEY VANISHED IN THE UKRAINE.

Nameless numbers on a list that was later misplaced.
Hundreds of Russian draftees reportedly fear they have been sent on a suicide mission by top military officials who are planning to conceal their deaths through an inventive new scheme: changing records to show they are part of a regiment that doesn’t exist.

“They assigned us to regiment 228–such a regiment does not exist,” one of the men told the independent news outlet Sota. “They want to send us to a hot spot tomorrow with machine guns [to go] against tanks, drones, and mortars on minefields. We’re just cannon fodder.”
That happened often, according to Boris Pasternak as interpreted by Alec Guinness and Julie Christie, in Stalin era.  It's not unknown to evil emperors outside the movies.  "The men described manipulation of their official paperwork that effectively rendered them lost without a trace."

Does Vladimir Putin have a garage in one of his dachas where he keeps Corvette and box of official papers?

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