Outside the war, the dark world behind 3 million Ukrainian refugees

The world is like Tai Chi, with a white side and a black side.

Many people do not realize that while we embrace the good world, every minute, there are people who disappear in the shadows and disappear into civilized society.

From the suburbs of New York to the beaches of Mexico, from the train stations in Moscow to the main lines in Tanzania, from the red light district in Bangkok to the streets of Manila, the dark side of the world looms.

Today, three weeks after the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, more than 3 million Ukrainian refugees have fled the border alone and helplessly, pouring into neighboring European countries.

The refugee crisis is unprecedented since World War II and shows no signs of slowing down.

Cases of refugee abuse, mainly women and children, are frequent, and recently there have even been scandals of male refugees being sexually assaulted. The gloomy borders of the country seem to have become a haven for traffickers, pimps and other criminals – 44 million civilians have become cannon fodder for the times in the wake of a sudden war.

Or rather, it was already there.

01

The European "Womb"

The ongoing war, the peaceful life of the Ukrainian people, has long since been not the first blow.

Ukraine, which owns three-quarters of the world's black land, has been in an "economic crisis" for more than 30 years since its independence.

Under the influence of Western countries, the political situation in Ukraine was wobbly, which greatly affected agricultural and industrial development.

In 1990, because of hyperinflation, its domestic GDP fell directly to half of what it was before independence. It was not until 2000 that positive growth was achieved for the first time.

But the next round of blows – the 2008 economic crisis, the 2014 Crimean War, the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic – brought it back to its original form.

Jobs are shrinking, prices are soaring, and unemployment is rising. Ukraine, the second largest country in Europe, is the poorest country here.

Ukraine's vast black land

In the face of a fragile economy, no one can be left alone.

Ukraine, with a total population of just over 44 million, has more than 4 million people working abroad, a staggering proportion.

But who would want to leave their homes unless they had to?

Ukraine's statutory minimum wage, converted into renminbi, is about 952 yuan. Except for the capital Kiev, where the average can reach 2,000 yuan, the income of other regions is far below average.

For women who are vulnerable in the job market, unemployment peaked at 1997 and was even as high as 64 percent at one point.

They have nothing but their good looks.

Of the Ukrainian families with one child, 26 percent live below the poverty line. Among families with two children, the figure is as high as 39 percent.

The only option many low-level Ukrainian girls can do is to sell their bodies for foreigners to "taste" in exchange for survival resources. Of the country's more than 100,000 sex workers, the proportion of minors is close to 70 percent.

Rely on this humiliating way to support the life of the family.

Even the Ukrainian government has stopped making it a crime to sell Y since 2006. This move has undoubtedly contributed to the growth of the industry.

In 2012, the European Championship was held in Ukraine, and fans from all over the world poured into the country, and in addition to watching the ball, they met local girls in bars.

After the end of that year's competition, Ukraine became famous.

According to a United Nations survey, 1 in 4 European sex workers are Ukrainians – a "paradise" for Europeans to have fun.

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This, of course, is drinking to quench thirst.

Behind the fast money is endless sexual exploitation and the torment of disease.

Ukraine has the highest rate of HIV infection in Europe

Are there any other ways out for the girls who stay in Ukraine?

They also have the last straw - Surrogate Y's mother.

The booming pornography industry has hatched an industrial chain of sins in Ukraine.

On the major local websites in Ukraine, dai Y company advertising is overwhelming. For less than $20,000, the wealthy from "civilized society" can choose their favorite "tools" in Ukraine at will, age, education, occupation, body shape, all clearly marked.

In 2016, the Ukrainian government also legalized Y.

In order to improve the "efficiency" of using their uterus, the Y agency often has a caesarean section 20-25 weeks in advance in order to quickly take on the next order. At the same time, in order to increase the chances of a successful pregnancy, they will be injected with hormones for a long time.

In Ukraine, about 3,000 babies of different skin colors are born every year in dirty, blood-stained hospital beds.

No different from livestock.

Not long ago, there was a hot search that shattered people's three views: an Australian couple complained that because of the war, they could not see the baby Dai Y born in Ukraine.

You see, the Ukrainians are nothing more than tools in the eyes of these civilized people.

This is why Ukraine is labeled as the "European womb", "European brothel", "sex capital" and so on.

There is no doubt that whether it is the sale of the womb or the sale of sexual organs, it is the exploitation of the ukrainian girls at the bottom by the "superiors" of the developed countries.

They have also fought fiercely, but they have never escaped the scrutiny and coveted eyes.

There is a well-known feminist group in Ukraine called FEMEN, which has hundreds of people.

They hope the government will ban the grey industry, fight sexism and protest against erotic travelers. They also made a documentary, "Ukraine Is Not a Brothel," which was nominated for Best Documentary at the London Film Festival.

During the film's release, they organized protests across the country, and some even shouted in their upper middles naked: "Ukraine is not a sex capital."

They are desperate to tear off their labels, to gain respect and change their status.

But when war strikes again, they are still a group that is teased, ridiculed, and insulted.

This is the humiliation brought to them by the weakness of the country.

But do you think that's all they're all about?

Far from it.

02

The Land of Sin

According to data reported by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the slave trade exists in 124 countries around the world, and at least 510 trafficking routes have been identified.

Among them, Eastern Europe is the hardest hit area, with more than 170,000 people becoming "goods" every year, of which 80% are women and 50% are children.

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the bloody war with the Balkans have brought down the national order here, becoming a paradise of jungleism, where the slave trade flourished at an alarming rate and was filled with barbaric whirlpools.

Unrestricted areas, chaotic rule of law, economic downturn, weak government, bandits roaming the streets, refugee crisis and war fire.

Pimps, traffickers, smuggling syndicates, armed gangsters, a tight dark economic chain has long been formed: young girls are lured and kidnapped from poor countries, and then mainly by The Russian mafia, Albanian gangsters and other Eastern European criminal groups, these "fresh meat" are transported to Western Europe, sold to underground markets, waiting for "distribution".

The use of these "goods" is dominated by the pornography industry, as well as the trafficking of a small number of organs.

Trafficking routes in Eastern Europe

The "popularity" of Ukrainian beauties in the world has naturally attracted the attention of many illegal elements.

Although the Ukrainian pornography industry is not illegal, Western Europeans do not "travel" to Ukraine every day, so traffickers bring Ukrainian girls to Europe and force them to provide pornography services.

How easy is it to kidnap girls in this impoverished region? The traffickers don't even need kidnapping, they just need crude lies.

For example, he took them out of work and tricked them into going to Italy to work as models. Even, some good-looking traffickers drove famous cars to poor towns and said to girls who were still in middle school, "Take you to McDonald's", and these little girls disappeared forever.

As soon as they go abroad, traffickers take their passports and sell them all over the world.

These trafficked people, lucky enough, would become "Ukrainian brides" . Unfortunately, it has to be reduced to a tool for wealth collection and a fertility machine.

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What is even more frightening is that these trafficked people, whose "quality" is average, are basically digested by the underground brothels in Europe. In the inhumane oppression, the suffering of these girls can be imagined.

Those with higher "quality" will be "collected" by private individuals and evaporated from this world. As for what the fate of being "collected", no one knows.

In 2009, on the streets of London, traffickers traded with a buyer to sell a woman for £3,000. Pedestrians come and go, and it's no surprise.

For more appalling, you can refer to the horror film "Human Skin Inn", which describes the torture club in the underground world, which specializes in kidnapping people for the entertainment of big people.

When the movie was released that year, people who had seen it all informed the director that his psychology was too dark, and he actually made up such a disgusting plot.

But director Eli Roth said that the film comes from the real situation:

"The screenplay comes from a real website. Somewhere in Thailand, there's a deal where you pay $10,000 for a gun full of bullets and a prey that's been killed... Those people are pathological, and in order to make themselves happy, they no longer have any restrictions. ”

In fact, this kind of hellish story has been circulating in European and American societies for a long time. As the dark web became known, more and more things slowly surfaced.

According to the United Nations, there are about 40.3 million "modern slaves" on the planet today, and the slave trade is the third largest black market trade after drugs and arms. Especially in the past 20 years, 25 million people have been killed.

In the process of resale, there are profits of 7 billion to 12 billion US dollars. After the trafficked people reach their destinations, they are further exploited, and when slave labor, organ trafficking, tissue sales, and up to $32 billion in profits...

Since it is too dark, I will not go into detail here.

Why is this market so exaggerated?

There are several reasons for this.

1. The market demand is large; 2. the technical content is low; 3. the profit is huge; 4. it can be recycled; 5. The risk is low.

It may be unbelievable, but in the past 20 years, in 40% of the world's countries, the perpetrators of human trafficking have rarely been convicted of this. In short: no one cares.

After all, these areas are either extremely poor or in the midst of geopolitical conflict.

From the government to the courts, the evils of human trafficking are being condoned.

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on March 15, more than 3 million Ukrainian refugees have poured into Europe since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, and this data is increasing every day.

As the situation continues, 4 million people could become refugees.

Behind these poor fleeing people, how many pairs of cold and greedy glasses are staring at them?

In the calm Sea of Assyria, how many corpses will be composed and die without dignity.