Doctors of War

[[N]Chromey]

A good read and something I recommend for VC.

http://www.gwpda.org/medical/russdoc/RdocTC.htm#TC

[[N]Chromey]

A small excerp from this ww1 account on the Imperial Russian side where the revolution was taking place
and 'communism' was starting to blossom with the help of fasicm it seems..

General Pleschcoff left the corps a month ago and returned to his home near Vladivostock," said the Colonel, as we closed the door of our compartment and settled back in our seats, preparing for the long ride ahead of us. "He found he could no longer have any discipline in the corps, so he gave it up. You remember General Padgoursky, who commanded the First Division---the very fat one with the red face? He too was discharged by the soldiers but he re-enlisted as a private. He lived in the trenches with them, ate the same food, and slept in the same dug-outs---the men whom he had formerly commanded. When the attack in July occurred, he was the first man over the top, and although sixty-six years of age he led his men into the first-line trenches where he bayoneted two Germans, and then he started on alone for the German second-line. The Germans had concentrated a great many machine-guns and men in their second-line, and they turned a terrific fire on him as he dashed across the intervening space. He was wounded twice but kept going, and his men, seeing their old commander all alone and about to plunge into a trench full of Germans, followed him-and they took the second German line! During the hand-to-hand fighting he was bayoneted through the shoulder. They held the second-line until the battalion on their right gave way in the face of a German counter-attack and they were forced to retire, carrying back the wounded ex-general, who raved and cursed all the way to the Russian trenches. Then the men decided they wanted him back as commander, so they discharged the general who was commanding the division and gave him back his old place. We shall probably see him on our arrival."

'In soviet Russia, soldiers demote officers!