Chapter 782 German-Soviet War (88)

With a shrill buzzing sound, one Stuka bomber after another swooped down, dropping heavy bombs on the "Pavlov Building".

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The Pavlov Building, which had held out for 58 days in the original time and space, was blown into ruins in minutes amid the huge explosions. Fragments flying everywhere hit the assault guns and self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, making crackling sounds.

For the attackers, this was just one of the many buildings they destroyed, and they didn't feel much. Looking at the setting sun, the German officers issued an order to build fortifications on the spot. This was the experience they had gained with countless blood and lives, and the fortifications had to be built before nightfall. The soldiers of the Restoration Army also knew the character of their compatriots on the opposite side, and they did not dare to delay, and immediately began to build defensive positions.

The sun set, and the night enveloped the entire city, and everything returned to tranquility. But this tranquility did not last long. With the deafening sound of "Ura", the Soviet night attack began as if it was time to go to work. Hundreds of Soviet soldiers, holding rifles in their hands, staggered on the ruins and launched an attack on the German positions.

The soldiers of the Restoration Army, who had been prepared for it, calmly shot bullets into the chests of these compatriots with the strong light of the flares. One after another, Soviet soldiers fell down, and were stepped on by the soldiers who followed behind. The Soviet army invested more soldiers. There were three self-propelled anti-aircraft guns stationed near the German positions. Seeing the Soviet army approaching, they began to roar. The shells fired were like the sickle of the god of death, harvesting the lives of Soviet soldiers one after another.

Soon, the German support artillery fire came, and artillery of various calibers fell on the Soviet army like raindrops. The huge explosion echoed in the night sky. The flash of the shell explosion accompanied by the splattering of broken limbs and arms made the night sky reveal a thick blood red.

The fierce battle lasted all night. When the sun shone its first rays on the horizon, another group of Restoration Army soldiers came to take over the position and continued to advance. The Restoration Army soldiers who had held on all night returned to their respective camps.

Dragging their exhausted bodies back to the camp, they saw a wine tanker parked next to the camp. The crowd, who were just tired and seemed to fall down at any time, cheered and immediately rushed up to surround the wine tanker. "Hurry up, I'm so greedy!"

"Don't worry, everyone has a share. The squad leader of each class will take a bucket back!"

In this world, I'm afraid no one can worship and love wine more than the Russians. In Russia, you can be without money and women, but you can never be without wine.

In the 18th century, Peter the Great proposed a decree that private individuals could brew wine regardless of their wealth. This time, Russia saw a grand scene of everyone brewing vodka. He also announced another decree that was very popular among Russian men: any peasant woman who forcibly took her husband away from a tavern while he was drinking must be flogged.

Later, during the reign of super alcoholic Brezhnev, the Soviet Union set a record: the average annual consumption of vodka per person was 28 bottles. When Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko suggested to him that alcohol should be banned, Brezhnev said an immortal Russian saying: "Andrei, you know, Russians can't do anything without this stuff."

Among all the leaders of the Soviet Union, only two had ever implemented a ban on alcohol, and all of them failed without exception.

The first was Lenin. After the October Revolution, Lenin called on the Soviet regime to implement a ban on alcohol, but people all over the country began to complain, and even caused the Soviet support rate to decline. Lenin had no choice but to revoke the ban on alcohol.

Another is Gorbachev. In 1985, the Gorbachev government issued the "Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on Anti-Alcoholism", stipulating that the sale of alcohol in limited quantities would only start at 11 a.m. every day, which led to an alarmingly long queue for buying alcohol. Vodka became a scarce commodity, and the people complained. It is said that there was a joke about buying alcohol, saying that a man was impatient because he was waiting in line to buy alcohol, so he cursed Gorbachev and said, "I will go to the Kremlin and kill him now," and then he left angrily. After a while, he came back, and when someone asked, "Did you kill him?" He replied self-deprecatingly. "Kill him? There are more people queuing to kill him than this, it's not my turn to kill him."

Because of the prohibition, Russians even looked for some alcohol substitutes to meet their needs: bath gel, antifreeze, cologne, aftershave, window cleaner and other liquids containing alcohol.

At that time, the Soviet army also prohibited pilots from driving under the influence of alcohol, but it was also very uncomfortable to get addicted to alcohol, so what to do? When Soviet pilots got addicted to alcohol, they actually drank antifreeze as alcohol, because there was ethylene glycol in the aircraft antifreeze, which made the antifreeze taste no worse than vodka. But drinking too much of this stuff will affect vision, and in severe cases, it can cause blindness or even death. Therefore, there was an unwritten rule that pilots could not drink more than 5 bottles of aircraft antifreeze every day. Maybe it was because they looked so pitiful and embarrassed when they secretly drank antifreeze, so later the Soviet army and the Russian army in later generations tacitly allowed pilots to drink.

This shows how important alcohol is to Russians.

It is said that Stalin particularly liked to drink vodka, because the power of example is infinite, and vodka became the standard strategic material of the Soviet army during World War II. Even if the Soviet female soldiers were not equipped with pants (women were not allowed to wear pants in the Russian nation), the male soldiers could not drink less. During the entire World War II, the Soviet army consumed up to 500 million liters of alcohol.

In the Soviet-German battlefield during World War II, the bravery of the Soviet army was well known. Everyone believed that this was the Soviet army's loyalty to the motherland and hatred for the invaders. However, many Soviet people said that the reason they were able to defeat the Germans was entirely because they had two secret weapons, one was the "Katyusha" rocket launcher, and the other was "wine". Although this is a joke from the Russians, in a sense, wine is really the "lifeblood" of the Soviet Russians.

Now that these Liberation Army soldiers were fighting for Germany (or more accurately, avenging their own relatives), Yannick would naturally not treat them badly. In addition to various weapons and equipment, he also provided them with a large amount of vodka for them to drink. It turned out that compared with weapons and equipment, these vodkas were more popular with them, which boosted their morale.