In early August, deputies of the Ukraine president's 'Servant of the People' party in the national legislature ('Rada') introduced a bill that provides for the conscription of forced labor of all those who have not been conscripted to the armed forces. Formally free citizens who already cannot legally leave the country due to wartime restrictions will now also be subjected to forced labor.

This was really inevitable, yeah.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip -4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Literally every single country on this planet will do this when forced to fight a defensive war.

Civil liberties are fine and well but in wartime that goes out the window real quick regardless of ideological orientation of the government.

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 2 years ago

I wish liberals would understand this in the context of communist movements struggling to get out from under global capitalist hegemony and violent dominance. Like, China pushing into the South China Sea is seen as terrible and authoritarian but Taiwan is literally a separatist government from the losers of the civil war protected by the global imperialists who dominated China for well over a century and have encircled China with 600+ military bases and a global torture program, among other things.

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