Posted on 03/22/2023 3:30:49 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The conscripts and contract soldiers in Russia are not paid promised salaries, allowances and social benefits.
According to the calculations of the news outlet, since the beginning of March 2023, the salaries of the servicemen have been delayed or not paid at all in 52 regions of Russia and in occupied Crimea.
...According to Dmytro Loboyko, the Head of the Regional Studies Centre, people from the Russian hinterland associated "the hope of qualitatively changing their lives, but they had to face reality" with payment for participation in hostilities.
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And most will be dead before they can spend it.
And they are only fighting with shovels,
and Putin has State 6 Cancer, after dying 4X already.
From a Russian point of view it makes sense not to pay mobliks who will soon enough be dead anyway.
Very stirring, like the bayonet charge on Little Round Top by Joshua Chamberlain and his 20th Maine Regiment.
I don't know how to say "Fix shovels!" in Russian, though. 
You think they might issue the Wangers shovels that weren't broken, though...
Wait until the prisoners dont get their amnesty. They will react well to that.
Go Fund Me ???
They’re hypersonic shovels.
They’re also getting desperate with their propaganda. Russia GDP is up quite a bit, no reason that they can’t pay their troops.
починить лопаты
pochinit’ lopaty
“Ukrainska Pravda”
Russian soldier complaint: the food is poison and they don’t give us enough
eleventy bazillion RuZZian dead.
Putin is still getting paid.
This is stupid stuff.
US in aftermath of WWI
Those burning DC buildings look like an insurrection was involved.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/bonus-expeditionary-forces-march-on-washington.htm
After WWII Russia had over three million severally disabled veterans. After 1950 they disappeared.
At about the same time, disabled veterans were gaining political strength; Stalin did not approve.
Best NOT to join the Russian VFW!!!
Many stories about this, some true others questionable.
Solzhenitsyn mentions it in The Gulag Archipelago.
“There are no invalids in the U.S.S.R.!”
“These words were spoken in 1980 by a Soviet official who was asked if Russia would host the Paralympic Games in conjunction with that year’s Moscow Olympics. The country refused, and the Paralympics were instead held in The Netherlands, apart from the traditional games.”
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