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'They're just meat': Russia deploys punishment battalions in echo of Stalin (www.reuters.com)
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Drunk recruits, insubordinate soldiers and convicts are among hundreds of military and civilian offenders pressed into Russian penal units known as "Storm-Z" squads and sent to the frontlines in Ukraine this year. Few live to tell their tale.

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[+] -17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Historically the Soviets deported a lot of non-Russian minorities to penal colonies.

They did do that to a number of Axis powers fascists, because they were fascists.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The first deportations of ethnic minorities started in the 1920s.

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  • [+] -10 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    ??? The rise of fascism to serious prominence, and the existence of 'Axis' powers, predates World War II, try World War I for example.

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