https://twitter.com/Kal1699/status/1629349179762851841?s=20

  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    2 years ago

    Context and situation matters though, conscripted soldiers thay have been going through several years of one of the most brutal and senseless conflicts of all time are not gonna necessarily react like the modern professional militaries of our time.

    You want the trench digging guys too in case you get the train of pogromist freaks that just gun down or beat the shit out of the guys you send to chat. It's stupid to just rely on pepsi commercial tactics because it worked in specific historical contexts.

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      yeah WW1 in Russia was a period of mass disillusionment and the peasant draft levies really wanted to go home. These were not volunteers with a GI bill to look forward to they were slave soldiers who could look forward to a life of grinding rural poverty when the army let them go