Why People Serve in the Army and the Vertical of Power

This has been asked by readers from time to time. Why is is that Russians are still signing up to serve a volunteer soldiers? This is especially the case in poorer rural regions. This is more money than many people can make back home, assuming they can get a job.

We should not feel that superior. After all, we do have a form of this. It is called a poverty draft. The pay…