What could the Red Army soldiers eat in German dugouts?

Опубликовано: 01 Январь 1970
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What could the Red Army soldiers eat in German dugouts?
Judging by the fact that at the end of 1944 the Red Army soldiers found in the captured German dugout, it becomes clear that even at the end of the war the Krauts did not starve. Here is what the veteran of the Great Patriotic War Vasily Ustimenko recalled on this occasion. ‘Already in the dark they brought dinner, but we, having searched the dugouts, found tinned food, lard, small loaves of bread in cellophane. We also got some liquor. In spite of the officers' scolding about excessive alcohol consumption, many drank heavily. I did not drink at that time, but water was not enough, and I greedily tipped two mugs of sweet and sour wine. I may have been intoxicated, but I had a good bellyful. I tasted for the first time in my life sardines, tinned sausages, took a piece of smoked sausage. Then the petty officer and our cooks brought buckwheat porridge with meat, bread and vodka. I didn't refuse the porridge, but I didn't drink the vodka.