"The country needs warriors." Students at a Kazan college are being threatened into signing a contract with the Ministry of Defense.
At a meeting at the college Kazan Innovation University Director Yulia Khadiullina announced Students with outstanding debts were told that they had "already been expelled," after which a representative of the military registration and enlistment office offered everyone to sign a contract to participate in the "SVO" and then return to their studies.
"Our country is currently engaged in a special military operation. Right now, the country needs soldiers. Only 18-year-olds are eligible to serve. Therefore, the new army will be formed from those students who can no longer be considered students—that's you," Khadiullina declared. "Each of you ignored our warnings. And I'm not at all sorry that each of you will be expelled. But each of you has potential. The country believes in you."
Some students objected, claiming they still had deadlines for retakes. Khadiullina responded, "For you, college life is over," adding that "those who don't have outstanding exams" would also be interviewed, but "they would be talking about their duty to their country, about their voluntary agreement or disagreement."
Both Khadiullina and the military commissar who spoke after her assured the students that they would serve in “favorable conditions” in a unit located in Yeisk"We're not sending anyone to the North-Eastern Front," Khadiullina said.
Students are actively being lured into war with promises of year-long contracts and service in the rear. For example, at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, the head of the class put The standard is that two students per month must sign a contract. And in Tyumen students campaigned to go to the UAV troops via SMS. But, as the lawyer and human rights activist explained Artem Klyga, such promises are a lie: we are talking about a regular contract, which in Russia are currently of unlimited duration.
There was a wide response online earlier caused speech by the college principal Maria Kirsanova: She called the students who refused to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense cowards. After that, the guys forced Watch Andrei Medvedev's documentary "Betrayal." According to the synopsis, the film tells "the story of those who betrayed their families, loved ones, and their homeland." The school explains the screenings as part of "preventive work."