Sweet life...
Experience teaches that however numerous the brigade or army, the work of war is performed by small units, and each must possess to be effective one man like Lion who is unacquainted with fear, who arises cheerful each morning despite all hardship, ready to shoulder another’s load with a laugh and turn his hand to all tasks, however mean or humble. A unit lacking a man like Lion will never endure, while one with such a mate may be beaten but never broken.
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Deneyim, ne kadar çok tugay veya ordu olursa olsun, savaşın işinin küçük birimler tarafından gerçekleştirildiğini öğretir; ve her biri etkili olması için korkudan habersiz, her sabah tüm zorluklara rağmen neşeli bir şekilde uyanan, başka birinin yükünü gülümseyerek omuzlamaya ve tüm görevlere, ne kadar sıradan veya alçak olursa olsun, elini sürmeye hazır olan bir Aslan gibi bir adamı bulundurmalıdır. Bir Aslan gibi adamı olmayan bir birlik asla dayanamazken, böyle bir yoldaşa sahip olan bir birlik yenilebilir ancak asla kırılamaz.
the German army was becoming vastly more dangerous as it diminished in size. It is why Hitler’s first anti-Jewish genocidal report for military intelligence, in mid-September 1919, got him promoted, rather than fired or arrested.
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The anti-communist façade was meant to cause the British to miss the true purpose of Germany’s underground military preparations. All the Nazis had to do was convince Britain to make the same mistake twice. As General Denikin had recently showed during his slaughter of Jews in Ukraine, a massacre that was unwittingly funded by Britain, London’s hatred of Lenin meant backing virtually any army that promised to combat Russian communism.
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“The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind. They say that any army may win while it still has its legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.”
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“Egzersizlerin zorluğunun amacı sırtı güçlendirmekten ziyade zihni güçlendirmektir. Her ordunun ayakları hâlâ altındayken kazanabileceğini söylüyorlar; gerçek sınav, tüm gücün tükendiği ve erkeklerin yalnızca iradeyle zafer kazanmaları gerektiği zaman gelir.
Army unutmaz
"Suga'nın özellikle endişelenmek için sebepleri vardı.Bir trafik kazasından kaynaklanan omuz yaralanmasının etkilerine rağmen ilk çıkışına hazırlanıyordu."
Tolstoi relates that when he was in the Army he saw one of his brother officers strike a man who fell out from the ranks during a march.
Tolstoi said to him:— “Are you not ashamed to treat a fellow human being in this way? Have you not read the Gospels?”
The other officer replied:— “And have you not read Army Orders?”
The winter of 1916–17 was one of the worst in European history, and it wrecked the harvests. The impact was less severe for Britain and its allies because they were able to import food. But the hunger struck Germans with full force while the British blockaded their ports. It had been Britain’s strategy for centuries, as they didn’t need a large land army when they controlled the seas. Densely populated European countries could not produce enough calories at home, so they needed to import grain from abroad. That’s what made the British blockade so deadly effective. Their immense navy always won the hunger games against foreign
armies because soldiers needed to eat.
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“He was terrified of Tearza and her army.”
“I thought he was in love with Tearza.”
“He loved her and feared her. They’re not mutually exclusive.”
Present-day readers of Sanatorium Arktur might be sceptical about the communist glorification of strenuous labour for the benefit of the regime, and rightly so, especially given that the USSR’s economy in the 1930s relied heavily on the labour of more than two million prisoners in the inhumane conditions of the Gulag camps. Levshin’s work to electrify Siberia would effectively consist in commanding an army of such prisoners—a reality that Fedin’s novel conveniently glosses over.
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