• Poison_Ivy [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    So they lie to their new recruits that the legion is tough and doesn’t need fancy guns just spears and machetes.

    Nazi Germany did the same thing claiming their soldiers were all 6’0” aryan gods, when like the average height was like 5’7” and malnourished

    • ComradeEchidna [fae/faer]@hexbear.netOP
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      7 months ago

      The Nazis did this thing in the 30s even before the war where they encouraged a low meat, low alcohol ascetic diet and lifestyle. Which was medically good advice but materially due to certain significant food shortages.