I'm not American (hello from Canada, born in ex-Yugoslavia), but that's silly. You don't get the difference between a conscript and an enlisted soldier? Ask my

I'm not American (hello from Canada, born in ex-Yugoslavia), but that's silly. You don't get the difference between a conscript and an enlisted soldier? Ask my father if it was propaganda made him chose to defend some warlord's front or if it was armed soldiers forcing him to under threat of desertion. In the instance of these Russian conscripts, it could've been an extension of their mandatory 12-month training rather than a knock on the door, but it's still armed soldiers that made sure they didn't desert. I truly dislike the way America promotes enlisting like some cool Activision game (the ads are truly jarring from the outside looking in), but the difference is no less black and white.