Il Ministero dell’Istruzione russo fissa una quota del 2% per gli studenti universitari destinati a combattere in guerra
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2026/04/01/russia-s-education-ministry-sets-2-quota-for-university-students-to-fight-in-ukraine-en-news
di duckanroll
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Yep, the demographic and workforce cliff-face wasn’t quite steep enough for Putin, so it needs to be made even worse again.
They are literally burning their future away.
A daily reminder that this is the country so concerned with fighting “fascism” outside their own borders.
When they start sending their brightest to the meat grinder, you know it’s bad. The toll from this will be felt for generations.
Only a few times was the russian nation not under fascism – first was briefly after the revolution until Lenin died. And another brief time was when Putin took office. Soon enough, he turned to fascism. You can call it communism, Stalinism, or even democracy but it was just a fascism in a trench coat.
Going to uni used to be the “get out of conscription card” in Soviet Union. They must be having serious staffing issues.
is this a way to get rid of “inconvenient” intellectuals? I mean fishing in universities couldn’t possibly bring any significant numbers, definitely not as high numbers as prisoners, poor people, and tricked foreigners. Especially at such low percentage.
Besides, university students and potential students have been fleeing russia for a long time, so it wouldn’t make sense to hurt the academia/expert workforce even more, that would be brain damage on top of brain drain. lol 😀
Just in case: it is a quote imposed on the universities to fuck the brains of young folks.
They are not officially drafted. They are fooled to join the army voluntarily.
Russian society is not susceptible to loses in the war if contract soldiers die.