u/charest

I have read and agree to the rules.

People on reddit are not always familiar with the illusion of choice and free will. If I was a poor bloke from Siberia raised all my life being told about my great leader and offered a great opportunity to « defend » my country while being paid awesomely, pampered in the back doing some job as a mechanic or something, and assured on my contract that I would under no circumstance ever, never see the front lines for any reason, I might join as well.

Most of those men are lied to, taken advantage of and they more or less disappear as soon as they enlist. You can be a victim and a perpetrator at the same time.