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It’s such bad odds though man. 50,000 dead and 150,000 casualties according to latest best guesses. Somebody further up the page said 514,000 active troops in the theatre right now. That gives you about a 5/2 chance of getting tagged by something and a 10/1 chance of dying.
There is no way you would take that chance if you had free choice and honest information. Misinformation and rampant nationalism got them good.
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You make that choice when you have no information but also no prospects,I imagine if you live 2000km from Moscow in a small rural town or deindustrisled city, someone offering you the chance to earn double the national average salary a month sounds pretty attractive and you're just going to do it for six months or a year right, how unlucky would you have to be for it to go wrong.....
It's not urbanites from West of the urals signing up
greentricky
Or the majority are there by thier choice, they're paid what they view a good wage and think when signing up the risks are worth it so they do nothing?