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A St Petersburg court has sentenced a 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after she was accused of repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian army, including by gluing a quotation on a statue of a Ukrainian poet.

Darya Kozyreva was sentenced to two years and eight months, the Joint Press Service of Courts in St. Petersburg said in statement Friday.

Kozyreva was arrested on February 24, 2024, after she glued a verse by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko onto his monument in St Petersburg, according to OVD-Info, an independent Russian human rights group.

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 99 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

3 years for a bit of vandalism on a statue from the "Nazi" country they're invading. Interested to see how the tankies defend this.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 84 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They won't defend it, they'll just ignore it and keep talking about US being bad.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 27 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Well obviously, the US committed a genocide against it's native population and had interment camps in world war 2. Everyone knows since that happened it's been functionally impossible for any other nation to ever do a bad thing. The US created a monopoly in doing bad things and refuses to share with the world because they're shellfish

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

because they're shellfish

[–] biggeoff@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Both can be bad, both are worth talking about.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] biggeoff@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Sorry I missed that, too many polarising people around.

Have a good one

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

had interment camps in world war 2.

ICE brought those back.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

Yeah, but… what type of shellfish?

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

lol! That’s exactly what happened in a comment responding to the same thing! Dude just whatabout’ed the entire thing and circled back around to how the US blah blah blah….

It’s fucking uncanny.

[–] leriotdelac@lemmy.zip 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

3 years might become 10, there's such thing as a "carousel prosecution" in Russia: your sentence ends, you are ready to leave and get another one for some nonsense; rinse and repeat.

I hope this girl is not that important tho.

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 13 points 4 days ago

That's if she survives the next 3 years

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 days ago

Clearly she’s a counter revolutionary.

[–] Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Tankie here: nothing to defend, there is currently no tankie in the comments defending anything. As any capitalist country does regarding its geopolitical interests, Russia will enjail anti-war protestors and/or activists, and I condemn this. The same happens in Britain today, with activists from pro-Palestinian groups doing a literal hunger strike in jail with no coverage from mass western media.

Now, as a reply: why haven't I seen posts over in .world about the five Russian communists given 15ish years of jail each for being communists? Why is it western mass media doesn't care about communist activists but does only care about pro-Ukraine activists, and why is this reflected on a supposedly free Fediverse instance?

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Regarding your reply, a wild story, but I'm not sure it was done because they are communists, rather because they need to jail someone to get a yearly bonus, and these guys looked like they could do

There are similar stories not reported in western media about Marxists in Russia being enjailed, such as this one of a Kazakh student being prosecuted for having a Marxist reading club in university.

This is persecution of communists, not just a bychance