Instagram feeds can give detailed insight into the lives of users all over the world. Somewhere in Russia, a young soldier is posting under the name shams2517. We don’t know very much about this young man, but we know one thing: we love his feed:
“Preparing for inspections.”
“Breakfast”
“Drill.”
“Me and my Ural 4320,”
“In relay races, too, we are second to none: assembling and disassembling a rifle, and transporting a wounded man…”
“It’s hard when you study…”
“Purely personal weapon.”
“Army food, physical exercise, weighed 110 kg, now 70 kg.”
“Weekend”
“Platoon commander watching to make sure orders are followed.”
“Regulation haircuts!”
“Ruthless spring army soccer.”
“Breakfast, 100 days home”
“Full house in the barracks, watching ‘Saving Private Ryan.’”
“86 days till home, meanwhile the first week of Lent is coming to an end / no atheists in war.” Shamsutdinov is due home in mid-June.”
“New Year’s table”
“Watching the boxing.”
“I serve the Russian Federation.”
“So it happens.”
“My dog-tags with the number of thieves …”
“A classic portrait: a photo in front of the mirror.”
“My AKsu”
“End of the weekend, I’m waiting for the new week to start …”
“Storeroom.”
“Dinner”
“Beggar in the dining room.”
“Free labour in the park”
“The soldier sleeps, his service goes on.”
“One of the only joys in the army.,” “Discipline is the mother of victory.”
Not pictured but present is Dedovshchina:
The informal system of subjection (see:hazing) of new junior conscripts of the Russian armed forces to brutalization by the conscripts serving their last year of compulsory military service as well as NCOs and officers.
Many young men are killed or commit suicide every year because of dedovshchina.The New York Times reported that in 2006 at least 292 Russian soldiers were killed by dedovshchina (although the Russian military only admits that 16 soldiers were directly murdered by acts of dedovshchina and claims that the rest committed suicide)
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