After being called a “traitor” for opposing the conflict in Ukraine, the daughter of a staunchly pro-Putin senator in Russia moved to another country out of fear of persecution and imprisonment.
Diana Isakova, 25, distributed anti-conflict fliers, which resulted in her detention and questioning by the notorious FSB secret agency.
Eduard Isakov, her 48-year-old father, reacted angrily after having previously advised her not to criticise Putin or the government on social media.
The yoga instructor said to the media outlet Medusa, “We had a talk, and all of my concerns came true.”
He labelled me a criminal, a traitor to our family, and an enemy of the people.
She said that she seen the suffering of Ukrainians she followed on Instagram when the conflict first broke out.
These girls’ tales were rife with explosives and tears. I experienced their pain as if it were my own.
She organised a “brave” demonstration in Sochi that quickly resulted in her imprisonment, and she now accuses Putin of embodying “cruelty, arrogance, and impunity.”
She claims that Putin, as well as her senator father, who is Putin’s staunchest supporter, should be held accountable for the war, and she claims that Russia’s political illiberalism is a result of authoritarianism in the family, with the despots of the nation being products of childhood humiliation.
Every nasty person harbours a miserable kid who is ashamed of his wants, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities.
“Someone had treated him cruelly at some time when he was a youngster, and it hurt…
Naturally, Putin has to answer for his actions, but it does not imply we should kill him.
“We’re essentially continuing down the same nasty road by pursuing retribution.”
She forewarned of “fanatical patriotism” and “weak-willed acquiescence” of the populace to the government in Russia.
Diana has now sought refuge in Georgia while her father, a former powerlifting professional who is now a lawmaker in Russia’s Federation Council, continues to criticise her for opposing Putin and his brutal conflict in Ukraine.
She said, “I’m frightened of being persecuted and of going to prison.”
I wouldn’t say that my greatest fear is just being locked up or whatever.
But I believe I can succeed without going to jail.
She is speaking out against the special military operation’s conduct and the foreign policy of her own nation, according to her father.
Evidently, she was paid by certain media organisations.
In other words, she fled Russia after selling off her father, her family, and her country.
When your daughter turns out to be a traitor, it’s tough to put into words.
She didn’t merely oppose a specific military operation, he said in his article, “She participated in opposition activities behind my back, living in my home, at my cost, knowing that I work for federal authorities.”
Diana, seen, should go back to Russia and volunteer to go to the Donbass to “understand firsthand the reasons for the special military operation,” according to her father.
She “confessed that she attended to opposition rallies, solo pickets, denouncing the government’s operations” and “organised her own action advocating for the destruction of the government [and] printed illegal pamphlets in my home.”
“When she was held, she was terrified and claimed that as a senator’s daughter, they had no right to touch her,” the irate senator said.
She is 25 years old, an adult who, in declaring her love to me, resisted me. She is not 15 years old and has not recently been an adolescent.
The oldest of his four children, Diana, he maintained, had deviated from the path since he had never been there in her life when she was younger.
I’m not rejecting my duty for the upbringing of my kid, he said.
This is my daughter, this is my suffering.
In order to “understand firsthand the rationale for the special military operation,” she should go back to Russia and be dispatched to the Donbas as a volunteer.
She bemoaned, “How I tyrannised my daughter, did not allow her to voice her views freely, yet for some reason she stayed with me willingly and did not even consider about going out and leading an independent life.”
She had been dating an adult guy my age for three years, so she had to relocate at the same time.
He accused her of wasting her money and then pleading with him for assistance as she failed to find a suitable career and dropped out of college.
What am I doing wrong as a father? Why won’t my daughter pay attention to me?
Does she believe I’m unkind? Perhaps, in fact, since I was competing as a professional athlete at the time, I did not pay enough attention to her when we were kids.
Diana, seen in the image, believes that Putin should be held accountable for the conflict in Ukraine, but she also asserts that Russia has a “cult of harshness” and that if he quits, “something will change,” but “not very lot.”
I don’t think Putin is the fundamental issue, Diana stated.
Putin’s departure will produce some changes, but not many, since, in my view, the tyrant is drawn to the victim, which is the basis of the issue.
For the most part, they are mute, subservient people without their own ideas; such a sacrificed state, such a sacrificed country that Russia has become.
“There is a cult of brutality, a tolerance for human and juvenile violence.
The more resilient, powerful, and cool you are, the better. Our nation also has a very clear issue with this.
Our whole political system is most likely made up of individuals who were exposed to violence as children, who have grown to tolerate it and who believe that the only way to survive in this world is via using force, manipulation, terror, and control.