Handouts

The Russian activists who are preparing a report on the Russian troops fighting in Ukraine were shocked to discover that the parents of the Russian boys who were tricked into going to fight in Ukraine and who died there are only prepared to tell the truth about their dead children if they are dissatisfied with the handout they got from the Russian government. The activists keep trying to talk about the dead Russian soldiers but the soldiers’ family members insist on bringing the conversation back to handouts. More often than not, the only reason they agree to talk to the researchers is the hope that the researchers will also be giving handouts. When they discover that this is not the case, their interest in talking about their children disappears.