Posted on 10/01/2022 6:26:52 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
A top Russian officer reportedly had his face 'smashed' during a brawl with furious conscripts after telling them their lives were going to be thrown away on the front lines in Ukraine.
The mobilised recruits turned on the Russian lieutenant-colonel after he bluntly said: 'You are all cannon fodder, you are facing slaughter.'
The high-ranking officer had bones in his face broken in a brawl in which 'every single one of them was drunk', say reports.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
THE DAILY MAIL!!
In another time those dudes would have been immediately shot.
The Russian take on the conceptes of “unit cohesion” and “chain of command” is a bit different than elsewhere.
Video doesn’t lie, Comrade.
The internet changed everything.
Reminded me of the scene in “Dr. Zhivago” when the returning troops encounter the raw recruits.
Doesn’t look like much to me. Just a scuffle between a couple guys with one being restrained. Could be anything
Or mutinied and turned their guns on their own government.
It’s happened before.... In Russia.
We’ve seen this movie before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4kQvkvGi9M&t=75s
Wow…Daily Mail has embedded journalists in Russian Boot camp!! /bs
Video!
Your lying eyes are in cahoots with globohomo and Soros.
Video!
Your lying eyes are in cahoots with globohomo and Soros.
Evrybody has a cell phone now. Video leaks like crazy even through terrestrial networks. One of these days these cell phones will have direct satellite connectivity a la Starlink and the leaking will be universal.
reservist are not forced to conscription!
you signed up
He called them грязная дюжина* but they took it the wrong way. Thought it was an insult.
* The dirty dozen.
With daily mail, I always assume we get half the story/out of context propaganda when it comes to Russia and Ukraine
With daily mail, I always assume we get half the story/out of context propaganda when it comes to Russia and Ukraine
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I have a simple rule with all media today. Everything they say is a lie and everything they publish has an agenda.
Actually these "reservists" are in fact former conscripts, who, when drafted, spend one year on active duty, and have what amounts to (given Russian life expectancy) a life time obligation, without pay, or refresher training, to report if called up.
The present situation in Russia is roughly, very roughly I will grant, as if the US Army did not have significant organized reserves, or the Army National Guard, in 1990, and called up former Vietnam era conscripts, who had not been paid or trained, since they left the Army, for service in Desert Storm. Imagine the reaction of guys who had already been forced to serve once, perhaps in combat, being called up again, while the guys who got deferments, or went to Canada, where exempt.
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