The wife says Russia has changed its tactics as regarding conscription where people would rather run away than be forced into the army.
Now when you join the Russian army theres no cooking or pot washing for soldiers, thats farmed out to johnny foregner and theres also 3 high quality meals a day rather than what you could find hopefully in the old regime
Theres also cheeky sing alongs as above to keep morale high.
The Empire didn't collapse, Churchill gave it up in exchange for Yankee help during WW2.
The Yankees then supported colonial France's Imperial claims in Indochine and look what happened to them in the sixties and seventies as a consequence of that.
Funny old world when people are too arrogant to learn from history.
Situations change but human ego, greed and the avarice of puissance are constant.
Come on Bambi get some
Imperial Good Metric Bad
Analogue Good Digital Bad
The Yankees then supported colonial France's Imperial claims in Indochine
Utter non-sense. The US first supported Uncle Ho agst the French trying to get back Indochina after the Japanese's surrender in order to dominate Far-East Asia themselves. Only when suffering set backs in Korea did they realise the French could become a tool agst Moscow & Bejin in the region.
If anybody think the US are our allies, they are seriously deluded. Europeans are merely useful idiots when they need us.