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'They're just meat': Russia deploys punishment battalions in echo of Stalin (www.reuters.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Madison_rogue@kbin.social to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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Drunk recruits, insubordinate soldiers and convicts are among hundreds of military and civilian offenders pressed into Russian penal units known as "Storm-Z" squads and sent to the frontlines in Ukraine this year. Few live to tell their tale.

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[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They weren't deporting axis power fascists in the 1920s. They were primarily deporting peasants who resisted collectivisation. They weren't 'axis power fascists'. Even Stalin didn't use that excuse.