• Wirrvogel@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    I mean what do we expect, these men had problems before war and now they have these problems plus a war trauma and now that Wagner might not have the money to keep all of them, they are on the streets with no job and not much money and probably no help for the trauma.

    There will be a huge amount of men that weren’t in prison that come home with a war trauma and/or severe injuries and not much help, which then creates gererational trauma in their families. That’s why wars do not just end, but live long inside a country after the actual war has stopped. It is worse if you fight in a war that is seen by most people as an attack and a crime, it can make the trauma more severe.

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      i emphasize with the women and children of russia who are gonna have to deal with this. a good chunk of a generation of men are gone, dead or fled, and the ones who do come back are gonna be broken men. things are gonna get worse in russia before they get better.

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        I know that Imperial Russia using prisoners to fight was a thing in the Russo-Japanese War, around 1908 or so, so that wasn’t nearly that far back.

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        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Sakhalin

        The Japanese occupied Sakhalin with minimal effort and low losses. The Russians suffered 181 dead and had 3,270 taken prisoner. The reasons for the low Russian resistance lay in the low morale of the soldiers, who were mostly prisoners and deportees with little or no military training.

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      2 years ago

      🌍👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀 allways has been.

      The zars, Sowjetunion and putins dictatorship. It was allways the elites sharing the countries wealth and not giving a shit about the people.

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    Just wait until it becomes organized murder, rape and domestic violence with military training.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The vast majority ended up fighting for Wagner group, the private army run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who in June went rogue and launched an armed mutiny that sent shock waves through the Russian political system before it was aborted.

    As part of the deal, convicts were told that if they fought for six months and survived, they would be allowed to go back to normal life without serving the rest of their sentences.

    It is not clear whether Kanyus is still fighting, but it certainly appears he is still alive, as he has posted regular updates to an account on VKontakte, a Russian social media network.

    Samoilov’s mother told 29.ru, a local news site in Russia’s Arkhangelsk region, that her son had fought and been injured in Ukraine, and had now been pardoned.

    “He was sent there, served for six months and in accordance with the law has now been released early,” the head of the North Ossetia region, Sergei Menyailo, confirmed in a press conference earlier this year, adding that in Tekhov’s place, he would not have returned home.

    The family’s refusal to stay quiet meant the case resonated with the public, and the police who failed to show up to the repeated calls for help from the neighbours were even tried for negligence.


    The original article contains 1,015 words, the summary contains 215 words. Saved 79%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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      2 years ago

      This is a terrible summary and barely makes sense.

      The article isn’t long and it’s worth reading.

    • MrFappy@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      The TLDR bot in here posted an article that seems more in line with someone with narcolepsy summarizing the article.

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        Yeah, I felt like I watched a “Previously on” segment on a season finale without having watched the season.

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    I never know what to understand. A few months back the news was all about how the prisioners where basically sacrificial lambs being slaughtered to cater to the unreasonable demand to capture Bakhmut. Now apparently they are all going to go back and wreck havoc.

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      Hey sorry can you point out where it says that?

      Because if you can’t please shut up and sit down.

      This line of thinking is the same as folks who think covid wasn’t a problem because more people died from (insert cause here), and proceeded to not do a damn thing about (insert cause here).

      It turns out you are allowed to report on something even if it’s not the most tragic thing humanity is seen.

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      @terwn43lp

      another article about how women are the biggest victims of war 😂

      I used to think such a comment is too disgusting for someone to make in our 21st century, but obvioysly I was mistaken.