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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
A point of context everyone is missing: these are casualties that include any injury that removes a soldier from the battlefield permanently. Deaths are only estimated at around 50-150k I believe, watch is still a crazy high number. The reason there isn't more anger is because most of the soldiers in the front lines are from the eastern non Slavic areas that moscovites don't give two craps about
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Yup.
It makes more sense when you remember that most of Russia on the map is essentially colonies that happen to by connected by land instead of sea. They get stripped of resources and manpower for very little in return, and that's how it's always been.
When you see pictures of "Russia doing well economically", it's always Moscow or St. Petersburg. They are "the Russian economy".