| marichiko |
04-07-2006 12:43 PM |
Interesting. Did you also see the site of the woman who collected those stories re history of the Ukraine? Her English is pretty good, and the pictures slowly add up to a very somber weight. Lots of stuff I never knew before - little tidbits like: In the old WWII battlefields, there are cemetaries with markers giving the name of each dead German soldier because the Germans, like our military, wore metal "dog tags." The Russians had little plastic capsules that they were supposed to insert with a slip of paper on which their names were written. Most didn't or else the paper was found to be ash when the tube was opened, so the Russian war dead, in contrast to the German, are buried in mass graves. She talks of a battle where most of the Russian soldeirs had no weapons - just the ones in front. As they died, the ones behind would pick up their guns, and so on. |
