Keith, with your knowledge of Russian history, I’m wondering if you might have heard about something I recently read about on a Twitter feed: “dedovshchina, which is an extreme form of hazing that new conscripts in the Russian forces are subjected to.” ?
Keith, with your knowledge of Russian history, I’m wondering if you might have heard about something I recently read about on a Twitter feed: “dedovshchina, which is an extreme form of hazing that new conscripts in the Russian forces are subjected to.” ?
Christy I haven’t heard of ‘devovshchina’ related to hazing of Russian conscripts. It sounds similar to what occurred at Marine training at Quantico, where some of the new recruits died. I read that, at some American fraternities, hazing has led to deaths.
I much preferred the Foreign Service process: extreme written exam after which the survivors (about 10%) faced an oral exam (33% passed). That enabled me to operate alone in rebel-infested Congolese provinces with a M-16 and .45. At times I sort off wished that I had flunked the entrance exam.
Keith, with your knowledge of Russian history, I’m wondering if you might have heard about something I recently read about on a Twitter feed: “dedovshchina, which is an extreme form of hazing that new conscripts in the Russian forces are subjected to.” ?
Christy I haven’t heard of ‘devovshchina’ related to hazing of Russian conscripts. It sounds similar to what occurred at Marine training at Quantico, where some of the new recruits died. I read that, at some American fraternities, hazing has led to deaths.
I much preferred the Foreign Service process: extreme written exam after which the survivors (about 10%) faced an oral exam (33% passed). That enabled me to operate alone in rebel-infested Congolese provinces with a M-16 and .45. At times I sort off wished that I had flunked the entrance exam.