That's... an interesting way to put it. Soldat could almost be glad to take on all the memories of torture, all the crappy conditioned responses, all the unrealistic reactions to things, if that meant someone else didn't have to have them. If they could save actual people (Soldat... Shut up, Sergeant.) from this kind of damage.

Maybe not all the killing people. It's hard to think of how they could be making the world better by killing HYDRA's targets.

So they nod, thoughtful, and can smile absently at the comment. "Steve. Yeah. He was my first happy memory. Shared an apartment in Brooklyn-- in the city. Before everything. He was an artist. And sick all the time."