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Yes, but when the soldier dies and drops his weapon, the soldier just behind him, who was sent to the front without a weapon, needs to be able to pick up the dr
by bloak 6y ago
Yes, but when the soldier dies and drops his weapon, the soldier just behind him, who was sent to the front without a weapon, needs to be able to pick up the dropped weapon and continue shooting. That's how it was during the Great Patriotic War. Or so I've heard. Cue men's choir singing Polyushko-polye ...
- helge9210 6y agoThis is something else. This tactic was used to "dispose" of male population on territories liberated from Nazi occupation. As Zhukov said "The more of them die here, the less we'll have to transport to Syberia".
- YarickR2 6y agoThis is a lie, plain and simple
- helge9210 6y agoDon't argue with me. Argue with historic materials about deportation of indigenous population of Crimea, Chechnya in 1944 and western Ukraine up to fifties.
- dang 6y agoPlease don't perpetuate flamewars on HN, and please don't post unsubstantive comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 6y agoPlease don't take HN threads into ideological or nationalistic flamewar, or whatever kind of flamewar this is. It leads to hellish discussions, the kind we don't want here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- YarickR2 6y agoSuch episodes weren't unheard of, but they were rare, and occured during forst months of war, because armories close to front lines were bombed or captured, and military factories were in the process of being relocated farther into the country