Originally Posted by
Beamr
These videos aren't nice, especially since that specific video made suffering a comedy. That is wrong.
That was my point. This is not comedy. This is tragedy.
Even for many/most of the individual Russian soldiers (Wagner/Chechen thugs excluded they are there fully knowing what they signed). And Yes, they did sign the paper themselves. Did the average regular Army Soldier think they would ever go to war? I'm sure, No. Russian regular Army has seen very little to no combat in the last 75 years (and it shows by their inexperience and lacking proficiency). >>90% of the dirty messing Russia did in the last decades was by rather 'irregular' troops plus a tiny bit of Air Force. Main exception being the Helicopter crews in Afghanistan back in the day.