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Apr. 3rd, 2024 07:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelavinteresting comment below from a redditor who catalogues russian war suicide videos (49 so far). link to original post.
> [–]chattytrout 27 points 1 day ago
Does watching all those videos take a toll on you? I don't think I could watch that many combat deaths, let alone suicides, in such a short period of time.
> [–]False-Godr/RoshelArmor 80 points 23 hours ago
Despite my strong feelings towards the war and support of Ukraine, these videos don’t make me happy. I take steps to take care of my mental health and honestly I don’t think about these videos much until a new one that needs to be verified and added appears.
I rarely watch these more than once, or if I do I’m looking at the surroundings rather than the actual act to try and find information about what happened.
I don’t hate Russian soldiers, I don’t see these videos as justice or being deserved. These are sad videos.
I see what I do like cataloging symptoms of a disease. Russia has a sickness in its society and this is one of the many ways it is manifesting. But it is such a fleeting and taboo thing that if you try to talk about it without proof people wouldn’t believe it really happened this often.
I think it is important that someone far more qualified than I does study these and figure out what it is that pushes these soldiers over the edge so that lessons can be applied to current and future militaries. Otherwise this sickness will persist and it will be Canadian soldiers or British soldiers or Chinese soldiers or American soldiers etc etc doing this next war.
> [–]chattytrout 27 points 1 day ago
Does watching all those videos take a toll on you? I don't think I could watch that many combat deaths, let alone suicides, in such a short period of time.
> [–]False-Godr/RoshelArmor 80 points 23 hours ago
Despite my strong feelings towards the war and support of Ukraine, these videos don’t make me happy. I take steps to take care of my mental health and honestly I don’t think about these videos much until a new one that needs to be verified and added appears.
I rarely watch these more than once, or if I do I’m looking at the surroundings rather than the actual act to try and find information about what happened.
I don’t hate Russian soldiers, I don’t see these videos as justice or being deserved. These are sad videos.
I see what I do like cataloging symptoms of a disease. Russia has a sickness in its society and this is one of the many ways it is manifesting. But it is such a fleeting and taboo thing that if you try to talk about it without proof people wouldn’t believe it really happened this often.
I think it is important that someone far more qualified than I does study these and figure out what it is that pushes these soldiers over the edge so that lessons can be applied to current and future militaries. Otherwise this sickness will persist and it will be Canadian soldiers or British soldiers or Chinese soldiers or American soldiers etc etc doing this next war.
