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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.

  • 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

  • Yep. Very true. I wonder if there will ever be a map produced that illustrates where they all came from?

    Obviously the Kremlin would never release the information. You would probably have to go and look at 50,000 grave stones to begin to work it out.

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