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Something occurred to me regarding that vid I linked to above where the sergeant (?) is telling the men to bring their own sleeping bags and med kits.
This brings us back to the 19th and earlier centuries where it was your civic duty to turn up for service with a full kit sourced by your family. The upside was that the expense could pay for itself by taking loot with you back home. In War and Peace there's a brief mention of a German castle being plucked clean by the Russian army. So I am thinking that each Russian soldier told to bring their own sleeping bag will feel A LOT more entitled to loot, rape, treat civilians like slaves etc.