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Putin Could Face His Biggest Threat After Ukraine War

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared 2025 the "Year of the Defender of the Fatherland " But returning soldiers could pose a threat to Putin 's rule when they return from fighting against Ukraine .

A Washington think tank says the Kremlin fears a new wave of " Afghan syndrome" in which veterans' groups known as Afghantsi ( Russian for Afghans ), returned disillusioned at the Soviet government's inability to integrate traumatized veterans into society.

Kremlin has managed to curb immediate threat to Putin of alienated veterans' civil society, ISW said.

Kremlin has also formed state-run veteran organizations that centralize Putin 's control over previously semi-independent forces.

Pollster the Chronicles project found more soldiers signed up for the war for the money than out of civic duty.

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80

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English

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