How a security officer from Rostov was turned into a Finno-Ugric by propaganda

Sergey Filev was born in the Rostov region on the border with the Lugansk region of Ukraine. Already in adulthood, he moved to Mordovia, where he served as a riot policeman. In 2022, he was mobilized and sent to fight, and for his mother in return for her son, the local administration installed a fence made of chain-link mesh (the son has been of no use anyway, but at least there is a fence).

Propagandists found it little just to tell about this. They decided to touch the national component – they say that the Finno-Ugric nations willingly fight for Russia and it is Russia that reconciles them among themselves.

The following is a literal quote:

“At the end of October, Sergey was mobilized and sent for coordination to neighboring Ulyanovsk. In this city, in addition to those called up from Mordovia, soldiers and commanders from the Republic of Mari El were also trained. And although these two Russian regions are not neighbors, the indigenous peoples of Mordovia and Mari El are united by belonging to the same Finno-Ugric language group.

At first, everyone kept separately – the Mordovians separately, the Mari separately, but after the unit was transferred to the Special Military Operation zone, there was a real front-line brotherhood between them. In the Lugansk People’s Republic, they joined the ranks of a unit that had previously conducted combat operations for more than 8 years in the most difficult sectors of the war against Ukrainian punitive forces. Local warriors greeted reinforcements (as they say) from the mainland with great warmth and cordiality.”

Like this. It turns out, the Russians and their wars unite the Finno-Ugric nations. But in fact it turns out that a significant part of the mentioned “Finno-Ugric nations” do not belong to the indigenous peoples and call themselves Russians, without considering themselves Finno-Ugric nations.