Chapter 2497 We Are the Leaders

Arsim didn't have much time to stay here. After simply dealing with the emergency in front of him, he still had other things to do. There were still many battles waiting for him to lead the team to fight.

The soldiers who received Arsim's order quickly stepped forward. Several people were responsible for checking the bodies, and several others surrounded the group of women who were huddled in the corner "grouping together for warmth" but shivering. The leader was the deputy comrade who was fluent in German.

"You all stand up and obey the arrangements honestly. No one will rape you, let alone take your lives."

The leader division strictly prohibits rape, regardless of whether it is Polish or German women. This is an iron rule set by Malashenko himself and supervised and implemented by political work teams at all levels led by the political commissar. The report meeting on related issues was directly responsible to the division commander by the political commissar, which shows how much Malashenko attaches importance to this matter.

So although similar incidents have occurred repeatedly in other friendly troops and have long been common, as one of the early overseas combat troops and the first to enter East Prussia, the leader division rarely has such incidents.

Of course, "very few" does not mean "absolutely none".

When he was in East Prussia, one of Kulbarov's subordinates drank half a pound of vodka secretly, and the driver got angry and led several equally restless tank soldiers to "make trouble at night".

They sneaked into the home of an East Prussian Junker noble widow whose husband and son had joined the army and died in battle. The four of them had a happy night. They didn't sneak back to the company's base until dawn the next day, but they were caught by the instructor who came out to urinate. After a round of interrogation, they immediately sent the man to the brigade commander and reported to the brigade headquarters.

"Voluntary!? These Sukas are still talking about voluntary? Even the German refugees passing by heard it outside the door, and they told me it was voluntary!?"

Puff——

A soldier who was in charge of escorting the troops could not help laughing out loud at the furious and "vivid" description of the brigade commander Comrade Kulbarov, but he was caught by the brigade commander who had good ears.

"What are you laughing at, Suka!? If you laugh again, I will send you to the division headquarters!"

"No, no, sorry, comrade brigade commander."

Comrade brigade commander was very angry, and the consequences were serious.

Comrade brigade commander, who was wearing a wooden prosthesis and lame, personally led the team to deal with the matter, and took all four parties to the division headquarters to apologize. The victims were not invited, and if they wanted to see them, they had to go to the field hospital. The degree of attack and the intensity of firepower of these four Sukas were indeed a bit severe. Although the three German mothers were not in danger of their lives, they would have to lie down for ten days or half a month.

"Oh, I heard about this this morning. I was wondering when you would come to see me, or when I would go down to see you."

When Kurbalov brought people to apologize, Malashenko was having breakfast in the division headquarters. It was rare for him to drink hot oatmeal and milk porridge. On weekdays, he almost always had black bread and boiled water to deal with it. But such a rare hot breakfast was ruined.

Kurbalov really wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into. How could such a shameful thing come out under his command? This is still the old unit of the leader division. It's really shameful.

What surprised Kurbalov was that Malashenko did not fly into a rage as he expected, nor did he reprimand or blame, let alone slam the table on the spot. His first reaction was just "Oh".

But this did not make Kurbalov feel at ease, but made him more afraid. The abnormal behavior of the division commander was probably not good.

"Where are the people under you?"

Kurbalov knew who Malashenko was asking about, and immediately answered.

"Outside the door, I brought them all here, Comrade Division Commander, they admitted their mistakes and asked for punishment."

"Yeah"

Malashenko put down the wrinkled lunch box and spoon in his hand, and picked up a pile of papers on the side of the table. Those were the files of the four people outside the door brought by Kurbalov. Malashenko had received and reviewed them half an hour ago.

"The longest one stayed in the leader division for a year and a half, and he was the car commander. One was less than six months, and the remaining two were exactly nine months, am I right?"

""

Kurbalov was startled after hearing this, and glanced at the pile of papers in the division commander's hand. He could probably guess what it was, and then he quickly answered.

"Yes, comrade division commander."

"Well, that's actually not bad. They are not the old troops I led. You don't have to take it too seriously. I had expected this to happen before I went abroad to fight. I was just waiting for the right time."

"The right time?"

Kurbalov was shocked. He didn't understand what Malashenko meant by this, but he didn't dare to ask too much about the identity of the guilty person. He could only stand in front of Malashenko's desk and let him deal with it.

"I have no opinion on punishment. These four are experienced reinforcements, not new recruits. Just return them to their original units."

"These are some transfer files, which have been extracted. The transfer procedures have been handled by the division headquarters, and the transfer procedures are left to their original units. Take them down and execute them immediately."

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Without any consultation or discussion, Malashenko signed his name and stamped the seal of the division headquarters. It was a written order that was already a fait accompli.

Although Kurbalov was shocked, he still took the written order that Malashenko had drawn on the corner of the table with his index finger and picked it up to read.

It didn't matter if he didn't read it, but he found that the "reason for return" column clearly stated "rape". This had never happened before in the leadership division, which made Kurbalov a little dazed.

"Comrade division commander, are you sure you want to do this? I, I'm not questioning the order, it's just this"

Kurbalov, who was a brigade commander, found that he didn't know what to say for a while, and Malashenko's response was just a casual one without hesitation.

"Someone did it, someone wrote it, it's just recording the facts, and it's not a notice of punishment for a crime."

"I know many people will think: "Other troops can do it, why can't we do it?", or even "The Nazis can do it, why can't we do it? ". But what I want to say is that other troops are not the Leader Division, and the soldiers of the Leader Division are not Nazis. This is not a noble revenge, and no matter how magnificent the language is, it cannot be embellished and packaged. This is just a kind of beastly behavior distorted by the most primitive and barbaric deformed desires of human beings."

"The soldiers of the Leader Division are human beings, the most brave and elite Red Army soldiers, neither Nazis nor two-legged beasts."

"The Leader Division can either have him or me, or I can either have him. As long as I am still in this position, I will never tolerate this prestigious unit developing in any bad direction. We must be Worthy of our guards and the name of the leader, no matter what others do or say, the leader division is always the leader division, the truth will not be distorted or changed by falsehood, because there will always be people who remember it. "

"Take him down and execute him, and execute him in the same way if any such incidents happen in the future. Those who have the original unit will be sent back to the original unit, and those who have not been sent back to the rear reserve. These days, everything is lacking, but there is no shortage of places for important people, even the punishment camp is short of criminals. "

Kurbalov glanced at the order in his hand, and then raised his head and looked at Malashenko who had picked up the spoon to eat again. The division commander comrade did not even cast extra eyes in this direction, and would rather look at the little milk oatmeal left in the lunch box than look at himself. This feeling of coldness all over the body really made Kurbalov feel not very good.

"I understand. I'll do it right away, Comrade Division Commander."

Kurbalov realized that he was no longer suitable to stay here, so he immediately said goodbye to Malashenko and turned to leave. Unexpectedly, he heard Malashenko's voice again behind him just two steps away.

"I will go to your brigade for a meeting later, summon all the company-level and above cadres in the brigade, and prepare a seat for me. You will sit next to me at that time."

""

Although Malashenko did not raise his head, but just ate the breakfast in the bowl while talking, the meaning he could express was enough for Kurbalov. The burly and lame tank colonel just saluted the division commander again with gratitude, and then turned back and left silently.

Until the sound of Kurbalov's leaving footsteps faded away, Malashenko, who had no intention of eating the cold breakfast in the lunch box, raised his head and sighed.

"I don't know how history books will evaluate me, forget it, just do whatever you want"