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.

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    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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        1 year ago

        ??? 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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          They weren’t deporting axis power fascists in the 1920s. They were primarily deporting peasants who resisted collectivisation. They weren’t ‘axis power fascists’. Even Stalin didn’t use that excuse.