Thursday, February 28, 2008
in deadly combat-epilogue
any thoughts on the Soviet soldiers digging through the German POW latrines for money and pay scripts used by the German captives as toilet paper in order to clean them and exchanges them for rubles? What might this suggest about pay in the Red Army and the economy of communist Russia at the time?
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Although I know that it is written and expressed by military personnel that war can do strange things to people, it is beyond me as to the “whys” of these things, such as what you pointed out. It says that the guards and the Soviet intelligence personnel were guilty of these acts. This tells me that they were recipients of privileged information that regular soldiers knew nothing about, such as the military pay script. It was just one more way to exploit those who were already beaten down. Who could they tell? It was apparent that those in authority were the ones taking advantage of the situation.
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