How common was it for troops to refuse to go over the top in

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>>1667399
French mutinies. They stopped revolting when the military command stopped being pants-on-head retarded and kicked it down a notch to plain retarded.

>>1667399
Russians did exactly that but they didn't have trenches to begin with so it doesn't count.

>>1667399
Short answer?

Class structure
Propaganda/indoctrination
Honour/Fear of being branded a coward
Religion/Peridition

Now stop being an Bolshavik, anarchist COWARD and climb up that ladder private!

>>1667399
That sounds like commie talk

>>1667399
The Italians did that after getting treated like shit

>>1667399
Esprit de corps

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>>1667399
just watch Path of Glory
feels like if I were in their situation, I would have killed the officers in silence. Who would suspect it when thousand people are dying

>>1667670
There's a term for that called fragging

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragging

>>1667399
There were many complaints from Flemish soldiers about their commanding officers only speaking French. It didn't help that the Germans promised the Flemish people more independence from the Francophone part of Belgium.