When you thought things could not get any worse in Russia, between egg shortages and millions of Russians without heat in the middle of an inordinately cold Russian winter; now it appears they have been using conscripts provided by large corporations, who hire immigrant laborers, and then turn them over to the military to serve in the army.
From a post on Xitter by Sergej Sumlenny, LL.M
A background for understanding today’s fire at Russian Wildberries warehouse in St. Petersburg. Russian companies obliged to pay a “slave toll” to the army, delivering a number of recruits. Some companies pay ransoms to protect employees. Wildberries, a Russian clone of Amazon, did the opposite: they mass-delivered slave soldiers, allegedly against some privileges for their business. Since 2022, Wildberries helped police to mass-arrest employees and forcibly recruit them. They pushed personnel out of the offices and warehouses into streets, where police waited for them, and arrested for the army. It was a well-known practice. Only in September 2022, Wildberries delivered 3,000 slave soldiers to the army, so many, that their warehouse in Koledino, Moscow region, could not function anymore. According to rumours, today’s fire in Petersburg was set by employees who were furious about the plans of their slave owners to sell them to the army.
Wildberries is the Russian version of Amazon. Imagine if Amazon started shoving it’s employees into the arms of military conscription agents, to be sent off to the front lines for meat attacks.