Originally Posted by
melmothtw
Lying and being lied to are part of the Russian condition, unfortunately.
As Solzhenitsyn put it, “We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.”
Which is exactly my point. Do they believe that , given this, they will get any workers ? What would prevent the Defence Ministry just kidnapping them as conscripts and making them construct the trenches for a handful of beans sometime later.