Those aren't waiting for disposal. That's the disposal.
All old ammunition is moved out of stocks dumped on a military terrain in the middle of nowhere (which isn't something Russia lacks).
If it blows up it blows up.
All it will kill are the idiots guarding it that are there as punishment and nothing of value will be lost.
There is a clear method to the Russian insanity.
Why didn't they destroy it? If USA collapse then everyone will want to pillage it.
It is stored in middle of nowhere so how come they didn't deserted it unless they are too dumb to realise that it's a death punishment for them.
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First they only, sometime, blow up. Men are hopeful creatures by nature. Second, the russian climate (very cold and largely wet) tend to naturally prevent any chemical reaction of a combustive nature making it largely safer to do that than elsewhere.
Last but not least let me ask you a simple question:
How?
How are they supposed to desert?
It's the same thing with most Russian "camps" (low security prisons).
The first town is a day trip on 4x4 truck on a mud track.
Said town is where the rest of the soldiers are.
Oh and the town isn't actually connected to anything by roads than other logging/mining camps. It's link to civilized parts of Russia will be an airfield/rail station that are largely military in nature too…
If the idiots were capable to trek in the tundra for 3 months to maybe get back to a town where they wouldn't be arrested on sight, they wouldn't be there in the first place, all they're gonna manage by fleeing is ending up as wolf chow. And again nothing of value will be lost.
You don't need walls to keep people somewhere, as an aussie you should understand what the "middle of nowhere" means.
The promise to come and get them back is what is keeping them there.
Madness. But controlled and polished in a very methodical manner.
I don't know how it works in Russia, but in countries with mandatory conscription that sort of shit is usually reserved for conscripts who fuck up real bad not hard for a vodka-chugging snownigger to do or those who manage to get on the wrong side of some superior that bad. So to add to that, those guys' line of thought probably goes something like "just three more months of this shit and I'm free to go home and chug vodka and eat sunflower seeds with Vadim and guys again all I want". So they have virtually no incentive to escape, and risk a harsher penalty.
Thank for the interesting video. I am very happy that it is subtitled because I am deaf so thank you again! If the tv are filled with real life based video from the people instead of the (((media))) then their minds would be molded differently.
The acronym you're looking for Strelok is UXO, not EOD. How likely is it? Not likely at all, ADAK was closed in 97' when it's mission slowly dissolved with the collapse of the USSR and it fell victim to a round of BRAC, it's been on the NHL/NHP registry since 87', but most of the hardened facilities were demolished to make room for a civil airport. Chance are, if it still had UXO on site, there have been a big media story about it being left behind, unguarded at a civil locale.
There's a lot of wisdom in that, I sure as hell know that feeling
What does it even mean?
This might be the romantic in me.
Essentially what they are saying is that up there, working, or flying up to there they are alive. They get to be on the edge of life and death, being on the edge of the final frontier. The thing is when they are back on earth, they don't have that. They are stuck just going through the motions, they don't have the feelings they do up there.
If you would like to imagine, it's basically getting out of the service and seeing old friends but realizing you don't really identify with them on the same level anymore, especially compared to the guys you were in with. Not sure how to better describe it myself, but that's how I see it.