The Enemy as Vermin
Russian soldiers saw nothing evil in leaving the bodies of Germans and Austrians on the battlefield to rot.
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Russian soldiers saw nothing evil in leaving the bodies of Germans and Austrians on the battlefield to rot.
“Russia the silent one, silent for twenty-five years and then silent for ten years more, is either speaking now, or is about to speak.”