I highly doubt that.
Sounds like an urban legend to me.
Whatever we think of them, CCCP was a civilized country.
I personally served in Yugoslav Army under socialist regime (while it was still mandatory) but I never had impression that we are disposable.
Officers and NCO’s took great care to insure that we are safe and at the end we go back to our families healthy and alive .[/QUOT
I'm only repeating what I was told in intelligence briefings about the soviet army. The captain I worked for was a long time intelligence officer who was well read and educated on the soviet military and an avid military history student. He was well versed in soviet tactics, and it was his hobby as well. He also backed up what I was told in those briefings and related how poorly new soviet recruits were treated by their superiors and fellow soldiers. Perhaps in the Yugoslav Army things were different than in the Russian army. As far as the CCCP being a civilized country, please, there so many documented accounts of the brutality practiced by the soviet Russian government against the Warsaw Pact countries and their own citizens who tried to defy the communist government. You do remember the Berlin Wall don't you? Hundreds of people shot down trying to escape the paradise of communism, yes quite civilized. Oh yes the gulags also, another example of civilized society.