Posted on 04/08/2013 10:03:12 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
“...be followed by mass surrenders, if only for the food.” ...”
A scene from Enemy at The Gates comes to mind. The commissars were armed with submachine guns and a wheeled Maxim, forcing the soldiers to run into the face of withering, dug in German fire, where they were slaughtered.
When the soldiers retreated in the face of superior firepower, the commissars gunned them down mercilessly.
Somewhere in all that, the mass of Russian soldiers should have realized “There’s more of US than them” in regards to the Commissars...”and we have rifles too”.
I know, it’s easy to say what someone “should have” done when we’re not there...but you think to yourself sometimes how different things would have been if the majority of people caught up in communist/socialist countries - namely, their military - would just turn those weapons on the commissars and the folks making life miserable for all.
Training and indoctrination aside... common sense tells one that the bastards behind you setting up the automatic weapon pointed at your back are no better, and maybe worse, than the bastards in front of you, and you’d be better off taking out the bastards behind you.
Maybe those Generals standing behind the demented little pudgeball are thinking that very thing right now.
And then again, as history sadly proves...maybe not.
That place didn’t really last long I think it was mostly the upper crust who could afford it anyway.
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