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PENAL BATTALION

- Please, gentlemen POWs, have something to eat

- Calm down, calm down

There's enough for everyone, no need to push

Have your fill

Hogs

Hogs. Vasiliy Stepanych, check out these jerks stuffing themselves

Why jerks?

Hunger is a strong motivator

Enough, pigs!

Enough, enough!

There are still many more hungry.

And you stay

This cattle

Bydlo, they will be in camp podyhat

You are true soldiers

and I offer you to fight alongside us.

No, not for Great Germany.

To fight against the Bolsheviks

for Russia,

After Germany's victory, someone must run Russia?

So you will be the ones to run

free Russia,

So said your General Vlasov

You?

You?

No

You?

Stick it where the sun don't shine

You?

Screw you

You?

I'm with the rest of us

You?

I'll go

If it's against the Bolsheviks, I'll go

Name?

Captain Sazonov

I welcome,

your courageous decision.

You can go

that way

And I'll go,

I hate those communists, Christ-killers

Name?

Nikolai Sergeevich Yevseyev

You can go

That way

Enough

Liquidate these ones

I've said before, your dumb experiments

don't come to anything,

you tell them they are real soldiers

And I respect them.

So you found your cause?

Shut up, bitch

Sorry, guys, sorry.

Don't. No need to cry

You're an officer's wife, you don't have the right

I know.

Take care of Sasha

Vera,

you'll wait for me.

I promise you, I won't forget you

Don't promahnis

I'll try, for you

Their boots need to come off

Get them off

Hey, bros!

What brings you here?

What about you?

I told you, my own reasons

Oh, cool

We don't know where we're going,

which way is east, which way west, hell if you can figure it.

You can hear artillery to the east, that's the way to go

Yeah, you can hear it to the north and to the south, too.

War all around.

And who do you belong to?

Goryanov's 117th Brigade, Rifle,

202nd Regiment.

And you?

I'm from the 32nd rifle corps,

Khomichev -- he's from the 93rd Rifle Division, 96th Regiment

I'm from the 37th Division, 101st Regiment. I commanded a battalion.

Bros, have you got a crumb to spare?

Whatever's over there; we finished off the last breadrolls yesterday.

We've been going on what berries we could find,

Our stomachs are sticking to our spines.

Yes, we also live here on mushrooms

Iz you, all in krovischi,

The commander of each?

See two sleepers, Major.

Not occupant, he would wash the wound

Is there any water?

Have to go get it.

Where? And? They'll spot us right away.

Yeah, to hell with them, too,

I heard they had orders not to get held up,

not to get bogged down in local fighting.

To make straight for Stalingrad.

And where did you hear that?

When we broke out of the encirclement,

we grabbed one Fritz. He said it.

Well look at this guy. On your head be it, let's go, guys.

Bitches... still laughing

Guys, can we take a break, I can't go any longer.

And through you can not, from now zhahnut machine, rest.

No, well, what a bunch of pussies. Eat.

Let them eat instead of shooting, and thanks for that.

And what else happened? Tverdokhlebov?

Vasily Stepanovich.

They scattered into the forest,

I can't remember after that -

I was unconscious almost the whole time.

Alright then. Better if you tell about the execution.

I've already told you about that.

Go into more detail.

How is it that they shot you, and you are here, alive.

Shooting wasn't enough

Not enough?

You ended up with

Two bullets, in the chest and in the arm.

Just got lucky, apparently?

Depends on how you look at it.

I Don't you understand Comrade Investigator.

Citizen Investigator.

Sorry, Citizen Investigator.

Well see here, former major, you've painted me a fabulous picture,

Taken prisoner how? Concussion. And you don't remember how you were hit?

Executed, and crawled up still alive from the grave?

Miraculous. If only.

You do not believe me?

I do not.

I have to listen to so many wild tales here, my ears are swollen.

Pletete seven West to the heavens and all the forest.

And where is the proof, where are the concrete facts?

What will happen to me?

You yourself admit you were captured?

I was.

Now this is a concrete fact.

And you have read Comrade Stalin's order number 227?

I read it.

So now you see who you are?

You are an enemy of the people. You have betrayed the homeland -- you follow?

...which is, at this moment, in danger.

Now think, what should be done with you.

I came back to my own side.

That depends on where you're looking from. You went to your own or to the other.

Maybe you were sent back on a spying mission.

And everything else is just a beautiful tale.

Executed, remained alive.

Came back to your own side.

So you'll shoot me again?

That depends on you, Tverdokhlebov.

Confess, tell the whole truth, bare your soul,

you'll do a stretch in chervonets

But be a stubborn mule,

shlepnem, soul for miles.

Do you realize how many tale-tellers come through here??,

Tens so of thousands.

A river of people.

And you, flea, write them all up as traitors?

What did you say?

Kopytov!

Work him over some.

Then you'll cooperate.

Och, they've knocked your conscience out of you.

They tried.

Careful. Head.

Easy, easy.

What happened next?

And what next? We got out of the encirclement.

"We" who?

Whoever was still alive,

Fomichev was with me the whole time,

Kobylko,

Yes. Out of the whole regiment, less than a hundred were left.

Who can confirm this?

The same Fomichev and Kobylko

Others bailed out on the road back.

Many were killed when we broke through the front.

Alexei Loshilin,

Ignat Boiko,

Ivan Stekolnikov,

Can't remember them all.

That's enough.

But in his testimony Loshilin writes that

you encouraged Red Army soldiers to surrender into captivity.

It was over, you told them, the war was already lost,

continuing to resist would be too expensive.

Who, Loshilin?

Yes. That can not be.

Here. Read.

Here's creation.

Well, that Dubinin?

Are we going to tell the truth, or tell some more tales?

Burykin

Give your tale how you fell prisoner.

We fought to guard the battalion.

Holding our position, the Germans came down on us.

I was knocked flat. Came to with three automatics pointed at me.

And what did you do?

What would you have done, with three rifles in your face?

And if there weren't three Germans, but a whole company, what then?

What then?

You were ordered to protect the battalion,

and you hid quietly -- the Germans would have easily wiped out half the battalion from your position.

You should have screamed, "Germans!".

Warned your own.

And then they'd have massacred me.

Massacred, of course. But you would have warned the battalion?

But you're a coward?

I'm no coward,

but to think for a few seconds?

But should you think if you are a Red Army soldier?

Who are you then?

You are a coward and a traitor.

So you'll write all of them up as enemies of the people? Sychev?

Well, what kind of enemies of the people are they, goddamn it?

Spies, saboteurs.

Here's this Tverdokhlebov, also a saboteur?

He lies expertly, Comrade Major, spins a fine yarn.

Piss off. I'm saying what actually happened.

Are the wounds still on your body?

Yes indeed, they are, two bullets.

Like I said, just what happened.

The front is catastrophically lacking men -- you understand this, Sychev?

Yes Sir, Comrade Major, I understand.

The fuck you understand.

All people have flaws. Before the Soviet Government,

anyone might commit a crime, but an insignificant crime.

And you want to have them all shot.

I tell you, we need people on the damn front.

So let them redeem their guilt before the motherland

with blood, on the front.

Do you get me, Sychev?

Perfectly, Comrade Major, I do.

It took long enough.

Like talking to a giraffe.

Well now, Citizen Vasily Stepanovich Tverdokhlebov?

How are you feeling?

Your wounds have healed?

Thank you

I'm ready to be shot now

Why do you say that?

The authorities not only punish, but also give opportunity. To redeem your guilt before your homeland.

There's a war going on, Major, and you are being given

the opportunity to redeem your guilt with blood.

Will you command a penalty battalion?

Certainly, there are men for it?

And I've been demoted.

We don't have enough officers to fill our officer posts.

Yes, and who the hell wants to command penal rabble?

We understand each other. We can violate the statute.

You can yourself?

I am ready to, Citizen Major.

Sure, then. Fine.

In the penal battalion, you will have the chance

to redeem your guilt through fire.

ATTENTION PRISONERS!

THE FASCISTS DREAM OF DEFEATING US,

AND HAS THROWN ALL MANNER OF NEW SOLDIERS TO THE FRONT.

THE PARTY AND THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT,

SHOWING GREAT CONFIDENCE IN YOU,

OFFER YOU THE POSSIBILITY,

TO REDEEM YOUR GUILT WITH BLOOD, TO PUT YOUR CRIMES BEHIND YOU.

Cram that up their asses sideways.

WHOEVER WANTS TO GO TO THE FRONT, TAKE THREE STEPS FORWARD.

Commies are scraping the bottom of the barrel,

they see their German counterparts, and can't stop them.

What, they've run completely out of soldiers, and now they're dragging zeks to the front?

Shut your yap, they'll hear you.

����� listen.

So they'll be fighting under guard, too?

You can fight I thee two krasnoperyh with machine guns guard.

Check it out, all the politicals stepped up.

Sheep, screw 'em.

Enthusiasts

On the front, if your rifle misfires,

you'll bring your sentence on yourself.

shooting without justification,

remember what I'm saying

You hear?

No one will repeat this

Look, PAHAN went up

Ah well, let's go

You do in the law, Glymov

you never worked, and now you want to go to the front,

Tired at Nara shaft, sides otlezhal.

povoevat smallness hunting.

There smallness not work,

Glymov there, the whole will have to reel.

But it will have as much.

ATTENTION PRISONERS

In RODINA OPASTNOSTI

FASHIST MECHTAET U.S. POBEDIT

And BROSAET AT FRONT OF ALL THE NEW NEW ORDY THEIR SOLDIER

YOU PARTY AND THE SOVIET POWER, OKAZYVAET OGROMNOE CONFIDENCE

WHO IS IN FRONT HOCHET, 3 STEP FORWARD

Sheeting present the rounds here,

all seen? Understandably?

Next, push trigger lock and paste.

In the kind Hitler Kaput.

That is so clear?

Let us for the work rebyatki.

In response, understood?

And this much garbage?

In response, I'm ready!

�������.

We as a chemist.

For example, 200 times to collect and disassemble.

How much?

You �� afonorel, commander?

I said 200 times to collect and disassemble.

What would kill, a student must,

zeki my home.

Yes, to fight, not to steal.

And how do you think?

And you where citizens?

And we are for civil war, these closures do not one hundred times before and collected.

And that same machine-guns and know?

As our stepfather know.

And what does not immediately say?

And many among you?

Enough,

look affairs, who for 58, almost all into civil war.

Then free, was the only on the shooting.

The rest continue.

That's fortunate 58 - m.

And wait, wait.

Another.

Please.

Another.

Yes as long as you want.

Play yourself.

Two desyatochki, you do not dance.

Bankers point

Remove shoes, a citizen of the Chief.

Who else wants to try the gypsy happiness?

The brave citizens who bravely.

Let's try-ka.

What puts at stake?

Muhlyuet devil, not caught.

A catch that muhlyuesh, otorvu head, understand?

Oh, uncle, your threats to cause me spiritual trembling.

Castillo saharok, and you what?

But these chic shtiblety.

In tactical calculation, the blind can see

The Germans rvutsya to kavkazkoy oil

pererezhut Volga

take Grozny, and Baku

an end to Stalin

twice as two

In the history of Russia many times happened twice two,

and derived from, Russian Cossacks in Paris

Your words would be, yes gentlemen in the soul,

Only now, and I think we God does not help

In October, all grains under frequent vygrebli

daughter under the new year died of hunger,

then the son of god to tidy o,

then old mother,

then wife,

one remained, well, that lie and wait for death?

Pozega his house that he would not get svolochi.

And went, just where the eye.

morning and took me on the road

kolkhoz was accused of setting fire to property deskat my house for the time,

already belonged to the kolkhoz, and I did not have set fire to his right

You tell me, Fedor

what the Antichrist, collective farms invented?

This is the Antichrist,'m Lenin and Stalin

A teperechya, so I of the Antichrist Germans must defend?

Sam volunteered for the eggs you nobody pulled.

Why volunteered?

As explained

Calling the land,

it is one my all, land.

From the first battle claws would tear

What is OGPU? About Lord, Help Ubezhat,

And vice versa? Poymayut head Otorvut conviction.

And can I as a call,

I can not kill people.

Chudniv Petya hear me, for armed robbery

sitting, but can not kill people?

Bratcy Hey!

�� you doing there?

Well ka stop immediately

Well you what, teeth zhmut or second extra eye?

What you urki, under the monastery want to fail? A shooting?

Idi suchara, rye razrisuyu.

What you two guys, the rules of our lives forgotten?

Give zhelezku.

Nothing, enemies of the people, we still felt

At night all porezhu, creation shameful

Knives and grinding, surrender,

or now all pourodaem

I have a svolochi into civilian in three minutes to let flow

does not roll, your first bullet

I NOZHI ZATOCHKI ZDAT!

What will do with goner?

I thought so,

vykinut them out of the wagon should be,

that would be excessive noise was not

Poskubalis little short, it is

Such a life, our very hard

I thought so.

And I thought, you have to judge Glymov.

It is that whether you are going to judge me?

Why? The Tribunal.

Tribunal?

The Tribunal, also on ��� award,

shtrafbat and front

No fuss, Baukin,

at the front poglyadim who first farewell to the life

Let's emissions poured, ploughed bear

OH that volunteers shtrafniki

nalegay at kulesh until goryachenky.

And those which, sleep or something?

Eternal sleep

How eternal, be them, and then until the evening remain hungry

Dead, they did not understand that right?

How dead?

Well instigators who fights?

I ask who instigators?

I can not say.

Can not or do not want?

I do not want.

What this will give?

Like what?

Instigators will judge tribunal.

And that the tribunal award?

Shooting.

The extra corpses.

People at the front needed.

The killers bedspreads?

Yes there, one third of the murderers,

Does that I recruited them to the volunteers?

Ty was appointed senior,

and all will respond.

And in other cars, quietly and peacefully?

Yes, no,

Counted 36 corpses,

Front doedem yet to even be added.

Yes of horseradish at the front where you need?

If you are now under lock bring?

You'll see the same as the Germans, just in sdadites prisoner,

if not even earlier drapanete.

I do not drapanu,

and the prisoner did not pass.

So many of these in your car?

Enough.

With fast I doubt it.

Your right,

doubt or believe.

And you me my rights do not recall

do you remember about your.

My right to die on the battlefield,

want, do not forget.

I will come back soon, this heinous error, Masha

You do not worry,

wait

What emissions?

Yes because it

but may be given here?

There will, in that place,

Bast Shoe even imagine what something sostryapay.

Article what?

I?

Fraud

So thought.

You have 58?

Quite true.

He was arrested in 1937?

It is true in 37

As you name?

Muranov Anatoly Petrovich

partorg, ball-bearing plant in Moscow

Shtrafniki Attention!

I am your battalion commander

Hear?

They shot cannons and machine guns,

there by the blood flow,

People are dying there,

defending the homeland,

and now you will protect her,

Remember all that before,

who you were before,

Forget!

Now you look at Homeland mother,

looks with hope

I recall!

For failure to order shooting on the ground!

For violation of military discipline, shooting!

During the demonstration cowardice, shooting!

And except for the shooting, yet there is something? Citizen commander?

The weapons will when?

Or bare hands, will fritsev soul?

The weapons issue on the front,

And when will zhrat?

Will also feed on the front.

Battalion!

On the left!

A step, Go!

What do you have eyes drills, kombat?

Finish bucket Orders

Vedro vodka

Oh, we thee kombat and navoyuem

Guys, song!