Chapter 105: The Problem of Eating
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Then, Andrei said: "Are all the remaining bullets after you have picked them for the machine gunner?" "These bullets that are not up to standard for a rifle don't matter to the machine gunner, because the machine gun is a continuous shot anyway, it is a range shot, and the bullet almost has no effect.
Shaikin replied: "Yes. Bullets will be allocated to the LMG at all times. Then, Andrei asked Shaikin, how is your food now, Shaikin thought for a while and said: "We now have 700 grams of bread and 200 grams of potatoes for each of us, but it takes 4 people to get canned meat, and it takes 10 days for tea and coffee powder to have a little, and at the same time said that in order to ensure our vision at night, we also have a bowl of fish offal soup every day, as for vegetables and fruits, which are very scarce for a long time, there is only a little, as for tobacco snipers cannot smoke, so we do not supply this." ā
Listening, Shaykin's words, Andrei also frowned according to the daily ration standard (unit: grams) promulgated by the Soviet army base camp on September 22, 1941
The criteria for combatants should be:
Bread: 900 (Winter, October-March) / 800 (Summer, April-September)
Secondary flour: 20
Hulled kernels: 140
Macaroni: 30
Meat: 150
Fish: 100
Soybean flour: 15
Fat: 30
Vegetable oil: 20
Sugar: 35
Tea:1
Salt: 30
Vegetables: 820, which should include:
Potatoes: 500
Cabbage: 170
Carrots: 45
Beets: 40
Onions: 30
Rhizomes. Leafy greens. Cucumber: 35
Tomato sauce: 6
Other Miscellaneous:
Bay leaf: 0.2
Pepper: 0.3
Vinegar: 3
Mustard: 0.3
Horses and smoke: 20
Matches (per month): 3 boxes
Cigarette paper (per month): 7 sheets
Soap (per month): 200
In fact, the food provided by the United States did not help to solve the famine in the Soviet Union, but it did play a great role in maintaining the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army, and the standard food of Soviet soldiers usually consisted of cabbage soup (shchi) and boiled buckwheat soup (kasha). These are standard ingredients common in the Russian countryside. An old Russian said something like this: "Anasha. It means: "Cabbage soup and boiled buckwheat soup are what we often eat." "The usual add-ons are tea, coffee, salt, bread, macaroni, salted fish or canned meat. American food was common, and it was often calculated that these Lend-Lease foods would provide a half-pound serving per person per day for the 12 million Army in the war. These foods were common before 1943, and four or three years later, the ingredients that came through the Lend-Lease Act were also common. These ingredients are often referred to as the "second front," while egg powder is referred to as "Roosevelt's eggs." Food supplies include flour, dried beans (dehydrated), beans, sugar and canned meat. Others include margarine [something made from a mash of a gelatinous precipitate that tastes bad], vegetables, oils, margarine, dried milk in cans or chunks, dried eggs, semolina, and coffee.
Because starchy food has no way to ensure the energy of the soldiers on the battlefield, the volunteers were malnourished back then, and for the current situation, Andrei is now also thinking of a way, because he knows the lack of supplies of the Soviet army during the Battle of Stalingrad, he has already told Pravio to find a way to save more food, even if it is better to save more potatoes than nothing, but now Andrei has found a problem, simple calories are not enough, people need all kinds of nutrition, For example, if you don't have enough vitamins, you will have night blindness, which will still affect the combat effectiveness of the troops, but what should you do next?
Andrei was distressed, and then Andrei left the pit where the snipers were meeting, and then looked at the other pit tunnels, just in time for dinner, some of the soldiers took out rusks, some took out potatoes and sat there to gnaw because now that the German army is approaching, the beetroot soup has been short of supplies, and the potato soup has become the main source of hot soup for everyone, seeing the division commander coming, the soldiers quickly stood up, and Andrei hurriedly asked everyone to eat first, simple black bread, and a few large buckets of potato soup without cream, It's just a simple potato with only a thin layer of oil on top! Andrei was also very helpless when he saw the simple diet of the soldiers, he asked again that the infantry on the front line was only canned once on 6 days, and the Siberian Volunteer Division was close to the dock, so the supplies could still be said to be relatively abundant, and I heard that the troops on the periphery had no hot soup to drink, only dry bread and potatoes!
Although many of the commanders and fighters are from the Gulag in Siberia, they have never suffered anything, if they can't eat enough, then they can't talk about anything, after the inspection, Andrei returned to the division headquarters just in time to eat, and saw that the division commander had returned," a staff officer hurriedly shouted outside. After a short period of effort, several fighters walked in with trays carrying teapots and ceramic cups with cup holders.
Sitting in the warm command post, drinking steaming black tea and eating exquisite pastries with a group of commanders, Andre couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "People are different." The same soldiers, ordinary soldiers gnaw bread in the tunnels; The commander, on the other hand, sat in the room and ate and drank, and if it wasn't for the imminent start of war, someone might have offered to drink two glasses. In this Soviet army, there is no such thing as equality of officers and soldiers.
The last time we ate a similar amount of food, it was just for show, but over tea, Andrei asked the acting chief of staff, Captain Plavio (promoted), "What are our food supplies and reserves now?" ā
"How much food do we have in the back?" For this, Pravio, as the grand butler, knows very well.
"Division commander, the flour is at least enough for three months, and the rest is enough for two months' supply, because the Germans are approaching and now the logistics of the group army has been reduced and supplied, and we can only find our own way now, now the front-line soldiers can have 600 grams of bread and 200 grams of potatoes per person, and tobacco, tea, and coffee powder are also available, but it will take 10 days to supply them once, otherwise they will be all gone soon, as for the meat, now we have not much canned food and canned food issued by our superiors, such as smoked sausages, Dutch cheese, cream, and canned meat and vegetarian mixture, canned vegetarian food, canned fish, canned meat, and canned condensed milk will be gone in a day if they are completely up to standard. ā
A staff officer said: "There are so many supplies, what can we do, now this snack is left in the front, and our division headquarters will have to nibble on bread in a few days." Suddenly, a staff officer said: "By the way, Comrade Division Commander, there is a national defense warehouse between our division defense area and the 107.5 Heights, and there may be what we need in it, or the division commander, you can use the privilege of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to go inside first." ā
"Warehouse, this is very important, so let's send someone to take a look!" Saying that, Andrei called the commander of the guard platoon sent to him by the Main Directorate of Stalingrad and asked him to take a few fighters to the warehouse in the identity of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Then, Andrei was eating while discussing other issues with the people in the division headquarters, and at this time, the high-frequency phone of the division headquarters rang, and the staff officer on duty quickly put down the cup and ran over, and the staff officer immediately waved to Andrei when he heard it, "Division commander, it's the phone number of the front army headquarters." ā
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