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A more recent example would be the ones in ukraine to stop conscripts from running away
Some of them got shot a few months ago
Wait, if they could train people to kill their own countrymen f9r deserting, couldn't they just like train people to not desert in the first place?
Well of course. This was all laid out clearly and accurately in the factual documentary film Enemy at the Gates. Instead of using their rifles and machine guns to fight the Nazis who they were at war with, the Soviets used almost all their weaponry for the purpose of shooting their own retreating soldiers. These soldiers mostly didn't get weapons when advancing an attack, but had to share one rifle for every 10 soldiers who could only use that rifle after at least 3 of the comrades who had it first had been killed. Also, communism means that you're supposed to share everything, but they didn't realize that could never work because some guys will always be jealous when their love interest likes someone else instead.
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
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
FACT CHECKED!
The average lib gets their information from clichés
also the blocking detachments were instituted by Trotsky, not Stalin
