• Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Not true. The sign up bonuses go to their next of kin. Russia is legitimately paying it out.

    There are entire regions that have regeared their local economies to depend on these payouts. Because it’s mostly underdeveloped regions signing up, this has become the most bizarre and macabre investment program in the world. Here’s an excellent video on the topic.

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      2 days ago

      And that’s why do many Russian casualties have just disappeared, and not been reported as KIA. To not pay the family.

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        21 hours ago

        typo: “that’s why SO many Russian casualties” … “do” changes the meaning to incomprehensible, & I suspect that many who don’t have English as their primary language might not understand how to fix the meaning…

        You’re spot-on, of course: this is the point I’d been going to make!

        Those mobile-crematoriums that Russia uses, to avoid paying-out the death-amount for fallen soldiers: machiavellianism taken to a degree I’d never have imagined…

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    • Aljernon@lemmy.today
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      1 day ago

      I’ve heard of plenty of cases were people (or their next of kin) didn’t get shit. I’ll grant that that was from the first 2 years of the war, maybe they got their act together.