Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Russian warblogger Lev Vershinin wonders how Russia has managed to revert to 18th century standards of brutal military discipline, as seen in this video. How did it "become so savage in just one generation?", he asks. ⬇️

https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/2057366244815171619

2/ The video shows a commander (almost certainly Russian, despite Vershinin's disingenuous uncertainty in the post below) savagely beating several men. They have apparently retreated ("rolled back") without authorisation from a mission or frontline position.

3/ “I came across some front-line footage. Not AI. But I don’t know which side it was filmed on. Neither the Russian language nor the swearing mean anything, because the war is essentially a civil one. So, it could be both.

4/ "But this is even better, because you can evaluate the story as a whole, from a bird's eye view, without bias. So...

5/ "The fact that, over the course of 35 years, the former Ukrainian SSR and Russian SFSR have regressed by about three centuries is, for me personally, beyond dispute. And back then, such scenes didn’t surprise anyone.

6/ "But. Three centuries ago, such stories had a clearly written script. A disciplinary sentence, a flute, a drum, a line in two ranks, each in line with a gauntlet, a step forward - a blow - a step back.

7/ "Nearby, of course, there is a doctor and a commander, counting the blows, but in no way dirtying his hands. And here – you see for yourself...

8/ "And so, given that something like this could happen both there and there, I’m racking my brains: just how many centuries backward did the former Soviet society regress for it to turn so savage in the space of a single generation?" /end

Source:
t.me/putnik1lv/13349