RE: Russia and Ukraine
April 4, 2022 at 2:19 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2022 at 2:53 pm by Anomalocaris.)
If there is one thing the Russians knows how to do better than anyone else it is how to make the relatives of cannon fodder feel thankful for the government that fed fodder to the cannons, and feel honored to be related to the fodder thus consumed.
One should read the history of the Soviet side of WWII to see much of the cultural baggage that shaped the lead up and the progress of this war. Russian of WWII generation that survived the war actually brag about how few of their class in school survived the war to show what a truly studdly year they were born in. The overall percent of russian school year classes who reached drafting age during WWII that survived WWII is truly ghastly. I believe for one of the graduating class just before the war the survival rate through WWII is like 5%.
something like only 5% of all the men in russia who were 18 in 1941, when the war started for russia, survived the war.
One should read the history of the Soviet side of WWII to see much of the cultural baggage that shaped the lead up and the progress of this war. Russian of WWII generation that survived the war actually brag about how few of their class in school survived the war to show what a truly studdly year they were born in. The overall percent of russian school year classes who reached drafting age during WWII that survived WWII is truly ghastly. I believe for one of the graduating class just before the war the survival rate through WWII is like 5%.
something like only 5% of all the men in russia who were 18 in 1941, when the war started for russia, survived the war.
