Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted on Tuesday that hundreds of thousands of volunteers are rushing to join the Russian military.
There were frequent appeals to masculinity, sometimes voiced by soldiers’ wives and other women interviewed on television news. There were incessant reminders of above-average pay and benefits for military servicemen. And the messages — appearing both in video ads produced by the Defense Ministry and on regular TV newscasts — stress the ease of signing up, promising relief from Russia’s notorious bureaucracy.
Of course, Russian state media does not dwell on the unpleasant realities of the front line in Ukraine, and news anchors incessantly repeat the hotline number for enlisting while they are busy not telling the public about how many men have died during the invasion.
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