Children’s rights champion suggests reopening Soviet labour camps in summer holidays

    • Aniki@feddit.org
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      23 hours ago

      they killed 1.5 of their own young men in a pointless war

      russia has 150 million inhabitants. that’s 1% of the entire population dead.

      • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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        19 hours ago

        Even the higher estimates put the toll at over a million casualties, not deaths. Even at a very pessimistic 50% casualty rate, that’s 750k dead.

        Still a lot.

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          17 hours ago

          And they are

          • relatively healthy (enough to be sent to die)
          • men
          • of working age

          And given that those that are enough wounded to be discharged also can’t really work as before, we’re looking at something like 5-10% of the male workforce.

          That’s a lot a lot.

          • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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            17 hours ago

            And that’s just the ones killed or injured, that doesn’t count the ones who’ve fled the country to avoid being drafted, which from what I’ve heard is something like three million.

            Plus the ones still alive serving in Ukraine. It’s no wonder they have a labour shortage.

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      1 day ago

      Everybody gotta pick up the slack of the dictator and his mistakes. That is how dictatorships works.