Putin faked that meeting with Russian "mothers of dead soldiers"

However, shortly after the conference, Russian media was quick to recognize that the alleged grieving mothers and wives that Putin met with were well known loyalists. Nadezhda Uzanova, a woman from Abakan who is a known member of patriotic group Combat Brotherhood, was identified as appearing at several other of Putin’s political events. She even sang the Russian national anthem after he illegally annexed and invaded areas of Ukraine, naming them Kremlin territories.

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A second woman in attendance by the name of Anna Gerusova was believed to be a wife of a military commissar and Yulia Belekhoba regularly shared her pro war views. It was even speculated that some of the women there may not have children who had served in the Russian military at all.

One woman who was not allowed at the high profile event was Olga Tsukanova, who has publicly spoken out against Putin after her 20-year-old son went missing during the war.

“Do you have enough courage to look into our eyes — openly, in a meeting with women who weren’t hand-picked for you…?” she later taunted him. “Women who aren’t in your pocket, but real mothers who have travelled here from different cities at their own expense, to meet with you? We are here, in Moscow, and we are ready to meet with you. We expect an answer from you. Are you going to keep hiding from us?”

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[Quelle surprise. Tyrants lie to hold onto power. It’s a lesson Putin learned at the KGB from the Soviets, only he used to be better at it than he has been of late. — Ed]

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