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My mate's brother did national service back in the early 2000s. A guy who enrolled with him snapped within weeks, shot up the TV room and barricaded himself with a machine gun and tons of ammo. They had to call in professional negotiators to talk him out of it etc.
What they found out later was that the guy had dropped out of school in his early teens and had for several years been in and out of mental health institutions. However, there was no overlap between those health records and the lists the army used. Basically, the army just went by birth records and called in absolutely every male born in a certain year.
One could imagine something similar happening in Russia right now. They are massively interfering in the lives of some very vulnerable people who, up until now, have only managed to cope thanks to little or no interaction with the outside world.