dedovshchina
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noun
- Hazing, the informal system of subjection and physical or sexual abuse of new junior conscripts, formerly in the Soviet Armed Forces and contemporarily in the Russian, Ukrainian, etc. armed forces.
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From Russian дедовщи́на (dedovščína), literally “reign of old-timers”.
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