Nope, that’s the first I ever saw it. Russians, fancy that.
And look, there’s a David!
You’ll have to fill us in, I wasn’t aware of the conscientious objector. What did he object to?
In the U.S. during WW1, religious conscientious objectors were joined by members of pacifist sects from the newer waves of immigrants, such as the Molokans and the Doukhobors, who had come from Russia after 1903 to escape service in the Czar’s army.
In many European countries conscientious objectors were imprisoned or, in some cases, even executed.