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Originally Posted by the_13th_redneck Not exactly the same thing mmarsh.
Stalin did that even to people who fought hard. We have a case here of apparent surrender without even an attempt at struggle.
If you're going to dick around in the mountains and throw your hands up at first contact, why is the country even paying for your equipment, let alone your food. |
Well I think we are missing certain facts. Perhaps they were vastly out numbered? Perhaps they were outgunned, Perhaps they were surprised? Surrounded? Cut off from retreat? Its very hard to say what the circumstances of their surrender were.
I think there is a line between sacrificing yourself for your country trying to achieve a military objective and needlessly getting yourself killed so that your country can save face, which seems to be the case here. The Turkish military only seems upset about the fact that they survived. If the
only result of resisting an enemy is my death, then I would surrender too.
In WWI, French soldiers were sent on a regular basis in suicide runs in the no-man land for the sole purpose of getting the phrase "Mort pour la France" etched on their tombstone. Is it any wonder why some of them mutinied???
Remember, these are conscripts, and most conscripts don't relish the idea of becoming KIA too quickly.