Soviet Jackpot

As of 2017, in accordance with another federal law on compensation for servicemen’s relatives, Russia’s Defense Ministry is required to pay more than 18,000 rubles (today that amounts to roughly $132 USD) per month to each ‘disabled’ relative of a soldier killed in the line of duty. 

However, this is divided among all relatives, and the killed serviceman gets a share, as well.  The dead GI's share reverts to the state.  (Ha Ha - you cannot take it with you). 

So, if a soldier has two children and is killed while on duty, each of his children would receive just 6,000 rubles (a total of 12,000 rubles - $44 apiece per month USD) and the remainder would go back to the Supreme Soviet. 

For you Soviet Putin apologists out there you can ‘splain how a Soviet conscript army is better than a professional, volunteer war-fighting force, GI insurance and a Veterans Administration. 

On the surface it looks, to this old man’s eyes, that it absolutely sucks to be Soviet cannon fodder……