God that must have been bleak, watching the USSR collapse, congress burning on TV, followed by years of hunger and finding out you might get sent to die for some oligarchs in Russia in Chenchnya.
Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft?
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
On of my ancestors cut his two fingers off to escape the Russian draft decades and decades ago. I’m not in America and I think I might be disqualified anyway if I were, but I wonder if that’s a modern strategy that could work. It does sound a bit drastic…
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 16 hours ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
Just shit your pants for a week straight before going to the draft office, like Ted Nugent
Hubi@feddit.org 16 hours ago
My German great grandpa was a pacifist and got around being drafted into WW1 and WW2 by pretending to be an alcoholic. He apparently barely ate for a month and lived only from booze and cigarettes for a month. He went to the draft office underweight and shaking and they pretty much sent him home immediately. Unfortunately he did some actual damage to his liver with it but I guess it’s better than getting blown to bits for the Emperor or the Nazis.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
God, he must have really committed to the act to do acutte liver damage in 30 days
Hubi@feddit.org 5 hours ago
I guess it’s not something he wanted to take any chances with. His father was fairly high up in the Austro-Hungarian military, so he knew what the frontline was like.
He still lived a long and decently healthy life and died in his 80s. Never drank or smoked again though.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Good for him, lucky the liver is respawnable
duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Or it was retrospective.
“Frank what the fuck have you been doing while I was away visiting my family out of state?”
“Um, er, ah, dodging the draft! Yeah, that’s it. Certainly not a month long bender.”
😜