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Re:Torpedo juice: Legendary, illegal WWII liquor drunk in Al... by pavel_lishin on Friday December 20, 2024 @11:14AM (#42472333)
I left the country when I was young, and as soon as I became of age, the military came around my old apartment to find me. I couldn't return to the country for a decade - there was absolutely no way I was going to take even the slightest chance of being in the Russian military.

This is very much the same reason I'm not going back now. It saddens me that I may never step foot there again.

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Re:Torpedo juice: Legendary, illegal WWII liquor drunk in Al... by genocidicbunny on Friday December 20, 2024 @05:32PM (#42475757)
Remember the military bukhankas rolling around in late May and early June, grabbing men off the street for conscription if they looked even a little bit like they'd just finished high school?

I've got a pretty vivid memory of seeing the 'recruiters' grabbing an amputee out of a wheelchair in broad daylight and shoving him in the back of the van along with the several other men they already had in there.

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