That's got to take some serious psychological breakdown to not pull a sidearm and shoot the corrupt commander.
Wouldn't you just get "zeroed" by the upstream commander or court-martialed and sentenced to a gulag?
I wondered the same thing when reading about WW1 where soldiers were ordered to charge at enemy trenches and they'd predictably get mowed down immediately, then the officer would send the next group out. I can't help but think 'just shoot him', but it's a lot different actually being in that situation vs. reading about it
And a decade later some journalist might find damning evidence that the soldier was justified.
He seemed to lose his nerve after his call with Lukashenko. It's tough to imagine it being anything other than a threat to his family, in which case it was a schoolboy error to fail to secure them before launching the rebellion.
mitchbob•2h ago