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"Nobody ran away. 'Brelok' took him (comrade) out and then ate him for two f*cking weeks," a speaker identified by HUR as a commander of a reconnaissance unit from Russia's 68th Motorized Rifle Division can be heard saying in the intercept.

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[–] gjoel@programming.dev 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What did they expect when they hired a cannibal soldier?

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

"Hey cannibal soldier! Don't eat your comrades!"

"I promise not to eat any of the alive ones sir!'

"Good enough."

[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Why do you think they knew beforehand?

Did he wear a "cannibal and proud" shirt?

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 14 points 3 days ago

Probably get hired directly from a prison where he served his life sentence

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well he's called cannibal soldier for starters

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Ya'know we used to call him "Brelok," but then we found out he just loves cannibalism so we started calling him "Comrade Cannibal."

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago

There does seem to be an at least western-media-reportable level of known-prior-cannibalism amongst the current forces: https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/p0gvsjgz [it's audio only, sorry - first reputable source I could find]

Whether they knew for the specific person in the current report or not, no idea