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Originally Posted by sglancy12
...Another excellent point. The tendency for folks to desert will depend on their likelihood of being turned in to the authorities once they get home. In the former Warsaw Pact countries there is a culture of informants that the Communists have nurtured for fifty years. So I imagine that your chances of getting turned in are pretty good... if the informant can find anyone to turn you in to. But I'm not so sure about Western Europe. Unless the newly returned deserter is causing trouble, where's the motivation to turn them in? The reward? Is there a bounty? Will the bounty be enough to offset the enemies the informant would make by turning in the deserter?
A. Scott Glancy, President TCCorp, dba Pagan Publishing
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I'm reminded of the treatment of even petty criminals in the Soviet Union, everyone was encouraged to report on them and they were often forbidden to live or work in the major cities. Moscow had a number of communities made up of those exiled from the city or those forbidden to enter it for whatever reason. They lived in people's cellars, the tunnels under the city, abandoned buildings and so on all to avoid being seen and reported.