Litwin
Diamond Member
I almost get the sense that the soldiers' resilience against a collapse of morale so far is actually a result of their initial state of depoliticization. Like a sort of "there isn't far to fall" situation. If you already have a bleak and cynical outlook, resigned to a sense of ineffectuality, permeated by fatalism, with a pattern of acting on non-rational impulses of aimless desperation, then how vulnerable are you to having a maelstrom of senseless and violent mayhem break you? This initial, hopeless and depoliticized state would seem to significantly blunt the shock, and allow you to numbly press on with your arbitrary role in an inscrutable catastrophe.
DEATH TO THE MOSCOW HORDE !
DEATH TO THE MOSCOW HORDE !