2024-08-29 04:51:22
Two and a half years after launching the “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is seeking to attract new volunteers to fight on the front lines. Federal and regional authorities have launched a competition for enlistment, promising incredible sales, attractive social benefits and huge bonuses with the help of propaganda campaigns broadcast on the streets, in universities, on social networks or on television. “Join yours!” », “Be a hero!” »announcing that posters were plastered all over the country. “Defend the land of Kursk!” »advocated another, and recently, called on men, “Maximum 65 years old”,join in “BARS – Kursk Volunteer Brigade” To liberate the Russian border region from Ukrainian troops who have partially occupied the area since August 6.
Districts are working at full capacity to fill hiring quotas. “Take a friend to the military office and you will get 100,000 rubles”or just under 1,000 euros, said the new campaign launched on July 12 in Tatarstan, a major supplier of new recruits east of Moscow. Attracted by the promised amounts, 385,000 people signed contracts between January and December 2023, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. To attract more volunteers, Vladimir Putin decided in July to double the monthly salary of contract workers from 195,000 rubles to 400,000 rubles, an amount to be borne by the regions. Or ten times the average wage.
In addition to this jackpot, an additional one-time bonus of 1.2 million rubles is offered. These earnings are tax-free and provide privileges to fighters and their families, including property loans at preferential rates, admission to the country’s most prestigious universities without entrance exams, a comfortable retirement, and social status. Proposed by the Kremlin chief The New EliteOne day, Special Operations veterans will be able to hang their pictures on their desks in school.
One Russian brought more death to his family than life
From this arose a strange economic model, according to which a dead Russian brought more to his family than a living one. In fact, if a person decided to go to war and died between the ages of 30 and 35, that is, at the age of his most active and in the best condition, his death would be more economically “profitable” for his future. A contract with the military would ensure him an income of ten times the minimum wage and, most importantly, a death bonus for his loved ones if he was killed in combat. Grobovier Russian, amount up to Up to 11 million rubles, depending on the region.
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