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  • Bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
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    24 hours ago

    Okay, then surely you can show me a shittone of examples of such a massive campaign of kidnappings happening to people forbidden from leaving the country because they are needed as cannon fodder that happened in modern history (let’s say last two centuries)?

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      14 hours ago

      surely you can show me a shittone of examples of such a massive campaign of kidnappings happening to people forbidden from leaving the country […] that happened in […]let’s say last two centuries?

      I’ll just give you a partial list of European countries that 1) had wartime conscription, and 2) executed deserters, in WW1 or 2, which would indicate an equally/more drastic “kill or be killed” choice, and is way easier to find. Or do you know better how conscription worked in the WWs off the top of your head?

      • Britain and the Commonwealth
      • France
      • Germany
      • Italy
      • Soviet Union (estimated around 150 000 executed in WW2, including returned POWs executed for “desertion”)