Chapter 2568: Another Way of Saying It

"I don't know much about war command. I'm different from you. I'm in the military industry, not fighting.

"But if you really want to ask me or just want to hear my opinion, then I do have to admit that your method seems pretty good to me. I think it should work and it won't be a big problem, at least not Too big.”

""

"It seems that eldest brother just doesn't like to talk the truth. Are all high-ranking people like this?"

Hearing Malashenko's complaint, Kotin just smiled without emotion or meaning.

"Isn't that right? You have a high position and have more people in charge than me."

"Then it should be said that we are all the same, right?"

"Hahaha"

This is sometimes the case between men, especially men who are very familiar with each other.

After saying the right thing in a few words, there was a burst of laughter. Anyway, there is no need to pretend or be secretive in front of a good brother. Say what you have to say directly, and there is no need to hide it. If you hide it and hide it, it will look like you are shady. The brother who called her shit.

"But there is one thing that I am very curious about, or I think it is quite strange."

"Um?"

Malashenko, who was about to light a cigarette, became interested, pressed the fire wheel and spoke quietly.

"What's the matter? Just say it, I'm listening."

Seeing Malashenko lighting up the cigarette, Kogin also became greedy and addicted.

Not caring to continue speaking, he first took out the cigarette case from his pocket, took a cigarette and put it in his mouth to light the fire, and after a puff of smoke lingered between his lips and teeth, he continued to speak.

"I just want to say that those nazis don't care about the life and death of their own civilians, but you do. The person who was supposed to protect you has now become an executioner who doesn't care. On the other hand, the guy who should be an executioner has become an executioner who does everything possible. To save and protect people, after all, the sooner the war ends, the more civilians will survive, that’s for sure.”

"I thought about it for a while, but I just felt that this kind of situation where the two sides were supposed to do things was reversed. Don't you think it's a little too abnormal?"

"What did I think you were going to say, about this?"

I rolled down the window and shook out the cigarette ashes. I took a breath and blew in the wind. I looked out the window at a small village not far away that was shattered by the war. I could still vaguely see a few figures walking among the debris. They were rummaging around, as if they were picking up rubbish to earn a living. Even when a heavily armed Red Army convoy with tanks passed by, they turned a blind eye, as if they hadn't seen it at all.

Ever since he entered East Prussia, he has been so familiar with such a scene that he is no longer surprised now. Malashenko, who has lamented more than once that "the war has changed everyone", now just continues to look out the car window. The scene plus the slow opening.

"It is true that we have a hostile relationship with the Germans and are absolutely irreconcilable enemies. This has been the case in the past few years and until the current victory is approaching. This is a fact."

"But I ask you, Kogin, do you think we have to hate the Germans forever like this from generation to generation? It will never be over, is there no end? The Germans will be our enemies forever and never again. Can’t change?”

""

Malashenko seemed to be irrelevant and had nothing to do with the matter, but he immediately stopped Kogin in his tracks.

I have never thought carefully about the answer to such a long-term question before. If I think about it now, it will be difficult to come up with any meaningful answer for a while. It is better to tell the truth to Malashenko.

"I admit that I haven't thought much about such a long-term issue. I can only say that my first reaction is that the fewer enemies we have, the better. You can go on, I want to hear it."

Kogin at least brought one thing to the point, which was enough for Malashenko, who nodded slowly, to continue.

"Look, we all know that the fewer enemies we have, the better. But the key to the problem lies in how few we have and what means we should use to achieve this 'fewer' goal."

"To be precise, defeating the Germans in the war is just the beginning, not the end. There is still a lot to do to completely make the Germans no longer our enemies."

"Hatred and hostility can be passed down, Ke Jing, from generation to generation. There is only one way to make the enemy disappear completely, and that is to completely eradicate the soil where hatred and hostility breed, and reduce it as much as possible. The smaller the spread of the soil in advance, the easier and less labor-intensive it will be to remove it later. What I have to do is for the latter, and this is also for our long-term development in the future.”

"Violence can solve many problems, but it cannot solve all problems. In order to completely eradicate the soil that breeds hatred and hostility from the Germans towards us, a lot of things need to be done. I am just making some basic preparations now. As long as As long as I sit in the position of teacher, I have to plan and do something meaningful for the future, no matter what.”

""

The thoughtful Kogin probably understood some of the meaning of Malashenko's words, and then asked tentative questions to Malashenko with a vague understanding.

"So you want to win over people with as few casualties as possible? Make the Kraut civilians feel like you're doing your best to avoid hurting them more?"

After hearing this, Malashenko first glanced at Kotin and found that Kotin's serious look probably meant that he really couldn't think of any other good tricks. It might also be that the thinking limitations of people in this era are indeed limited to this point, which cannot be compared with the various postmodern magical realisms of the 21st century.

In short, in the final analysis, this matter still needs Malashenko to "wake up" a little.

"Your rhetoric is too old-fashioned. Only stupid propagandists and journalists with shit in their heads do this."

"Why do you say that I am doing my best to avoid hurting them? I am saving them and rescuing them from the Nazi death tower in advance. The towering death tower is like a living coffin that eats a large number of living people one by one. When it has accumulated enough and eaten enough, it will kill all the people inside with a loud bang. This is the evil of the Nazis."

"What the Red Army needs to do is to destroy this death tower in advance, destroy the damn Nazi cannibalistic living coffin! I We were saving the civilians. We blew it up before they stepped into the coffin, crushing the evil ambition of the Nazis to be buried alive. We saved countless lives. We are not the ones who hurt more or less. We are the saviors and redeemers. "

"We did not tamper with any facts, nor did we add any exaggeration. This is just a narrative technique, Comrade Kotin. The same thing can be viewed from different angles, or even viewed from multiple angles in succession and then the different fragments can be spliced ​​together to produce different effects, but all the fragments are still facts, just from different angles. "