Damn, they're charging headlong into machine gun fire. And I thought meat shield suicide armies only existed in fiction.
There were a few occasions when the Romanian fascists machine‐gunned retreaters.
Officers often threatened to shoot cowards, and commanders sometimes even ordered “blocking detachments” to machine gun soldiers who retreated, though this was rarely followed through with.
(Source.)
Oh, hey, Enemy at the Gates was projection after all! Who woulda thunk.
blocking detachments
According to Russell Bentley, the Ukrainian government was doing this during the 2015-2018 period of the war in Donbass. The regular army was incredibly demoralized -- they were fighting against a determined and heroic enemy, who in the battle of Donetsk Airport took down Ukrop observation towers not with artillery, but with machine gun fire trained for days at the base -- and to keep these conscripts from retreating, Azov and Aidar troops were kept stationed in their rear.
It is funny, all my adult life I've been a leftist but never had much interaction with tankies because of how I was always taught that they were hypocrites and pseudo-fascists and so on...
But lurking lemmygrad and seeing "liberals", who mostly don't even know what that word means, getting repeatedly dunked on with actual sources and recommended reading has been a great eye opener to what ml actually stands for.
So please keep doing what you guys are doing, because even if who you are responding to runs away after getting an elaborated answer, there will always be people like me that are actually trying to learn something and will appreciate the response.
For people that have been waiting for systemic change for decades by calmly ticking a box on a ballot you guys sure seem to not have that much patience
WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN, SHUT UP YOU TANKIE 😤😤😤
Oh I feel something trickling down I can tell ya... And I would have it checked out at the doctor's office if I could afford it 😤
I remember this and the egg monopoly lady. "my grandpa was an illetrate fascist" is not something to brag about. This guy's awareness is nonexistent.
Ayn Rand vibes, "how dare they educate my family"
Communists that you find on internet are not just 13 year olds from america, there is a world out there you libs/conservatives from americkkka. It is really funny you guys still make this joke. Communists comes in different age, colour, from different countries. It is not a phase in the life of rebellious children from your country. So please don't come here to infantilize us.
But random attacks on the character of their enemy is the only way they know how to dismiss a position that disagrees with theirs! What else could they possibly do other than call us names? If they actually listened to us they might realise we have something to say.
