“I used submachine-gun as a club that I pounded on their heads with”

Published: 21 May, 2010, 14:35
Edited: 22 May, 2010, 02:55

RT presents War Witness – a special project dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Second World War.

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2 COMMENTS

The Red Star May 21, 2010, 16:19 quote

Thank you RT for this and all the other interviews with WWII Veterans. Mikhail Popkov’s chillingly vivid recount of one his hand to hand combat with German soldiers shows that war on not a video game but death and destruction.

Count Cash May 22, 2010, 02:16 quote

This war witness project has been exceptional, a true award winner, well done RT. In time why not a project on Soviet Citizen, to tell the truth, again by us people who lived in it, rather than the rubbish continually spouted by the west.

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