Under pressure to mobilise 200,000 extra soldiers, Ukraine army recruiters are resorting to checkpoints, bundling men off the street and ignoring exemptions
I did some very light reading into the red army and it does appear that it relied on conscription throughout. A lot of the army and its officers especially were former tsarists following the end of Russia’s involvement in WW1, but the bulk of the front line units were conscripts.
It’s one of the realities of a modern nation-state in wartime, but I agree that a system of government more representative of its people is more likely to be cooperative with whatever system of military it relies on.
I did some very light reading into the red army and it does appear that it relied on conscription throughout. A lot of the army and its officers especially were former tsarists following the end of Russia’s involvement in WW1, but the bulk of the front line units were conscripts.
It’s one of the realities of a modern nation-state in wartime, but I agree that a system of government more representative of its people is more likely to be cooperative with whatever system of military it relies on.