Why People Serve in the Army and the Vertical of Power
8 min readApr 29, 2024
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…