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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
If someone came to your house and said, I am going to put you prison unless you kill some people for me, is your freedom worth more than lives of innocent people? For a lot of the Russians sent to Ukraine, it was to them. So I don't have any sympathy for them.
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Further to that, there are thousands of soldiers from the poor Eastern parts of Russia who have been promised basic needs such as running water, sewage, and electricity if they volunteer to go to Ukraine and fight. Imagine someone coming to your shack and telling you that you will have all these utilities hooked up if you go kill people in the neighboring country. I get that education in those regions is pretty much non-existent, but you'd think that some people would put 2 and 2 together and start asking how sewage and power is going to get installed without having pipes or power lines.
My MIL told me many stories when under occupation how she spoke to a lot of Siberians who told her what I just wrote; they were promised to have things like power and water installed in their homes if they came to fight.
Pretty obvious to most of us that this was all BS and these soldiers were lied to and used as cannon fodder. In that respect I feel a bit sorry for them. But that sympathy quickly goes out the window when I then heard stories of people lined up and shot into the river down MIL's street, the bodies were there for months before being removed. Extreme poverty makes people do extreme things when a carrot in dangled in front of them, but lines are crossed when it means murdering innocent people.