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Originally Posted by Red Slinger
If we know one thing about the Russian/Soviet military is that they have no compunction in offering bodies to the war meat grinder. They will keep throwing bodies at the problem as long as they can with little regard for the losses. How this is viewed by the mothers of dead Russian soldiers back home is a different matter. It could almost be excused when Russia was on the defensive, like in Stalingrad, but that is clearly not the case here.
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I watched a video from New Yorker columnist Masha Gessen who suggested this won't be happening quickly. Between mobile crematoria and approval to use mass graves in Ukraine for Russian soldiers, soldiers having to relinquish cellphones before deploying, soldiers being deployed from various remote parts of Russia, and no independent press for validation, she suggested it could be months before families get any confirmation. Again, none of this will lead to any sort of mass uprising.