• commiespammer
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    331 year ago

    Damn, they’re charging headlong into machine gun fire. And I thought meat shield suicide armies only existed in fiction.

    • Anarcho-Bolshevik
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      101 year ago

      There were a few occasions when the Romanian fascists machine‐gunned retreaters.

      Officers often threatened to shoot cowards, and commanders sometimes even ordered “blocking detachments” to machine gun soldiers who retreated, though this was rarely followed through with.

      (Source.)

      • SovereignState
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        1 year ago

        Oh, hey, Enemy at the Gates was projection after all! Who woulda thunk.