Russians Report Their OWN CHILDREN To Police For Opposing Putin’s Invasion Of Ukraine

Russians are reporting their own children to the police for opposing the war in Ukraine in a chilling echo of the Stalinist era.

A mother of three from the Siberian city of Novosibirsk told The Mail on Sunday: “We live in Soviet hell, with friends reporting friends to the police, parents disowning their children.” The level of distress is very difficult to describe.

In Moscow, a father reported his daughter to the police for allegedly opposing warfare online.

Elmira Khalitova, a student and blogger living in the Russian capital, was detained by police after her father falsely claimed she had written Instagram posts calling for Russians to be killed.

Her father, who was drunk, called the police station and insisted that officers break into her apartment to arrest her.

The officers took her in for questioning and took her phone to try to find incriminating evidence on Instagram, but they couldn’t open the app because it’s blocked in Russia. She was released for lack of evidence.

Ms Khalitova said: “She thought it was her duty to go to the police and file a report.” She had found another enemy of the people and was bringing him to justice.

Speaking to Vice World News, he added: “It’s disgusting that all of this is encouraged.” That the government encourages people to do this.

In Siberia, a father is said to have reported his son to the police for allegedly discrediting the Russian armed forces.

A husband in Moscow is also reported to have told police that his Ukrainian wife was against the war.

A ten-year-old schoolgirl in Moscow was taken from her classroom to a police station after the principal sued her for using a profile picture on social media in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. Pupils from other schools have sued their teachers for criticizing the war in Ukraine.

Carnage: A resident at the scene of a Russian attack in Kostiantynivka yesterday

No teachers have been jailed yet, but some have been forced to resign.

In the Soviet Union, which collapsed in 1991, ordinary citizens commonly denounced each other to the authorities for criticizing the Communist Party. Now history repeats itself.

Historian Sergey Radchenko told the BBC’s Today programme: “This practice dates back to Joseph Stalin, but it is also very common in dictatorial regimes to report on your neighbors and sometimes even your friends.” The reports are a terrifying echo of Stalin’s campaign of terror in the 1930s, which had citizens denounce their friends, neighbors, bosses and even their own children. Millions were sent to labor camps and hundreds of thousands died.

Ukrainian officials last night accused Russia of attacking a residential district in the eastern city of Kostiantynivka, killing three, while Russia claimed that an attack on a hospital in Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine, killing 14, was a crime of war.

In his daily broadcast, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that major battles were taking place for Vuhledar, southwest of Donetsk, and Bakhmut, to the northeast.