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Russian troops raped women as old as 83 while their families were forced to listen (www.businessinsider.nl)

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[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago

Jesus. How is torture and rape as widespread and prominent as it is in this war? This is not normal.

What does this say about Russian people that such a high percentage of their armed forces are so perverted, sadistic and vile?

[-] glimpseintotheshit@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 years ago

Doesn't make it any better but rape was always a part of pretty much any war in human history

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartime_sexual_violence

I think it's just that we hear a lot more about individual cases in the social media age, but correct me if i'm wrong...

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 18 points 2 years ago

It might just be the last 150 years that humans have tried to sanitize war but the behavior of Russia is notably awful even by medieval standards.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 2 years ago

Historically war basically consisted of everyone getting together in a big field and having a large fight. People who lived all of half a mile away could just get on with their lives as long as they didn't go near the war field.

[-] lol3droflxp@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago

It’s something that happens when you give people weapons and let them loose in another country knowing there is little oversight or consequences. Just allows the bad guys to finally do what they want. The “regular people” contain an underestimated amount of assholes.

[-] yemmly@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Russia

[-] Astroturfed@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Russia has always used state sponsored terror tactics and humanities violations. Just go read up on the way they treated people in their way to Berlin in WW2. It's horrifying. Raping children to death in front of their families is just standard operating procedure for the Russian army and that never stopped being true.

Now, they've used another time honored Russian strategy. They emptied the prisons/gulags to flesh out their front line. Which just feeds into the depravity of the troops who are well known for this kind of behavior already.