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Oh, god
I’ve written before about the recruitment woes of the Russian army. For one thing, there’s the brutality of the hazing known as “dedovshchina” that kills hundreds annually and makes any able-bodied young Russian male go faint — so faint that, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aging, children, draft dodging, Education, electronic passports, hazing, Health, Health care, Kremlin, Life expectancy, Rossiiskaya Gazeta, Russian army, sports
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The Motherland needs you to receive an incapacitating, soul-crushing beating
It’s Army Draft Day here in Russia, which means 270,000 young men are supposed to be reporting for duty somewhere. It also means that some 100,000 eligible young men are either not in the country, enrolled in unnecessary PhD’s, or … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, Armed forces, Armed forces of the Russian Federation, hazing, Military, russia, Society and Culture, Soviet Union, suicide, United States, West
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