The Dredge Tank

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The Dredge Tank. For posting all the low tier reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else. Got some bullshit from Reddit with 2 upvotes and want to share, post it here.

This community was created with the purpose that Rule 8 fans will just block it.

The rules are literally The Dunk Tank's rules, just without rule 8.

Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.

Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.

Rule 3: No sectarianism.

Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome

Rule 5: No ableism of any kind (that includes stuff like libt*rd)

Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.

Rule 7: Do not individually target other instances' admins or moderators.

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Stalin's big spoon scooped up all the deserters too! (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago by MiraculousMM@hexbear.net to c/dredge_tank@hexbear.net

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[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

The OG claim

They had whole units whose sole job was to kill other soviets who retreated from battle

Fuckchecked by your link

Your wikipedia link

In the first three months, blocking detachments shot 1,000 penal troops and sent 24,000 to penal battalions. According to an internal list of the NKVD from October 1942, 15,649 soldiers were picked up by the restricted forces who fled the front line on the Stalingrad Front from August 1, 1942, to October 15, 1942. Of these, 244 soldiers were imprisoned, 278 were shot, 218 were sent to penal companies, 42 to penal battalions and 14,833 to return to their units.[5] By October 1942, the idea of regular blocking detachments was unofficially dropped.[2][6]

nerd

Umm akshually, at best, you have a 1.7% (278/15649) to 4.2% (1000/24000) chance of getting shot, for unauthorized retreats in PENAL units, the majority were returned to the battlefield, or otherwise imprisoned, sent to other penal units.

Thus we find this claim extremely misleading, if not false, sweaty

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

FACT CHECKED!

[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

The average lib gets their information from clichés

[–] T34_69@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

also the blocking detachments were instituted by Trotsky, not Stalin