To celebrate March 8, women’s day, United Russia, the party of President Vladimir Putin, is not short of ideas. Meat choprics were thus offered to mothers of the died combatants on the front in Ukraine during ceremonies organized in the region of Mourmansk, in the north of the country.
It was a question of showing that the mothers of “Heroes” are not forgotten, that the party takes care of themselves, in accordance with the instructions given by the chief of the Kremlin, for whom the veterans and their families now form “The new elite”. The gift was an initiative of the local branch of the presidential party that boasted of it, publishing on the Vkontakte network, the equivalent of Facebook, photos of the winners with their bouquets of flowers and their late meat hatchs.
You should know that in Russian the “meat chopper” (miasoroubka) designates the sending of successive waves of infantrymen to the assault of the Ukrainian lines, a tactic regularly practiced by the Russian army, little regarding on losses in men. Having become a current term of military vocabulary since the invasion of Ukraine, on February 24, 2022, the word was widely used by combatants, military bloggers, commentators. In 2023, the Russian mercenaries of the Wagner paramilitary group had thus awarded those of their veterans who had survived a medal baptized “The bakhmout meat chopper”named after the Ukrainian city of Donbass, which they put more than a year to conquer, at the cost of 30,000 dead and injured.
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