WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, CNT-ait: Anarchosyndicalisme! #181 - Olga Taratuta Initiative (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Since the beginning of the year, "the Olga Taratua Initiative, an initiative of

solidarity with deserters, pacifists, refugees in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus"
has been helping young Ivan, a rebellious Russian, a refugee in France to escape
conscription. The CNT AIT, on Saturday February 25, organized a debate meeting in
its Toulouse premises to allow Ivan to explain his situation. ---- Born of a
Russian mother and a Ukrainian father, Ivan, a young pacifist student, explained
to us his journey to escape from Russia to Germany via Azerbaijan thanks to a
tourist visa. Faced with the absurdity of the administrative regulations, despite
his situation as a refugee fleeing the war, he found himself deported by Germany
to France. The story of his confrontation with the German administration (he had
to pay €135 per night for his stay in a detention center for a month of
detention) was one of the highlights of his story.

On the other hand, to the questions of the audience who wanted to know his point
of view on the reality of life in Russia, and on the opposition to the war and
Putin, in spite of the hatred which he has for this sad sir, Ivan does not gave
only vague answers. Everyone then understood that he lived in his country in a
comfortable bubble and that he cared little for the political, economic and
social situation in Russia.

Clearly, his flight was not motivated by political or humanitarian reasons.
However, the militants of the CNT-AIT are happy to have been able to help a human
being refusing to register in the barbarism of the war. In France, Ivan resumed
his studies and continues the process to obtain refugee status. He will not
return to Russia as long as Putin and his cronies are in power. A meeting in
truth which reinforced, a little more still, all the participants in the need to
support the action of the Olga Taratuta Initiative.

http://cntaittoulouse.lautre.net/spip.php?article1331
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