>>513748374

.. better chance of survival rushing the German lines unarmed, than to be shot in the back of the head by your comrade commissar (((Bolshevik))) political officer.

"The Germans were behind a barricade of ripped-up paving blocks and overturned trams… A line of Soviet infantrymen simply marched, as though on a parade…Naturally, they were mowed down by German machine guns… I counted a total of twenty such attacking waves of Soviet infantrymen, each new row falling on top of the dead…Then the last waves of the Russians, charging up the stack of corpses, vaulted the barricades and slaughtered the Germans with savage ferocity. What made my blood run cold was not the way in which the Nazis were exterminated, but the complete indifference with which the Russian officers commanded their men to die, and the complete indifference with which the soldiers obeyed the orders.”

(Nicholas Nyaradi, former Hungarian Minister of Finance in Vadim J. Birstein: SMERSH, Stalin’s Secret Weapon, 2011, p.281.)