On her first day of work, Adau realised she had made a big mistake.

“We got our uniforms, not even knowing exactly what we were going to do. From the first day of work we were taken to the drones factory. We stepped in and we saw drones everywhere and people working. Then they took us to our different work stations.”

Twenty-three-years-old and originally from South Sudan, Adau says last year she was lured to the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia, on the promise of a full-time job.

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    I was also thinking it’s like sharecropping (which is pretty much just slavery with extra steps, super fucked up).

    Russia really is just a worse version of the USA.

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      There is still sharecropping in the US btw. It’s just now run by big agro rather than the government.