comment: >
  
  New mission: Yes Russian
context: Resorting to child soldiers now >
  
  Not necessarily. It’s about brain-washing the young. To the old, their political party is a tool for enrichment that they don’t necessarily believe in strongly.
  The young are looking for meaning, and filling their heads with bullshit can get them going to whatever political (or… religious) end you push them towards. It’s been done many, many times before.
  Animal Farm covered it (and so much more) with Snowball’s puppies he stole, raised himself, and grew to be his ferocious guard dogs. >
  
  yeah it's more of a 'Hitler Jugend' (Hitler Youths) >
  
  To be fair, many of those youth got pushed into fighting, with the Germans recruiting people as young as 12 as Berlin fell.  
  They are for the meat grinder to, just lower on the list >
  
  Ah, Putler Youth.  Cuz that won't have drawbacks. >
  
  The hitler youth were some of the most determined fighters the Nazis had by the time they were pressed into combat. Not effective, but Russia generally hasn't been either. >
  
  Honestly we're all very lucky that fascism is such an ineffective way to rule a country. >
  
  Is it though? They fascist regimes of Italy and Nazi Germany fell because their countries were defeated in a major war. But would they necessarily have fallen if they hadn’t been involved in a major war? What if they’d won?
  There are lots of strongmen, pseudo-fascist regimes around today. Brazil under Bolsanaro was one example. There is some room for citizens to use their electoral processes to come back from the edge, but they longer the fascists can hang on to power and erode legitimate institutions and safeguards, the harder it gets to remove them. I really wonder whether a fascist leader could rule for a long time if they just don’t stir up trouble internationally. >
  
  
  Is it though? They fascist regimes of Italy and Nazi Germany fell because their countries were defeated in a major war. But would they necessarily have fallen if they hadn’t been involved in a major war? 
  
  Yeah. Historians have reviewed the pre-war societies and concluded they were basically haemorrhaging money and manpower hand over fist. Many of their governments were full of infighting, competing and redundant organisations in an attempt to seize more power. 
  They had to invade to steal resources and focus everyone outward, otherwise their society would have pretty much collapsed.
  
  What if they’d won?
  
  They probably would have descended into infighting. Himmler already had the plans drawn up for his own private fiefdom, and many of the Nazi leaders were eyeing their own powerbases.
  
  I really wonder whether a fascist leader could rule for a long time if they just don’t stir up trouble internationally.
  
  Its theoretically possible. It would require a dictator who was very competent at just about everything though, as in fascism one of the core points is you can't allow anyone else to get to powerful to contest you. Its very difficult to rule any area of any reasonable size without some element of clear power sharing. >
  
  This is literally a new hitler youth program.. >
  
  Hey! I’ve seen this done before! >
  
  Wait til you see them in world War 2 era tanks fighting bitterly against the enemy. That will seem familiar too >
  
  more bodies for the meat grinder. >
  
  Yep. The next generation of zombies being brainwashed. >
  
  so a soviet youth terrorist training center.
  quit living in the past russia. >
  
  Russian mothers and fathers must be very proud of these young weaklings in hands of Putin’s gangsters. Great Russian Society….it’s time to erase this herd from the face of this planet ….forever ! >
  
  I don't get it. Russia wants warriors but doesn't wanna conscript any of their professional athletes, martial arts champions,  or oligarch/mafia henchmen who have at least already proven themselves to be warriors on some level. 
  in contrast with Ukraine who have former heavyweight champion Vitaly klitschko leading the forces in kyiv, and current heavyweight champion Alexander usyk in the front lines >
  
  Putin does not want actually good soldiers, because they would be a danger to his power, Putin wants easily brainwashed human shields, because they will never be a danger to him personally. Any level of competence or usefulness is purely coincidential for him when thinking about his army. >
  
  Agree 100%. >
  
  Sending your youth to die will only speed up your demographic collapse, Pootie. >
  
  He doesn’t care being a sick old fart >
  
  Imagine the horror of going to r/combatfootage or r/Ukraine and witnessing countless videos of Ukrainian drones dropping shrapnel grenades on to little Russian child-soldiers, hit buy artillery, mines, etc... >
  
  Another one of those "There's a special place in hell" scenarios, this time for the adults that thought setting that up was a good idea and then acting on it. >
  
  Hitlerjugend at home: >
  
  That was fast. It took the Nazis six years to start using child soldiers >
  
  Wonder how until they send these kids to frontlines. >
  
  Putin’s Lil Soldier Brigade ™ >
  
  russian boys and men are expendable resources for pootin's disposal for his murderous invasion. >
  
  *New patriotism youth center starts brain washing young and impressionable people to have a permanent victim complex and hate everyone who is not Russian. >
  
  I think I’ve seen this one before… >
  
  I was wondering who would do the Hitler Youth thing next. Tbh had my money on Russia. But Trump was a close second. >
  
  Hitler youth the sequel. >
  
  Putin Youth. >
  
  Incredibly sad. What a shit state this RF is. Hoping for its implosion, the sooner the better. >
  
  Every country do some patriotic propaganda starting from kindergarten age. It’s disgusting but it is what it is. 
  It is parents duty to educate their kid to become self thinking human, making its own views about the world, rather than propaganda peon. >
  
  ITT: redditors acting like JROTC is some crazy new horrifying evil because Russia is doing it lol >
  
  It goes further than any U.S. program does.