According to two Russian soldiers interviewed by a pro-invasion blogger, if you wear a Russian military uniform on the metro in Moscow people distance themselves and give you dirty looks.
Could be that civilians don’t want to be near them because they are scared. Russian soldiers returning from Ukraine are committing all sorts of violent crimes.
I mean would YOU want to be within 20’ feet of someone who has a high likelihood of being drunk, suffering from PTSD, and a member of an especially violent and brutal military force?
I feel like Russia doesn’t even deserve an armed force. Someone else just take over. Someone besides China, since not one of their government employees deserves to even breathe.
Just be good people. Don’t make the rest of the world wish you’d all suddenly die in an “accident”.
That wouldn’t work long term. If another country comes in and controls the security of Russia, then any issues Russian people have could be easily blamed on the “oppressors”. And that would be used to bring back the totalitarian regime that is currently in charge.
I know Japan went through this, but that’s a whole different culture. It won’t work in Russia because they’re always looking for a savior. Lenin “saved” them from the Empire which led to 80 or so years of Communist oppression. Then Gorbachev tried to “save” them from that. Yeltsin “saved” them from the Soviet remains. Putin “saved” them from the post Soviet collapse poverty. Or at least he said he would do it.
I was born in Russia and remember as a little kid going with my grandma to vote for Putin’s “White Bear” party. People really thought he would save them from the evil West and all of the things that US were allegedly doing to us.
I hope that in this day and age people are able to overcome the internal propaganda of their countries, but seeing how Putin is planning to cut Russia off from the internet, and understanding how effective language barriers still are, I fear that it will become a North Korea situation. It’s so fucking sad.
Killing and raping is frowned upon? Really?
Nah, more like, look at that idiot who was too dumb to dodge the draft.
The day we all start to see military with disgust it’s the day wars will stop
Vietnam comes to mind
