Has anyone seen a related type of document, family lore says my grandfather had been detained by allied forces in Italy, and was given paperwork that said more or less he needed to stay in his hometown until the end of the war and not take up arms, but was released rather than taken prisoner of war. Apparently, he had been marked a deserter in the Italian army pension system, but filing a complaint and sending in that paperwork allowed him to collect a very small pension as a PoW in his old age. He had immigrated to the US not too long after the war.
One of the psy-warfare references is Paul M.A. Linebarger, aka Cordwainer Smith.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer_Smith" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer_Smith</a>
I wonder why the EU/UK/US don’t just pay Russian soldiers to surrender. How much would it take do you think? $5k each? Might be cheaper than shooting at them.