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The Russian State's Preferential Treatment of Military Personnel
Russia is a it's a conscription society when you turn if you're a man in turn 18. You have to join obviously there's ways to bribe your way out of that. And one of the goals from the state over the last few years has been to improve the quality of soldiers coming into the Russian army. They won't tell us how many people from the youth army are actually going and joining the Russian army but some of the young Russians I spoke to said despite all the disasters over the last year, I want to sign up.