"Who knew the Russian Army had standards?"

[Webster]

Ukraine Update: As we prepare for the next phase of the war, a look into the Kremlin's propaganda

If this war was a long-running television series, we’d be in the off season, with writers writing new scripts, actors resting up, and the props department designing new sets, gear, and costumes. Season 1 was the Battle of Kyiv. Season 2 was the...

www.dailykos.com

Found this little bit of Russian homophobia here and......blech.


*deadpans* Well, glad to know the Russian have standards....

 

[Nebulous]

@Webster I noticed a tweet in your post, I thought you were done with them?

 

[Webster]

@Webster I noticed a tweet in your post, I thought you were done with them?

You can access tweets regardless of whether you have an account or not; I have no intention of going back to that cesspool but if I see something there of note, I'll post it.

 

[PGen98]

...so they punish soldiers by sexually assaulting them, male-on-male, and this is "ok?" Wow...

 

[Webster]

...so they punish soldiers by sexually assaulting them, male-on-male, and this is "ok?" Wow...

Pretty much, yeah. Its' a part of a hazing system the Russian military uses known as dedovshchina and it is brutal...

Dedovshchina - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Dedovshchina (Russian: дедовщина, IPA: [dʲɪdɐˈfɕːinə]; lit. reign of grandfathers) is the informal practice of hazing and abuse of junior conscripts historically in the Soviet Armed Forces and today in the Russian armed forces, Internal Troops, and to a much lesser extent FSB, Border Guards, as well as the military forces of certain former Soviet Republics. It consists of brutalization by more senior conscripts, NCOs, and officers.

Dedovshchina encompasses a variety of subordinating and humiliating activities undertaken by the junior ranks, from doing the chores of the senior ranks, to violent and sometimes deadly physical and psychological abuse, not unlike an extremely vicious form of bullying or torture, including sexual torture and anal rape. There have been occasions where soldiers have been seriously injured or killed.

 

[PGen98]

Just disgraceful. That's one practice that needs to be ended, immediately.

 

[Webster]

Just disgraceful. That's one practice that needs to be ended, immediately.

Surprisingly, one of the few reforms Boris Yeltsin tried to implement was an end to the practice. It didn't work, though.

 

[PGen98]

Surprisingly, one of the few reforms Boris Yeltsin tried to implement was an end to the practice. It didn't work, though.

I guess it's one of those things where the abused feel obligated to share their pain with those more junior than them, not unlike what happens with children that get abused and don't get proper help...the cycle just continues because they want their turn to put someone through what they went through. Something needs to break it.