well those who have been in army propaly get the clue what Im talking about…Crobato said it also well in his post…hats of to him…
It is a bit of shock to enter the sosiety of military out from ‘freedom’ of ‘western’ sosiety. Militaryes are by nature totalitarist, and its have been universally so, only expections have been some of the early revolutionary phase communist armyes in turn of the last century, but reality have proven them inferior compared to normal militaryes. Army needs dicipline to function and dicipline needs totalitain and clear athorithy command system. Most of the kids who quit finnish army whit out any physhical condition leave becouse they cannot handle the athmosphere. It was shock to me also, But i somehow adjusted to it. …propaply there is simalr experiences from other countryes as well…but to the point. Now Im feeling that kids grown in totatlitarian sosietyes have lot easyer to adapt the military life and its systems and therefore adjust to the command structre and allow ‘smoother’ function of the military units whit out too much of uselses ‘hazzle’ over penny commands and orders that is and always has been evident in our army.
Also important factor in beeing good pilot is the national spirit and motivation of doing their job. We all know that our ‘big bad commie’ chinese mebers here are pretty patriotic bunc and this was case whit soldiers of Soviet union as well. Expecially services like the Air force emphasiss the political reability and fighter pilots were usually members of the communist party and particulary ones that believed into the ‘couse’. Offcourse there is exceptions and defectors in Air force as well but these are getting unrealistic media attention due their strategical importance.
So in normal ‘soldier’ level I believe that totalitarims can product lot better results than this lovely western freedom can. But the seccond important factor is the officer corps and military plenners and leaders. totalitarism bites most biggest piece out of innovativety thats crucial to collective human succses. Soviet Union fighter tactics were rather sticky and unadjustable that allowed little space for pilots and unit leaders tactical innovativety. This has been case in almoust any other field of Soviet military when the leaders refused to made any exceptions of text book doctrinese under the fear of getting shot after failure and thats the most visiple unificating factor in all soviet military failures and lost campaings.
but then if you ask, I wouldnt descripe average western people lot higher from ‘zombie’ level…only that they think that they are thinking freely and how they made their own assumptions out of our ‘free’ medfia that does absolutely ‘no’ leading of thinking whatsoever…and those who actually can think of themselves are usually clewer enough to NOT to enlist into military. (For me it was an exception, as I had no choice 😀 😀 ) But generally those who want to work in militaryes arent drop from the brighest tree in the garden. Im not saying this as a undermind those mens and womens, in many cases people that arent so clewer are much better people to hang out whit. But what im saying that the ‘fruits’ of this freedom of us westeners hardly benefits our militaryes so much in the avarege pilot level that it should gain SO big advantage over ‘bad’ commies and related. The difference comes in the highere levels that doesentn sit in the cockpits, but in offices and HQs
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