• N0body@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    He is the very model of a Russian Major General

    His remains feed sunflowers; his demise was literal

    He knows the Tzars of Russia and the war crimes historical

    From civilian deaths to school bombs, his denials rhetorical

    • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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      1 year ago

      They’ve actually lost a lot of their senior officer corps. The reason is that in the Russian military the enlisted ranks and junior officers have very little autonomy, so senior officers are obliged to be in much closer contact with the front than we would expect in NATO, for example.

  • Jay@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    It was just an experiment on how to get future cosmonauts into space without the added costs of using expensive rockets.

    Preliminary reports suggest 16% of him made it there. Great success!