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

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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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.