Something Putin Fears: The Soldiers Who Come Home

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1. After the Soviet-Afghan war, something happened that the Kremlin would rather forget. Tens of thousands of young men returned broken.

   They were called “Afgantsi.” They came back with amputated limbs, shrapnel still inside their bodies, and—above all—a deep, permanent rage. They had seen death too closely, learned that killing was just another task, and when they were dumped back into Soviet society, there was no work, no money, no help waiting for them.

   Many of them turned to alcohol. Many became killers, robbers, gangsters.

   The post-Soviet mafia of the 1990s was filled with Afghan war veterans. These were men who knew everything about weapons and explosives, who were conditioned to obey orders without question. They formed gangs, became bodyguards for oligarchs, and turned to violence whenever there was conflict.

   The Soviet Union—and later Russia—was poisoned from within by a generation of shattered soldiers. It destabilized every attempt at building order. The state tried to cover it up, as it does now, but you can’t erase it.

   Children grew up watching their fathers drink themselves to death. Women became punching bags for men who had never really come back from the war. Crime exploded.

   Now the scale is far worse. Afghanistan cost the USSR about 15,000 lives over ten years. In Ukraine, Russia has already lost far, far more, and the number of wounded is astronomical.

   This time, don’t imagine tens of thousands of broken veterans. Imagine hundreds of thousands.
   A whole generation coming back with prosthetic limbs, brain injuries, PTSD, and bitterness.

   You can’t hide that in Tambov or in an abandoned barracks in Buryatia.

   The “Afgantsi” cast a shadow over the USSR’s last years. The veterans of Ukraine may cast a shadow that tears Russian society apart from the inside. The Kremlin knows this—hence the censorship, the lies, the desperate need to push the war forward.

   But anyone who remembers the bloody streets of the 1990s knows what’s coming. There’s no stopping it when soldiers trained to kill women and children suddenly reappear in a society already drowning in corruption, violence, and despair.

   Putin isn’t just afraid of losing on the battlefield. He’s afraid of what happens when his own soldiers come home.

2. Pootin is well insulated from everyone and fears no one. That’s what a brutal dictatorship is all about.

3. He doesn’t give a F about anyone.stop posting this crap.

4. Unfortunately what happens when Ukrainian soldiers get home won’t be much better, and this is largely Europe’s problem.

5. *Putin* fears..? Not likely. He is safe, these soldiers won’t do anything to him.

6. That’s why there won’t be a ceasefire.

7. There’s a simple fix… Just make sure none of the soldiers survive to come home. This lowers benefit payouts as well as any violence that might occur. Problem solved…

8. And the blame falls squarely on putin. He weaponized the Afgantsi to control the government and the people.

   Russians won’t know the full extent of the war crimes because the government controls the media and putin controls the narrative.

   It’s a vicious cycle without a viable exit strategy.

   God help the innocent Russian citizens.

   Слава Україні!

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