Russia’s Forgotten Dead: A Nation Too Cowardly to Mourn Its Own Soldiers

6 min readJan 29, 2025

Alright, let’s rip off the mask and expose Russia’s cowardice for what it really is: a nation so drunk on its own lies that it cannot even summon the basic human decency to mourn its dead. The refusal to honor fallen soldiers with public memorials isn’t just a symptom of government control — it’s the final proof that Russia, as a state and a society, has willingly abandoned its conscience.

A Nation of Cowards: Too Ashamed to Face Its Own Dead

In Ukraine, every soldier lost is honored, mourned, and remembered. Every town and village erects displays, every street sees families laying flowers, and every Ukrainian knows that these men and women died for something real: their homeland, their people, their freedom. In Russia? Silence. Not because Russians don’t love their sons, but because the state has browbeaten them into submission so thoroughly that even grief itself is forbidden.

Russians can’t openly mourn, because that would force them to admit an uncomfortable truth: that these soldiers are not heroes but casualties of a criminal regime that threw them into a meat grinder for no reason other than to feed Vladimir Putin’s delusions of imperial grandeur. And deep down, every Russian knows it. That’s why there are no public displays, no squares full of flags, no national soul-searching over the lives wasted on the battlefield. Because to acknowledge these deaths would be to acknowledge the utter stupidity of this war.

And the Kremlin? It knows this too. That’s why it hides the casualty numbers, buries soldiers in the middle of the night, and sends freshly widowed wives a plastic-wrapped “Lada” as blood money. Because the second Russians truly confront the scale of the disaster, the entire rotten edifice of their propaganda collapses.

The Russian Regime Treats Its Soldiers Like Trash — And The People Let It Happen

This is the real disgrace of Russia: its soldiers don’t die as warriors defending their country. They die as disposable assets, discarded like used ammunition casings. The government doesn’t even have the dignity to count them properly, let alone memorialize them. There are no national days of remembrance, no processions, no public grief. Just another anonymous grave, another family told to shut up and move on.

When Ukrainian soldiers fall, they are carried home as heroes. When Russian soldiers fall, their bodies rot in makeshift pits or are left to be eaten by stray dogs on the battlefield. Their mothers are told to be grateful that their sons were allowed to die in service of Putin’s empire. And what does Russian society do? Nothing. Because to protest, to demand recognition, to ask why their children are dying in a senseless war — they know what would happen. A knock on the door at 3 a.m., a one-way ticket to a prison cell, or worse.

So instead, they stay silent. They let the state erase their sons from history, pretend they never existed. The people let the government treat their fallen like garbage — because deep down, they don’t have the courage to admit that they, too, were complicit in this madness. That they cheered for war. That they swallowed the propaganda and let their sons be turned into nameless corpses for the sake of some phantom imperial dream.

Russia is Fighting a War That No One Believes In

Here’s the difference between Ukraine and Russia: Ukraine is fighting for something real. Every man and woman who takes up arms does so with the knowledge that their cause is just, that they are defending their homes, their families, and their future. That’s why the whole country mourns its dead — because their sacrifice means something.

But in Russia? No one actually believes in this war. Not the soldiers who are forced into it, not their families, not even the propagandists shrieking on state TV. This isn’t 1941, this isn’t a Great Patriotic War — this is an invasion, a pathetic colonial adventure masquerading as self-defense. And Russians know it. That’s why they don’t honor their fallen — because deep down, they know these men died for nothing.

And that’s the greatest shame of all. Russia has no courage to admit its mistakes, no moral strength to confront the horror of what it has done. Instead, it buries its dead in secrecy and silence, pretending they never existed. It refuses to mourn because mourning would mean reckoning with the truth:

That every Russian soldier who dies in Ukraine is just another piece of meat fed to a war machine that cares nothing for them. That they died not as heroes, but as victims of a state that sees them as less than human.

And the worst part? The Russian people, deep down, know this. They just don’t have the spine to do anything about it.

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