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Memoirs of a Red Army scout
Leonid Veger
Leonid Leonidovich Veger, born in 1924 in a family of convicted anarchists living in Solovki. Volunteered for the Red Army after finishing middle school in 1942. In 1943 was seriously wounded and received Category 2 Disability status. Was accepted into the Engineering/Economics department of the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1944, and graduated in 1949. Worked in factories and research institutes and obtained Masters and Doctoral degrees. Published 5 monographs and over 100 scientific articles. Most recently employed as a senior researcher at the Economics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
- A "pro forma" attack
- Attacking for show
- Deserter
- Going after a "tongue"
- New Year's Eve
- How people become optimists
- Combat reconnaissance
- The first attack and the first oath
- Doomed
- The Swiss system
- Wounded
- Borja's sweet behind
- Self-education
- What we drank at the front
- Soldiers' roulette
- The power of words
- A last-gasp attack
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