![Tumblr user tsarina-anadyomene: it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there
Tumblr user gsot: [Screenshot of Bluesky user Ruth Baader-Meinhoff @sm-6.bluesky.social: the lesson of WWII is that aesthetic warrior cult societies get their shit rocked by school teachers and store clerks who'd much rather be doing anything else]
Tumblr user drmajalis: [Screenshot of Bluesky user William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social: one of the oldest running dialogues in history is "war is a massively complicated political, bureaucratic and logistical endeavour" vs. "fuck you pussy, war is when you're a fucking badass, oh shit I lost"]](https://thelemmy.club/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffeddit.org%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F8439f186-de0d-407e-b823-bb67541f4f7d.jpeg)
To be fair, they had to defend their homeland from a ground invasion. In winter. While Leningrad was being sieged and blockaded. Many Soviet soldiers starved because of that.
All while being present on other fronts.
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