Attempts at integrating war into country’s new year celebrations have become obvious target for opposition
The Christmas village at Moscow’s Gorky Park is decked out as in any other year – quaint wooden huts with icicles and snow-lined fir trees festooned with baubles and white lights.
With public protest banned and critics facing years in prison, ham-fisted attempts at integrating the war into Russia’s new year celebration have become an obvious target for opposition to the conflict. Increasingly there is a generational divide, where older Russians have continued to support the war in greater numbers than their children, and especially grandchildren.
“Even those who welcomed the war are acting quiet, subdued,” said a person who works in a management role for a state media agency. “They know there’s nothing to celebrate.” In the following months, Russia changed its strategy: announcing mass mobilisation, appointing a hard-nosed general to lead the military strikes, and launching hundreds of missiles at Ukrainian power plants and other infrastructure sites in order to plunge the country into dark and cold on the edge of winter.Photograph: Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images
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