• Echo Dot
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    1 year ago

    Yeah if I was going to defect lying to say I was dead would be part of the deal.

    Assuming I couldn’t otherwise get my family out.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      They might have also been unaware of the plan, and found themselves in Ukraine without a lot of options. It could be column A, we kill you, or column B, we tell everyone we killed you but we don’t. It’s not like they would send enemy soldiers home to keep fighting.