Malashenko and Ren Dagui sat on the lawn together, blowing in the cool midnight breeze outside Berlin, each holding cigarettes in their mouths and chatting and bragging. In this era when entertainment methods are scarce, listening to stories is not a bad thing.
, as long as you are interested in this story.
"What I thought at the time was to work for a while, but it turned out that I really didn't expect that I would work for more than a year."
"One morning I was packing up and getting ready to go to work. Over time, I have learned Russian to a certain extent. I have no problem communicating with people. I plan to take a chance and ask when I can be released."
"Unexpectedly, we didn't have to work after the meeting that day. The leading officer said that we had other important tasks to give to us, and asked us to get on the bus with our money."
"I was just wondering if this was a place where I could change my job? This happened to me in the past, like changing from the mine to the station freight yard. At that time, I didn't think too much about it and just got on the train."
"Later I found out that it was not a place to change jobs, but a place for us to move up to the front line."
"I was the only Chinese guy in the car with me at that time, and the rest were all old men who had committed crimes and were sentenced to labor camps. I could speak Russian, but I couldn't talk to anyone, and they didn't pay attention to me.
, just like that until we got to the place. But I didn’t expect to get them on the train again, and it took a long time to get there, and then they took the car to another place, which made me miserable.”
"That year was 1941, and the winter was really cold. It felt almost the same as the coldest time in our hometown of Nagada. Only when we got there did I realize that this was the capital of the Soviet Union, called Moscow. We needed
When it comes to work, we are said to have experience in building military fortifications, and I don’t know what the other old labor reformers in the same group did before. Anyway, I do know how to build and dig."
"Just dig it, you don't have a choice anyway, right? At any rate, I was given a cotton-padded jacket as winter clothes. It was white, just like the military uniform, and it was quite warm. During those days, I was given some regularly.
I drink a little wine as a reward for working hard, and it’s like that Walter, it’s really warm after drinking it.”
"Later, I had been working together for a while, so I chatted with the old men who worked with me. After chatting with me, I found out that they were all serious soldiers in the past. They were in the Red Army. There were a few of them.
He's still an officer. But he did something wrong during that, oh, yes, called counter-revolutionary movement, and some of them were arrested only because they were implicated."
"And the crimes these few committed are not small. I heard that many of them who committed minor crimes have been dragged back to fight with the Germans. They are not good enough and are still locked up. At most, they can be given help.
Digging trenches and building fortifications. Anyway, I don’t know why they are not allowed to go back to serve as soldiers. I’m also confused.”
"A few of them were so stupid. They thought I was a little devil at first, and some even thought I was a Kazakh or something who was also caught by the counter-revolutionaries. There were so many categories that I was confused.
Yeah, I still haven’t figured it out yet.”
"They took the initiative to ask me, and I said you all thought wrong. I am Chinese. They were shocked. They all asked why you came here? I said what else could you do? Just tell me what happened in the past.
If I tell them again, they won’t be able to stop me.”
"Originally, I thought that after I finished this job, I would have a chance to explain the matter clearly and ask if I could be sent home. I have been working for nearly two years, and there is no credit but hard work. As a
It’s okay to send me home as a reward.”
"But I didn't expect that the German guy came over with a bang soon. I thought this was bad. I heard that the German guy was more ruthless than the old guy. Now it's over."
"That morning, I was digging a bombproof hole there. The bombproof hole was buried in the snow. It snowed very thickly all night, so we were asked to clear it out. I took the shovel and dug it there.
Well, the German tanks came, and they also had cannons, rumbling and bombing everywhere."
"The position suddenly became chaotic. I never thought that the Germans could suddenly rush over at this time. The soldiers were too busy with their guns to fight, and they didn't care about us money. When I saw that the momentum was wrong,
I didn’t even have a gun in my hand. Wouldn’t I be courting death if I collided with that German tank? I happened to have dug half of the anti-gun hole, so I hurriedly dug in. I didn’t know what would happen outside.
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"In those days, many people said that the Germans were about to die. I thought that the Germans were really dying, so I designated them twice and then they went on. But I didn't expect that the Germans actually won the battle and captured that position.
It’s just a small village, and the Red Army was beaten away.”
"The Germans were shouting everywhere on the battlefield, shouting in Russian to tell those who were hiding to come out and surrender. If they were caught still hiding, they would be shot directly. I saw so many Germans and tanks at that time, and I couldn't even run away if I wanted to.
If you can't fall out, hiding is probably not a problem. It's freezing in the cold and there's no fire to cook or food to eat. I might freeze to death in that hole in one day, so I have no choice but to come out."
Malashenko, who had finished smoking two cigarettes, took out the third one, put it in his mouth, and then put another one for Ren Dagui.
This was Ren Dagui's first time smoking a general-level cigarette, so he was naturally very happy. What's more, the teacher gave him cigarettes to save his face, so he naturally had to take them quickly.
As soon as the lighter was lit, it began to puff out smoke, accompanied by Malashenko's slow opening.
"So you were caught by the Germans again?"
"Yeah, it's not that good."
Ren Dagui nodded and replied, and then started another story of "Ren Dagui's Bizarre Adventure".
"Those people who were forced to raise animals are nothing like animals. They are just helping beasts! There were many Red Army soldiers who were arrested with me. The political commissars were all shot on the spot. The officers were also shot after interrogation. The soldiers were also shot.
I picked up a few, and most of them were put into cars and taken away.”
"I didn't dare to say anything at the time. All I was wearing and wearing on my head were military uniforms. Even though they were a bit old, the Germans thought I was just a piece of Kazakh money, the Red Army."
"As a result, we didn't eat well, drink well, or get a good rest along the way. We were escorted from the ice and snow to the prisoner of war camp."
"Later, a group of people were taken away. I heard they were sent to some kind of prisoner-of-war camp farther away. But some people were left behind, including me."
"In the beginning, I was working for those bullshit teams created by those Ukrainians, the Germans' henchmen. They went to the prisoner of war camps to select people and kept me. You can say that yellow skin is better than white skin.
They are easy to manage, and they are all from remote places, not Russians. I don’t understand it, but I think it’s a lot of bullshit. What those bunch of bastards did is more disgusting than serious people, and is comparable to that of little devils.
, just a bunch of living beasts.”
"I don't know how much time passed later. I was tired from all the tossing, so I just thought about living one day at a time, letting it go, and I didn't care what month or time it was. Anyway, I was left alone all year round, from spring to autumn.
In a place called Ukraine. And because I was quick and agile, I did whatever they asked me to do without any complaints. I became a small boss, a small boss of the labor team, specifically leading people to do dirty and tiring work for them."
"Until one day, I suddenly heard the worst of the bad guys, whispering in a panic, that I was cleaning the house for them. I heard these beasts who had done all kinds of bad things say, Germany
The situation is not good, and we are almost done. Tomorrow we will take their team to the front line to help, saying that the Red Army has already attacked, which scares them to discuss what to do."
"At that time, they were discussing in Ukrainian, which was not quite the same as Russian. I had only a little knowledge and could only understand roughly. But I was sure that there was something wrong with their expressions. The Germans must have really lost their wits this time.