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FeuerroteZora t1_ja6vb4j wrote

Reply to comment by boringhistoryfan in ‘That’s my neighbour’: Mariupol residents’ shock at Putin’s parade line-up | Ukraine by madrid987

That's not even getting into the fact that they've abducted tons of kids without their parents and are evidently "re-educating" them - some of these kids might be in that situation, without even a parent for safety. Of course they're going to do what they're told.

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boringhistoryfan t1_ja6veuw wrote

Yeah. For the kids there without parents there's no question of blame at all. They're kids. This is why it's supposed to be a crime against humanity to do this.

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Leading_Ad9610 t1_ja75sqp wrote

Also remember Russia has a fucking huge population gap in the 20-45 bracket…. Like seriously low… they’re abducting and re-educating kids to fill that void. Pretty much a lot of people born in the 70’s to 80’s fucked off real fast when the iron curtain fell… and they never really recovered… who knows what this war will do to that bracket now… you could be looking at the only way Russia has to persevere it’s population…

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SimpleSyrupLime t1_ja8mvo9 wrote

I feel like that’s a stretch. Even if losses were 300,000, and then maybe a million left the country not to participate in the war, that would probably only half of a percentage point of the population of that age group

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Basas t1_ja93j23 wrote

1.3m is almost 1% of all age groups in Russia.

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