You are a revisionist. You are trying to determine whether the age is appropriate for thirsting when, in fact, all thirsting is a violation of the volcel pledge

The fact that eighteen is not a "magic number" that sanctifies all attraction to a person, should be a fact so obvious that it should not need to be said. And so I did not say it. Don't you think people can just read the number "19" and figure out for themselves what is and isn't appropriate? Some of us happen to be in our late teens and early 20s ourselves.

Conscription age in the USSR varied between 19, to 17, to 18 at different points. It was set to 18 during the war. Is what I read on Wikipedia.

I was half way done with my degree at 19 lol