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An excerpt from Memories of Lt. Yuri Zaitsev, 5th Artillery Regiment, 2nd Special Division of the Ursus Fourth Army:
"Since the war started, the army's negative attitude towards combat was extremely obvious. Our unit was originally ordered to cover the 9th and 10th Heavy Armored Corps and the 17th Artillery Regiment — my brother's unit — to launch a raid on the enemy's town. However, half a month after we and those troops were stationed, we still didn't receive an offensive order from the Division Staff. We thought that the operation was cancelled, so we waited at the outpost for another week, but there were neither attack or retreat orders. Later on, even our supply baggage began to have problems. My immediate superior, Captain Andrei, was very confused. He once went to the Imperial Guards' General Staff HQ. He claimed having seen piles of brocade envelopes there. They should all be Imperial orders sent from Deity Grypherburg, but the seals weren't opened. And the officers just smiled at him and said, 'Just hold your position.' We waited endlessly for a month, and the warship almost sunk to the ground. We even heard that the Sixth Army received retreat orders and already started to withdraw from the battlefield on a large scale, but this was simply impossible. Fear started to swallow us. What we were afraid of wasn't the enemy, but ourselves seeing the Empire's dark side that shouldn't even exist"
An excerpt from Memories of Lt. Yuri Zaitsev, 5th Artillery Regiment, 2nd Special Division of the Ursus Fourth Army:
"Since the war started, the army's negative attitude towards combat was extremely obvious. Our unit was originally ordered to cover the 9th and 10th Heavy Armored Corps and the 17th Artillery Regiment — my brother's unit — to launch a raid on the enemy's town. However, half a month after we and those troops were stationed, we still didn't receive an offensive order from the Division Staff. We thought that the operation was cancelled, so we waited at the outpost for another week, but there were neither attack or retreat orders. Later on, even our supply baggage began to have problems. My immediate superior, Captain Andrei, was very confused. He once went to the Imperial Guards' General Staff HQ. He claimed having seen piles of brocade envelopes there. They should all be Imperial orders sent from Deity Grypherburg, but the seals weren't opened. And the officers just smiled at him and said, 'Just hold your position.' We waited endlessly for a month, and the warship almost sunk to the ground. We even heard that the Sixth Army received retreat orders and already started to withdraw from the battlefield on a large scale, but this was simply impossible. Fear started to swallow us. What we were afraid of wasn't the enemy, but ourselves seeing the Empire's dark side that shouldn't even exist"
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