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Related: About this forumLEAKED STATE SECRETS Putin Never Wanted to be Revealed - The Russian Dude
Texas Towelie used to post these videos about the war in Ukraine, I miss them showing up here so...
Leaked state secrets may have revealed the side of Putins war the Kremlin never wanted Russians to see, because this text is built around the so-called Despair Files, a large archive of complaints sent by ordinary Russian citizens to the office of human rights commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova and regional ombudsmen, exposing a hidden Russia of missing soldiers, unanswered letters, broken families, and a military system that can take people quickly but often refuses to return clear answers.
According to the material here, investigators reviewed 9,476 unique complaints, with 6,739 directly related to the war and more than 6,000 involving Russian service members, showing just how deep the human crisis has become behind the official language of patriotism, unity, and sacrifice. The text argues that the most revealing pattern is the scale of missing-person cases, with around 60 percent of the service-member-related complaints focused on relatives who disappeared inside the military system, leaving wives, mothers, and parents trapped in a parallel world of writing letters, calling hospitals, submitting DNA, searching Telegram channels, VK communities, and government portals, all while senior officers and state agencies stay silent. It also highlights how bureaucracy itself becomes a weapon, with cases where injured soldiers were reportedly labeled AWOL, compensation became harder to access, and families were left fighting paperwork instead of getting truth.
The description says this is what makes the archive so politically dangerous for the Kremlin: it does not show abstract opposition slogans or foreign criticism, but private grief turning into a public picture of systemic failure. On television, propagandists talk about heroes, duty, holy war, and historic destiny, while in reality families are begging for bodies to be returned, asking if sons are alive or gone, and watching officials process human tragedy through silence, delay, and administrative self-protection.
The text also draws a sharp contrast between independent journalists and studio patriots, arguing that outlets like Echo, Mediazona, Verstka, and Vot Tak are building a counter-archive of the war through names, documents, complaints, and patterns, while Kremlin media figures such as Vladimir Solovyov continue speaking in grand slogans that mean nothing to people searching for missing relatives. In that sense, the state secrets exposed here are not only military details, but something even more explosive for Putins system: proof that behind every clean official phrase stands a family abandoned by the same state that demanded sacrifice from them in the first place.
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LEAKED STATE SECRETS Putin Never Wanted to be Revealed - The Russian Dude (Original Post)
2naSalit
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lamp_shade
(15,526 posts)1. Thank you 2naSalit. I've really missed TT's posts.
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(27,697 posts)2. Me, too. I appreciate these posts by 2NaSalit.