The head of Russia’s parliament said he plans to submit legislation next week that would allow the state to seize the property of “scoundrels” who criticize the war in Ukraine.
Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Duma, an institution controlled by the Kremlin, said he planned to submit the bill on January 22.
“Anyone who tries to destroy Russia, betray it, must be accordingly punished and compensate the state with their property for the damage caused,” he said in a Telegram post on January 20.
The bill, if passed, would be the latest in a series of harsh measures aimed at stifling any dissent inside Russia as it struggles on the battlefield in Ukraine.
Well I guess they’ve got to do something. Russian casualties are something like 4 times more than those of the American military in its entire decades-long participation in the war in Vietnam 50 years ago. With so many of the angry patriotic men dead or on their way to death, at some point the remaining population will be getting more and more anti-war just by attrition.