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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote of boatloads of disabled WWII being sent to the gulag. (The Gulag Archipelago,)

"During the 1980 Olympic games in Moscow, a Western journalist inquired whether the Soviet Union would participate in the first Paralympic games, scheduled to take place in Great Britain later that year. The reply from a Soviet representative was swift, firm, and puzzling: "There are no invalids in the USSR!"

Stalin was concerned with the costs and political troubles of caring for the disabled, so he got rid of them. Putin is just speeding up the process and attempting to conceal it.

Most know that a wounded enemy can require two or more soldiers to be removed from the battle, and the Russian dead are abandoned. The cost to a caring society for a VA-type system is massive and labor-intensive. Putin is trimming expenses because Russia lacks the funds and the manpower.

1 posted on 05/13/2024 4:21:47 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Those suicides are tragic, they use guns under the chin, knives in the throat, and the most common is to hold a grenade to their head or hug it to their chest.


2 posted on 05/13/2024 4:26:29 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Let’s urge terrorists the world over to kill themselves, as sacrifices for the good of their world and their god. Same with democrats, who should sacrifice themselves in order to help stop climate change. If climate change is man-made, then, the sacrifices of half the world (iow, the leftists), would go a long way towards solving the problems. In their next lives, they can find out if their sacrifices worked.


3 posted on 05/13/2024 4:32:47 PM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“Russia’s First Channel openly urges Russian servicemen “not to wait for the drone” but to commit suicide themselves!

“The significance of life is exaggerated,” the propagandist argues. And he says that killing yourself on the battlefield is not suicide, but sacrifice.”

Our own government is asking the same thing of young folks just entering the work force here.

“Give up your future and security for the defense of the Ukraine! Don’t fret when you get the bill! You did your part for national security!”

Fools...


4 posted on 05/13/2024 4:39:27 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Human life comes down to a cost analysis in liberalism.


9 posted on 05/13/2024 4:48:55 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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“Russia’s First Channel openly urges Russian servicemen “not to wait for the drone” but to commit suicide themselves!”

I’m SpeedyInTexas and I approve of this message!


16 posted on 05/13/2024 5:04:03 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (Defeat the Pro-RuZZia wing of the Republican Party)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Coming soon as an add for Obamacare?


20 posted on 05/13/2024 5:18:58 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Here is an example of a Russian suiciding.

https://x.com/GloOouD/status/1789000177136595119


23 posted on 05/13/2024 5:37:55 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Ukrainian army has a channel on Telegram. You can see them dropping bombs on the Russian soldiers hiding in trenches from drones. They blur nothing out.


35 posted on 05/13/2024 6:34:53 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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