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🔴 Russian man-engineered humanitarian catastrophe in the occupied territory of the Kherson region. Civilian population at risk of starvation, untreated injury, and death. My report for @MeidasNetwork meidasplus.com/p/besieged-ole…

#MafiaState 1⃣5⃣ This excerpt is from the documentary THE PRICE OF A VOTE (full film linked in the comments with English subtitles), a collaborative effort by public figures, journalists, and everyday people, Hungarians who want to live in a democratic Hungary. Not politicians, but citizens unwilling to stand by while their future is decided without them. This documentary exposes a highly organized system of electoral manipulation in Hungary’s poorest regions, where corruption and cheating are not side effects but the central operating logic of the system. Through insider testimonies, participant accounts, and on-the-ground reporting, it shows how elections are engineered well before voting day using a combination of vote-buying, coercion, surveillance, and procedural abuse. At the core is direct, systematic vote-buying. Cash, food packages, potatoes, firewood, alcohol, and other goods are distributed in exchange for votes in a structured, calculated way. Specific amounts are assigned per voter, intermediaries handle distribution, and entire communities are mapped in advance. This is not occasional bribery; it is a functioning marketplace where votes are priced, allocated, and delivered with precision. The corruption escalates into full operational control of turnout. Organized transport networks move voters to polling stations in coordinated waves. Operatives are assigned to streets and households, ensuring no one slips through. People are tracked throughout the day, listed, monitored, and followed up. By midday, teams are actively hunting down those who have not yet voted, maximizing extraction from controlled populations. The cheating extends directly into the voting process itself. The film details systematic abuse of assisted voting, where voters are falsely declared illiterate so operatives can enter the booth with them and control the vote. In many cases, it is not the voter marking the ballot at all, but a connected “assistant.” Chain voting is also deployed, circulating pre-marked ballots to guarantee outcomes and destroy ballot secrecy. Verification and enforcement mechanisms make the system airtight. Voters are required to prove compliance through photos of ballots, open voting outside booths, or real-time signaling systems like missed calls confirming a “correct” vote. Payment is conditional. Those who comply are rewarded, while those who do not risk losing money, jobs, or access to essential services. Institutional corruption underpins everything. Local authorities, municipal structures, and administrative systems are integrated into the process. IDs are issued rapidly before elections to expand the pool of controllable voters. Public resources are redirected to serve political goals. The boundary between state and party effectively disappears. Coercion reinforces the system where money alone is not enough. Access to public work, welfare, housing, and utilities becomes conditional on political loyalty. Refusal carries real consequences such as loss of income, exclusion, or administrative pressure. In extreme cases, operatives physically embed themselves in households before election day to ensure compliance. What makes this system especially powerful is its scale and coordination. It operates across dozens of constituencies, with a structured hierarchy comprising leaders, deputies, data collectors, and field operatives. Detailed voter data is gathered months in advance, including personal vulnerabilities, allowing precise targeting of individuals. Every potential vote is identified, pressured, and converted. This is not limited to any single group. While the poorest are the most exposed, the system targets anyone vulnerable to pressure or dependency. The mechanism is universal: identify leverage, apply pressure, extract the vote. The result is a parallel electoral system running beneath the official one, built on corruption and cheating at every stage. Elections still take place, ballots are still cast, but the outcome is shaped long before voting begins. What remains is the appearance of democracy, while its substance is systematically hollowed out and controlled.

In anticipation of beef shortages in Russia, Murmansk deputy Gennady Stepakhno has proposed killing seals to make sausage. 🫣 Interestingly, Stepakhno used to be the director of an oceanarium where gray seals were trained. Now, however, he is suggesting using them to feed Russians. Direct quote: 
“From an adult seal, using existing experience and technologies, it is possible to produce a wide range of products with virtually no waste. This is confirmed by the experience of Norway, Canada, and our own Far Eastern producers — in Magadan and Chukotka — who produce canned food, smoked fat, edible oil, and even seal sausage, while restaurants prepare excellent steaks from seal meat.” Stepakhno’s proposal was supported by the State Duma Committee on Natural Resources, Ecology, Fisheries, and the Agro-Industrial Complex. Meanwhile, members of the Parliamentary Association of Northwestern Russia have prepared an appeal at the federal level seeking state support for seal harvesting. Source: novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/…