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Russians have a peculiar mentality.
Something with this. I still can't comprehend how they'd rather send their family members to war than doing some serious protesting.
We have some very distant relatives in Kaliningrad and from what I've heard the mood there is "if they tell us to go to war, we'll go - what can you do, eh?"
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Depending where they live and how they live, their relationship with the news is likely to be they're only getting state sponsored news. So if you're told that the evil Ukrainians with support from the archenemies, the USA and NATO, are trying to kill ethnic russians who want to return to the motherland, it's probably seen as a war I don't want to fight but we have to, so off I go.
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Probably not. I would presume many of these draftees are village men with little to no connection to the outside world and very little critical thinking as to why they get drafted.
If all your news tell you fellow countrymen are being killed by nazis and your nation is under attack, i guess they feel it's their duty. Russians have a peculiar mentality.