It's kinda sad that Russians have developed into being complete and utter sheep for their leaders. A lot of the conscripts are depressed and drinking vodka, complaining to their loved ones... and they're not doing anything else.
A few have basically either gone AWOL or outright fragged their CO's, but the majority are still doing what they're told, even when they know it's certain death.
They're fucking sheep.
One tiny, tiny part of me feels bad for them because most don't want to be there, and they're literally being fed into a grinder. I've heard the intercepted recordings between conscripts and loved ones back in Russia proper, and they just want to go home. They hate Putin. They hate the military. Yet they're still there, like lambs to the slaughter.
Then the rest of me remembers what a lot of these conscripts and soldiers have done. Their atrocities. Their looting. Their raping and pillaging like fucking savages. Women and children in mass graves. Children being abducted to be "Russianized" in some remote shithole, and basically "vanished" if they want to go home and not accepting (proverbial) "glorious Russian cock down throat".
They're acting exactly like the Nazis did, right down to burning books, erasing culture, and trying to "Germanify" Polish kids that had "Aryan blood" in them (blue eyes, blond/blonde hair, et cetera).
And whatever sympathy I had is squashed.