Excuse me wtf. I mean drafting people to invade another country is already fucked up enough. Charging money to return bodies? What. The. Fuck. So is the russian army just gonna accept this? C’mon man, do a coup.
Pretty sure the military needs this too, just to keep it funded.
You say that like the military would see a single red ruble of that payment rather than it going straight into the commander’s rainy day fund. He had to go and get Conscriptovich killed in the first place, that’s hard work and deserves compensation.
I like you! I love the image of a russian official hiding away a dying currency in their mattress, “just in case”.
All the while the absolute downpour around them makes that moment the rainiest day on record.
They are charging half a year’s income, by the way. Not just “charging money”, but charging so much that no one can afford it without becoming homeless.
Helps keep them massage the causalty numbers if they don’t have to return all the bodies …
lol they’re cartoonishly evil
Ah yes Effin Birds https://micro.blog/effinbirds
Nice, thanks for giving them credit. I had no idea when from whom it came :)
To put things into perspective, that’s ~4 months of median salary, or ~8 months of minimum wage.
And what is the death benefit to the family?
Russian officers refused to collect the bodies of dead troops so the military wouldn’t have to pay their families, convict soldier says https://lemmy.world/post/3294516
I’ve heard figures up to $30k, I think, but 1. reports on whether these are or are not paid out reliably don’t seem conclusive to me 2. I’d be very surprised if there wasn’t a regional coefficient, and these are Moscow numbers 3. wrestling them out of the system must be hard, and now there’s also $SUBJ.
Insider was unable to independently verify the claim.
Look, I side with Ukraine in this conflict, but this info is coming from a Ukrainian human rights group. I think I’d assume that this is propaganda that might contain a grain of truth.
Feels like a kickback scheme: you need a body to get benefits, you must pay us to get the body…
If there is a terrible way of doing anything, Russia goes that route.
This is adding insult to injury.
They’re a bit more than injured if I understood correctly.
you made me crack up with that lovely bit of gallows humour.
So much for getting a new car…
Anyone else feel two massive countries (Russia and China) are lurching from serious crisis to crisis (war, economic slowdown) and just feels like the “I’m in Danger” meme?
The US isn’t much better. The 3 world superpowers are in serious trouble.
It’s nothing compared to what their indigenous populations endure under their rule.
compare the exchange rates of their currencies to see how thoroughly wrong you are.
But whatabout the USA? 🤪🤪
India’s on the rise. Unfortunately it is run by a fascist.
Everything is a fucking grift in Russia. Goddamn.
Russians are mostly conservative, so they will not rock the boat by complaining too much. They will just say it’s all for the best.
Conservatism harms everyone. Even conservatives.
It’s interesting how you’ve shoehorned conservatism into the conversation, but “fatalism” is the right word here.
What #Ruzzians allow, will continue.
