Chapter 2600 Reminiscence of the Past

"Is there any difference between the scene in front of us, the city of Berlin and the Stalingrad back then?"

Artyom probably understood what Ivushkin meant, but it was hard for him to imagine what the scene was like at that time. He hesitated and asked this question.

"Different? That's very different, Paul's brother. I don't believe in religion or those monsters. Heaven and hell are shit to me, but if you force me to say it, if you want me to find a word to describe it, then the city of Berlin in front of us now is simply heaven compared to Stalingrad back then."

""

Artyom was a little dazed when he heard this, and before he could speak, Seryosha, who was sitting in the front seat and driving, suddenly interrupted without turning his head.

"It is now, but it won't be soon. We will soon be able to recover the memories of the past and relive the old dreams."

"Fuck the old dreams. If it weren't for winning this battle, I wouldn't bother to relive this! I still can't forget those shitty days. Every day, every day, every day, every day, I asked myself when this damn thing would end. Many times I even thought about giving up and dying to end it all."

"Hell was brought to the human world, and even the oil pan in hell was brought to the human world. The first thing I did when I woke up every day in those shitty days was to go down to the boiling bubbling oil pan and take a bath. Suka! I get so angry when I mention this!"

""

Iushkin's reaction can be said to be fierce.

Iushkin, who usually shows himself as a "funny man", has almost never been like this. Friends and comrades who are familiar with him know that this guy is a fun-loving person who can bring three jokes in one sentence. At least, he is like this when facing friends, comrades and comrades. As for how he treats the Nazis, that's another matter.

Iushkin suddenly became like this as if he had an acute illness, which made Artyom and Sergei beside him look at each other in bewilderment. They didn't even know what sentence was left unsaid to make Iushkin, who was always happy, become like this.

The scene was a little awkward for a moment. In the fully enclosed car that was already in combat mode, there was no sound except the humming of the ventilation fan and the roar of the engine.

In the small space, they didn't know how to continue the conversation that had originally had a good atmosphere, until Malashenko, who had been busy with his own things from just now until now, put down the command radio transmitter in his hand, joined the conversation, and spoke slowly.

"Everyone in this car who experienced the battle of Stalingrad has lost a lot. Iushkin, Seryosha, and even me."

""

Malachenko did not directly say why Iushkin suddenly "had a flare-up of illness", but his words pointed to the reasons buried under the dusty past. Artyom and Sergei almost unanimously turned their attention to the driver.

"Iushkin is right. Those days were very difficult for everyone who lived there."

"Take me for example. Newspapers, journals, and radio broadcasts, all the propaganda calibers during those days were talking about how brave and tenacious I was. They said that I led a heroic army and beat the Germans at the Stalingrad railway station so hard that they didn't even have the courage to rush in. They were afraid of the railway station meat grinder even from a distance."

"They also said how I went to Mamayev Kurgan to kill those Nazi bastards who occupied the toilets and defecated and polluted this red land. "These stories are well-known and known to everyone. During that period, my story was even made into a leaflet and widely circulated among the garrison troops in Stalingrad. Countless soldiers smoked cigarettes with leaflets containing my story in the end." "It is important for heroes to live beside the soldiers, but how do the heroes survive and persevere?" "The Nazi scum killed my best My comrade, Nikolai, the mechanic of the first 177th train, died in the Stalingrad train station, which was repeatedly publicized in newspapers and used as a battle example to boost morale. "

"I tried to escape during that period, I ran and ran, but I couldn't escape no matter what."

"The political materials distributed by the superiors for study included the train station, the people around talked about the train station, the battlefield during the day was the train station, and the radio was still the train station as long as it was turned on. I picked up a newspaper to see what was happening in the world outside this city, and the headline on the front page was still the fucking train station."

"The train station, Train station, train station"

"The more I ran away, the more the name of this damn dog burst out of my mind, the more I encountered it everywhere, and the more I couldn't escape. "

"When I think of the train station, I will think of what happened that day, and how I was dragged away by my comrades helplessly, and could only watch the seriously injured Nikolai fall in the trench, and was shot to death by the Nazis with bullets and gun butts in the place where he had defended and fought with his life. "

"Now I don't know how I survived those days. Compared with the physical fatigue and suffering, the mental trauma is the most fatal. "

"One after another, familiar people leave you and you will never see them again in this life. The familiar faces around you the day before are almost completely replaced by a group of people the next day. Groups of unfamiliar faces come and go, and finally all become cold corpses."

"People don't ask what heroes have experienced. What matters is what surrounds the heroes now and what kind of halo they are shrouded in. This is the hero after the halo and brilliance are stripped off, and the blood is like the raw meat hanging for sale in the butcher shop. The flesh and blood that once shared life and death with him have been cut into pieces, leaving only this piece that can be found and hung in the butcher shop for people to see. Comrade Commander in front of you is the best example."

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Malachenko's words stripped away all the gorgeous appearances, and put himself on the chopping board as a living example, and cut him alive with a knife. The ultimate goal is just to make his crew members understand one thing.

"I'm not telling you this to gain sympathy, Artyom and Sergei."

"I mean me, Seryosha, and Iushkin, the three of us are the same. We lost our best brother on the same day, and we have to live and fight day after day in the world shrouded by the place where he died, experiencing the most brutal tests and even tortures physically and mentally at the same time."

"Forgive Iushkin, I believe you can understand him, no matter how unbearable those things are, they must be faced eventually, just like what we are doing now."