Laws in the country once required draft notices to be delivered in person, but Putin signed a law earlier this month that made conscription legally binding the moment they’re electronically registered.Īs more poorly-trained Russian soldiers hit the frontlines in anticipation of a Ukrainian counter-offensive, it makes sense that someone in Russia-if not the Russian government itself-would create a cheap cartoon to get them up to speed on the basics. Russian casualty rates are high and the Kremlin is desperate to fill the ranks, resorting to conscripting thousands of prisoners and snatching men off the street. Troops sometimes end up on the frontline days after they’ve been recruited. Moscow’s training of the soldiers it's sending to Ukraine is famously bad. Putin has long claimed that his war is about fighting Nazis in Ukraine. The zoomed-in face of a Ukrainian soldier reveals that his helmet has an SS symbol on it. A gunfight between a Russian and Ukrainian soldier plays out in a sunflower field, the national flower of Ukraine. The videos are also drenched in the iconography of Russia’s war in Ukraine and play to the specific fears of the Russian soldier. Learn how you can support the Museum with a donation.Okhlobystin and the narrator from the video. More than 97 percent of the objects and documents from the Museum’s collection are donated. About three percent of gas casualties were fatal, but hundreds of thousands suffered temporary or permanent injuries. In one weekly schedule there is a class on “Warfare agents” that discusses gas mixture formulations such as percentage of chlorine to percentage of phosgene and “Tactic for gas emission” discussing with measurements for the optimum length of gas cloud and amount of gas in tons.īy the end of the war the Germans produced the most poison gas with 68,000 tons, the French second with approximately 36,000 tons and the British produced approximately 25,000 tons. “weather forecasting on the front” (the air pressure and wind direction were very important measurements to determine the effectiveness of a gas attack).“exercises for handling of gas masks and oxygen-protection devices”.Week long class schedules with subjects including:.Draft of an instructional sheet “Gas Defense in the Trenches” listing instructions to prepare for an attack including “The sentry must also look out for suspicious odors” and “protect the telephone device.”.Sabersky’s identity card for his instructor position.Stunned by their overwhelming outcome of the attack, the Germans tentatively advanced, losing an opportunity to exploit their success. There was no technology to protect the soldiers from this new weapon an operational gas mask was not available, so the Allied soldiers improvised with linen masks soaked in water and “respirators” made from lint and tape. This was the first effective use of poison gas on the Western Front and the debut of Germany’s newest weapon in its chemical arsenal, chlorine gas, which irritated the lung tissue causing a choking effect that could cause death.Ī British officer described the effect of the gas on the French colonial soldiers: “A panic-stricken rabble of Turcos and Zouaves with gray faces and protruding eyeballs, clutching their throats and choking as they ran, many of them dropping in their tracks and lying on the sodden earth with limbs convulsed and features distorted in death.” The attack forced two colonial French divisions north of Ypres from their positions, creating a 5-mile gap in the Allied line defending the city. a wave of asphyxiating gas released from cylinders embedded in the ground by German specialist troops smothered the Allied line on the northern end of the Ypres salient, causing panic and a struggle to survive a new form of weapon.
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