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2022-09-22 00:30![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
razielimAnd now begins my memory's slow trickling-in of all the people I know eligible to be drafted. Somehow I remembered the young sons of my favorite family friends before even my own cousin. Another cousin I thought of earlier, but he is most likely too disabled to be eligible. You know, assuming anyone cares about the eligibility of the fodder right now. How is this nightmare still happening? Seems like all of reality since February is a bad dream. On a related note, Falco's "Der Kommissar" is now stuck in my head. Fairly certain that's not the meaning of the song, but "commissars" are the guys who issue draft notices in Russia, so. I know it’s being called a “partial mobilization” but. You know.
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Date: 2022-09-22 05:54 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-09-22 07:16 (UTC)Genuinely.
I'm so sorry ♥
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Date: 2022-09-22 18:04 (UTC)Hoping the best for your cousin(s), your friends, everybody. Caught myself staring at the newspapers across the grocery store's register today, there was a picture of a young Russian man getting arrested by cops, who had rallied against the draft: not older than 30 maybe, long gold-brown hair, his face distorted in distress. Caught myself thinking, "Fuck, this could be Gabe. It WOULD be him, if he was there."
Drah di' net um, schau, schau,
Der Kommissar geht um!
Er hat die Kraft und wir sind klein und dumm,
Dieser Frust macht uns Stumm.
kind of fits, actually:
Don't turn around-- look, look
the commissar is about!
He has the power, and we are small and dumb--
this frustration silences us.
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Date: 2022-09-23 03:12 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-09-25 17:11 (UTC)