• Kirp123@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    My great-granpa was a poor peasant that could barely read and write and so were the other people from our village. He was conscripted into the army, didn’t really have a choice.

    I also remember talking to an old lady that was 10 year old when she witnessed the Red Army gather all the Germans in her village, make them dig a pit and then shoot them so they fell into the pits as they died.