Soviet Forces

Anatoly Chekhov 1942 Stalingrad

Teenage sniper Chekhov, Recounting his 1st kill "When I first got the rifle, I couldn't bring myself to kill another being. One German was standing there for about four minutes talking and I let him go. When I killed my first one, he fell at once. Another one ran out and stooped over the killed one, and I knocked him down too..When I first killed, I was shaking all over; the man was only walking to get some water! I felt scared: Id killed a person."