Russia is experiencing a severe labour shortage. For instance, agriculture is thought to be short of between 30% to 50% farm workers. To resolve these problems Russia is planning to bring in a million Indian’s in 2026 and more from elsewhere.
The war is supposedly the main reason the Russian economy has not already tanked. So I do wonder if any of those Indian workers will end up on the front line.
The temptation to do so will be huge. The Russian government has already been luring poor foreigners with promises of work only to make them sign a document in Russian that they don’t understand (and which ties them into a contract for X years in the military), give them 2 weeks of minimal almost-training and ship them to the front.
If I were a poor Indian guy I would think very hard before accepting any offer of “agricultural work” in Russia.
If you were a poor Indian guy, the likelihood of you knowing of this risk would be very small, and compared with your actual everyday need to support your family, probably wouldn’t account for much.
I don’t know about that. Russia has been having some difficulty these days because in their usual “recruiting grounds” people are becoming more and more aware of this kind of thing. The concept of “going to ‘work’ in Russia may become a death sentence” is gaining traction with every passing day.
I can imagine the Indian population quickly becoming savvy as to this issue.
Millions of Indians already work overseas in various countries so that they can send money home to their families. In some cases, like those working in construction in the Middle East, the working and living conditions are extremely poor and people die from the extreme heat. And still, people continue to take these jobs.
And yet one thing is to die while being able to send some money back to your family, and another is to die in a battlefield (which has nothing to do with a hypothetical agricultural job) and ending up involved in a war that is nothing of your business, and rather often not having even received the promised money. I do not see the two situations as truly comparable.
You and I have the luxury of knowing something of the risks involved and the freedom to choose another option. Those who are given this opportunity may not, such is their desperation.
Even those who are in similar levels of desperation in Africa, the Middle East and South America are starting to turn away from Russian offers. I can see the Indians doing the same.
Never mind. I was repeating what was already posted.