I watched that video. Conscripts are treated like slaves, or worse. Most slave owners would not allow their overseers to treat their slaves so poorly. The senior NCOs can get away with it because their is literally no one to stop them.
I did notice that the Russians would purposely under report the number of conscripts killed so that the NCOs and officers could still draw the dead’s pay.
Yep. Slaves were valuable assets in the Antebellum South so that's a lot of money down the drain if something were to happen to them.
But a Russian conscript? No one is going to notice him missing.
Some things never change in Russia.
That was a major problem in the Chinese Nationalist armies. It was a very old Chinese military custom, terribly wasteful of young men.
In the old China, soldiers were considered the lowest of the low, hardly worth bothering about.
It is a very bad way to run an army.