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Not surprising that he had a PhD.
Read that unlike the "mercenaries", "volunteers" do not take directives from Kyviv.
How many Ph.Ds go to war?
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It would make sense it's the same guy. According to the link posted in here, his areas of teaching and his publications show he had a clear interest in Eastern European conflicts and politics.
Yes, I read that. It would be odd to have 2 guys with the same name in that region but I can't decide whether that's any odder than a Ph.D fighting a fight that didn't come to him.
Yes, I read that. It would be odd to have 2 guys with the same name in that region but I can't decide whether that's any odder than a Ph.D fighting a fight that didn't come to him.
Apologies in advance, this is way off topic but made me think of this.
An author I’ve enjoyed throughout my life Mordecai Richler has a theme in a couple of his novels about educated Canadian volunteers fighting in the Spanish and Chinese civil wars in the 1930s and 1940s. Fiction, yes, but has a basis on history. Norman Bethune, Canadian Communist physician from Gravenhurst, Ontario comes to mind for the Chinese Civil War (keep in mind this was before Mao’s atrocities in the Great Leap Forward came to light).
Here’s a good article about the Spanish Civil War’s Canadian volunteers. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia....eau-battalion#
Keep in mind, this was before the Cold War. Fascism was the big threat back then.
It is rare for a Phd.s to join the military and become a regular soldier, but when you look at conflicts, civil wars and revolutions around the globe, you see many educated people taking up arms and joining causes of thier own free will. It is their ideology that drives them to do so. Che Guevara was a physician, he wasn't a peasant. He was driven by ideology to become a revolutionary in Cuba, a country far away from his own. Fidel castro was a law student. They were both from privileged families. Not only did they join the revolutionay movement, they and people like them became the leaders. The fight didn't come to them, they chose it.
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Yes, I read that. It would be odd to have 2 guys with the same name in that region but I can't decide whether that's any odder than a Ph.D fighting a fight that didn't come to him.
It's not odd it makes perfect sense, specially seeing his areas of interest. He felt ideologically and/or emotionally connected to that region.
It is rare for a Phd.s to join the military and become a regular soldier, but when you look at conflicts, civil wars and revolutions around the globe, you see many educated people taking up arms and joining causes of thier own free will. It is their ideology that drives them to do so. Che Guevara was a physician, he wasn't a peasant. He was driven by ideology to become a revolutionary in Cuba, a country far away from his own. Fidel castro was a law student. They were both from privileged families. Not only did they join the revolutionay movement, they and people like them became the leaders. The fight didn't come to them, they chose it.
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George Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil War, did he not?
It is rare for a Phd.s to join the military and become a regular soldier, but when you look at conflicts, civil wars and revolutions around the globe, you see many educated people taking up arms and joining causes of thier own free will. It is their ideology that drives them to do so. Che Guevara was a physician, he wasn't a peasant. He was driven by ideology to become a revolutionary in Cuba, a country far away from his own. Fidel castro was a law student. They were both from privileged families. Not only did they join the revolutionay movement, they and people like them became the leaders. The fight didn't come to them, they chose it.
It's not odd it makes perfect sense, specially seeing his areas of interest. He felt ideologically and/or emotionally connected to that region.
His history would suggest he was always in search of a fight.
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