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Did you reaed historian Mark Solonin? Or Eisenhower memoirs? He mentions a quote from Zhukov: > There are two kinds of mines; one is the personnel mine and th
by gandhium 8y ago
Did you reaed historian Mark Solonin?
Or Eisenhower memoirs? He mentions a quote from Zhukov:
> There are two kinds of mines; one is the personnel mine and the other is the vehicular mine. When we come to a mine field our infantry attacks exactly as if it were not there.
- ethelward 8y agoOK, so we go from Zhukov's memoir to Eisenhower's... Now, in the context: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6rabb3/did_the_soviets_really_send_their_infantry/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6rabb3/did_t...
- gandhium 8y agoSo, Russian historian _translates_ Eisehnower's words into his own narrative? Color me surprised.