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Resistance and a Few Other Tales

Nadin Brzezinski
5 min readJan 16, 2023

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No to War on the Russian snow, via telegram

I have not highlighted the ever-so-slowly-growing resistance within Russia. It’s not the fastest-growing movement, partially because Russia is a totalitarian state with pretty tight control of the population. So here are some recent stories.

The first of these involves trains. They continue to derail them, or in this case, burn relay cabinets. When you read about these, remember that Russian logistics depend on trains. There is no decent road network, and the air is costly and difficult to do.

No, Russia has not developed a mature multi-modal logistics system for the army or civilian sectors. Here is the post:

Buryatia. Unidentified rail guerrillas set fire to relay cabinets

It is reported that this is the second such case in recent days, the partisans committed the previous act of resistance on Friday night. Both actions took place on a railway near Ulan-Ude. This time, two of the four relay cabinets, which store the equipment responsible for interval control, were on fire.

The rail war is gaining momentum again — almost a dozen acts of railway resistance since the beginning of the year. Keep it up!

These may seem innocent, but owning a car with a Saint George ribbon or a Z can lead to things like this. In the overall war picture, these will not affect…

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Nadin Brzezinski
Nadin Brzezinski

Written by Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB

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