The Russians love to keep their dead active like in Gogol's book Dead Souls
(for those who don't want to read the book, it is a satire of Russian society of involving a scammer buying up the ownership of dead serfs to be able to pretend they are still alive and take a big loan using them as collateral)
We are much superior to the Russians in that we don't try to draft our dead. In fact, we let them rule over us by allowing them to vote.