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https://youtu.be/u7J3_EX7rQk https://youtu.be/u7J3_EX7rQk I think this was done voluntarily as a demonstration of sacrifice and nationalism.
by oa335 6mo ago
https://youtu.be/u7J3_EX7rQk https://youtu.be/u7J3_EX7rQk
I think this was done voluntarily as a demonstration of sacrifice and nationalism.
- trhway 6mo agoIt said it was call of the government. Bloody authocratic government. A call you can’t refuse.
- oa335 6mo agoThat’s certainly not the vibe I got from that video, nor the several others I’ve seen of Iranis at power plants and bridges.
- trhway 6mo agoLook at recordings from other totalitarian regimes - enthusiastic people doing government bidding. The key is deliberate act of human shield creation, not the specific way to do it.
- vincnetas 6mo agoWhen Lithuania was fighting for independence from USSR civilians gathered around key government buildings to protect them. in a sense they were human shields as none of them were armed. but they did it voluntarily. this happens when you threaten total annihilation of your homeland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_Events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_Events
- oa335 6mo agoThreatening total annihilation was possibly the dumbest move Trump could have made. “ Soldiers when in desperate straits lose the sense of fear. If there is no place of refuge, they will stand firm. If they are in the heart of a hostile country, they will show a stubborn front. If there is no help for it, they will fight hard." Sun Tzu
- trhway 6mo agoThese civilians did this without government coercion. Big difference.
- vincnetas 6mo agohow do you know that iranians are forced to do this now by their government and not doing this in support of their country? do you think there are gunmen taking them to the bridges?
- trhway 6mo agoIt was a government call. I grew up in USSR and know very well how those government "calls to volunteer" work in totalitarian regimes. Especially in a wartime country where even in peacetime they would kill people even just for being incorrectly dressed. Anyway, as i said in the other comment, it is actually not that important how all those people got there. The key thing here is that it was a deliberate government act of human shield creation.
- vincnetas 6mo agowhat a coincidence i too grew up in USSR and my parents and friends were part of above mentioned human shield. And i can tell first hand that there was no coercion. just call to action.
- trhway 6mo agoyou can ask your parents why they didn't want to live in a country where one had to volunteer when the government would call the one to volunteer.