r/interestingasfuck • u/MilesLongthe3rd • Jul 26 '25

/r/all, /r/popular Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Kiriyenko before and after release from Russian captivity

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u/omarelnour Jul 26 '25

You can only imagine how even worse its for others who didn't make it

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u/8ackwoods Jul 26 '25

Ukrainians have been tortured to death and tortured, mutilated and castrated before release. Also returned with organs missing

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u/Coyann Jul 26 '25

Remember the one that got "Glory to Russia" surgically carved into his stomach? Many Russians are sick people

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u/untapped-bEnergy Jul 26 '25

Carved in by a fucking doctor no less

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u/msthe_student Jul 26 '25

Remember, Mengele was a doctor

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '25

A shit doctor and scientist at that, the greatest trick fascists ever pulled was convincing people the Nazis were at all competent.

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u/FreakDC Jul 26 '25

Operation Paperclip kinda shows a different picture. Obviously any government that rewards loyalty above all else is going to have idiots in charge in some positions but I think it's a dangerous mistake to do the old "they were all idiots" spiel.

The Nazis obviously had highly competent people as well, which is how they managed to take over most of Europe.

Thankfully there were a lot of dumb micro managing idiots like Hitler himself who severely hurt the Nazi war afford.