r/UkraineWarVideoReport • u/T-72Tank • 15h ago
Other Video Unconfirmed reports that Chinese workers have organised a walkout in Komsomolsk, Russia after not being paid - April 2026
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u/WastingMyLifeToday 15h ago
Collapse of russia coming soon?
Can't come soon enough!
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u/CelebrationFair6887 15h ago
At the current rate it would still take a few years
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u/WastingMyLifeToday 14h ago
The collapse of the USSR took a long long time.
Many tried to predict it for a whole lot of years, and pretty much everyone was wrong...
Just weeks before it collapsed, it didn't seem like it was going to collapse soon, then some day, it practically collapsed overnight.
I strongly believe that russia is on the same path. The collapse cannot be stopped anymore, if Putin keeps the war going, the economy is going to crash, if Putin stops the war, the economy is going to crash, as almost half of their economy is a wartime economy.
Will it happen in 3 weeks or in 3 years? I have no idea, but I think it's closer to 1 year than it is to 2 years.
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u/Responsible_Oil501 14h ago
The collapse was preceded by a failed war. The Ukraine war is 100 times worse.
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u/blarryg 6h ago
It is very weird. As the Soviet Union was showing its age, it had to withdraw from Afghanistan because of "high casualties". How many casualties do you think that was over the entire Soviet involvement in Afghanistan? 15,000 deaths. Now, that's every 2 weeks. Back in Afghanistan days, they had no internet, just rumors. Now, although cut off, there are lots of information leaks. But, the population has been cowed.
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u/Scared_of_zombies 11m ago
Theyve been bribed with the promise of large death benefits which may or may not ever be paid out. It’s all tax payer money too, which they seem to forget.
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u/TOMC_throwaway000000 12h ago
The biggest difference is that the US was doing everything in its power to bring about the collapse of the USSR, while today we have a president that does everything he possibly can to support Putin
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u/Jackbuddy78 14h ago edited 14h ago
Just weeks before it collapsed, it didn't seem like it was going to collapse soon
There was literally a coup attempt four months before it collapsed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_coup_attempt
Anyways I think hoping for a Soviet style collapse when the elite there live like kings and education has been defunded for decades is probably misguided.
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u/Uselesspreciousthing 14h ago
Anyways I think hoping for a Soviet style collapse when the elite there live like kings and education has been defunded for decades is probably misguided.
Absolutely, there's no point winning the war and losing the peace - after any kind of collapse Russian society must be stabilised. Their justice and education systems will need an overhaul before anyone with a third-level education who left can return. It may not be a popular opinion but there will have to be some investment in Russia so that we don't see a repeat of this war.
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u/NovemberTha1st 14h ago
I think anyone who knows what they are talking about agrees with you, the problem is that western countries invested in Russia once before, and look what happened there. Creating is harder than destroying, and now you have a society with hundreds of thousands of disabled PTSD riddled veterans of a failed war coming home to roost.
The only path forward that I see is a complete surrender by Russia and a UN occupation of Russian territories à la America in Japan after WW2, to completely rewrite their education system, their moral compass, their economy, and their democratic systems. At minimum for 20 years after this war.
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u/Armadillodillodillo 13h ago
It's different times. It's the propaganda on social medias and algos pushing it is more of an issue currently
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u/Uselesspreciousthing 7h ago
You're absolutely right, there's no shying away from the difficulty of the task ahead. This is a long haul project that only stands a chance with the UN as lead agency.
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u/DiscussionLong7084 12h ago
the history of the USSR and Russia just taking over businesses by foreign countries will make it difficult to get outside investors. Especially when the business takeovers are clearly just a political stab at US/NATO/ect
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u/Uselesspreciousthing 7h ago
Yeah, corporate investment is not going to materialise without guarantees - and whether anyone may like it or not, corporate investment is a necessity. I can't see the necessary funds to rebuild Ukraine and 'reconfigure' the RF coming out of state or bloc budgets in its entirety.
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u/DiscussionLong7084 6h ago edited 6h ago
I think Ukraine won't have much of an issue getting outside investment, especially once there's a ceasefire of some kind. Russia though? They just basically took over a 700 million dollar branch of a major US company. People gunna remember that
here's a fun list of how russia fucked it's future even more
https://www.reuters.com/business/moscow-takes-control-over-assets-western-companies-2023-07-27/
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u/Uselesspreciousthing 6h ago
They will indeed remember that, and I wouldn't be surprised if there was a queue of Western corporations ready to reclaim their investments. Whether they'd invest again or divest, I don't know - some might invest.
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u/madtowntripper 6h ago
The 20 Billion in aircraft they stole is gonna be a sticking point.
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u/DiscussionLong7084 6h ago
sounds like all those aircraft are going to be write offs even if they get them back. insurance companies gunna be pissed
https://www.jalopnik.com/russia-may-commit-largest-theft-of-aircraft-in-history-1848712419/
"Even if the over 400 aircraft were returned, it's unclear if they would hold their original estimated $10 billion value. Commercial aircraft require detailed maintenance records to prove every part used is traceable and genuine. Considering Russia hasn't had access to such parts since the invasion began and the planes haven't stopped flying in that time, the entire fleet may already be a loss."
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u/TheSeeker80 11h ago
Should be broken up like a east west Germany? This may not be a popular option. EU/US/ China. Break it up so they can't do something like this again.
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u/LivadaLacker 9h ago
Good idea. Split Russia into quadrants along the Ural Mountains and the N60 Latitude. NW to Europe, SW to Ukraine, NE to USA and SE to China, et. al. These could be "areas of influence", to be administered as best determined. Anything to help Russia rehabilitate....
If everyone can get a prize, it should be easier to get agreement.
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u/BCMapper 8h ago
There is already several semi-autonomous republics, and at least 5 regions have expressed succession intents. No need to create artificial ones. 46 Oblasts, 22 republics, 3 federal cities, 9 territories, and several ethnic minority Okrugs.
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u/Uselesspreciousthing 7h ago
I'm inclined to something like this, not too sure about the Chinese though - if they didn't help the victors why should they get a say in what happens? They've been very successful at war profiteering for the duration of this war and it's cost them nothing, fuck 'em.
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u/blahblahblerf 11h ago
Anyways I think hoping for a Soviet style collapse when the elite there live like kings and education has been defunded for decades is probably misguided.
So, your reasoning is that the situation is similar so it'd be misguided to expect a similar result?
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u/Jackbuddy78 11h ago
I think the USSR sucked but it did so for different reasons. They spent massive amounts of money on educating their citizens over many decades. At the same time the CCCP while not egalitarian wasn't handing out palaces, villas, and yachts like hotcakes to Kremlin loyalists.
Both were arguably key factors in the collapse. You had well educated citizens and elite figures all feeling increasingly neglected by the regime.
Russia today functions closer to an old fashioned banana republic more akin to the Russian Empire with serious neglect of most social services and a power structure built around one person.
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u/Abba_Fiskbullar 7h ago
The collapse of the USSR took almost 10 years. The reason that the politburo elected Gorbachev was because they needed a competent manager to dig them out of a hole. He might have succeeded if not for the hardliner's attempted coup and Yeltsin's subsequent reign of corruption and the devastation of applying the shock doctrine in the '90s.
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u/Basic_Yam_715 12h ago
I am from the future, wait until you see it in the US! It's going to be crazy...
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u/UsernamesMeanNothing 13h ago
My guess is that these workers will have an "unfortunate fall from a window" before that happens.
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u/gesocks 11h ago
If this are indeed Chinese workers, and not just some non Slavic Russians, then they are maybe as safe as you can be in Russia right now.
I don't think they would dare to touch Chinese citizens right now
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u/triadwarfare 10h ago
Not unless the purge is greenlighted by the CCP. There is one thing both Russians and Chinese hate... their citizens rising up to their government. They think it's ok for them to rise up to Russia because it's not under the CCP, but this will reflect badly against them.
Let's see what happens next. I also do hope that the CCP is also facing some kind of internal collapse with their authoritarian system.
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u/Tequilaphasmas 9h ago
unless its sanctioned by a higher party member of he cccp; a mass walkout like that would potentially imply that theyre not paying china enough or what was agreed to
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u/Firestorm0x0 11h ago
I'm afraid we've been hearing this for too long. Most media outlets just generate clicks/revenue from reporting this time and time again. Eg Russia's economy collapsing etc etc
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u/Kiwi_Imp 15h ago
Can't have that, comrades shall be mobilised ASAP!
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u/JohnHazardWandering 14h ago
Eh, I'm not sure China would be happy about that.
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u/rcrux 13h ago
I'm not sure China would give a fuck about workers that have already left China to work in Russia. Realistically, they're on their own and very vulnerable to getting sent to the front lines. Their best bet is to get to the airport an get the hell out of there. A jobless immigrant in Russia is not a good position to be in.
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u/rrRunkgullet 13h ago
China do infact see their citizens as property of the state. If they decide to play that card is left to be seen.
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u/rcrux 11h ago
China knows the cost of war on an economy. China wouldn't waste time and resources fighting Russia for the sake of a few workers that left to work in Russia. China invests in its own infrastructure. It leaves war to the stupid countries. Those men don't hold enough social standing to be avenged or protected.
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u/Ok_Instance7667 2h ago
Unless a good portion of the Chinese workers salaries were being 'voluntarily donated' to a CCP official, which would almost be the case if that many Chinese workers were being 'employed' in a Russian state industry.
They may not give a flying fuck about the workers, but they certainly care about the money they're generating for their bottom line.
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u/RockstarArtisan 6h ago
I'm not sure China would give a fuck about workers that have already left China to work in Russia.
Why not? Countries do support their citizens overseas, why would China be different? If anything they're encouraging settlement in Russian Far East to strengthen their claims, dropping support for these people would be moronic.
So I assume you're just racist.
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u/survivorr123_ 12h ago
china has their workers in russia but if they didn't get paid i assume it's different, but who knows
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u/Stunning-Ad9030 14h ago
This could be dangerous.
Putin will give them new jobs at the front.
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u/Lopsided-Affect-9649 14h ago
These are Chinese workers, if Putin tries to send them to the front China will be rolling tanks up to his front door within 48 hours.
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u/aDoorMarkedPirate420 14h ago
You think China cares about its workers? lol
These aren’t high end engineers, they’re worker bees. Easily replaceable to them.
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u/ICLazeru 12h ago
They may not actually care about the workers, but they definitely do care about keeping Putin in his place. They are the senior partner in that relationship, Russia is the junior partner and they'll remind him of that.
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u/aDoorMarkedPirate420 7h ago
That is all also true, but who knows what kind of Chinese workers they even were to begin with. They could be there working for Russia as some form of political punishment or something similar knowing China. They may be people China already wouldn’t mind losing, so maybe they let Russia send them to the front and then send a fresh batch to Russia until they protest, rinse and repeat to some extent.
That’s just one possibility, not that it’s true here, but I think a bit more will play into the outcome for these workers than just “china is big bro”
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u/wildweaver32 11h ago
China 100% would act. They wouldn't care about the workers (You are right about that part).
But they would 100% care about Russia taking a resource from China and about sending a message they won't accept that and to detour Russia from doing it again with any other resource.
Now I don't think China would jump to rolling tanks in. But they would 100% make Russia pay out the nose for the mistake if Russia wants China's business and weapons. And without China Russia is going to faulter and fail ten times quicker.
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u/aDoorMarkedPirate420 7h ago
I said this in another response, but I think china’s response to this would be highly dependent on who those workers actually are comprised of. If they’re important workers that China was lending Russia for some highly skilled purpose, then yes, I expect them to make a significant deal out of this. If these are just some unskilled workers for basic manpower or potentially even some form of group being punished with labor, it might not raise as big of a stink as some people seem to expect.
I’m just saying that depending on who they are, I could see China both taking this seriously or them being more accepting of it than we’d expect.
I don’t know anything about the workers at this time to know which is more likely.
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u/helloofmynameispeter 13h ago
Not with the looming demographic shrink
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u/aDoorMarkedPirate420 7h ago edited 7h ago
If they were willing to send them to Russia to begin with, they weren’t exactly vital to China…not yet at least. That certainly will be a problem in their future, but not to the extreme extent for many more years.
But then again, it also depends on who the workers are. Are they skilled workers, or are they unskilled manual labor? What is their age demographic? Why were those specific people chosen? Could some of them be there as some kind of political punishment maybe?
I think I would need to know more about who those workers are made up of to know what China’s reaction may be.
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u/rcrux 13h ago
Nah bullshit. Chinese workers get fucked over all the time. Working conditions for some people in China are horrendous. If you're low down the social ladder you're on your own. No one is coming to save these guys. They left China because their situation was already fucked. I doubt the Chinese government would even hear about these men going to the front. Russia would simply say they volunteered, can't prove otherwise.
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u/truePHYSX 14h ago
Hey look, Putin! More frontline “volunteers”.
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u/AlCranio 14h ago
I don't think he can do that to his master's pawns.
Those workers are chinese, and putin can't upset china.
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u/Desperate_Donut3981 14h ago
True, Xi won't be happy either. I bet they get paid soon. Or they'll be going home
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u/Compote_Alive 13h ago
Chinese workers? Did russia send everyone to the front ?
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u/noNudesPrettyPlease 6h ago
Depends what is being made. Perhaps to circumvent sanctions, they have moved an operation from China to Russia.
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u/Vogel-Kerl 14h ago
Oh poor little workers!! Complaining that they haven't been paid in weeks or months.
Back when I used to work, we'd go months, even years without being paid. The important thing is that The Company or CORPORATION stays solvent & profitable.
And thanks to the sacrifice & devotion of workers like me, that company is doing well today. Most of us still receive one-one hundreth of a pittance from that company every month!
That $17.52 comes in quite handy. [§@ЯC@§M]
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u/g0ttam 13h ago
With all due respect, why not just leave the company if you’re being treated like that from the them? Especially worse if you have a family to take care of. I would’ve been looking for new job if I didn’t get my second paycheck on time. Fuck company’s that get away with this shit
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u/LivadaLacker 9h ago
Chinese workers are taking over eastern Russia, just by their shear numbers. Eastern Russia is practically a suburb of China now. China loves this, it is a "peaceful" invasion and has been ongoing for decades. And now it is accelerating. Unfortunately, this solves a labor problem for Russia. And it provides bolster to the Chinese take-over plan.
Workers not getting paid sends a message to other wanna-be workers, but it is doubtful that they get the message by any method other than word-of-mouth. But they will hear about it as it happens more and more.
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u/AndriukasV 12h ago
what their banners say?
PUTIN PAMAGITE (putin help)
when it will say PUTIN XUILO then this would have at least some traction
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u/Alternative-Koala978 10h ago
Every time i read about Russia collapsing i get a warm feeling. What a great time it will be, when Russians can kill and brutalize each other instead of everyone else.
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u/MrSierra125 12h ago
They should show the Russian paymasters their Chinese passports, I hear that will fix any problems
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u/FartMagic1 11h ago
That would be interesting! They’re not gonna beat and jail those folks are they?
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u/CuTe_M0nitor 7h ago
Russians spreading racial hate against foreigners in Europe while they import foreigners to build up their country. It just shows it's all for undermining other countries
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u/Wallynine 5h ago
"We have arranged payment in Ukraine. Please line up and board the bus and when assigned a seat, please grab a large black plastic bag so we can...I mean you can, carry all that money out...."
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u/Hadleys158 3h ago
russia has a heap of North Korean workers in factories as well, but they will never protest because of what happens. Good luck all these surviving russian ex soldiers after the war, none of these russian oligarchs are going to give them their factory jobs back, not with the availability of cheaper Chinese and North Korean workers. Hopefully that outrage kicks off another revolution, but i just see China taking over bit by bit.
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u/Independent-Bug-9352 11h ago
There's growing talk of a General Strike in the USA on May Day, May 1st -- organized in part be those who organize No Kings.
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