Close Topic Options

Military Slaves

Russian officer convicted of using soldiers for slavery

A senior officer in Russia's elite missile troops has been found guilty of modern-day slavery and of hiring out conscript soldiers under his command for his personal personal financial gain. The incident, in Novosibirsk, Siberia, is the latest in a long line of scandals that have exposed the misery of being conscripted into an army that was able to crush fascism and liberate Berlin in 1945, but has since fallen on hard times.
Ref. https://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article342880.ece

Slaves Military

That is rediculous. I think that, no matter what country you are from, serving your country's military should be an honorable status. Granted these men were drafted, at least from the vocabulary that is what I gathered, but they are still serving their country nonetheless. Treating them badly for doing so is not the kind of thing to do to boost morale for a country's armed forces. What makes it worse is that he was doing it for his own personal gain. I don't know what the consequences in his country are for his actions, but I hope he sees some of them. That is an outright display of power abuse.