Emily Hoge on the Strange Evolution of Russian Veterans Organizations
The Lawfare Podcast
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Victimization and Betrayal in the Afghan Veteran's Movement?
In the two thousands, i think that the russian state started to define itself as well through a sense of victimization and betrayal. And so a sort of the emotional mood of the afghan veteran's movement came to a line with the attitudes of the state, especially towards history. So they tend to, for example, in the monuments they built to the afghan war, a present sort of soldiers who haven't been defeated, but are now in despair or abandoned. I mean, you still have a lot of emotional distance to go, right? Yes. In 19 95, victimized and betrayed is not and so let's, you know, take the donbas, let's wipe out
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