“This Nostalgia Is Dangerous for Life”: Russia Equips Troops With Soviet Era Medical Kits

Russian forces invading Ukraine are being supplied with medical kits dating back to 1977, according to the pro-Russian Telegram channel Kursy takticheskoy meditsiny , which published photos of boxes containing Soviet-era bandages, cotton, and dressing packs nearly half a century old.

The channel raised a rhetorical question: “Do you really believe it is an urgent necessity to fight with triangular bandages from 1977 and Soviet dressing packs from the same era?”

It stressed that the issue is not isolated but systemic: “We are talking about systematic, large-scale deliveries carried out by organizations with prominent names and substantial funding.”

The authors urged an end to what they described as “nostalgia for Soviet-era cotton and gauze,” warning that “this nostalgia is dangerous for life.”

“As long as you remain nostalgic, the enemy is using the most modern weapons, and we must counter them not with yesterday’s but with today’s technologies,” the channel’s so-called “war correspondent” complained.

These revelations come amid a series of reports highlighting severe problems in the Russian military, The Moscow Times reported on October 2. According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, cases of HIV infection among Russian servicemen have risen by 2,000% since the start of the full-scale invasion—a surge attributed to conditions within the Russian army, including unprotected sexual contact and drug use.

Earlier, it was reported that Russian soldier deployed on the Kherson front has requested safe evacuation in return for providing information about occupying forces.

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