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Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds

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126 points petermcneeley | 1 comments | 06 Dec 25 19:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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appreciatorBus ◴[06 Dec 25 23:48 UTC] No.46177701[source]▶
> "We don't want to spend half a year of our lives locked up in barracks, being trained in drill and obedience and learning to kill," the organisers of the protests wrote in a statement posted on social media. "War offers no prospects for the future and destroys our livelihoods."

Is the idea that it’s better for your livelihood to just start learning how speak Russian now?

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lawn ◴[07 Dec 25 07:30 UTC] No.46179918[source]▶
Learning to speak Russian, and to live with the massive amount of corruption, prosecution, genocide, and much lower quality of life.

Assuming you survive the initial wave of plunder, rape and murder of course.

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justsomejew[dead post] ◴[07 Dec 25 11:17 UTC] No.46180910[source]▶
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flohofwoe ◴[07 Dec 25 11:26 UTC] No.46180958[source]▶
Here, educate yourself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_...

The Red Army wasn't all that civilized either on their way to Berlin.

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justsomejew ◴[07 Dec 25 11:44 UTC] No.46181044[source]▶
26 million people killed in Soviet Union. Jews massacred in Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine by the local population (not all of them participated, but your current friends ideological fathers did). Only in Leningrad's blocade 2 million people died.

It was the Soviet Army which liberated Auschwitz, Soviet Army which crushed the nazi war machine starting from Stalingrad.

And these are the main points which your nauseating antirussian propaganda pretends as if it does not exist. And the rest, some of it happened, some of it did not. And wikipedia is not a reliable source for historic events, itis full of propaganda as most educated people realize.

[Just saw that this comment got hidden; if it was not so dangerous, one could have only laughed at how the "free speech" warriors want to suppress other people's views. Nothing new of course.]

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1. flohofwoe ◴[07 Dec 25 12:26 UTC] No.46181243[source]▶
Yes all those things are true, but the Red Army raping and pillaging on a massive scale in the liberated areas is also true. Bringing the dark side of one's history to light (no matter the country) isn't propaganda but the first step towards freeing yourself from state propaganda. The Soviet Union already seemed to be have been further in that process after Stalin's death than Russia is today.