“I believe the Soviets liked to station their troops in areas ethnically different from their place of origin, the idea being that it would be easier to shoot their countrymen if they were ethnically different.”
Again, Romans did the same thing. Hispanics to Judaea, Gauls to north Africa, Batavians and Scythians to Britain. etc.
Hispanics in Rome?
Hispanics refers to the island of Hispaniola. So the Romans sent Dominicans to Judea?
I never knew that.
The flip-side is that the powers-that-be sometimes get a pass if they’re sending “those people” to do the fighting and dying.