Russia Trafficking African Girls to Build Drones

[Rogue Valley]

Opinion: Russia Trafficking African Girls to Build Drones

Russia has ‘solved’ the manpower shortages needed for its surge in UAV production by luring thousands of young black women and using them as slave labor.

www.kyivpost.com

7.26.27
Reports from multiple sources including the Africa Defense Forum (ADF) and the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), Russia is now importing thousands of African girls and young women, some as young as 16, to build Iranian-designed Shahed 136 kamikaze strike drones at its massive arms production facility in Alabuga, Tartarstan, Russia. Lured by promises of high pay, European travel, education, and the possibility of “finding love,” the girls are being brought to Tatarstan’s “Special Economic Zone” located about 1000 kilometers (625 miles) east of Moscow. Their passports are then taken away and made to handover their nominal $700 a month salaries to pay for company housing and other necessities. They are then put to work for long hours gluing together the composite suicide drones under toxic fume-filled factory conditions. The company which employs the girls is the internationally sanctioned JSC Alabuga. Ordered by the Kremlin in 2023 to sharply ramp up drone production, JSC Alabuga began two programs to procure the necessary workforce – the Alabuga Polytechnic and Alabuga Start programs.

Alabuga Polytechnic is for Russian youth, both male and female, aged 18-22, and operates in conjunction with a nearby technical school of the same name. Alabuga Start is quite a different matter. It is restricted to girls from third world nations, primarily Africa and former Soviet republics in central Asia. These are restricted to unskilled jobs, with no avenues for advancement. Instead of receiving vocational education, recruits are simply taught about 100 words of Russian, just enough to enable them to follow orders. Recruitment in Africa is being done both online and through local agents in Benin, Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The quota for this year lays down the recruitment of over 8,000 “mulattoes,” as the girls are called in Russia, to do the highly labor-intensive and unhealthy work of gluing together the composite Shahed bodies using toxic chemicals. The Kremlin leadership has long since been identified by the US government as a major practitioner of human trafficking. However, until now it has mostly specialized in procuring pretty Russian blondes for delivery to Arab magnates of other wealthy customers. Importing African slave girls into very racist Russia for use in arms production and possibly other forms of exploitation represents a new chapter in Moscow’s wickedness.

The Alabuga Start program violates Russia's own child labor and industrial safety laws, UN Human Rights conditions (Articles 23, 24, 26, 28), and international bans on human trafficking. The racially stratified – essentially apartheid – nature of the program should also put to rest any delusions that Russia should in any way be seen as a champion of the Global South. Rather it should help make it clear to all that, in the new “multipolar world order” envisioned by Russia, Africans will serve as slaves. I've visited Russia. It is among the most racially intolerant countries in the world. Even the slightly darker people in the "Stans" (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan) are discriminated against as are the oriental peoples in far eastern Russia. Africans are the dregs of humanity in the eyes of most Russians who regard them as a curiosity and people to be exploited. Russian military forces manage/guard diamond and gold mines in the Central African Republic. African children are trafficked to toil in these hellholes. Abuse is commonplace.

 

[Gozaburo]

The Alabuga Start program violates Russia's own child labor and industrial safety laws, UN Human Rights conditions (Articles 23, 24, 26, 28), and international bans on human trafficking. The racially stratified – essentially apartheid – nature of the program should also put to rest any delusions that Russia should in any way be seen as a champion of the Global South. Rather it should help make it clear to all that, in the new “multipolar world order” envisioned by Russia, Africans will serve as slaves. I've visited Russia. It is among the most racially intolerant countries in the world. Even the slightly darker people in the "Stans" (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan) are discriminated against as are the oriental peoples in far eastern Russia. Africans are the dregs of humanity in the eyes of most Russians who regard them as a curiosity and people to be exploited. Russian military forces manage/guard diamond and gold mines in the Central African Republic. African children are trafficked to toil in these hellholes. Abuse is commonplace.

In a roundabout way this is actually a consequence of thoughtless liberal altruism.

The Europeans abandoned their empires and arbitrarily administered sovereignty without considering the long term consequences and alternatives for a continent like Africa. At least we could say the English and French built infrastructure, offered healthcare, policed, and governed these nations. The Russians enslave young girls with PMCs and the Chinese use borderline slave labor in bauxite mines to strip mine until the land is an empty husk.

Anyone with the capacity to think pragmatically would've seen this coming, but this is the problem with decision makers who are dogmatically committed to bullshit abstract values.

 

[Peacenik]

Opinion: Russia Trafficking African Girls to Build Drones

Russia has ‘solved’ the manpower shortages needed for its surge in UAV production by luring thousands of young black women and using them as slave labor.

www.kyivpost.com

The Alabuga Start program violates Russia's own child labor and industrial safety laws, UN Human Rights conditions (Articles 23, 24, 26, 28), and international bans on human trafficking. The racially stratified – essentially apartheid – nature of the program should also put to rest any delusions that Russia should in any way be seen as a champion of the Global South. Rather it should help make it clear to all that, in the new “multipolar world order” envisioned by Russia, Africans will serve as slaves. I've visited Russia. It is among the most racially intolerant countries in the world. Even the slightly darker people in the "Stans" (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan) are discriminated against as are the oriental peoples in far eastern Russia. Africans are the dregs of humanity in the eyes of most Russians who regard them as a curiosity and people to be exploited. Russian military forces manage/guard diamond and gold mines in the Central African Republic. African children are trafficked to toil in these hellholes. Abuse is commonplace.

Not surprised at all.

 

[hecatmoggie]

they use immigration to do the jobs Russian citizens won't do

sound familiar ?

 

[Bok Tuklo]

In a roundabout way this is actually a consequence of thoughtless liberal altruism.

The Europeans abandoned their empires and arbitrarily administered sovereignty without considering the long term consequences and alternatives for a continent like Africa. At least we could say the English and French built infrastructure, offered healthcare, policed, and governed these nations. The Russians enslave young girls with PMCs and the Chinese use borderline slave labor in bauxite mines to strip mine until the land is an empty husk.

Anyone with the capacity to think pragmatically would've seen this coming, but this is the problem with decision makers who are dogmatically committed to bullshit abstract values.

Take up the White Man's burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.

Take up the White Man's burden—
In patience to abide
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain,
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden—
The savage wars of peace—
Fill full the mouth of famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.

Take up the White Man's burden—
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper—
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go make them with your living,
And mark them with your dead!

Take up the White Man's burden—
And reap his old reward,
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard—
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah slowly!) toward the light—
"Why brought ye us from bondage,
"Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up the White Man's burden—
Ye dare not stoop to less—
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloak your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent sullen peoples
Shall weigh your Gods and you.

Take up the White Man's burden—
Have done with childish days—
The lightly proffered laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgement of your peers.

 

[Gozaburo]

Take up the White Man's burden—

I've always thought it's hilarious when people are critical of the concept of "The White Man's Burden" as-if that phrase isn't just a more crass way of packaging what's implied by admitting there is "white privilege" or whatever.

The white man finds himself in a catch 22 it seems. If he chooses to administer his empire then he is an immoral colonialist. If he gives sovereignty to his former vassals, then he is a coward saying "not my problem"

 

[Rogue Valley]

I've always thought it's hilarious when people are critical of the concept of "The White Man's Burden" as-if that phrase isn't just a more crass way of packaging what's implied by admitting there is "white privilege" or whatever.

The white man finds himself in a catch 22 it seems. If he chooses to administer his empire then he is an immoral colonialist. If he gives sovereignty to his former vassals, then he is a coward saying "not my problem"

Making asinine excuses for the Russian trafficking of African women won't make it go away. Nor is doing so a very good look for you.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Not surprised at all.

Indeed. The Muskovites have been subjugating peoples for a long time.

Just ask the Crimean Tatars or the Buryats.

 

[Gozaburo]

Making asinine excuses for the Russian trafficking of African women won't make it go away. Nor is doing so a very good look for you.

I'm not really sure how you read my post and came to the conclusion that I was running cover for Russia & China.

 

[Grand Mal]

I've always thought it's hilarious when people are critical of the concept of "The White Man's Burden" as-if that phrase isn't just a more crass way of packaging what's implied by admitting there is "white privilege" or whatever.

The white man finds himself in a catch 22 it seems. If he chooses to administer his empire then he is an immoral colonialist. If he gives sovereignty to his former vassals, then he is a coward saying "not my problem"

Option three- the white man loots the colony, exploits it's resources, steals it's art to fill his galleries and museums at home, enslaves the people and literally robs the country at gunpoint to vastly enrich home-grown corporations and royal families and then leaves it all behind, a continent looted and fragmented with unnatural boundaries drawn on a map in conferences in Europe.
Or does that come under the heading of 'administration'?

 

[Gozaburo]

Option three- the white man loots the colony, exploits it's resources, steals it's art to fill his galleries and museums at home, enslaves the people and literally robs the country at gunpoint to vastly enrich home-grown corporations and royal families and then leaves it all behind, a continent looted and fragmented with unnatural boundaries drawn on a map in conferences in Europe.

More true for the Belgian and Portuguese, but the British, French, and Germans all built infrastructure and governments which in cases stabilized and improved local conditions. People are under the impression that the interior of Africa was a paradise prior to Europeans - it wasn't - it was a land filled with ethnic strife and primitive living conditions.

Now obviously that isn't affirming colonialism as a moral good, it's just providing a historical account of what happened. My broader point is that it did happen and the continent is going to be exploited, regardless of what our liberal sensibilities say ought to happen.

You're right to point out that the Europeans did leave most of the continent behind due to costly wars at home and popular obsession with self-governance and sovereignty. I'm pointing out that the sovereignty fetish of the post-war era is now going to potentially backfire, opening up a multipolar order for actors like Russia and China to capitalize and abuse far more than even the Europeans did.

 

[Bok Tuklo]

More true for the Belgian and Portuguese, but the British, French, and Germans all built infrastructure and governments which in cases stabilized and improved local conditions. People are under the impression that the interior of Africa was a paradise prior to Europeans - it wasn't - it was a land filled with ethnic strife and primitive living conditions.

Now obviously that isn't affirming colonialism as a moral good, it's just providing a historical account of what happened. My broader point is that it did happen and the continent is going to be exploited, regardless of what our liberal sensibilities say ought to happen.

You're right to point out that the Europeans did leave most of the continent behind due to costly wars at home and popular obsession with self-governance and sovereignty. I'm pointing out that the sovereignty fetish of the post-war era is now going to potentially backfire, opening up a multipolar order for actors like Russia and China to capitalize and abuse far more than even the Europeans did.

You got to admit. The Belgians were pretty bad.

 

[Rogue Valley]

I'm not really sure how you read my post and came to the conclusion that I was running cover for Russia & China.

The Russians are trafficking African girls to slave in their environmentally-toxic drone factory in Tartarstan.

I doubt the history of colonialism in Africa even entered into Putin's mind. These unfortunates are black and thus expendable.

 

[dandolo2k]

Opinion: Russia Trafficking African Girls to Build Drones

Russia has ‘solved’ the manpower shortages needed for its surge in UAV production by luring thousands of young black women and using them as slave labor.

www.kyivpost.com

The Alabuga Start program violates Russia's own child labor and industrial safety laws, UN Human Rights conditions (Articles 23, 24, 26, 28), and international bans on human trafficking. The racially stratified – essentially apartheid – nature of the program should also put to rest any delusions that Russia should in any way be seen as a champion of the Global South. Rather it should help make it clear to all that, in the new “multipolar world order” envisioned by Russia, Africans will serve as slaves. I've visited Russia. It is among the most racially intolerant countries in the world. Even the slightly darker people in the "Stans" (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan) are discriminated against as are the oriental peoples in far eastern Russia. Africans are the dregs of humanity in the eyes of most Russians who regard them as a curiosity and people to be exploited. Russian military forces manage/guard diamond and gold mines in the Central African Republic. African children are trafficked to toil in these hellholes. Abuse is commonplace.

Cry more if you can! These Russian drones will continue to pound Ukrainian orcs and Western mercenaries, trying to colonize Ukraine!

 

[anatta]

not our war, and what are we supposed to do about it? sanctions?? LOL

 

[dandolo2k]

not our war, and what are we supposed to do about it? sanctions?? LOL

It is clear that as soon as US and Europe cease any military aid to Ukrainian nationalists (this is not Ukraine , don't confuse) , the peace will come immediately. Ukrainian youth will stop dying for nothing....

 

[Luce]

In a roundabout way this is actually a consequence of thoughtless liberal altruism.

The Europeans abandoned their empires and arbitrarily administered sovereignty without considering the long term consequences and alternatives for a continent like Africa. At least we could say the English and French built infrastructure, offered healthcare, policed, and governed these nations. The Russians enslave young girls with PMCs and the Chinese use borderline slave labor in bauxite mines to strip mine until the land is an empty husk.

Anyone with the capacity to think pragmatically would've seen this coming, but this is the problem with decision makers who are dogmatically committed to bullshit abstract values.

I'm going to argue that, while you are correct in what happened, you are incorrect as to the why.

Nobody abandoned colonies out of liberalism. They abandoned colonies when they no longer made money for the empire in question, whether for changing markets or because the colony became too expensive to hold onto due to unrest.

But there's always another colonial power, and now it's Russia.

 

[Luce]

It is clear that as soon as US and Europe cease any military aid to Ukrainian nationalists (this is not Ukraine , don't confuse) , the peace will come immediately. Ukrainian youth will stop dying for nothing....

How about no?

Also, the average age of a Ukrainian soldier is 43.

Ukraine's Army Is Old for a Reason (But That Might Have to Change)

More than half a million people have been killed or wounded in the war in Ukraine so far. With over 320,000 losses, most of the casualties are Russian soldiers, paramilitary mercenaries, and pro-Russian separatists. The rest are Ukrainians. Due to a better combat medical system—and also because...

nationalinterest.org

 

[Luce]

they use immigration to do the jobs Russian citizens won't do

sound familiar ?

Well, let's see...

Do we seize passports and then dock 100% of their pay for living expenses?

 

[Napoleon]

We’re what, a couple of weeks out from the Trump administration rescuing the illegal child slaves from lefty pot farms in California?

 

[hecatmoggie]

Well, let's see...

Do we seize passports and then dock 100% of their pay for living expenses?

no, Democrats/liberals just allow them to come in illegally, use/abuse them outside USA labor laws, keep them poor, unskilled and uneducated and cheer how great it is to have hotel servers and crop pickers

its a type of slavery too absolutely

 

[Luce]

no, Democrats/liberals just allow them to come in illegally, use/abuse them outside USA labor laws, keep them poor, unskilled and uneducated and cheer how great it is to have hotel servers and crop pickers

its a type of slavery too absolutely

Can they leave if they like?

 

[hecatmoggie]

Can they leave if they like?

if the Russian reports are true then there is that difference

 

[Rogue Valley]

if the Russian reports are true then there is that difference

The African girls are in the same predicament as Russian girls trafficked to Middle East Arab countries.... their passports are confiscated and they are guarded 24/7.

You've changed your username. Any particular reason why? You must be aware of what a moggie (moggy) refers to.

 

[Luce]

The African girls are in the same predicament as Russian girls trafficked to Middle East Arab countries.... their passports are confiscated and they are guarded 24/7.

You've changed your username. Any particular reason why? You must be aware of what a moggie (moggy) refers to.

Oh, it's Stealthycat.