Posted on 11/05/2022 11:35:51 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Vladimir Putin is set to deploy special units to shoot his own military if they retreat from the war in Ukraine, UK government defence chiefs said on Friday.
Britain's Ministry of Defence said that Russia will deploy so-called 'blocking units' which 'threaten to shoot their own retreating soldiers in order to compel offensives'.
With low morale at a peak among Russian soldiers, Putin is turning on his own men.
'Due to low morale and reluctance to fight, Russian forces have probably started deploying 'barrier troops' or 'blocking units',' the Ministry of Defence said in an intelligence update on Friday.
'These units threaten to shoot their own retreating soldiers in order to compel offensives and have been used in previous conflicts by Russian forces,' the briefing added.
'Recently, Russian generals likely wanted their commanders to use weapons against deserters, including possibly authorising shooting to kill such defaulters after a warning had been given. Generals also likely wanted to maintain defensive positions to the death.'
Stalin used 'barrier troops' in the Second World War as part of his 'No One Turn Back' order.
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The good old NKVD Barrage Battalions.
I knew somebody would post the ENEMY AT THE GATES clip.
Suppose none of this is happening.
It worked to some extent in WWII. Because the Russians did not have a meaningful opportunity to surrender to the Germans.
It will not work as well today.
Retreat AND fight your own army...probably a better chance of surviving.
Or just surrender to the Ukes.
I can’t wait to see the Russian Army start to slaughter the Russian Army.
Those retreating have arms too. If they have to shoot their way thru the rear echelon a-holes, that’s fine.
I hope they form up into a massive anti-Putin force, drive all the way to Moscow, find Putin, and leave him hanging from a lamppost. It’s time for his ass to be grass.
Are you calling into question the Daily Mail?
I expect the Babylon Bee to run with this: PUTIN DECLARES WAR ON RUSSIA!
The Onion could do that as well.
Is this before or after Russia runs out of missiles and has 150 planes shot down every day?
How about, BIDEN DECLARES WAR ON AMERICA!
Biden will have his social media team ensure American troops never see this....
Putin's Obscure Path From KGB to Kremlin
According to Putin, his paternal grandfather, Spiridon Putin, worked as a cook for V. I. Lenin and then Stalin. It is unlikely that he would have had such a job without being part of the state security apparatus.
During World War II, Putin's father, Vladimir, served in the NKVD--predecessor of the KGB--and was dropped behind Nazi lines in Estonia, Putin said. The elder Putin's unit was nearly wiped out, but he escaped by hiding underwater in a swamp and breathing through a hollow reed, his son said. Later, his father was wounded by a grenade, he said, and saved only because a friend carried him miles across the ice to a hospital.
Putin's mother, Maria, meanwhile, was trapped in Leningrad, as St. Petersburg was formerly called, by the 900-day Nazi siege. She barely managed to avoid starving to death--a fate that claimed 640,000 lives. Putin said he had two older brothers who died in early childhood, one shortly after birth and one during the siege.
The family's house was destroyed during the war, and Putin's parents ended up living in communal housing in Leningrad. In October 1952, five months before Stalin died, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born.
Putin Derangement Syndrome is real.
“ass to be grass” Brings back memories from my days in the Air Force. “Your ass is grass and I’m the lawnmower”. lol
I can’t fathom being in the Russian army. Those poor bastards need our prayers.
Then why are we sending our military, our materiel and our wealth to that country? My contention still is for the Europeans to clean up their own sh*t. We have enough sh*t in our country to clean. And ours keeps on piling up. If we find ourselves in a situation like Ukraine’s, you think the Euroweenies will help? They’re too busy going on vacation and enhancing their social perks for them to care. We have become the global police and global udder for the world to suck on.
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