Russian Soldiers Say They Are Viewed With Disgust in Moscow.
Russian Soldiers Say They Are Viewed With Disgust in Moscow
According to two Russian soldiers interviewed by a pro-invasion blogger, if you wear a Russian military uniform on the metro in Moscow people distance themselves and give you dirty looks.
Could be that civilians don't want to be near them because they are scared. Russian soldiers returning from Ukraine are committing all sorts of violent crimes.
I mean would YOU want to be within 20' feet of someone who has a high likelihood of being drunk, suffering from PTSD, and a member of an especially violent and brutal military force?
Don't forget that they might be rapists and murderers.
Plus they rape. A lot.
Holy shiite. So fucked up.
“You go on the metro, and people stare at you because you wear a uniform. Again, I didn't go voluntarily, I received a summons and came to the military enlistment office.
At this point I had some sympathy.
I didn't run away or hide like you. I acted like a law-abiding citizen. But when I come on holiday, they point fingers at me,” the soldier said.
And then he lost my sympathy.
It's like certain problems we have in the US, just with different players.
When "law abiding" is placed before basic ethics, problems like these arise. It's also, sometimes (maybe not here) a smokescreen people use to justify their unethical behavior.
Yeah, draft dodging means maybe losing your freedom and the ability to provide for your children, which is a shit situation to be put in.
But the choice is between poverty and fucking murder. Your choice sucks, but you choose to be a monster. I spare my sympathy for those who choose to be not-murderers.
Draft dodging is probably worse in Russia.
I mean, I can have sympathy for any soldier that's being forced to be a soldier. But the reality is, that sympathy dries up pretty quickly when it comes out that while being a soldier they're rapists and war criminals. At certain point 'just following orders' is no longer a valid excuse... and you reach that point long before raping civilian women or PoWs. or... you know... you're own troops while in a combat situation....
If a fascist hands you a gun and tells you to murder a bunch of people so that he can get wealthier and more powerful, you shoot him and ask those people for asylum. Anything else makes you a fascist too.
Counterpoint: fuck going to a Russian prison.
I think there is 1:1 model of Russian prison cell somewhere in Netherlands. At least the type of cell where Navalny is held.
On the other there are rumors about people who commited crimes only to be found guilty and not being drafted as result, but they are rumors.
It's also not a defence. They don't have to follow orders.
They can just turn up get recruited and then surrender to Ukraine at the earliest safe opportunity if they want to. Plenty others have.
It is not patriotic to fight a unjust war, it is not patriotic to just do what you're told without thinking.
Ehh, fatality is high. It's better to not be drafted in first place.
Killing and raping is frowned upon? Really?
Nah, more like, look at that idiot who was too dumb to dodge the draft.
I bet some people give dirty looks because they believe soldiers should die in the trenches protecting mother Russia and not ride the metro in Moscow with privileged Moscovites
I won't say he "was too dumb to dodge the draft" because men(and medics) can be brought by police. Well, procedure is more complex than just dradding people, but you think police state cares?
But he went there himself?.. Complete idiot.
And he expects to be seen not as criminal while wearing uniform? I think calling him having single braincell is an insult to neurons of all species.
The article below this is titled "Russian Soldier Proudly Admits to Killing POWs"
You know, entirely unrelated....
Russian people are changing their minds it seems.
Doesn't matter, they are powerless.
THAT is the truth. They can love or hate the situation but there's nothing they can do about it. So, no point in generalising and hating on Russians. Save it for Putin, the Russian gov and there butt-licking oligarchs
As are the soldiers
The population in Moscow maybe doing that because of the bombing campaign being inflicted in that area. The outer cities are not seeing the consequences of war unless they loose someone.
Except this started way before bombing. Police and rosgvardia are and were seen same way.
Isn't that the annoying, arrogant, abusive piece of shit?
Great meme!
Same applies to police for last ten years
Police choose to be police, aren't many of the Russian soldiers drafted or forced to serve at this point?
You are correct, many of them conscripted, and even those who was on contract before after mobilization started their contracts became perpetual.
And police not only choose to be police, but also choose to beat students.
There's a reason they've been trying to avoid drafting soldiers from Moscow/major metro areas. They're intentionally pulling more people from the ethnic minority rural regions. Problem is, they're running out of soldiers...
Not just in Moscow, Vatnik.
Can't imagine why...
oh no russian solders get spat upon in their home land. anyway...
The day we all start to see military with disgust it's the day wars will stop
War won't ever stop. It's part of the human condition. Some persons and groups of people will always feel entitled to what others have on the basis of relative standing as viewed from thier viewpoint.
War is fueled by a system that has nothing human about it. Just like dogs humans are not violent by nature, they become mad when they are put in a corner. These days the average person would never hurt someone else directly and that's why governments spend billions on propaganda to turn everyone against each other
Didn't stop Vietnam and those vets still get treated like shit
Place for tanks is in museums,
Let them rust in quiet,
Even as toys
They should be forgotten.
My bad attempt to translate ELYSIUM - Tanks.
https://youtu.be/iymFIg_4zYE I'll try to translate entire song
Vietnam comes to mind
Or Afganistan
I feel like Russia doesn't even deserve an armed force. Someone else just take over. Someone besides China, since not one of their government employees deserves to even breathe.
Just be good people. Don't make the rest of the world wish you'd all suddenly die in an "accident".
That wouldn't work long term. If another country comes in and controls the security of Russia, then any issues Russian people have could be easily blamed on the "oppressors". And that would be used to bring back the totalitarian regime that is currently in charge.
I know Japan went through this, but that's a whole different culture. It won't work in Russia because they're always looking for a savior. Lenin "saved" them from the Empire which led to 80 or so years of Communist oppression. Then Gorbachev tried to "save" them from that. Yeltsin "saved" them from the Soviet remains. Putin "saved" them from the post Soviet collapse poverty. Or at least he said he would do it.
I was born in Russia and remember as a little kid going with my grandma to vote for Putin's "White Bear" party. People really thought he would save them from the evil West and all of the things that US were allegedly doing to us.
I hope that in this day and age people are able to overcome the internal propaganda of their countries, but seeing how Putin is planning to cut Russia off from the internet, and understanding how effective language barriers still are, I fear that it will become a North Korea situation. It's so fucking sad.
Yeah well they suck dick and they should stop suckin dick.
If they sucked dick instead of going to war, there'd be nothing wrong with that and the whole world would be much better off