• RememberTheApollo_
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    21 hours ago

    Yeah, that’s the numbers. But I mean the people themselves. Hauled off to a front where their equivalent number and more die every month to the tune of a modest village-worth every month. Are the Russian people so defeated and/or ignorant that they just turn a blind eye and wait for the press gang to take the men in their village?

    • doo@sh.itjust.worksM
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      4 hours ago

      Pretty much. The soviets have systematically cultivated political apathy and pootler has brought it to the next level. Imagine having access to millions of bodies and nobody cares when you expend a million or two. That’s dictator’s wet dream.

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        They throw the dead bodies of their sons at the enemy until the enemy can’t breathe anymore. That’s pretty much been the Russian military doctrine for the past 250 years.

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      14 hours ago

      Are the Russian people so defeated and/or ignorant that they just turn a blind eye and wait for the press gang to take the men in their village?

      Not just Russian people, plenty of gloating Europeans about the good life in Moscow