Orphans and minors taken from their parents in Ukraine can be legally adopted. But they will be forced to take an oath of allegiance to the regime
IThe sack of Ukraine moves one step further every day. After the Donbass grain and Mariupol steel, it officially starts too the great theft of children. Vladimir Putin has already conquered large areas of the East and South of the country and he is not wasting time in confiscating what Ukraine has most valuable or what Russia is missing more dramatically. These days are the information on the transport of metal to Rostov-on-Don through the Sea of Azov or those of cereals from the cities under the heel of Moscow.
Yesterday for the Kremlin dictator put his own signature on perhaps the most brazen decision
: a ukaze (edict) to make war spoils even for the childhood of the attacked nation. The target Russify orphans and minors taken away from their parents in Ukraine by forceoblige them to a oath of adhesion and loyalty to the regime that destroyed their families, give them new mothers and fathers aligned with the army that is ravaging their lands today. Putin’s ukaaze intends to make little Ukrainians without parents – thousands of them in subjugated regions – young Russians who will be able to join the Moscow army in the future
. This is also why the invader takes away everything he can, as long as he can, while the war is still raging.
The dictator’s edict bears the date yesterday, May 30, 2022, on the header with the two-headed imperial eagle crowned around the effigy of St. George on horseback. Byzantine and Tsarist symbolism. The substance of the document, on the other hand, is the closest one can think to the wars of conquest of the 1930s: the subjugated humanity – that in the first years of life, still psychologically malleable – becomes a treasure to be ensured for Russia.
Formally, the measure is an amendment to a 2019 decree, aimed at establishing simple and rapid procedures and transforming thousands of Ukrainian minors into Russian citizens whom the war separated from their parents or made orphans. It does not matter that they are already refugees in Russia. Children residing in the self-proclaimed Putinian republics of Donetsk and Lugansk are subject to the provision and therefore can be Russified with immediate effect, but also – new element – those of the regions of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson to the south. As for Mariupol, not named but considered included in the Donetsk territory. extraordinary how russification can take place, based on Putin’s ukaaze, regardless of the will or the orientation of those who are the object of it. The heads of host organizations for orphans or unaccompanied minors or heads of educational institutions, as well as guardians and guardians of the children, have the right to apply for citizenship for children – it says -. In other words, entities now under Moscow control in occupied cities – schools, orphanages, medical centers or social centers – can decide on the future nationality of their clients. The next step could then be adoption by a family in Russia itselfas provided for by the Kremlin’s Child Protection Commissioner (see Courier of 24 May).
A passage in the forms for applying for citizenship, attached to the ukaze, reveals Putin’s aims. The applicant must sign a declaration: I undertake to be loyal to Russia, to scrupulously fulfill my civic duty and to uphold my obligations in accordance with the Constitution and the laws of the Russian Federation. In other words, in the small Ukrainians to be Russified by force, the Kremlin already sees future soldiers. And an aspect that actually reveals how long the war has been up to now also for Russia: those who know the Putinian system from the inside underline how the dictator looks like this. compensation for the tens of thousands of young Russians whom he himself sent to die in Ukraine. The youngest become spoils of war precisely to be sent to kill or be killed in wars imagined by a few elderly people who have been locked up in the Kremlin walls for decades.
May 31, 2022 (change May 31, 2022 | 08:24)
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