I’m really surprised those fuckers don’t get fragged.
The honorable tradition of fragging certainly needs to develop in Russian society. It tells me that anarchist-minded people are abroad or hiding underground - not in the army.
The army, as things look, is composed of 3 main groups:
- professional soldiers loyal to Putin’s regime (they attack after the meat waves and control high-tech weapons)
- simple and stupid blokes, often a bit enthusiastic about Putin’s regime, bribed with money or tricked to enlist
- convicts promised freedom if they join the war, foreigners tricked to enlist, Ukrainians seized from occupied areas
The latter two groups get used as cannon fodder. About 30 000 per month.
It’s hard to imagine how it could develop in such a ragtag, depoliticized, nihilistic society. Not to mention a lot of those soldiers are just mercenaries.
I think most of them don’t care at all about honour and are just hoping for a payday and to keep their head down until they can go home. Seems like such a dim hope!
there was a vid where russian soldiers were hacking their commander to death with an axe like it was 1799.
I bet a lot of them do.
Seems Russia’s military is starting to collapse in on itself, they ran through all the gung ho “Happy to be here, sir!” types in the first year of the war. Now they’re just sending chaff to use up ammunition before they send in what’s rest of their more experienced forces, if they still have any that is.
This shit happens in russia(former USSR) from WW2 if not earlier. How do you force ordinary people to kill other people? By making them scared of certainly loosing their life.
Don’t think it’s unique to Russia, it’s been pretty common in most armies, even some Anarchistic ones.
Is it still called friendly fire at that point?
Unfriending fire…
What were the soldiers executed for? Not raping Ukrainian women and children?
I recommend reading the article. It’s depressing, but clear.
These guys, mostly, were killed for refusing to go on suicide attacks. Some for retreating. Some for refusing other orders. Some, possibly, for simply existing in the wrong place. The unlucky ones, for failed desertion (I hope that lucky ones outnumbered them and deserted successfully).
Women and children, except for those who got caught on the wrong side of the front, fortunately, aren’t the typical casualties in a war with a static front. They get evacuated before the front crawls near. But they do get killed when glide bombs, missiles and drones are targeted at random buildings.
