Russian soldier says he fled to Georgia on his own

[Adsos Letter]

The Associated Press
Fri, Jan 30, 2009 (3:57 p.m.)

A Russian soldier now in Georgia said Friday he was not seized against his will but deserted because he could not stand his commanding officer's verbal abuse.

The Russian military has maintained Sgt. Alexander Glukhov was seized by Georgian spies in a propaganda plot.

But Glukhov told The Associated Press on Friday that he was so upset by the "horrible" conditions at his post that he left.

His account of why he sought asylum in Georgia echoes countless reports of abuse and misery in the Russian military, which routed Georgian forces in a five-day war in August.

Glukhov, a 21-year-old draftee from a town 600 miles (950 kilometers) east of Moscow, told The Associated Press his battalion was deployed in South Ossetia last June, but he missed the fighting in August when the vehicle taking him to the front broke down.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jan/30/russian-soldier-says-he-fled-to-georgia-on-his-own/

[Karenina]

1. The Lord-of-the-Flies boy games need to stop

EVERYWHERE, post haste.

[Adsos Letter]

2. The Russian military has a notorious record...

for being exploitative and sadistic, especially between the older members and the younger ones.