Artilleristy, Stalin dal prikaz My umirali chtoby pobeditʹ
Serii︠a︡ "Voĭna i my. Soldatskie dnevniki"
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Pyotr Mikhin went through World War II from Rzhev to Prague. The author gives his answer to the question "What is the most terrible thing in the war?" - "it's not a breakout operation, hand-to-hand fighting, or surprise short range fire - it is when your are not killed for a long time, at the age of 20 your moral and physical strengths are totally exhausted, and you are ready either to fall on the ground of the entrenchment and cry, or kick against pricks in madness. Nevertheless, when a machine-gun burst turns out liver, transforms face into a bloody mask, while arms and legs are shot off by fragments, this desire somehow subsides".
