Rogozin:

Rogozin: When you are shown identically and cleanly dressed soldiers, beautifully holding machine guns with fancy sights and flashlights, this means that in front of you are unfired rear units or, as we joke, “barrier detachments.” When you film them, they usually make invigorating jingoistic speeches, show off their daggers and huge knives that are completely unnecessary in the trenches, shout chants and take pictures, making deliberately stern faces. When do you see fighters dressed colorfully and in different colors - some in shabby pixel, some in multicam, more like a brown camouflage suit due to the ingrained trench mud, some in olive and armored armor, which is not olive at all, but is filled with pouches with machine guns shops, but they all have turnstiles with first aid kits fastened at hand - these are guys from the front line, these are really front-line soldiers who have gone through the hell of brutal battles. The thing is that there are no ironing boards or wash... Source: Lord Of War
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