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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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[–] -3 points 2 years ago

It's at a similar level as Japan.

I'm generalizing here, but Asian cultures don't like being wrong so it's far more common for a case to never go to trial than for it to go to trial and end up with an acquittal.

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