Quote Originally Posted by blue matt View Post
being fair, I think the popular consensus ( though we I guess will never know for certain ) is that over 1/2 the Russian army are conscripted soldiers
Similar to our old National Service.
Probably more than fifty or sixty countries still do that sort of thing or very similar.
Quite a lot probably don't want to be there and hate it so their hearts may not be in it has much has a soldier who wanted to join the forces.