Dedovshchina (Russian: дедовщина) is the name given to the informal system of subjugation of new junior recruits for the Russian armed services, MVD, and border guards to soldiers of the last year of service. It involves violent (and sometimes fatal) hazing but is not limited to it. It is often cited as a major source of poor morale in the ranks. The Glenbrook North High School hazing incident concerned many people worldwide Hazing is often ritualistic harassment, abuse, or humiliation with requirements to perform meaningless tasks, sometimes as a way of initiation into a social group. ... Morale is a term for the capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal. ...
The term is derived from "ded", the Russian word for grandfather, meaning soldiers at their fourth and last half-year of conscription, with the suffix -shchina which designates attribution (compare Yezhovshchina, Zhdanovshchina). The Great Purge is the name given to campaigns of repression in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s which included a purge of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ... The Zhdanov decree was issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on 10 February 1948. ...
History
The origin of this problem is often attributed to the change in conscription term with a new law of October 12 1967, when two different groups of conscripts were simultaneously present in the army: those who were drafted for 3 years service and those only for 2 years. While oppression by older conscripts has probably always taken place in the army, after that date it become organized and with its own rules and ranks. 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
None of you westerners will ever get it but dedovschina works and it is there to stay, point.
So think of it as you please but dedovschina is here to stay because it teaches/forcefully turns egocentrical civilian moma-boy disrespectfull and spoiled teenagers itnto teamplayers, it teaches them to share and perform unappealing but necessary duties/tasks for the greater (team's) good.
I'm not quite sure what Dedovschina is (conscription?) but I would agree with you that "egocentrical civilian moma-boy disrespectfull and spoiled teenagers itnto teamplayers, it teaches them to share and perform unappealing but necessary duties/tasks for the greater (team's) good" and that these things are imperative to have if you are in the military.
Dedovschina is a period of torture that lasts as long as your army stay, often from Day 1 to demobilization, and does not only include torture, but various forms of slavery, too.
Dedovschina - "grandfathery" - in layman's terms, is a group of career soldiers, mostly of age, who pick on newbies for derision or services.
There's the ever-popular example of a young kid who was drafted and who was forced, by convention of dedovschina, to build a summerhouse for his colonel.
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