Potential issue: desertion is deliberately hard in most militaries, by creating conditions akin to Prisonner’s Dillema or The Tragedy of the Commons—what’s rational for the group to do (desert) is very risky and irrational for an individual to attempt alone (any one soldier trying to desert, if they do it alone, risks getting caught and executed).
In Russian military the case is even more difficult—most of Russian soldiers probably have their families back in Russia, and it’s very likely that deserters’ families would be harassed, given that there are already many human rights’ violations going on there.
Case in point—https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/world/europe/13hazing.html—one of the Russian soldiers lost his legs in (peacetime) brutal hazing. His family was pressured with bribery to drop the charges against the army (they didn’t). It’s not hard to imagine similar, albeit brutal pressure put on families of deserters.
Potential issue: desertion is deliberately hard in most militaries, by creating conditions akin to Prisonner’s Dillema or The Tragedy of the Commons—what’s rational for the group to do (desert) is very risky and irrational for an individual to attempt alone (any one soldier trying to desert, if they do it alone, risks getting caught and executed).
In Russian military the case is even more difficult—most of Russian soldiers probably have their families back in Russia, and it’s very likely that deserters’ families would be harassed, given that there are already many human rights’ violations going on there.
Case in point—https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/world/europe/13hazing.html—one of the Russian soldiers lost his legs in (peacetime) brutal hazing. His family was pressured with bribery to drop the charges against the army (they didn’t). It’s not hard to imagine similar, albeit brutal pressure put on families of deserters.