just for the badassness. price and yuri all went to jail/gulag in Russia and it's a labor camp they had to grind. ghost went through whole lots of fuckery in his origin story to be cool.
and compared to them soap is actually really lucky? no jail time no torture. he's injured and recovered for a long time but he's got nikolai as company and basically everyone's nice to soap… before tf141 he has nothing much to do so he reminisces about price when he's on leave. with tf141 he does it with Shepherd who treats him civilized enough. soap has princess treatment…













