Russia is now telling soldiers that they will be "resurrected"

[thewayne]

The Eastern Orthodox Church is pretty much hand in hand with Putin et al, and they're now, through media, telling people that soldiers who suffered fatal wounds are being resurrected on the battlefield in hopes that this will spur enlistment.

Estimates are that Russia has suffered between 300,000 to 450,000 soldiers lost in battle in Ukraine.

I'm really hoping the Russian people are smarter than this.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/panicked-russia-is-now-telling-reluctant-soldiers-they-will-be-resurrected

Comments

[disneydream06]

OMg, PLEASE tell me they are smarter then that. :o
Hugs, Jon

[thewayne]

Based on a bell curve, guaranteed a certain percentage are true believers and will fall for it (and be surprised when they take a bullet to the gut and die painfully), and a certain percentage are absolutely true disbelievers.  The question is how many are sufficiently doubtful to be persuadable to join or resist.  Russia is surprisingly a fairly religious country, but how many are actually believers vs 'Putting on their Sunday Suit'.

[disneydream06]

Well, they will get what they deserve. :o