Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent mobilization drive has not gone unnoticed on YouTube, the video streaming platform alphabet inc Google WELL.
Russian YouTuber Roman Albertovich Abalin, known on the platform as NFKRZ, pointed out, in a rather ironic way, to a certain propaganda ad from Putin’s 2018 re-election campaign that came true in 2022.
Abalin shared an ad earlier this year with a harried middle-aged man suffering the consequences of not voting in the 2018 Russian presidential election.
In one of the scenes from the ad, the man “General” Bioko, accompanied by two soldiers, opens the door. The general informs the man that they are there to take him to the army.
The man replies, “What army? I’m 52 years old.” The general in the ad then tells him that the “conscription age has been raised to 60” by the president.
Abalin said “this is poetry,” referring to how the advert looks in hindsight.
The YouTuber did not immediately respond to Benzinga’s request for comment on the video and the situation in Russia.
In September, Putin announced partial mobilization in Russia as the war with Ukraine has been going on for more than half a year.
Last week it was reported that Russian officials were scrambling to get men for the country’s war effort Kidnapping of men from public places without formal training.
Meanwhile, young Russian men have continued to escape the draft, some even sailing further Yachts to South Korea to escape mobilization.
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