>>> Well, yeah. Red Army soldiers weren't well-paid either.
>> Neither are privates in the US Army, though it is exaggerated how
>> many are on food stamps.
> US soldiers are possibly the most well-paid in the world.
> Societ/Russian soldiers were/are paid almost nothing.
Sometimes Russian soldiers aren't paid at all, as I read in news
accounts of the war in former Yugoslavia.
-joan
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