MORE ON PUTIN’S ‘MAGA’ STYLE RALLY.. This is how the official AP news alert on the event reads Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared at a huge flag-waving rally at a packed Moscow stadium Friday and lavished praise on his troops fighting in Ukraine, three weeks into the invasion that has led to heavier-than-expected Russian losses on the battlefield and increasingly authoritarian rule at home. But Will Vernon has some more information on Twitter in a thread.. the reporter actually tweets that he interviewed dozens of people who attended the rally.. Many of them said they were public sector and school teacher employees and were forced to attend by their employer.. One other man told Vernon he didn’t support the war but was forced to attend.. Vernon wrote, Students told us they had been given the option of a day off from lectures if they attended ‘a concert.’ Some of them didn’t even know that the event was dedicated, in part, to support for Russian forces in Ukraine. During the ...