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Underaged Jewish children who were forced (also kidnapped) to serve in the Russian Imperial Army. Cantonists (Russian language: кантонисты; more properly: военные кантонисты, "military cantonists") were underage sons of conscripts in the Russian Empire. From 1721 on, they were educated in special "canton schools" (Кантонистские школы) for future military service (the schools were called garriso...
Please add this project to the profiles of people who were sent to the 1979 - 1989 Soviet war against Afghanistan. During the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989), an estimated 4,500 Lithuanians were drafted into the Soviet Army and sent to Afghanistan. Several hundred were killed or maimed, and a third experienced post-traumatic stress, leading to some suicides, according to the China-CEE Institute...