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>You are not a political beast by nature, but one does not reach lieutenant general without some guile. The report is certain to contain some falsehoods, but it is important - politically important - that you act as though every word of it is true.
If you have learned one thing in the army, in school, in life, it is to tell authority what it wants to hear. You don't have to believe it - nobody concerns themselves with the interior machinations of a soldier's mind - but then when the ministers say black is white and 2+2=5, they expect you to agree.
That is the fundamental role of a soldier and the underpinning of military life. Your superior officer determines reality and establishes fact, sets directives and orders, a soldier carries out tasks within the situation thus established. The alternative is unthinkable; it means the collapse of chain of command, the disintegration of order, the lapse of discipline, and the unmooring of the entire ethos of army life.
That is what you think to yourself, Gennady. The horrors and phantoms you conjure up if you were to disobey.
And they love you for it, Genya. You are a good dog, you serve your masters well. You sit, you stay, you roll over. Woof, woof, Genya, who loves the republic? Who's a good soldier?
>Decision path unlocked: REJECT REALITY
