Pussy Riot member recruited by Russian spies to inform on fellow activists
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/19/pussy-riot-russian-spies-fsb-activists-rita-flores
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/19/pussy-riot-russian-spies-fsb-activists-rita-flores
11 Comments
DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 26 pts · 9h
I mean... if the FSB says they are going to kill your mother I'd take the threat seriously. They've demonstrated that they can more or less kill with impunity on British soil... presumably in Russia they can do much worse.
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 6h
yeah sure that's totally free will she had here
zabadoh@ani.social · 2 pts · 3h
Intelligence services are masters of psychology.
They will "recruit" you, if they think you will be useful, and have an exploitable weakness.
Like a fetish for golden showers from Eastern European women ohgodthatswhyhelikesgoldnowicantstopseeinghessurroundinghimselfwithurinefuckfuckfuck
zabadoh@ani.social · 17 pts · 15h
That's a shame.
What if her story is fake, and she was a plant all along?
Can anyone trust her ever again?
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 10h
No more or less than you'd trust anybody else you didn't know. Trust isn't a default, it's earned.
Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 4h
Smear headline for someone that was a victim of coercion.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 14h
And Western (neo)-Liberal nations do the same thing to their activists.
...in both cases it's a type of fascism. The suppression and repression of non-violent political popularism is ALWAYS a form of fascism. Even when that suppression is done by ostensibly liberal democratic societies.
Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 8h
While I broadly agree in sentiment, is it always a form of fascism specifically, or just authoritarianism..? I feel like we're starting to hit a point of just conflating the two, and I don't really think they mean entirely the same thing...
Juice@midwest.social · 1 pts · 8h
coughs
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 2h
While it isn't exactly the same thing, it's just a different flavor of shitty.
huquad@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 8h
Ok I'll come forward. My co-conspirators are Trump and Netanyahu