Imagine the transitions that are happening as we’re typing in this thread, as hundreds of Russians are dying. They are ceasing to exist, all those years, all those experiences, all those dreams, gone forever in a single abrupt moment. No afterlife to welcome them, no eternal reward gifted to them, just simply vanishing. It’s like they never even existed.
Imagine a young Russian man, 18 maybe 19 years old, laying in some mud gasping for air, his wounds simply too much to fix. Imagine him praying in his orkish little language, tears falling from his eyes one last time before his consciousness fades away into nothing. And for what?