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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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