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First time I have heard of a soldier taking passport (id) into battle, would be rather stupid imo.
Are you sure it’s a passport ? I don’t think it is, I think it is a military service card. And you are supposed to carry those.
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Not sure if it’s a regional thing (country/continent), and it’s been a while since I was in military, but dog tags is all we used.
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In Russia they use military service cards and they look like those on the picture. We use a service card in Norway too but ours looks like basically a visa card.
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Passive conformity is no less terrible than active and aggressive conformity. The nation follows Putin like the blind leading the blind.
This is what in Nazi times was termed Gleichschaltung: the cowardly adaptation of ordinary people to the political regime in which they exist. The German philosopher Jürgen Habermas described it as the “voluntary switching to the prevailing ideology.”
https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/04/06/how-silent-assent-made-bucha-possible-pub-86822
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There is also a video, it´s horrific. it´s like a terror attack.
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Great piece that , thanks for the link. I’ve been struggling to understand the support for the war for a while now and had anguished over many of the same points the author was making. The comparison made to what happened in Germany is salient , and just as that stain took generations to wipe off , so it will be for Russia and Russians.
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Btw it is just a human doll no worries…
I doubt they are embarassed though.
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