Red dusk and the morrow, adventures and investigations in Red Russia . The author and the Colonel of the Polish Womens DeathBattalion on the Polish front, August, 1920. One weeklater she and her entire staff were killed by the Reds. Thebattalion numbered 250 women THE RED ARMY 227 I should prefer to see my wife and my littledaughters shot, he said, bitterly, rather than thatthey be sent to a Red concentration camp. I amsupposed to make my subordinates sign these declara-tions, too. Pleasant, isnt it? You know, I suppose,he added, that appointment to a post of any responsi-bility is now made co
Red dusk and the morrow, adventures and investigations in Red Russia . The author and the Colonel of the Polish Womens DeathBattalion on the Polish front, August, 1920. One weeklater she and her entire staff were killed by the Reds. Thebattalion numbered 250 women THE RED ARMY 227 I should prefer to see my wife and my littledaughters shot, he said, bitterly, rather than thatthey be sent to a Red concentration camp. I amsupposed to make my subordinates sign these declara-tions, too. Pleasant, isnt it? You know, I suppose,he added, that appointment to a post of any responsi-bility is now made conditional upon having relativesnear at hand who may be arrested? (This orderhad been published in the press.) The happiestthing nowadays is to be friendless and destitute, thenyou cannot get your people shot. Or else act on theBolshevist principle that conscience, like liberty, is abourgeois prejudice. Then you can work for No. 2Gorohovaya and make a fortune. Not only my commander but most of the men inmy unit talked like this amongst themselves, onlyquietly, for fe
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