Chapter 589: The Sorrow of the Nation
Lin Jun is really a little angry, he is not a county magistrate who goes to the countryside to follow a group of reporters for the so-called guidance work: he wants a group of long guns and short cannons to follow, otherwise there will be no pomp and circumstance of the leader. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ Info pointed to a few people with cameras and said, "And you guys, don't you usually shoot and write?! Ask the survivors how they survived! Ask what the fascists are doing inside! β
This startled a group of journalists in the army, who did not expect the deputy commander to lose such a temper -- he received an order early this morning, and a group of people rushed to Vilnius to prepare for a big fight. I have long heard of what the fascists have done in the Jewish ghetto, but no one has seen it, and they have just met the deputy commander-in-chief, and for any reason they have to film the deputy commander-in-chief inspecting the situation, but I didn't expect the result to be a big nail at the beginning of the matter!
The leading officer was called over, "The Political Department of the Front Army is in charge of propaganda, you give me a good record of what happened in it, you have to ask more questions, read more and understand more, the draft is well grasped for me, you should understand what to write." β
Lin Jun was not even in the mood to ask who the other party was, as soon as he called over, it was a lesson, "The first manuscript sent to Moscow will be shown to me first, so that the whole world will know about the atrocities of the fascists in the quarantine area!" β
"Understood?!"
"Yes, Marshal."
The lieutenant colonel, who was a little speechless with fright, was the head of the propaganda and agitation department of the Political Department of the Front, and had met the deputy commander at the place of Marshal Tukhachevs. The deputy commander is a very kind person in the eyes of the lieutenant colonel, but today he saw the stern side of the deputy commander.
Bumped into the muzzle of the gun, and he was unlucky.
But soon Comrade Chief of Propaganda understood why the deputy commander had been so angry just now: when they entered the quarantine zone, they found that this was a hell on earth!
More than 20,000 people are still alive, but at least a third of them are on the verge of death. In the northern neighborhoods, war correspondents with cameras and cameras saw the bodies being cleaned up -- dozens of trucks were waiting nearby, and Red Army soldiers loaded the bodies into wagons to be transported to the outskirts for disposal.
If you don't wait until the rainy season arrives, it can lead to an epidemic. The stiff corpses were stacked in rows in the carriage, like frozen pork!
Men and women, old and young, were all killed by machine guns. In just a few minutes, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel had a huge propaganda plan in his head, those vegetable-faced, emaciated Jews, the big hollow white hexagons on the walls, those eyes full of hope for liberation, and even more irritating were the lifeless eyes on the verge of death, coupled with the stiff posture of the corpses, all of which were indictments of the atrocities of the fascists here.
As soon as Lin Jun entered the quarantine area, he saw trucks parked on the side of the street, and many Red Army soldiers were distributing food to the survivors; Red Army doctors and medics, along with some experienced Jewish doctors and nurses, helped patients at makeshift medical posts on both sides of the street.
Lin Jun walked into a medical room, which looked like it was supposed to be a store, with at least two people lying on each simple hospital bed, all skinny and skinny. Obviously, due to a lack of equipment and manpower, it is now possible to receive immediate treatment for these dying patients, many of whom are blind, and the apparent joy of liberation cannot dispel the confusion and despair in their hearts for a while.
A medical soldier is inserting a needle into the head of a child who looks like a large doll, and it looks like the result of severe malnutrition. The child was still holding a small piece of uneaten bread in his hand, but the military doctor next to him did not let him continue to eat: if he ate it again, he would die!
"To hot soup, hard bread their stomachs are already hard to digest." Lin Jun said to the military doctor, "Is the medicine enough?" β
"Barely enough, Marshal. However, these people are very weak in physical functions, and many of them may not be able to persevere. The military doctor's face was not good-looking, and it was clear that the situation here was beyond what he had expected before he came.
A Jew who looked to be in his fifties was also helping Lin Jun when he came in, but this person's actual age was at least ten years younger than he looked. He had a stethoscope on his chest, and he looked like a vegetable like any other Jew. Lin Jun asked him, "Are you a doctor?" β
"Yes, Marshal Plunyakov. I used to practice medicine in the village of Yashuna, and I was sent here at the end of last year. "The Jewish doctor speaks Russian very well, and he also knows Lin Jun, a big celebrity.
"How many people were there in the entire quarantine zone?" Lin Jun motioned for him to sit down and reply, seeing that his condition was not very good.
"It's hard to count, new people are constantly coming in and others are being shipped away. The fascists basically pulled one or two thousand people from the train station every week, sometimes more. And every week a group of people would be slaughtered, and it was completely up to the German officers to be happy, sometimes a captain would come to the quarantine area, point to a street, and then the whole street would be driven to the street and killed, they called it a clean-up. β
"At the end of last year, almost 10,000 people were transported away at one time, and I don't know where they went, but it may be sent to Poland."
Obviously, from the doctor's words, Lin Jun could hear that he was used to seeing life and death, and these words seemed to be saying something that he was used to, because the moment of death was all around them.
"It was the SS who carried out?"
"It was the German police who ran the quarantine area, but the SS sometimes got involved, not necessarily."
As he spoke, the doctor suddenly hid his face and cried, "It's all dead, the whole family is dead!" My son was sick and starved to death, and I gave him nothing to eat, and no medicine. I'm a doctor, a doctor who doesn't have medicine to fly my son's illness! My wife and father also died, and I was beaten to death, and if I hadn't been treating someone across the street that day, I would have died, but that person was also dead, and I had no medicine for him, so I had to use hot water, and I had no medicine......"
Lin Jun did not interrupt the doctor's uncontrollable self-talk and crying, but sat quietly on the side.
It took a while for the Jewish doctor to return to normal, wiping his face with his sleeve, "I'm sorry, marshal, I'm out of control." β
The doctor is a very cultivated person, apologizing for his gaffe, Lin Jun nodded in understanding, "Everything will be fine." β
"Doctor, here are not only Jews who live in Vilnius, but also from other parts of Lithuania?"
The doctor nodded, "There are very few sent from the Polish border, and I have seen a few Poles, but very few. By the way, there should be a general list of the police station, just down the street in front, turn a corner and go another 100 meters. β
"The police station?" Lin Jun was a little suspicious, and looked at the Red Army doctor next to him, "Marshal, the Germans have set up a police system here that is managed by the Jews themselves, and the policemen inside are also Jews. I went there in the morning, and the logistics department had set up a rescue headquarters there, and the Jewish policemen were there. β
"The Germans don't come in at night, they just stand guard at the entrance." The Jewish doctor added.
Lin Jun stood up and was about to leave, but the military doctor felt that it was necessary to say a few words: "Marshal, the survivors all said that those Jewish policemen are still upright and not fascist lackeys. β
Lin Jun turned his head, "Just do your job." β
After that, I left the medical center and continued along the street.
The police station, which was a police station before the war, was probably used by the Germans to save trouble.
People kept coming in and out of that door, and both panels were removed, and after being kicked last night, they felt in the way, and today they were simply demolished. As soon as the people who came out saw the deputy commander wearing a high leather hat coming, they hurriedly saluted.
Lin Jun just nodded and walked into the police station.
There were quite a few people in the commotion, and a few loud voices were shouting about the assignments, listening to the food distribution and continuing to ask for help from the superiors.
As soon as Lin Jun came in, everyone fell silent, and a captain reported the situation here to Lin Jun.
Lin Jun saw the so-called Jewish policemen, dressed in awkward uniforms, and one of them was talking to an assault sapper when he came in just now.
After listening to a paragraph, the captain introduced the assault engineer with the rank of sergeant, and a sergeant with an assault rifle on his back next to him.
"It was these two who led the detachment to enter the quarantine zone first, Sergeant Tozich of the 17th Assault Engineer Regiment and Sergeant Kodelnikov of the 23rd Infantry Division."
Lin Jun nodded, and didn't ask them how they found out here.
The detachment commanded by ToziΔ and Kodelinkov, as the first to discover this place, was temporarily arranged by their respective superiors to help in the quarantine area, but while they were busy and dizzy, the anger in their stomachs was about to explode - if there was a German caught by them, they would have to blow their heads out!
Lin Jun motioned for Toziqi to come closer and asked him, "How are these Jewish policemen?" β
"Report Marshal, according to other survivors, that most of these Jewish policemen were appointed by the Germans, and a small number of self-referrals, we found about 30 people. But there aren't a few bad deeds, these few. As he spoke, he pointed to the one next to him, "Like Martin, one of the organizers of the underground resistance group elected by the neighborhood. β
"We also found weapons that they were originally going to fight against the fascists, several Molotov cocktails and a revolver." Tozic paused as he spoke, "Marshal, allow me to take out that pistol." β
Lin Jun signaled that it was okay - except for the members of the guards, it was very unruly for others to draw their guns in front of the marshal, and it was very unruly on any occasion to obtain the marshal's consent, of course, this was also to let the border guards attract attention.
If you take out a gun in front of the marshal, normal people will not do that, because the result of the person who pulls out the gun will basically be very unlucky.
Toziqi handed the pistol in his trouser pocket upside down to Lin Jun, who took it and took it in his hand and looked at it: "The standard Nagant produced by the Tula Arsenal during the Tsarist period. β
It's a runner.
Ask that Martin, "How do you have this?" β
Martin was still excited, not only because he saw the deputy commander of the Soviet Union, but also because of Lin Jun's questioning of Tozic just now, he could understand Russian, and that could mean the difference between life and death.
"An old man was brought in in by a suitcase, but he died last year, from illness. Later, when the Germans searched the house, they found a bullet left in a box and killed an entire block of people. β
Martin replied cautiously.
"Marshal, Martin and a few other Jewish policemen we met showed us the way, and Martin fought bravely." "There's also a Jewish police station in the next block, but they're all dead: we dragged our Jewish neighbors out of the house and killed them when we entered the quarantine last night. β
This is obvious, it is a lackey villain, and there is no need for the Red Army to screen it, and the people themselves will act.
Lin Jun handed the revolver back to the sergeant, "Keep it as a souvenir." β
At this time, Toziqi was very happy, which was equivalent to a souvenir from the marshal, which was of great significance.
Lin Jun asked a similar question in the infirmary, and Martin, as a Jewish policeman, knew a lot more than the doctor - but they only had their own statistics on the number of residents of the quarantine area, and there was only a general situation due to the constant deaths and the horrific and ordinary massacres.
"The population density here is too high, and it is easy to cause diseases, so we need to evacuate as soon as possible." Lin Jun thought in his mind: But now that there are a lot of things here, and the battle is still breaking out in front of him, this matter has to be slowed down.
There are people from all over Lithuania in the quarantine area, and this evacuation project is huge, and we can't rush it for a while, we must take it slowly, so that the people here can live first.
Lin Jun also asked the fascists about some ways of managing the quarantine area, in addition to the irregular "clean-up" and daily deaths, not to mention the fuel in the harsh winter, the Germans can completely strangle the survival lifeblood of the quarantine area with just one method of controlling food!
"We didn't eat much, and the Germans didn't have enough food to feed the half of the people in the quarantine area, and they were going to starve us to death. Everyone is malnourished, and those who come later can survive for a while, and after a long time, they are slowly waiting to die if they don't get sick or die. β
Of course, the Germans would not give enough food to the "inferior people", otherwise they would not have created any quarantine areas.
"What about you?" Lin Jun asked.
Martin hurriedly replied: "According to the distribution, it is more than the others, about twice the quota of other people every day, but the extra share I have is distributed to the children of other people who live together, and they can all testify to me." β
Martin's face turned blue with fright, the Marshal of the Soviet Union really said something terrible!
"Barely alive food can make a man an accomplice of the beast, quarantine!" Lin Jun thought in his heart, this is the sadness caused by helplessness.
"Don't worry, I'm not trying to trouble you." These words reassured Martin, who looked terrified.
"Take me to where you live."
At this time, Martin's heart that had just been put down hung again, but at this time, Lin Jun had already turned around, and Alyosha on the side pushed him and motioned to follow.
Poor Martin was trembling like a death row prisoner about to be executed on the execution ground. Landscoch on the side couldn't stand it a little, and said to him: "The marshal is not going to ask your neighbors if you give them food, don't worry, just take a look at your living environment." β
As a marshal, Lin Jun has no time to verify whether what Martin said is the truth. As Landscoch put it, it was to get a practical sense of what it was like for Jews in ghettos.
Poor Martin was so frightened that he couldn't even figure it outβhe could understand, poor man.
The Cossack pulled Martin, "Where are you going?" β
"It's diagonally opposite, on the 4th floor of the second stairway."
Seeing two people in military uniforms and holding cameras in front of him, Lin Jun beckoned: "You go up with me and take a look at the housing here." β
The two unlucky ones followed in fear, the shadow of the scolding at the gate just now, and the corpses they saw, had already made their hearts very stressed. But now he became smarter, he didn't take a camera to shoot Lin Jun, and honestly followed behind.
The guards went up halfway first, guarded the staircases, climbed the narrow staircase of the ancient building, and passed through a somewhat dark passageway, Lin Jun came to an open wooden door.
Just passing through a few open doors, I could see that some Jews were eating, and when I saw them passing by, they all watchedβsome happy and some frightened.
"This is where I live." Martin said, pointing inside.
The four guards had already entered the house first, but they did not drive out the people inside, but only made a good guard and let them all stand on the side.
This is a three-bedroom suite built decades ago, although the building is a little old, but it is estimated that the original owner should have good economic conditions: Lin Jun saw the gorgeous wallpaper on the wall, the living room is relatively large, it should be a Lithuanian middle-class house.
The location was very good before the war, and the poor could not afford to live in this house.
However, the situation inside is very crowded, and there are several rolls on the edge of the living room, and it is obvious that someone sleeps in the living room at night. On the other side of the living room was a pile of suitcases neatly stacked, and the floor was clean.
Lin Jun looked around, there should be a lot of people living in each room.
"How many people live in this house?"
"32 people, that's my room, I live with my wife, son and another family of five."
Landscoch asked the residents who were standing and didn't dare to move: Martin lived here and was a good man. It's not that Lin Jun asked Martin how he is, those people have been talking about how Martin helps people, and in their opinion, it is because of Martin that the big people will come here to take a look.
In the kitchen there was food distributed by the Red Army, and quite a lot, distributed by head, were all put together. It can also be seen that the people here have been eating the same meals as the "public canteen" all along, and they are united and mutually helpful under difficult conditions, and today they are still implementing the old rules.
All the rooms were cramped, but they were tidy, and the Jews seemed to try to make themselves as comfortable and industrious as they could wherever they went.
"Poor Jews, who have been oppressed, excluded and persecuted for so many years, this spirit of seeking pleasure in suffering is really admirable. But it's sad that they often go against the grain. β
Lin Jun felt a little in his heart: once this nation is self-reliant, it will be super long to endure hardships and hardships, but this will not be Israel, and the Jews are still a nation without their own independent country.
I asked the other adult occupants of the house where they were from, and sure enough, except for Martin, who was a local, they were all from other parts of Lithuania. There were seven families living under this one roof, and they used to do everything: the man was a self-proclaimed banker, a bridge engineer, a tailor, and two mechanics from a former machine shop......
Lin Junzhen couldn't figure it out, the Soviet Union would be short of anyone, and he wanted to have tens of millions of people who could work, all walks of life, but this fascist was slaughtering these precious laborers!
Didn't Hitler and Himmler understand the importance of labor for the war? They should have understood, but fortunately they didn't take advantage of it: the fascists slaughtered at least 6 million Jews throughout World War II, and how many of them were laborers?
Converted into combat effectiveness, it is worth several group armies!
That Hitler was an extreme racist and anti-Semite known all over the world, and Lin Jun once saw him declare in Hitler's "Mein Kampf" that the greatest antithesis of the Aryans was the Jews.
Hitler saw the Jews as the enemies of the world, the root of all evil, the root of all evil, the destroyers of the order of human life! Europeans have always held prejudices about Jews, and the exclusion of other peoples in history has forged the characteristics of Jews, making them smart, strong, and tenacious in difficult situations, and they have become synonymous with European affluence.
Christianity believes that Judas, one of Jesus' 12 disciples, sold Jesus for 30 pieces of silver, and that it was the Jews who crucified Jesus, which created an emotional hatred of the Jews among Christians. The nationalist trend of the German nation was on the rise, and the original religious sentiments were intensified by the actual conflict of interests, which intensified the already anti-Semitic sentiments of the people, thus exacerbating the hatred of the Jews.
Hitler's rise to power also exploited this part of the national sentiment, and his "anti-Semitic" views quickly became dominant in this social mood.
More than a decade ago, the economic crisis hit Germany hard β but some of the wealthy Jews took advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune, and the vast majority of these Jews left Europe before the war, leaving behind the majority of ordinary Jews.
Under the banner of nationalism and National Socialism, the Nazi Party preached that the German nation was an excellent nation and regarded the Jewish nation as an inferior nation. The combination of various causes led to the fascist "purge" of the Jewish nation without mercy - and Hitler's reasons for erasing a people for these reasons seemed sufficient.
However, in Lin Jun's view, fascism is not just killing Jews, but also killing many other ethnic groups for a variety of reasonsβone side is short of labor, and the other side is factory killing.
"Fascism is really a product of contradictions!"
Just like in the quarantine area, except for a small garment factory near the gate that produced German military raincoats, and more than 100 people were driven to work outside the wall every day, plus a small amount of labor from time to time, the other 20,000 people were starving to death in the quarantine area!
Whether it's waste, beastliness, the fascists are "starving" a group of people with food, how is this ledger calculated?!
"To be sure, Hitler didn't have a Jewish accountant to settle accounts for him!" This is certain in Lin Jun's mind.
The two reporters took some pictures with their cameras, and some of them even took Lin Jun, which could be used as propaganda materials for the deputy commander-in-chief to care about Jewish survivors. However, when Lin Jun went out, he told them without Jews on the side, "Just talk about the crowded living conditions in the Jewish ghetto in this paragraph, and don't show up any neat and clean categories." β
"Yes, Marshal."
Propaganda can understand this, lest some Western politicians, who are also hostile to Jews, misinterpret this place as a place where Jewish housing in ghettos is fairly neat.
Some politicians say what the world says, but they don't care whether they are talking nonsense with their eyes open or not!
After leaving the building, Lin Jun walked a little further, checking out several medical and food distribution points. The first supply convoys of the logistics department of the army group have also arrived and are unloading.
There are still a lot of corpses at the slaughter site that haven't had time to be cleaned up, but they can be done by tonight. The bodies will be transported to three large public cemeteries in Vilnius for burial, because it is difficult to find out who they really are, except for the very few undocumented corpses, the others will be anonymous.
"In the future, I will erect a monument for them, a memorial to the Holocaust, even if it gives their descendants a place to pay their respects, it will also be used to remind future people of what happened here."
The Germans cleared out such a quarantine area, needless to say, it was necessary to drive out the inhabitants of the city who had lived here - where did they go? There is no way to know, if he is still alive, he will probably come back in the future, but Lin Jun doesn't have to worry about this, and he will talk about it when the war is over.
"If you want the team that will take over the city in the future to do its job, this evacuation is really a problem."
It's not just that the people in the quarantine area are scattered and troublesome: where they come from and where they can go, where they can go, how to use labor, etc., etc., not to mention that Lin Jun's orders have already blown up half of the city, where are the homeless citizens?
This war is a monster, and smashing the order and trajectory of smashing is a blink of an eye.
Leaving the quarantine area, Lin Jun motioned to go to the nearest hospital. The convoy went out of the gate, and on the way, Lin Jun finally saw ordinary Vilnius citizens, who were walking fast on the side of the street. Arriving near the Opera House, there was originally one of the largest hospitals in Vilnius, and although the facilities in the hospital were mostly empty, it was also the ideal location for a field hospital.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I entered the door, I saw an acquaintance - Granov, who was ordered by Lin Jun to lie in the hospital for three weeks, he was sitting in the ear room by the gate and pointing fingers, feeling like the porter of the hospital, showing directions to newcomers to do errands and treatment.
As soon as he saw Lin Jun, Granov reacted quickly, "Marshal, there are not enough hospital beds, I'll sit here to help first, the doctor has already shown me, and put me in a wire vest, saying that there is no big problem, and it will be my turn to be in bed after the next batch of wounded people are evacuated." β
"Don't be a porter if you are injured, just stay in the ward! If you don't have a bed, find a chair to sit on. Lin Jun was a little crying and laughing, why was this sergeant so difficult.
"Marshal, I've found a place in the back storeroom, next to it is the boiler room, and it's quite warm." Granov hurriedly said.
Lin Jun shook his head, didn't bother to pay attention to this artillery sergeant who disobeyed orders, and walked into the hospital.
"The city's fuel supply is also a problem." I thought about a problem that the next person would deal with.
There are no beds, there are wounded everywhere, all the original iron beds and special beds for field hospitals are full, and the wounded are being brought here from the southern front. Outside the operating area, Lin Jun looked through the small window on the door and saw that there were four or five surgeries going on, and the artilleryman's injuries were really relatively light.
After inspecting the hospital, Lin Jun returned to Batyuk's division headquarters, and the time was already five o'clock in the afternoon, and it was already dark.
"Marshal, we have prepared dinner, is it at our place?"
"Yes." Lin Jun was a little tired, and when he saw a major in his 30s walking in, Batyunin introduced to Lin Jun, "This is Comrade Nikolai Yalishchenko, the head of the logistics division of our division. β
"Hello, Comrade Marshal."
"Have you distributed necessities to ordinary city dwellers?" Lin Jun asked.
"The distribution has begun, mainly food, and there are still a lot of fuel in the city, which can support at least more than a week." He pointed to the broken building components, "Our division has four distribution points in the city, and the assault sappers have set up two, starting at noon, and the next step is to prepare for the propaganda vehicle to shout again through loudspeakers." β
(More than half of the seven thousand chapters.,It was originally updated in the afternoon.,I forgot to release it.,A little sweat.,Hehe.γ (To be continued.) )