Word: ashkhenin
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Ninety minutes earlier, Private Leonid Ashkhenin of the Red army, Tommy gun slung across his chest, had paced back & forth guarding the showy marble Russian war memorial in Berlin's British sector. He had orders to bar visitors at night, but an elderly German couple had strolled by, and Leonid let them pass. A Red lieutenant came out of the guard shack, snapped at Ashkhenin: "For what you just did, you can be shot tomorrow...
This decided Ashkhenin, a 20-year-old draftee from a village in the Urals. A moment after the officer left, he scampered across the street into the densely shrubbed Tiergarten, and hid out there, hugging the ground, while a Russian party tried to find him. Then he ripped off his epaulettes, tossed away his Tommy gun and ran toward the first lights he could see, the kliegs of No Way Back...
...cannot go back," said Ashkhenin...
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