War Witness: Hand to hand combat inferno

http://victory1945.rt.com RT presents War Witness - a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. World War II veterans and survivors recount their stories about the war - from how it began to how it ended.

Deputy commander of a Russian rifle company, Mikhail Popkov remembers the horrors of hand-to-hand fighting with the German infantry.

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[Lufty25]

Holy shit hes got a lot of medals

[VisionarysDomain]

@Spetsnazcollector

NEVER FORGET OUR IMMORTAL VETERANS WHO GAVE US A LIFE AND A FUTURE AND SAVED RUSSIA. FOWARD TO VICTORY IN THE NAME OF THE MOTHERLAND AND NOT ONE STEP BACKWARDS EVER.

POBEDA!!!

[andrelebaron]

I'd hate to have been a Russian infantryman. That doctrine that you lose just as many guys in the extra time waiting for a minefield to be cleared as you do just walking through it kind of says it all.

[Spetsnazovets]

@Tiget666 Wrong. South Ossetia has 1000s of Russian citizens who were being attacked using GRAD mlrs in the dead of night. Russian peacekeepers were there on UN mandate and were attacked using heavy armor and tanks. Russians had every right to go in and smash some faces. I guarantee if someone tried to kill masses of Polish civilians in a break-away republic of some country with puppet regime you'd crack the shits. But it seems law applies only against Russian and noone else.

[Tiget666]

@Spetsnazovets Sth Osetia is a part of Georgia. Georgians could do there whatever they want. Russia had no rights to attack.

[Spetsnazovets]

@Tiget666 Georgia in 08 wasn't a Russian invasion. Russians went in way after their peacekeepers base was smashed. Check the dates of the operations. BTW the peacekeepers were there on UN mandate.

Yes Stalin was a scumbag. He did invade Poland and atrocities were ordered by him, Beria and Ordzhonikidze. Mind you they were of Georgian origin and Russians were basically cannon fodder to them throughout all wars. Got to thank those 3 for what happened.

[Tiget666]

@apart20 You should add that NKVD was worse than Gestapo nad soviets were another invadors (in many ascpects a lot worse than Germans) of East Europe in every country of Warsaw Pact.

I just want you to know Russians - you were not a poor nation invaded by Germany in 1941. You were murderers and invadors identically just like Germans since 1939.

Georgia 2008 shows that its not the end.

[RussianAllmighty]

@sniperRobert Bullshit, you only got medals for the cities you protected, and heroic deeds..and there were alot of cities to be protected.

[apart20]

Hej Russians I'm Polish- wanna tell, glory and sława to soldiers like that guy- we know you sacrifide a lot- we fought against nazi and cccp- in Poland we have lots of soviet graves from WWII you fought for Stalin not for freedom- we fought for freedom of Poland. . We are not enemies don't listen to propaganda- Polish like Russians but we remember... Peace

[sniperRobert]

@Lufty25 in russia they were given medals for literally anything

[TheCesar8835]

who decided to outlaw nazi army or nazi ideology this is the democracy allies promised when only the winners speak millions of men fight for something they was millions that believed in a system and fight for it unfortunately they failed but the modern situation is not better for anyone