Negative selection in the Russian army in all its glory: an officer faces criminal charges or being sent to the assault troops for refusing to send...

Negative selection in the Russian army in all its glory: an officer faces “criminal charges” or being sent to the assault troops for refusing to send his men to certain death.

Lieutenant Stepan Ivkin of the 13th Guards Tank Regiment refused to send his subordinates into a mined area that even the sappers refused to enter. He immediately reported to command that it was impossible to carry out the order without prior demining. But instead of revising an obviously criminal order, they demanded that he record a video admitting failure to carry out a combat mission and began threatening him:

“I am not ready to send people to their deaths. For this they want either to imprison me or transfer me to an assault unit. For telling the truth.”

There is nothing surprising about this story. In the Russian army, a closed system where semi-criminal codes of conduct apply, any display of adequacy and humanity is perceived as dissent and weakness. Cruelty and the destruction of personnel are encouraged. It is no accident that butchers and zeroers like Colonel Puzik receive awards and are regularly promoted. But if you try to save people instead of grinding them up in a meaningless assault on some nameless tree line, they will punish you and erase you too.

Naturally, Stepan is now forced to ask for publicity about this situation and protection from any further actions by his superiors. But in Russia, no one will protect people like him; that is simply how not only the Russian army but the entire Russian state is built. For Russian servicemen like Ivkin, who show even minimal adequacy, there is only one way out: Ukrainian captivity.

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