Russian soldiers stationed in Ukraine were favored by Putin to leave a sample of their sperm before they left to have the illusion that they would not die completely in case they lost their lives for the sake of the homeland. he is. The urge to let oneself die is gaining more sinister characters every day. I imagine one of the 18-year-olds in a frozen trench contemplating the fate of his semen. Domestic freezers are not used to preserve organic residues, so it is the State that takes care of it. The state has special refrigerators for these needs, but the Russian State also has a lot of bureaucracy, a lot of “come back tomorrow”. It’s hard to predict what will happen with all that kilos of sperm, often in the hands of corrupt generals, ministers, and general managers. They will most likely trade with them. They will be sold here or there, they will go to China or Pakistan, or they will be sent to the Moon to measure their resistance to vacuum, etc.
When I did my military service, during Franco’s lifetime, soldiers peed in containers that were transported by trucks that came to pick them up at night. Logically we thought they were moving the pee to a liquid waste dump. But yes it wasn’t. Apparently they sold it to pharmaceutical labs that turned it into something, maybe beauty products: everything is so weird. Some nights I closed my eyes on the cot and dreamed of tankers driving through the darkness where that precious yellow liquid had turned into mere commodities. Our commanders weren’t content with making their beds, vacuuming their homes (and until we did them, because they quickly spotted good bricklayers to renovate their kitchens and bathrooms). They wanted more, they wanted our livers, but even in that dictatorship it would be so scandalous to take them out (you can’t parade without livers). You can’t go to war without a liver, so Putin has contented himself with the semen of the poor soldiers, they seem to fall like flies. Anyways.