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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Oh I dont doubt there will be far to much death but every Russian has grown up being taught at school and watching films about the great patriotic war, they are all utterly aware that Kharkov (to use the Russian spelling) was blown apart by Nazis artillery, it is likely the most fought over city in the war, it cannot escape them that they are about to play the role of the Nazis in this drama, that will not be easy to stomach, heck I play world of tanks, a online tank combat game that is developed in Belorussia one of the few 'real' maps that the game is played on is Kharkov, the city is, like Stalingrad almost holy ground to the Russian Army in particular
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If there was a chance for Russian troops refusing to follow orders in sny significant numbers, we'd have seen it by now.
In this re-enactment, Russian troops very likely see themselves as the Russians.