La battaglia che la Russia non ha ancora combattuto: la salute mentale dei suoi veterani di guerra
https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-10-06/the-battle-russia-has-not-yet-fought-the-mental-health-of-its-war-veterans.html
di Gjrts
La battaglia che la Russia non ha ancora combattuto: la salute mentale dei suoi veterani di guerra
https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-10-06/the-battle-russia-has-not-yet-fought-the-mental-health-of-its-war-veterans.html
di Gjrts
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They don’t care about their actual health. Mental health isn’t even an afterthought for their veterans! But then not many countries do care too much about the mental health of their veterans so Russia will be in good company there.
Medicine for that is vodka, it’s widely used for that purpose already from WW2 and is freely available all over the Russia. Yes, it has multiple side effects which all end up with lower life expectancy. But life in rural Russia in old age is not living worthy anyway, so it’s considered as benefit.
Russians shouldn’t invade other countries! Then their mental health will be in order!
Lol. Russia was such a peaceful country until 2022. Not single war since WWII. Not a single war veteran until recently.
More vodka Sergei?
They arent intended to become veterans.
[The know EXACTLY what to do.](https://youtu.be/OjQzwyVFWc8?si=K6TshoE6xtGkP8fj)
Smells like propaganda.
But then, maybe the writer is right and poorly treated PTSD is something that only exists in Russia.
But no, this article really smells like propaganda.
My bet is that they won’t deal with it. Alcoholism and drug use will rise same with crime rate.
Daily business: come home beat your wife and mother the sh*t out and kill them. Then sent to front again. Repeat.
It will be a HUGE fucking issue yet again, and yet again they’re going to ignore it and sweep it under a rug.
Why would Russia care about them? They already helped Russia to invade others, Kremlin doesn’t value them anymore.
Seems highly unlikely they address it at all. Does Russia even have a functioning public health system? Anything I’ve seen of it beyond expensive clinics in Moscow, St Petersburg etc looks like it’s an utter shambles without funding or resources
Who cares?
[You don’t have to deal with veteran’s mental health issues if there aren’t any veterans left](https://imgflip.com/i/95vrw8)
The people’s mental health is not a problem for a country that doesn’t give a shit about its people.
The solution? Easy! Just let them all die, that has been the Kremlin’s plan from the start
“The mental health of terrorist,rapists and violent alcoholics,drug addicts and other scum that somehow survived invading Ukraine” – wtf you supposed to do with such people, they aren’t just mentally ill, they are worst kind of criminals, except they were legalized and encouraged by russian government.
Do they have veterans at all? I thought they leave the front only in body bags (the lucky ones)
And the Ukrainian soldiers (what is left of them) will return as good as new when all this is done, completely well adjusted, ready to be doctors and scientists? This is repulsive level of propaganda.
Both sides will face major societal problems for decades to come from the damaged people that survive and return from the front.
If Russia wins, what is left from Ukraine will turn into a far-right Nazi insane asylum ran by PTSDd, violent and war hardened psychopaths. If Ukraine wins Russia will probably face either a civil war or will be ran by a new violent and brutal “criminocracy” of PTSDd psychopaths.
You can’t have mental health problems if you’re dead. Some general probaly.
Yeah man, let’s pardon a bunch of convicted rapists, murderers and what not and throw them straight into a literal war zone where they can freely indulge in their violent fantasies, there’s no way this can backfire
If I were a civilian living at the border I’d invest in some additional home security, those guys are known to go AWOL
The veterans from the Afghan war are still in *really* rough shape, some 45 years later. This one is so much worse than the war in Afghanistan. Regions outside of Moscow and SPB will become an absolute hellhole where any man you see on the street could potentially have massive PTSD.
Oh it’s starting. They’re already coming back and doing about as well as you’d expect.
For some reason they’ve seen the Russian govt give no shit about the Afghanistan vets and the Chechen wars vets, but they thought “well they’ll take care of US though”.